Men Wrote the Bible: full transcript and answers

▶ 0:00 And you can see a picture on your screen of the old-time Jerusalem. The wall facing you is east, and the reason I know that is because the temple entry was from the east, so you’re looking at the eastern wall, the eastern gate of Jerusalem. He begins to talk about Jerusalem, and he tells us what month, what day of the month, and what year of the captivity that Babylon came and started their siege against Jerusalem. Now remember, Ezekiel is the prophet on the other side of the captivity. He is in Babylon. Jeremiah was in Jerusalem, in Judah, and, uh, they’ve already been carried away captive once. God already came and corrected them one time, but they didn’t learn their lesson. Okay, so Ezekiel, by the Spirit of God, lifts up his voice, and he brings up the topic of Jerusalem.

▶ 0:59 He goes on to keep talking about Jerusalem, and he refers to Jerusalem as a she, as a female, and that’s very important. He goes on to describe it as a bloody city. They are killing innocent people. All right, they’re persecuting and killing and hurting innocent people. Then he says she, the city, she has wearied herself with lies. Her— feminine— she, feminine, likened to Jerusalem as a female, a she. That’s very important.

▶ 1:40 And you young people, and you young believers, who hear this nonsense that men wrote the Bible, and, you know, the Bible’s just a bunch of myths and just a bunch of nonsense, and, as a homosexual activist said, just a bunch of BS, I want to show you— here’s another example that man did not write this book. Only God could do these amazing things and then fulfill them, talk about them and then fulfill them, and make it clear to us. Are you with me? He goes on to continue to talk about her condition, which is already bloody and lies. All right, “in your filthiness is lewdness,” or in your loose conduct, your loose plans, is uncleanness, including sexual immorality and immorality of all kinds. He says that’s your condition, and he’s talking to his people. His people, he’s saying, are liars; they’re hurting innocent people.

▶ 2:43 And they conduct themselves very loose, sexual immorality and all other kinds of immorality going on, “because I have purged you.” I’ve cleansed you, “and you were not purged.” He already came one time and brought correction and brought the prophet’s message. Jeremiah, we gave it to you, it was very powerful, the new covenant and the promises He gave, and these people did not listen to Jeremiah. So God raises up Ezekiel to come and tell them the same thing. And the condition of America’s church is exactly what Ezekiel says.

▶ 3:26 They have been purged by faith, but they’re not purged. Everybody in America, “Oh yeah, I’m clean by the blood, I’m clean by the blood.” They’re shacking up with people, they’re taking drugs and getting drunk and doing all kinds of debauchery, but “I’m clean by the blood.” This is exactly what God spoke through Ezekiel: “I have purged you, and you’re not purged.” The blood hasn’t worked in your life. You’re just believing you’re clean by faith, and you’re not clean. Isn’t America like that right now? And who gets the credit for it? These ministers, these mega churches, these people that are out to sell books and just flatter the people and be popular. They are propagating this message that only cleans by faith. Folks, what good is it do me if I’m only cleaned by faith, clean by faith, and I don’t change my life? It’s absolutely no good. I’m just like any other religion. No other religion on earth can give you cleansing of the body, soul and mind. “You shall not be cleansed from your filthiness anymore till I’ve caused My fury to rest upon you.” He says, “I’m coming with another correction. I’m coming with another judgment. I’m coming with another punishment to get your attention to change your ways.” And it’s just two years away. He’s prophesying in the ninth year of Zedekiah, the king of Israel.

▶ 5:00 And Jerusalem was started to be surrounded by Babylon’s army this day, and just less than two years away they’re going to be carried away captive, and the city’s going to be destroyed, and the temple’s going to be destroyed. This time— I mean, last time God left the temple and the city; this time He’s going to destroy it all. Are you there? He said, “I purged you once, I came and I got your attention, and you didn’t listen, so I’m coming again.” And that is where America’s church is right now. The end result, verse 14: “I the Lord have spoken it; it shall come to pass, and I will do it. I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent. According to your” what? “Ways.” Not your faith.

▶ 5:59 It is over and over and over again. It’s not what you believe. “Well, I believe this is okay.” It doesn’t matter if you believe something is okay if your ways are wrong according to God’s ways. He’s going to judge you and your doings. Do we get the message now? This God has promised us, “if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature, old things are passed away.” We’ve been promised change in our life, but when it doesn’t happen real quickly, then we start justifying, because God doesn’t do things real quickly, but He’s always on time. He’s just amazing. He’s always on time. And when things don’t happen the way we want them to happen, and in the time we wanted to happen, we start trying to solve the thing ourself.

