Hearing What the Spirit is Saying: Clearly Defined

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April 20th 2022        

1 Some people would assume that when someone else is hearing what the Spirit is saying they think that the person is high on marijuana or some other kind of entheogen which could be a a chemical substance, typically of plant origin, that is ingested to produce a non-ordinary state of consciousness for religious or spiritual purposes. 2 Some would even go so far as to say that Moses was smoking something when the voice that came out from the burning bush was marijuana. 3 It has also been said that: Do you know that “cannabis” comes from the Hebrew word “קנבוס” (“KaNaBoS”)? And קנבוס actually comes from the ancient Biblical term, “קנה בשם” (“KaNeH BoSeM”), one of the ingredients of the anointing oil delineated in Exodus 30:23! 4 The first solid evidence of the Hebrew use of cannabis was established in 1936 by Sula Benet, a little known Polish etymologist from the Institute of Anthropological Sciences in Warsaw. 5 In some of the articles out there they say that cannabis was used on the Golden Alter of incense that was in the Holy Place within the tabernacle of Moses. 6 As well the anointing oil that Jesus used to heal the sick and the leaves on the Tree of Life for the healing of the nations. 7 I thought this would be a good part to throw in this article for the 420 day…lol

8 Well I don’t know if any of this is true or not but I know that no one needs cannabis to hear what the Spirit is saying. 9 I would suggest that before someone is confidant in knowing that what they are hearing is from The Spirit and not just a lying spirit is to know and be grounded in the scriptures. 10 God does not and can not lie, for He is the truth and by having a good foundation in the Logos which is the written words from the scriptures, can be a great help in being sure what God’s Spirit is saying. 11 Eve was deceived by the voice that she was hearing from that was a lying spirit, and then she disobeyed God’s command not to eat from the Tree of Knowledge.


12 Some people claim that they heard God telling them to kill someone and then do so, or others things that would go against what God would actually say. 13 These kind of people have a serious mental problem and need to get help before they act on things they hear in their subconscious mind.


14 When someone hears from the Spirit of God they are getting the truth and nothing but the truth and a little bit of truth can be a stepping stone to the full picture of the truth. 15 God used natural things as types that foreshadow their antitypes in the Spiritual realm. 16 In the natural realm it’s like having a model car as a type, that represents a real car as the antitype. 17 God revealed thing to Moses as the truth but later on when Moses, Elisha and Jesus met on the mountain, Matthew 17:2 states that Jesus “was transfigured before them; his face shining as the sun, and his garments became white as the light.”

18 Then in: Matthew 17: 5While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them; and suddenly a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Hear Him!”

19 The truth is that we as ministers of God we are just a like a candle or a flame in the refine fire of the Holy Spirit. 20 The truth that Jesus has revealed to us is as compared to the Sun. 21 All that is true in the universe that God has is as the biggest star in the universe. 22 That compared to the sun is huge yet the truth can only be one thing while a lie can be many things.

23 Logos and Rhema: Both Logos and Rhema are the Word of God, but the former is God’s Word objectively recorded in the Bible, while the latter is the word of God spoken to us at a specific occasion. According to Nee a passage of the Logos can move into being Rhema if it becomes shown to apply to the specific individual.

24 Playing Chess: Some who uses both Logos and Rhema with consideration for the interpretation of Greek and Hebrew words when they are speaking or in their writings, and debating. Rhema which is hearing what the Spirit is saying rules but never steps out of line with the Logos and connects the dots in the typology that is used in the scriptures. Those who are playing chess do not play according to other peoples rules like a puppet on a string. They do not dance to the tunes of other peoples songs. They are a flame in the refining fire that the Holy Spirit speaks through to those who can hear what the Spirit is saying. In the Old Heaven and Earth God used prophets until the perfect came for the New Heaven and Earth. Which is the ability for those who are lead by the Spirit to also be able to hear what the Spirit is saying.

25 Playing Checkers: Someone who only uses the Logos with Greek and Hebrew words when they are speaking or in their writings, and debating. Using the Rhema is considered stepping out of line with the Logos “scripture only”. They fear false prophets will rise and say they are hearing from the Spirit when they are not. People playing checkers are like “word gods” that chain God’s word to only be from the Logos. Playing checker is just the process of elimination where every Logos word they use is suppose to be authoritative over Rhema. 

