Supplement 3 — For Lessons 5 & 6

Supplement Three

For Lessons Five and Six

In Lesson Five we have studied about the original creations of God in the dateless past. We have discussed God in the eternal past and the evidence that God has been creating things throughout all eternity. We have seen that God made a plan for man and for all His creation of those with free wills and that the three divine members of the Godhead are now working out that plan for the highest good of all. We have studied the outline of the plan of God from eternity past into all the eternity to come. God will yet have a universal, perfect, and sinless kingdom in the future from which will be separated all rebels against the eternal plan. We have seen that God created the vast universe to be inhabited with eternal free moral agents who willingly consecrate themselves to bring about the highest public good. We have also seen that there are various kinds of beings that inhabit the universe. Then, too, we have studied at some length the warfare that Satan, fallen angels, and demons are waging against God and His plan and against those among men who are consecrated to cooperate with God in the eternal plan.

Believers should become fully-acquainted with the evil spirits and their tactics in their warfare against truth. These forces will not stop at any low, degrading method of warfare. They have no righteous principles about them, so they will take advantage of the weakness and ignorance that is so prevalent among Christians everywhere. We have seen that God permits these evil forces to remain loose so believers may develop faith and character. Saints have the sacred duty and responsibility of knowing how to wage successful warfare against these unscrupulous spirits. Saints as a whole do not seem to care, or at least they do not put forth much effort to defeat these foes. They seem to be quite unintelligent about the war between God and Satan. Often they unknowingly cooperate with Satan and his plan and propagate his doctrines and lies more than they cooperate with God and propagate His truth. This misdirection of effort is due to man’s change of the Word of God from what is plainly written to human theories and church traditions that have been handed down by men who have nullified the truths of the Bible by making them mystical, spiritual, and symbolic.

How to Get Power from God over Sin

According to the Bible, God has all power, and there is no power that is not ordained of God Psalms 62:11Zechariah 4:6Romans 13:1-3. If all power is of God and if Satan’s power was given him by God, then it is clear who has all power. It is equally clear that if a person wants power he should go to God for it and not seek it from demons. Jesus said, “If any man serve me, him will my father honour” John 12:26. Every child of God at the new birth receives power to become a son or daughter of God, and this opens up to him all the possibilities of power from God over all the works of the devil John 1:12-13. Children of God are commanded to “Be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might” and to “Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil” Ephesians 6:10-18.

Paul speaks of believers having the “treasure [of God’s power] in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us” 2 Corinthians 4:7. He also states that “the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds; casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ” 2 Corinthians 10:4-6. Think of it! Power through God to destroy the works of the devil and to bring down every thought and imagination to the obedience of Christ! How can men have this power and continue in sin and defeat? How can such a one go about teaching that we have to sin every day in thought, word, or deed and that the flesh has to sin daily? Such men have not come in contact with the reality of the Christian experience and the power that each child of God can have. They make poor leaders, even of the blind, and as Jesus said, “if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch” Matthew 15:14.

No man who is interested in truth and in his eternal welfare should listen to or support any man who teaches that one cannot get a Christian experience that will save him from his sins and keep him from living in sin. Peter said, “Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time . . . As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation [manner of life]; Because it is written, be ye holy; for I am holy . . . Seeing ye have purified your souls . . . Being born again . . . having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust . . . give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall” 1 Peter 1:5, 142 Peter 1:3-10. Everyone who is born again lives free from the sin business 1 John 2:291 John 3:5-101 John 5:1-4, 182 Corinthians 5:17Ephesians 4:24Galatians 5:24.

This holy living is done by the power of God and not of ourselves. It is possible because we are made free from the law of sin and death and because we walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit Romans 8:1-13. Shall we lower our concept of the Almighty to say that He cannot save from sin or keep free from sin those whom He redeems? If God can do this and He chooses not to do it, then sending Christ to die that this may be done is a failure, and also making full provision in the gospel that this may be a normal life for every child of God is a farce. It is just as definite as can be that sinners “shall not inherit the kingdom of God.” So if Christians are sinners and all other men are sinners, then not one person will be saved 1 Corinthians 6:9-11Galatians 5:16-24Romans 1:29-32Romans 8:1-13.