▶ 7:04 So God says, “I’m not going to repent. I’m not going to turn back from judging you. It’s your ways and your doings that I’m after. I came once and I punished you, I corrected you, and I’m coming again.” All right, then here’s this amazing allegory introduced. Amazing. And these people say the Bible’s just written by men. You’ve got to be kidding. Nobody could dream this stuff up that God has hidden in these Scriptures that only the Holy Ghost can expose to you. Are you there? And you young believers need to know that this Book was written by men through the Spirit of God. They didn’t write what they wanted to write; they wrote what the Spirit made them write. They were a bunch of hardheads like us, but the Spirit made them right. How many would like the Holy Ghost to make you live right? Yeah, this is what God has promised us.

▶ 8:05 “Son of man,” verse 16 and 17, “Look, I take away from you the desire of your eyes with a stroke.” He’s talking to Ezekiel personally now. He said, “Ezekiel, I’m going to take away the desire of your eyes with one sweep. Yet neither shall you mourn nor weep for the dead.” Wow. He’s talking personally to Ezekiel and says, “Ezekiel, you desire something with your eyes, and I’m going to take it away, and you’re not going to mourn about it.” So Jerusalem is likened to Ezekiel’s wife, as we will see here. Remember, Jerusalem was a she. Right, hello, church? All right, now he gets down to the nitty-gritty. Your wife, and that was the desire of Ezekiel’s eyes, was his wife.

▶ 9:11 He loved his wife. Man, how would you like to be married to him? And God comes to illustrate, “You’re dead, you’re gone. Bye.” She died early because God had an illustration. But see, death in God is not like we see death. “At evening my wife died”— that was the desire of his eyes— “and I did in the morning as I was commanded.” He didn’t mourn, he didn’t put on mourning clothes. He was instructed, “Don’t you put on mourning clothes; you put on traveling clothes.” And so we see here a picture of Ezekiel, and his wife’s dead, and these people are coming to him and go, “What? You know, why ain’t you mourning? Why? You know the custom, the culture. You mourn, you, you know, you’re sorry.” Oh, so these people knew something was up.

▶ 10:07 So the people came to Ezekiel and said, “Will you tell us what these things are to us that you do?” They knew Ezekiel had been prophesying for several years now, and they knew he had been given illustrations for several years, so they come and say, “Okay, what are you trying to tell us now? Your wife died, you’re not mourning, you’re dressed in traveling clothes.” They knew that it was an allegory. They knew, they wanted to know what God was telling them. “Thus saith the Lord.” He tells them, this is what the Lord is saying through my wife’s death, through Jerusalem being an allegory of a female: “Behold, I will profane My sanctuary.” Now, where was His sanctuary back then?

▶ 11:00 In the temple in Jerusalem. That’s where God dwelt, on the cherubim, between the cherubim on the ark of the covenant. Are you there? See, that was the [unclear]. That’s where God dwelt. And that was the desire of the Jews’ eyes: that temple and that city. They were obsessed with it. They’re committing adultery, they’re lying, they’re killing innocent people, but boy, don’t you talk about that temple, and don’t you talk about that city. Don’t you touch that temple, don’t you touch that city. We’ll die for that city, we’ll die for that temple, but we won’t die to live right. Are you there, church? Very powerful, didn’t it? And Ezekiel’s wife died so God could illustrate in an allegory the difference between religion and reality.

▶ 12:03 Okay, “My sanctuary,” the temple, Jerusalem, “the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes.” That’s what the people’s desires was, “and that which your soul pities.” See, when bad things happened to Jerusalem or the temple, they felt so bad for it. Oh, but it did— they didn’t feel bad at all sinning and breaking God’s Word. And that’s exactly where America’s church is, on the most part. Not everybody, but the majority of Christians in America are living in sin and thinking they’re okay. Am I right? Absolutely. Jerusalem likened to Ezekiel’s wife.

▶ 12:53 He said, “Then your sons and your daughters whom you have left shall fall by the sword.” Who’s paying the price for adults in America living loosely? The children. Everybody’s talking about the problems with our kids, but nobody is putting the blame where it belongs, and that is the adults need to buck up and be adults and stand for morality and live right at the cost of their own pain. You stay married, you get married, you raise that kid, you do what’s right. Here is Sarah and Hagar, an amazing allegory made clear in Galatians, the New Testament, 4:21. This amazing allegory, I think it’s just amazing. It’s extraordinary.