26 Playing Tiddlywinks: Someone who relies on traditional views only. They do not engage with the other methods used like Rhema or the Greek and Hebrews meanings. They only use the Bible and go along with their denominational beliefs attached to them in order to remain in right standing with their denomination to maintain their membership to it.

27 God gave Moses types that foreshadowed things to come in Christ and Christ fulfilled at of them. 28 Some of them can be seen through the fulfillments of the Feasts of the Lord throughout the first century. 29 Jesus spoke in parables to reveal hidden truths. 30 He gave us His Spirit to hear from to those who can hear what the Spirit is saying, and a Spiritual mind to connect the dots from both typology and parables that are already there in the scriptures for us to figure out. 31 We are very capable of seeing them if we do not allow traditional doctrines to get in the way that some of us adopted in place of God’s Spirit. 

John 16:13 But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come.

2 Timothy 2:9 for which I suffer trouble as an evildoer, even to the point of chains; but the word of God is not chained.

2 Corinthians 3:2 You are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read by all men; 3 clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart.

The Spirit, Not the Letter

4 And we have such trust through Christ toward God. 5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God, 6 who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

Cessation of God’s Word Vs. Hearing What the Spirit is Saying:

32 How was it possible that the word of God has ceased as if God has a muzzle wrapped around His mouth or that He simple refuses to speak to anymore is beyond me. 33 For some reason humanity has chained God’s word to the scriptures after the end of the Age of Corruption when the New Heaven and Earth began when we need it more now than ever. 34 Sure I get it, the scriptures are our solid foundation for hearing what the Holy Spirit is saying now, but maybe it would help if we had the original writings and understood them. 35 But most people have been taught to think that is where it should end. 36 No one wants to deal with those who say they heard from God when they didn’t. 37 So then it really must be more to put a muzzle on everyone so that those who went to Bible school and got a degree can dictate to others what they believe the written word of God is about. 38 Otherwise we will have everyone claiming to be a Prophet out there and running around out of control deceiving everyone out there. 39 It makes sense to some degree but in doing so it really can hinder our faith by not being open to hear present day truth from God.


40 Some people will say; show me where it says that in the scriptures, or when they get really sophisticated about it they will be sure to throw Sola Scriptura out at you as if that will be solid prove of being wrong about God’s word. 41 We have so many different translations to pick and choose from that we can twist the means around with to fit the view of your choice. 42 Without hearing what the Spirit is saying opens to door for a new denomination to start when there are about 40,000 of them already with each one of them differing from all the others.

Information about Translations of the Bible “Logos”.

43 Sola Scriptura: The 66-book Bible is the sole authority for Christians in faith, doctrine, and practice. Sola Scriptura acknowledges the facts that the Bible is the Word of God, inerrant, sufficient, without error, and the source of all truth.

44 Why Catholics don’t believe in sola scriptura? Sola Scriptura is an abuse of the Bible, since it is a use of the Bible contrary to its explicit and implicit testimony about itself and Tradition. An objective reading of the Bible leads one to Tradition and the Catholic Church, rather than the opposite.


45 The Christian Research Institute breaks down the argument for sola scriptura: First is the belief that the Bible is a direct revelation from God and therefore had authority from God.   The Christian Research Institute breaks down the argument for sola scriptura: First is the belief that the Bible is a direct revelation from God and therefore had authority from God. Second, it is sufficient in itself to guide faith and practice. Third, it is the final authority.

46 The original manuscripts of the New Testament books are not known to have survived. The autographs are believed to have been lost or destroyed a long time ago. What survives are copies of the original.

47 More than100 complete translations into English have been written. According to Ethnologue, there are 7,097 known languages in the world. The complete Bible has been translated into approximately 700 languages, while the New Testament has been translated into well over 1,500 languages. Smaller portions of the New Testament have been translated into over 1,000 languages.


48 Which Bible version is the most accurate and easy to understand? The New American Standard Bible is a literal translation from the original texts, well suited to study because of its accurate rendering of the source texts. It follows the style of the King James Version but uses modern English for words that have fallen out of use or changed their meanings. However, some translations, like the New American Standard Bible (NASB) and the New King James Version (NKJV), will give more weight to matching the original language word-for-word. 