There is a natural power of godliness that comes with the new birth, and those who have only a form of godliness deny the power of it 2 Timothy 3:5. God’s power gives each one “all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue” 2 Peter 1:3-10. The power from God to live clean and holy is ours for the asking. We can use this power of godliness to demonstrate to other sinners that there is a reality to the gospel and that every man can be saved and kept from all habitual sin 1 John 1:7, 92 Corinthians 5:17. It takes power from God to live victorious over sin, the flesh, the world, and the devil, but God our Saviour has all power to sanctify and make us “meet for the Master’s use, prepared unto every good work” 2 Timothy 2:18-26.

Not only can we have power to live a life pleasing to God, but we can have power from God . The way to get this power is to make a full surrender to God, renouncing all sin and bad habits, believing on the Lord Jesus Christ to save from all sin and impart sufficient power to overcome. When one believes from the heart, he is cleansed from all sin Romans 10:9-10. When one receives Jesus, not mentally or formally, but in reality , this cleansing takes place John 1:12. When one believes that Jesus is the Christ, not only mentally, but from the innermost soul , which belief includes turning to God from sin and Satan, this cleansing also takes place Acts 26:181 John 5:1-4.

You may say that you have done this and yet you still have old sins and habits in your life. There has been no change. It may be that you have not made the sufficient change that is necessary in order for God to work and complete the change in your life. The first thing to do is to get the fact settled that there must be a change, and there will be when one gets into Christ, as proven by the following scriptures: “If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature : old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new . And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us unto himself by Jesus Christ” 2 Corinthians 5:17; “They that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts” Galatians 5:24; “The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth us from all sin” 1 John 1:7; He has “washed us from our sins in his own blood” Revelation 1:5.

It is ridiculous even to think that any man could have this kind of a change in his life and still continue in his old sins. Because it is clear that there must be a change , then do the one thing necessary in order to have this change brought about. All one has to do is obey what the Bible requires, and the rest is up to God. “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” 1 John 1:9. It is impossible for any man to confess his sins and not be forgiven by God. It is possible for a man to confess part of his sins and not be heard of God. One will not be forgiven if he holds back some sin and habit and refuses to give it up, or if he has hatred in his heart and refuses to forgive. But when a man is honest with God and gives up his sins and habits and is willing to forgive all men and make proper restitution wherever possible, God will not fail to forgive and make him a new creature.

One must receive Christ: “But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name” John 1:12. This means that one must quit receiving sin, the world, the fleshly lusts, and the devil into his life. Christ and the devil cannot be in the life at the same time. Jesus said, “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon” Matthew 6:24. If Jesus told the truth, then men today who preach that every man must serve sin in the flesh and serve God in spirit are wrong. There cannot be such a double life. Paul said, “Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness” Romans 6:16-23.

How to Get Power from God over Sicknesses

Power from God to overcome sickness is on the same basis as power from God to overcome sin . Jesus taught that God has power to do both and that one power is just as easy to receive from God as another: “For whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise and walk?” Matthew 9:5. He further taught that conversion and bodily healing go hand in hand: “lest at any time they should . . . understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them” Matthew 13:15. Paul and others taught the same truth Acts 28:25-31James 5:14-16Psalms 103:1-3Exodus 15:26.

Every believer can get power from God over diseases. God gives every one of His children power when he receives the true Spirit baptism Luke 24:49Acts 1:82 Timothy 1:7-8John 14:12. This we shall see in Lessons Twenty, Twenty-two, and Thirty. Apart from receiving this baptism, faith is open to every child of God to get exactly what he wants, as we can see from all the promises. Faith is power, and the man that has faith has power. To the extent which a man has faith, he has power. That is, faith is the key that sets in motion the power of God.