▶ 13:45 He says in 4:21 of Galatians, “You that desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law?” Now, the law he’s talking about is the shadow laws, the laws that were an illustration of the truth He was going to perform and bring into reality when He came to earth, born of a virgin and dying on the cross. That’s what the shadow laws are. The civil laws are still with us— there’s a difference— the spiritual laws are still with us, but these Jews, they were obsessed with the shadow laws. See, Jerusalem was an illustration of what He was going to do. The temple was an illustration, an allegory of what He’s going to do, and they were obsessed with the illustrations. “For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a bond woman,” a slave, a bond slave; she sold herself into servanthood. “The other by a free woman.” Sarah was the free woman.

▶ 14:53 “He who was of the bond woman was born after the flesh.” And here’s where America is. Abraham and Sarah, after 10 years God promised them a son. It didn’t happen. Sarah came up with the idea, said, “You know, why don’t you go into my handmaiden Hagar, have sex with her and have a son by her, ‘cause God’s moving a little slow here, and I’m not sure He’s going to do anything. We don’t have an heir.” And Abraham, the dumb guy, like dumb men do, listened to his wife. He said, “Oh, Sarah, oh, what a great idea! Oh man!” It probably didn’t hurt that Hagar was pretty good-looking either. So he goes in, has sex. See, that’s of the flesh.

▶ 15:48 When you do it your way, that’s religion. You’re doing it your way. You don’t wait for the promise; you get anxious and you do it your way. “He of the free woman was by promise.” You see, God promised Sarah and Abraham a son. He didn’t say when. Abraham was 90 years old; he’s going to be 100 years old; 10 years have gone by. “Man, we’ve got to help God out.” And that’s what the American church is doing. They’re bringing in psychology, and they’re bringing in the 12-step programs, and the, uh, uh, divorce recovery program and the alcohol recovery program, the secular programs they’re bringing in. Why? Because they won’t wait for God’s promise and seek Him until He comes and does it. Galatians 4:24, he goes on to talk about two Jerusalems. There’s the old Jerusalem, here’s the new Jerusalem, “which things are an” what? Allegory. I told you there was an amazing allegory, and I told you you can only call things an allegory when God calls it an allegory. “These are two covenants.” How many covenants? Two. “One from Mount Sinai,” that law that he spoke about, the shadow laws.

▶ 17:13 “Is Hagar, which births to bondage.” And that’s what the religious church does. They birth them into their church and they birth them into bondage. We’re supposed to be birthed into the Spirit and into the living church. Amen. Born again by the Spirit, and over in the epistle, by the Word, born again. “She answers to Jerusalem which is now.” This is this Jerusalem, the Jewish religion, the Jerusalem in Ezekiel, in bondage to sin. They’re not purged, they’re shedding innocent blood, they’re lying, they’re obsessed with their Jewish religion.

▶ 18:07 They are obsessed with their city, they’re obsessed with the temple, all the illustrations of what God would do. In truth, they’re obsessed with it. “Jerusalem which is now is in bondage with her children.” See, her children, that’s what he told. They’re her children, the offspring, and the Christians that these false churches are producing, they’re destroying them, as Jesus said, “You make them two times the child of hell than you are.” That’s what religion does. But see, the blind lead the blind. People want religion; they don’t want the truth. Are you there? You’ve got to decide: do you want the real thing, or do you want religion number two? “But the Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.”

▶ 19:02 Powerful. See, mothers are producers; they’re birthers. The Jerusalem from above is free. See, the people birthed by the real church are free: free from sin, free from the judgment, free from the kingdom of darkness. They’re free, they’re liberated, they’re new creatures. Yes, it takes a process. Yes, God has a little timetable between His promise and His provision, but it will come if you do what He said. “The mother of us all.” What a statement. Did you catch that statement? Jerusalem from above is the mother of us all. The natural city of Jerusalem, the natural temple in the city, was nothing but an allegory, an illustration of the real thing. But the Jerusalem from above is the real thing, and that Jerusalem, that temple, that city births every one of us. That’s why the city was referred to as a female, and that’s why the church is referred to as a female. God keeps the continuity all the way through the Bible. Don’t you tell me that Bible was written by men and just a bunch of myths and all that. This Bible is real.

▶ 20:31 Amen. “Mother of” [unclear]. What is the mother of [unclear] then? And how, here we got the new Jerusalem, and we got the bride over here. Revelation 3:12: “The name of the city of My God is” what? “New Jerusalem.” The city of God is the new Jerusalem, which is the mother of us all, “which comes down out of heaven from God.” It what? Comes down. Well, that’s talking about the end time when that foursquare city comes out. They’ve been lying to you. That is an illustration, folks. Ain’t no foursquare city. Good grief, grow up, get into college Christianity. Don’t get drooling over symbols; get the reality of the symbols.