49 Why is the King James Bible the most accurate? Because of the wealth of resources devoted to the project, it was the most faithful and scholarly translation to date—not to mention the most accessible.

50 What is the most accurate translated Bible in the world? New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures.

51 How many times has the Bible been changed? Over 30,000 changes were made, of which more than 5,000 represent differences between the Greek text used for the Revised Version and that used as the basis of the King James Version. Most of the other changes were made in the interest of consistency or modernization.

52 Which Bible is the original Bible? The book in question is Codex Sinaiticus, often referred to as the oldest Bible in the world. Here are nine things you should know about Codex Sinaiticus. 1) Codex Sinaiticus has been dated to the middle of the fourth century. 2) The book is handwritten in Greek by four different scribes.

53 The English Standard Version (ESV) is a translation of the Bible in contemporary English. Published in 2001 by Crossway, the ESV was “created by a team of more than 100 leading evangelical scholars and pastors.” The ESV relies on recently published critical editions of the original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek texts.

54 Which version of the Bible is closest to the original Hebrew? Geneva Bible was the first English version in which all of the Old Testament was translated directly from the Hebrew (cf. Coverdale Bible, Matthew Bible).

55 In the 16th century, Martin Luther argued that many of the received texts of the New Testament lacked the authority of the Gospels, and therefore proposed removing a number of books from the New Testament, including Hebrews, James, Jude, and Revelation.

56 No single English translation will ever represent the original biblical languages perfectly. Why? In part because the Bible’s ancient languages do not function like English. A word in Hebrew, Greek, or Aramaic might not have an exact English word to match.

57 How do you hear what the Spirit is saying “Rhema”…?

1 Be rooted in God’s word for a solid foundation.

2 Know what wisdom is so you can be wise and not make foolish decisions

3 Be still and list to the still small voice based in the first two things mentioned

4 Notice the wonders like dreams, visions and miracles God has done or is doing.

58 The written Word of God is your foundation, your filter, and your guideline to discerning God’s voice and we can get a better confirmation by comparing translations to help see where the dots connect. 59 His voice will never contradict His Word. 60 This power and wisdom that comes from the Holy Spirit allows you to stand strong for the things of God. 61 At times, the voice of God has been described as that of a parent which could seem gentle and kind, benevolent, or terrifying, depending on what kind of relationship you’ve had with Him. 62 Like a prophet would hear from God it may come like a voice, at times in a dream, and sometimes when you open your eyes you see visions that God intends for you. 63 The life led by the Spirit, in contrast with life of the sinful nature, has these markers: “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. Galatians 5:22-23.

Conclusion: 

Conclusion:


64 It is of my opinion that if we limit God’s word to sola scriptura then are we we not fueling the anti indwelling of the Holy Spirit doctrine that has crept into the mainline Full Preterist view of those who also have the Collective Body View and Covenant Eschatology or Covenant Creation. 65 The Old Covenant has the Old Testament and the New Covenant has the New Testament but that was only for the first century while the Old Covenant was still in effect though vanishing away. 66 You would think that the New Heaven and Earth should have written scrip for its foundation with all things made new but all we can do is pick and chose from the New Testament for that. 67 I believe it would be safe to say that the New Heaven and Earth should have written scrip for its foundation but based on the typologies seen in sola scriptura. 68 The lack of faith for this is what I believe is causing so much confusion within Full Preterism with everyone coming up with their own views that stray away from those typologies we can clearly see in the Bible. 69 Aside from that what does that have to say about the indwelling of the Holy Spirit within the sincere believers who do not seek their own glory but the glory of God only for the hidden manna of the word of God that we need to live by for the present day we now live in. 70 We do not need to rewrite the Bible but we desperately need to have a solid foundation for the New Heaven and Earth based on the foundation of the typologies found in the scriptures for how all things were made new.

71 Those who have a cessationalist view on God’s word need to fear this in stead of worrying about someone who claimed that they have heard what the Spirit said to them.

Matthew 12:35 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things. 36 But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment. 37 For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”