There are degrees or measures of power, and it is equally true that God gives to every child of God a measure of faith and power which he can use to get what he needs in life. If one does not have delegated power to exercise at will, he can still have faith in God, which will set in motion all of heaven to move on his behalf so that he can get exactly what he has faith for. As long as we limit God and His promises we shall be limited in results. If we will have unlimited and unqualified faith , we shall have unlimited and unqualified answers to prayer. That means we shall have power over sin and sicknesses of all kinds.

The early disciples were given power over all demons and diseases and they exercised this power before they were permanently endowed with power at Pentecost Matthew 10:1-8Mark 3:15Mark 6:7-13Luke 9:1Luke 10:1-20. They were given power over all the power of the devil. God’s kingdom is always in power, not in word only 1 Corinthians 4:20. Is God’s kingdom still in existence? Has it lost its power? If it has not, then everyone in the kingdom has access to the power that belongs to that kingdom. Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God to all who believe 1 Corinthians 1:18-24. It is impossible to have Christ in the life without having access to power, because He is the power of God to the believer. The gospel is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believes Romans 1:16. Salvation includes healing as well as forgiveness . If this be true, then the gospel is the power of God to heal, and no man can truly believe the gospel without believing in power to heal by the gospel.

The way to get power to heal self and others is by believing in Christ according to the gospel. This means that by faith in the promises each child of God can appropriate what he needs according to those promises. He can get healing by prayer and faith as simply and as quickly as he got forgiveness of sins or any other thing he ever received from God. Healing will come on the same basis as any other answer to prayer, so why not accept this truth and ask God in faith for the power of healing to be manifest in our bodies? If such is provided in the gospel we might as well have it. Why be satisfied with anything less? Is it possible that we don’t want to be healed? Is it possible that we would rather be sick and helpless? Certainly not! Then accept truth, which will make us free.

To be healthy, then, is within our grasp. It is in our power. God wants His saving health to be made known among all nations Psalms 67:2. He has told us exactly how to have health. If we will practice literally the instructions of the following passages we shall have health: “Forget not my laws; but let thine heart [not mind only] keep my commandments: for length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee. Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: so shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord, and depart from evil. It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones. Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the first fruits of all thine increase: so shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine” Proverbs 3:1-10; “Attend to my words . . . For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh ” Proverbs 4:20-27Proverbs 16:24.

You are told in Ps. 91 that if you will “dwell in the secret place of the most High” . . . and “abide under the shadow of the Almighty . . . There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.” In Isa. 58 you are promised that if you will practice twenty principles of righteousness, “Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily . . . Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall answer. ” It is God’s highest will that His children be in health (3 Jn. 2).

How to Get Power from God over Poverty

The Bible declares that God “giveth power to get wealth” Deuteronomy 8:17-18. When Solomon asked God for wisdom instead of wealth so that he would better be able to judge Israel, God gave him both. Solomon was one of the richest men that had ever lived on earth, just because of the blessing of God. God also blessed Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David, Job, and many men of the past with great wealth. It is in the power of God to make rich or to make poor 1 Samuel 2:7Proverbs 10:22.

If riches come to some men because of the blessing of God, then it is not a sin to have wealth. We are warned in Scripture not to misuse wealth to oppress the poor and not to permit riches to ensnare us into sin so that we forget God and be lost Proverbs 11:28Matthew 13:22Luke 8:141 Timothy 6:17James 5:1-6. There are a number of blessings the Bible lists as being better than riches, such as righteousness Proverbs 16:8Psalms 37:17-18; a good name Proverbs 22:1; long life Proverbs 3:1-2; and wisdom Proverbs 3:13-16. There are many other assets in life better than money, so one should not set his heart upon this as the chief objective in life . People with riches will have greater temptations, and often they will commit acts that they would not do if they did not have money. Riches are only temporary and should be recognized as such Proverbs 23:5Proverbs 27:24. Men are told not to set their hearts upon riches or trust in them, but to trust in the Living God Psalms 52:7Psalms 62:10Psalms 23:41 Timothy 6:17. Many other statements are found in Scripture revealing the sins of the rich—how they oppress the poor, are boastful, proud, sinful, mean, and ungodly, because they have wealth and influence in the earth.

