@Anextremity Jan says many good and true things but has drifted into apostasy with time, having been puffed up with pride. He preaches a different gospel and way of salvation than the cross. It is okay to say the Bible does not save. It is wonderful to teach against sin and are need to repent. Yet the attack on the bible is of the devil. Those words are living when the Spirit of God dwells in us. To tell people they don't need it is to fight against God who preserved those words for us. He has made false prophesies. Instead of bashing all churches he should edify by preaching the gospel of repentance in love encouraging the brethren. He has put many in bondage sowing seeds of unbelief by twisting Scripture.

I understand where your getting with this. But Jan Boshoffs heart is in the right place.

He says church and Bible in itself wont save you. Without a relationship with Jesus!

If I gave you a book inspired by my mother and had her whole life story. We read it and memorized what she said in it. Do you have a relationship with my mother or do you just KNOW about her? It is the same with God.

We must preach Christ. Although there may be a difference among us, we are all brothers serving the same Lord Jesus Christ.

To him who knows to do good but does not do it, to him it is a sin......... ( you can be in sin before God and think your on the highway to heaven )

Jesus Bless you look forward to maybe talking to a fellow brother :)

All God's best from Rose!

@maalaea, There are 25 seminars by Milton Green on my u-tube channel that Pete has at the bottom called Tree of Life and what you are talking about is what God taught Milton about the powers of darkness, 40 years ago. God showed Milton how they worked, how they got into the church, how to expose them, and how to get rid of them. You want light on this, listen to them with your bible opened because all you will get is scripture after scripture putting the puzzle together to show you the whole picture.

maalaea, if you watch Pete's videos about latter day prophecy events they should make clear sense to you as you read the Bible. Pete's videos are very different than most latter day video's messages, but honestly, they are the only ones I've seen that make any real sense to me.

I'm sorry for taking up so much of your channel comments, but it won't let me PM you.

As for the deep things of Scripture, please do not go so deep that they cross over into the realm of the secret knowledge, b/c we all know what that really is. And not so deep that a child cannot understand it.

In my last paragraph I ment to say must Not over extend ...

As regard to the prophets, yes there are figurative language that can be derived from them; however, I believe that they had 2 main purposes: 1) Israel to repent or foretelling of the nation's destruction, and 2) the 1st coming of our Lord. So while there are figurative aspects, there were 2 main literal events that they were foretelling that actually happened.

As for satan as the wrath of God and the others, this sounds like satan is a worker of God not an enemy. While I agree that at times, God allows the powers of darkness to enter a person's or a group of people's live's, it is hardly God sending satan to do His work. It's more like God removing His protection, or God allowing tribulation to grow a person.

As for the Spirit, yes He helps us, but we must over extend the bounds of what is written in the Bible. As satan can twist the Word of God, I'm sure that satan can deceive anyone using the Spirit as a guise.

@maalaea The Spirit must reveal the deep things of Scripture to us. We walk in the light and He gives more which is my experience as well. Parables may be the wrong word to use , most of them are pretty obvious. Hosea 12:10 KJV says it: I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitude's, by the ministry of the prophets. Similitude's are metaphors, symbols etc. So the flooding rain of judgment in Ezekiel 13:11 is not literal rain, it is the dark powers sent to bring judgment. Here is a good example from Isaiah 1:7 Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers. Is this referring only to literal history or a message of what happens to rebellious, the strangers, the powers of darkness come take over? This is how God brings judgment to the people of God. Their hearts are burned with fire by this enemy. I will PM you with more.

I understand that there are may parables and symbols used throughout the Bible, but there are just as many literal stories. So going back to Noah, the flood was not a parable. It actually literally happened. So how do you differentiate when to read something as a parable and when as literal?

Also, when God created the Earth and man, do you think that was a parable too?