▶ 21:32 And he’s talking about this foursquare city with its 12 gates and all that. What you got to understand here is this city, the heavenly Jerusalem, is coming down. It’s not staying up there. See, it comes down today, it’ll come down tomorrow, it came down yesterday. You get it? You know, don’t tell me I got to wait for the rapture and all this stuff. I need the heavenly Jerusalem now. How about you? I need to be birthed now. I can’t wait for some rapture and silly end-time idea you have. I need a God that’s powerful now and can change my life now, and that’s the God we serve.

▶ 22:29 Revelation 21:2: “I, John, saw the holy city.” John said, “I saw it, New Jerusalem, the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.” He said, “I saw it coming down.” It came down on the day of Pentecost. It came down just a few chapters over, when they come and prayed together and the building shook. See, and God has been coming down “prepared as a bride adorned for a husband.” And you see the bride here, which is the city. Now, which one do you want to be, a city or you want to be the bride of Christ? Yeah, the city is the bride. Don’t give me this foursquare nonsense; that’s the illustration. Give me Jesus, my husband, that I can have a relationship with, and I can produce because I have a relationship with Him. That’s the new Jerusalem I need. Hallelujah.

▶ 23:47 And so you understand it, 2 Corinthians 11:2: “I have engaged you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.” The church is the bride. He says again in Romans 7:4, “You should be married to another, even to Him who is raised from the dead.” Who is that? Jesus. “That we should” what? “Bring forth fruit.” So it’s imperative that I have a relationship with Jesus, that heavenly Jerusalem, so I can bring forth the fruit of love and a joy and a peace and so forth. Amen. It’s out of the relationship that fruit is naturally produced. The church comes to and is the heavenly Jerusalem.

▶ 24:43 See, we come to the heavenly Jerusalem, and we are the heavenly Jerusalem when we connect with heaven. Hallelujah. When we’re not connected with heaven, we are the Jerusalem below, which now is religious. Watch this: Hebrews 12:22, talking to the saints, talking to the believers: “You are come to Mount Zion, the city of the living God.” And what was the name of the city of the living God? New Jerusalem, the heavenly Jerusalem. He explains it: “You’ve come to the heavenly Jerusalem.” Well, you know, they didn’t go to heaven; you know, they came to the church, heard the message and touched God. Am I right? Yeah. Why do we fantasize and put all this stuff off into the future? I need a God now that will come down to me. “To an innumerable company of angels, the general assembly, the church of the firstborn.” Now, who’s the church of the firstborn? We are. We come out from among the nations, we come to Jesus. That’s what church means: the assembled, the ones that gather out, coming out of. That’s what the church is. So see, we come to the heavenly city, and we are that heavenly city when that heavenly city touches us.

▶ 26:27 We become that heavenly city on earth. What do you think in the Lord’s Prayer, He said, “Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven”? What do you think that means? Did you ever ask God about that? What in the world are you talking about? He’s talking about the real city of God, the real church, the real temple coming down and touching His people and making it as the real church on earth as it is in heaven, because the real thing come down and changed them, “which are written in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant.” So where’s God? In Jesus. Where’s God in Jesus? The heavenly Jerusalem that comes down. If the city comes down and the heavenly temple comes down, who comes down with them? Who is living in the heavenly Jerusalem? Jesus. Yeah, God and Jesus.

▶ 27:34 So when they come down and we’re gathered together, the church becomes the heavenly Jerusalem on earth, and people can touch the real thing. So we see clearly that the heavenly Jerusalem, the heavenly temple, the heavenly city must be in contact with the earthly one before any results are going to happen. We need the heavenly coming down to us on earth. And that’s what happened on the day of Pentecost. That’s what happened when they prayed and the place was shaken, and all through the book of Acts heaven was coming down. It kept coming down, it kept coming down, it kept coming down, and it expressed Himself differently every time He came down. And that’s one of our problems: we get hung up on one visitation of God, we want to propagate it the rest of our life. There’s all kinds of things to acquiring God. How many want them all? Yeah.

▶ 28:36 The condition of the new Jerusalem is not like the old Jerusalem. Revelation 21:10: “He showed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, having the glory of God.” The what? Glory. The honor of God. “And her light was like a stone most precious, clear as crystal.” How many of you know crystal has all the impurities out of it? When you look through it, there’s no impurities. Everything’s been, it’s been heated up to such a level there’s not one little speck of impurity, and when you thump it, it has that ring.