On the other hand, the Bible speaks of many blessings of wealth if used in the right way for the good of men and the glory of God . Wealth is a protection Proverbs 10:15Proverbs 18:11; it makes many friends Proverbs 14:20; it makes one powerful in life Proverbs 22:7; and it enables one to be rich in good works. This in turn, if done in the right spirit (not to be seen of men, but because it is right to do good ), will result in increased rewards in eternity 1 Timothy 6:18. Money is power in modern times, and every child of God could do infinitely more for God and lost souls if he had more of this kind of power. Think what could be done with riches in spreading truth and blessing men in life! There is no end to the good that one could do if he only had the means to do it.

Looking at wealth from this standpoint and even praying to God for it, and expecting it from Him so as to be able to do more for the cause of God in the earth, is not a sin . The average person is doubtful of God’s interest in His children enjoying prosperity. Satan and gospel workers constantly warn believers against desiring wealth until it is a universal faith among Christians that wealth is more or less a sin. On the other hand, if some man of wealth gets interested in any local church, or if he becomes generous in helping the work of Christ, he is greatly honored and respected. This honor should not be given if it is a sin to have wealth or to ask God for it.

Anyone with common sense knows there is nothing wrong with having wealth or getting it in a rightful way. In fact, every child of God has many needs, which he could and would have supplied if he had the money. He often longs to have more wealth to be able to better support his church and the work of God in general. He does not consider this desire sinful, and if wealth would suddenly come to him he would still consider that he could be a true Christian if he used it rightly. So we have to conclude that the universal theory that it is wrong to pray for financial help is unscriptural and unreasonable .

The argument is often advanced at this point that it is not wrong to have wealth, but that there are many more important blessings we need to ask God for. This is, after all, a mere excuse for unbelief. Men simply do not want to crucify their old traditions and theories and their unbelief and definitely pray for and ask God for financial help as they ask Him for physical or spiritual help. If they will learn the truth and ask God in faith, nothing will be impossible financially any more than physically or spiritually. Let us be sensible and study the Bible from the standpoint of getting financial aid.

In the first place, let us ask ourselves the questions about this subject that we are beginning to ask concerning other things. Are we children of God? Does God really love us as we love our children? Would we will and desire for our children to prosper? Does God will and desire anything less for His children than we do for our own? Why should He be different from man in desiring the best things of life for His children? What would be sinful about God blessing His children with wealth? Just because a few backslide and lose their souls over prosperity, there is no more excuse for living in unbelief and poverty than for rejecting salvation from sin just because a few people backslide. So from the standpoint of the infinite Fatherhood of God it would be His highest will for His children to be blessed with prosperity.

From the standpoint of being able to spread the gospel to the ends of the earth, to help support missionaries, to help the work of God in the homeland, to help the poor to be prosperous, happy, and healthy. If every Christian would appropriate the benefits of the promises as they should, all the financial problems of every local church and of the worldwide work for God would be automatically taken care of. When Israel obeyed the Lord and brought their tithes and offerings to God, there were heaps upon heaps of supplies for God’s work (2 Chron. 31:1-21). If all Christians were prosperous there would be no need of modern methods of raising money for churches. Some of the churches gamble and do many un-Christlike acts to keep the local work going. If all men were prosperous, all the minister would have to do would be to make an appeal or merely give his people an opportunity to render to the Lord some of the abundance with which He has blessed them.

Now from the standpoint of the Bible promises, let us note how simple and clear God has made His Word concerning prosperity. God promised Israel abundant prosperity if she would conform to His will Leviticus 25:21Leviticus 26:4-9Deuteronomy 7:13-15Deuteronomy 15:4-6Deuteronomy 28:7-8. Prosperity was promised as a natural result of obedience to God, and so it is today. The Psalm that is quoted by all Christians starts out with “The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want .” Other promises in the Psalms are: “They that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing ” Psalms 34:10; “Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits ” Psalms 68:19; “Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with loving kindness and tender mercies; who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s” Psalms 103:1-5. See Ps. 84:11.

To those who will honor God with their tithes and offerings, not because they want blessings, but because it is right to do it, God has promised, “I will open to you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it” Malachi 3:9-11. If anyone argues that this was for Israel only, we answer, it is also for the Church according to Mt. 6:26-33; 10:29; Lk. 6:38; 2 Cor. 9:6-12; Phil. 4:19; 3 Jn. 2. This last passage expresses the will of God for Christians: “Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health , even as thy soul prospereth.”

How to Appropriate the Benefits of the Promises

The way to appropriate the benefits promised is to accept the promises of God as being for you and ask God in faith for what you want. If you believe what you ask, without wavering, it shall be done for you because God loves you and will prosper you in everything that you undertake. If you are hindered in getting an answer, do not lose faith and blame God for not giving it to you. You must remember there is a devil with many demons, who will try to keep you from being prosperous. You should recognize all hindrances that are against the promises of God as being from this source. You should fight and resist Satan, and he will flee from you James 4:7. Claim the fulfillment of the promises of this kind just as you would for forgiveness, healing, or any other benefit you have asked of God. If you are in the habit of running every time the battle goes against you, you will never get what you want . Sometime you must take a stand with God against these evil spirits and master them, and then it will be easy to get what you want from God. Study again Lesson Six on how to defeat Satan and then literally practice what you know to do, and victory will be yours.

Happiness can be yours; freedom from fear and want can be yours; success can be yours; and answers to all your prayers can be your experience if you will do as you are instructed. If you do not obey to the letter what you know to do, how can you expect these blessings? Satan is not the kind to give up. If he sees you are easily discouraged, he will be all the more aggressive to defeat you. Make a decision that all double-mindedness and failure must be stopped. Have no fear of the outcome. Have faith in God. He will see you through. He is with you. He will stand by you and back you in your fight for anything He has promised. But He wants you to learn to fight and not be a defeatist just because the answer does not come the minute you have asked. Anybody can give up and fail to get what he wants. That is what almost all Christians are doing now because they lack proper teaching and coaching on how to get things from God.

We want to help you learn to appropriate from God those benefits that are rightfully yours as a child of God. If you do not get proper help from your church, then we want to fill the gap and help you. You cannot fail. You must not fail. So much depends upon your getting from God what you are promised and what you have dared to ask from Him. Your friends are watching whether or not you get what you ask for. Even sinners are watching the outcome of your war with demons, so for their sake you must listen carefully and learn exactly what to do and then do it without fail. The only cause of your failure is your unbelief.

Can it be that you are still questioning the will of God concerning those blessings He has abundantly promised? If so, quit all doubting right now! It is pure nonsense for you to listen to the devil tell you that God will not do what He has promised, or that it is not God’s will for you to get what He said He will give you. If you listen to the devil, it is no wonder that God does not hear. You, yourself, would not hear anybody that made you out to be a liar every time you opened your mouth and promised him something. Be sure that this foolishness of making God a liar is stopped once and for all. Just believe what God says and forget what men and demons say!

God says you can have whatsoever you ask, and anyone who even suggests that you cannot have what you pray for is your enemy and the enemy of God. They are helping Satan rob you of what is rightfully yours. They cannot rob you of these blessings if you will make a decision to not listen to them, but rather have faith in God. You know now what you must do, so do it with all your heart and you will abundantly receive. God gives to all men liberally and upbraideth not, but He does require faith, nothing wavering. He will not answer on any other terms James 1:5-9Hebrews 11:6. If you do not get the answer, then you know what is wrong. Correct it, and you shall be heard.