▶ 29:17 See, He says, “I put a new song in your heart, even praise unto our God, and many shall see it and turn and put their trust in the Lord.” When we get like the crystal, and we get [unclear], we don’t hate back. There’s a song that comes out of us that people want to have what we have. “And the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.” And who’s the Lamb? Jesus. You see, Jesus and His Word is the light, and when the heavenly thing comes down and we connect with it, then we have the real light, we have the real Jesus, and we get transformation in our life. The results: “The nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it.” See, what’s the whole purpose of Him doing this? So people can get saved from their sin, saved from the judgment, saved from the power of darkness, saved from alcohol habits and drug habits and cigarette habits and whatever. They can be delivered, they can be set free. What? By the power of Jesus Christ and His Father, God and our Father.

▶ 30:29 “They will bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it.” You see, I’m telling you, there is a move of God coming before Christ comes that’s going to revolutionize this whole earth, ‘cause God is after the nations. His death on the cross wasn’t for a puny few million. His death on the cross was a big thing. It’s powerful, and He’s after the nations, and He has to change you to reach them. “There shall not enter anything that defiles, lies, or works in abomination, but they which are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.” And I submit to you, if that statement is true, then what do you got to do to get written in the Lamb’s Book of Life? “But I believe in Jesus. I believe in Jesus. I’m in the Lamb’s Book of Life.” That’s one requirement.

▶ 31:31 What’s the requirement here? That I turn from lying, I turn from those things that God hates. Abominations, I stop doing the works of them. Then my name is written in the Book of Life. The church, the heavenly Jerusalem, was a mystery from the beginning of time. Ephesians 3:7: “I was made a minister according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of His power.” Now, does that sound like grace is just the unmerited favor of God, free gift, and pop, that’s it? No. There’s a power working in grace, and that grace made him a minister. And all Americans have is grace that somehow is going to get me to heaven no matter what I do.

▶ 32:27 This is just one place that shows that grace is divine enablement, not just a little favor: the working of His what? Power. “Unto me, who am less than the least of the saints, is this grace given” into me, “that I should preach” this grace. I preach the gospel to all people so all men may see “what is the fellowship of the” what? Say that word: mystery. That’s a secret, something hidden. Well, what’s hidden? “This mystery from the beginning of the world.” When did this mystery start? Yeah, when God said, “Let there be light.” This mystery started. It has been hidden, “God who created all things by” who? Jesus Christ.

▶ 33:23 Now, why did He do that? “To the intent”— to the purpose— “that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places,” spiritual powers. The purpose is that spiritual powers in heavenly places “might be known by the church the many different kinds of the wisdom of God.” So what’s the mystery? The church. See, “I’ve come to the heavenly Jerusalem, the city of God, to the church of the firstborn.” His purpose was to build a church from the time He said, “Let there be light.” In fact, it was before that. Jesus died before the foundation of the world. His whole plan started before He said, “Let there be light.”

▶ 34:28 Hallelujah. And it was the church, and the many different kinds of wisdom. How many want the full wisdom of God, not just one little corner? Yeah, I mean, come on, church, we got to go for it. We got to go for this stuff. God’s goal for His church in the heavenly Jerusalem: the promise, Matthew 16:18, “I will build My church.” That’s the promise. Okay, the goal: “The gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” You know why Satan is running Christians’ lives in America? Because they don’t understand this revelation of what the new Jerusalem really is, the city of God really is, and the people, that the Jesus and God in that city that comes down and touches us and transforms us. The goal, Ephesians 5, “that He might present it to Himself a” what? “Glorious church.” You think the American church, on the most part, is glorious right now? No way. So you think the Second Coming is just around the corner? No way. He’s got to fulfill these promises, He’s got to bring these nations in, He’s going to do everything He said He would do.

▶ 35:47 “Not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that it should be holy and without” what? “Blemish.” That’s the goal. That’s the promise. Now unto Him, Jude 24, and who’s Him? Jesus. “Unto Him that is able to” what? “Keep you from falling.” Does that sound like grace is just a, a flattering thing, a favor? He can keep you from that. That’s divine enablement. He comes by His divine power and encourages you and strengthens you and builds you up by might in the inner man, as the Bible says, and you little by little, line upon line, you become a person that walks in truth. We have great hope, folks. We have a great promise. And this is one of the most powerful messages you can hear. It’s been hidden for decades, but God revealed it when Christ came: the church. You are the apple of His eye. You, He wants to make into a crystal with a sound that gets people’s attention. A—