If you try to turn on a light and it will not work, you have sense enough to know that something is wrong. It would be foolish on your part to keep trying to turn it on until you repair what is wrong. When you do not get what you pray for, then act sensibly and find out what is wrong and then correct it. It cannot be that you will not know what is wrong. The steps in getting benefits from God are simple. If you are still having trouble and do not know what to do, review Supplements One and Two and carefully follow the lessons on how to pray.

If you have followed all these steps and still there is no answer, then settle it once and for all that it is unbelief and that you are under direct attack from demons. You will then know what to do. “Resist the devil and he will flee from you ” James 4:7. How to resist the devil is also clear. Take a firm stand in your innermost being against the thoughts that you are not going to get an answer. Renew your faith in what God has said, and get it firmly settled that what you ask is promised by God. If it is promised then have no further doubt that you are going to receive. Begin praising God for it and obey Ps. 37:4-5: “Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart . Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass. ”

Maintain this attitude and ignore any feeling, thought, or happening that is contrary to the answer. You can say “I believe” just as easily as you can say that it is "hard to have faith." You can make every thought and word a positive act of faith. You can simply refuse any negative thought. Learn to build up faith instead of tearing it down. State the truth in all that you say, and never think or express one thought contrary to the fact that you have been heard by God and that you have the answer. Though you cannot see the answer, it is still yours, for faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen Hebrews 11:1Romans 4:17-21. If you have faith you have the answer.

Ten Questions For Supplement Three. Do You Know:

• That the planets reveal truth? Besides the natural times and seasons there are certain times and seasons for preordained events in God’s Universal Plan for Creation. The children of Issachar had understanding of “the times, to know what Israel ought to do” (1 Chron. 12:32). The wise men knew by the star when Christ was born Matthew 2:1-2, 7. Jesus understood the signs of His time, and He rebuked the Pharisees for not discerning the signs of the times as well as they could discern the natural seasons Matthew 16:1-4. In Ps. 19:1 we have the fact that the heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament showeth His handiwork. See also Acts 1:6-7; 1 Thess. 5:1-3. These and other passages clearly indicate that the planets rule times and seasons and reveal certain truths.

• That eternity is made up of time and that time shall not cease? There is a time and a season for everything done under the sun (Eccl. 3). God originally made the sun, moon, and stars to regulate times and seasons on the eternal earth. The work of day four was the permanent restoration of the solar system in connection with the restored earth, to divide the day from the night; and to be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years forever Genesis 1:14-18. This solar regulation causing endless time on the earth is eternal: “They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations . . . His name shall endure for ever: His name shall be continued as long as the sun” Psalms 72:5, 17; "I have sworn unto David my servant, Thy seed will I establish for ever . . . his throne as the days of heaven . . . as the sun before me. It shall be established for ever as the moon” Psalms 89:4, 27; “Thus saith the Lord, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night . . . If those ordinances depart from me, saith the Lord, then the seed of Israel also shall cease being a nation before me for ever” Jeremiah 31:35-36Jeremiah 33:20-22. God promised Noah that there would be day and night, summer and winter, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, forever on the earth Genesis 8:22. The earth is eternal, so time made up of seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years is also eternal Ecclesiastes 1:4Psalms 104:5. When the Bible says “time no longer” it should be “delay no longer,” for it speaks of days and years continuing after this Revelation 10:6-7Revelation 12:6, 14Revelation 13:5Revelation 20:1-7. When the Bible says “there shall be no night there” it speaks of the city, the New Jerusalem, and not of the earth outside of the city Revelation 21:23-27. Thus we must conclude that time will continue eternally.

• That you are in eternity now? As we have seen above, eternity will be made up of time as we now know it; so if time continues eternally as it is now, in the sense of being in eternal time, we are now in eternity. We do not mean that we are now in our eternal state , for that will not be true until we enter into immortality 1 Corinthians 15:51-58Philippians 3:20-21. But we can truly say that we are in time that will be eternal and that we are in part of eternity now?

• That heaven and hell are eternal? Whenever olam, aion and aionios (Hebrew and Greek words expressing eternity ) are used dispensationally, as we have seen in Lesson One, Point III, 2, they always mean eternal . The argument that Hell is not eternal and that it will come to an end is a mere invention of demons and of humanity. Hell is spoken of as being as eternal as the New Heavens and the New Earth Isaiah 66:22-24. It is spoken of as being as eternal as the bliss of the righteous Matthew 18:8Matthew 25:41, 46Mark 3:292 Thessalonians 1:9Hebrews 6:2Revelation 14:9-11Revelation 20:10-15Revelation 21:8.

• That men in all eternity who live on the New Earth will be able to see people in hell? “For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain. And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come and worship before me, saith the Lord. And they shall go and look upon the carcasses of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh” Isaiah 66:22-24; “he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb” Revelation 14:9-11, so it is clear that people in hell will be seen by others outside of hell who will be living on the New Earth.

• That God lived somewhere before He created the heavens and the earth? This is clear from the fact that He is “from everlasting to everlasting” Psalms 90:2. If He had no beginning and the heaven and the earth did have, as stated in Gen. 1:1, then God lived somewhere else before they we created. Where He lived is not revealed so we do not need to concern ourselves about that secret of God, according to Deut. 29:29.

• That there was a universal flood on earth that destroyed all life long before the flood of Noah? This is clear from Gen. 1:2; Ps. 105:5-9; 2 Pet. 3:4-6; where we read of the earth being flooded which caused “the world [ social system ] that then was” before Adam to perish. Genesis 1:2 reveals that this flood was on the earth before the first day of the six days’ work of Gen. 1:3–2:25 during which time Adam was created, so it had to be before Adam. Such passages as Isa. 14:12-14; Jer. 4:23-26; and Ezek. 28:11-17 prove that Lucifer had a kingdom on earth before the days of Adam. He was already a fallen creature when Adam was created, and if these passages prove he ruled before this and that he was perfect in his ways until he sinned, then it had to be before Adam. (This will be proven fully in the next two lessons).

• That the Bible tells you how long each of the six days of Gen. 1 was? They were literal 24-hour days, as proven by the qualifying statements “evening and morning,” which began and ended each day like it has been doing every day since. Then, too, Exod. 20:8-11 speaks of literal days in which God restored the earth to a second perfect state. The record of what was done on those six days also proves that they were literal days, as we shall see fully in Lesson Eight.

• That Adam died the day he sinned? Physical and spiritual death is the result of being cut off from eternal life by God. Man died spiritually the same day he sinned, for spiritual death is separation from God because of sin Ephesians 2:1-10Isaiah 59:2. Man was separated the day he sinned and unless he becomes reconciled to God again he will be eternally separated from God in the Lake of Fire, which is the second death. Thus Adam did die the day he sinned.

• That neither the automobile nor any single invention is ever specifically mentioned in Scripture? Men never dreamed of modern inventions before we had them, but students of prophecy think they have found them in prophecy. But the fact is that Nah. 2:3-4 refers to horse-drawn chariots instead of automobiles, as is clear in the same book Nahum 2:13Nahum 3:1-3. The so-called airplanes of Isa. 31:5 are the Lord and His armies of heaven coming to earth to deliver Jerusalem and the Jews from the Antichrist Isaiah 31:5-9Zechariah 14:1-52 Thessalonians 1:7-10Revelation 19:11-21; the so-called locomotive of Job 41 is the devil, as proven in the last verse. And so it goes with every modern invention that men thought they have found in Scripture. The context of every passage used to prove some invention reveals just the opposite; so if a reader will be sure that he understands the subject of the passage and the particular people and time to which it refers, he will see for himself that no modern invention is referred to.