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Interpretation
There can only be one correct interpretation (Gen 40:8, 12, 18, Judges 7:15, Prov
1:6, Eccl 8:1, Dan 2:25, 45, 4:6, 5:15, 17, 7:16, 1 Cor 12:10, 14:26, 2Pet 1:20-21)
of the one scripture (John 10:35) representing the one Word (John 1.1), which as
prophecy (2Pet 1:20-21) must be God inspired (Gen 40:8, Dan 2:10-11, 18-23,
2Pet 1:20-21) This is the interpretation by the interpreter (Job 33:23, Mal 3:1, 4:5).
Not everything stated in the Word is true - for example the Devil is quoted
speaking lies (Genesis 3:4) - but everything stated by the Word, itself, is true (John
14:6, 1 John 5:7). Not everything spoken by Job was correct (Job 34:35). The
Word is Truth, that is what it says is either spiritual truth or factual truth or both
but not necessarily both in the same passage. Discernment of the Person, the Word
that is Christ, by the Person, the Holy Ghost, is required as a process in the heart of
the reader (1 Cor 2:11-16). What is allegory, parable or expression is to be
discerned by this process (1 Cor 2:11-16). Truth and evidence are friends not foes
and Truth is God (John 14:6, Jam 1:8, 1 John 5:6) therefore part of this
discernment process is to take account of the scientific evidence of Nature all
around us (Rom 1:20). It is natural and proper that the interpretation of Genesis
should be different to that of the early Church just as the discernment process had
not even advanced sufficiently for the early Christians to have in their material
possession the Word-as-written-in-the-material.
Much of the Word is not factually true (Gen 6:3, 23:1, 47:28) but all of it is true
and Truth (1 John 5:6, Rev 22:18-19). God’s truth is above and beyond our facts
(Isaiah 55:8). When the Word says God is light it is factually incorrect in stating
that God is photons, light waves, the colour spectrum etc., but is correct in stating
that God is spiritual light and that he created physical light. The Creator and the
creation are however distinct (Gen 1:1, Rom 1:25). God is spiritual ‘light’ i.e.
Truth (Mat 6:22, Luke 11:34, John 1:4, 14:6). Tyrus is not a Person and has not
spoken as a matter of material fact, contrary to Ezekiel 26:2 but Ezekiel 26:2 is
true as it making a valid spiritual point. Another fundamental, since it touches on
the essence of life and death, factual inaccuracy is calling death sleep (Dan 12:2,
Mat 9:24, Mark 5:39, Luke 8:52, John 11:11-14, 1 Cor 15:51-52).
Whilst Ezekiel 17:2 and the ensuing story reads like a fable and uses the terms
‘parable’ and ‘riddle’ the other Ezekiel stories, with the exception of Ezekiel 24:3-
14, do not use these terms. Indeed this applies elsewhere too as 2 Kings 14:9 is not
specifically heralded as a parable or fictitious story, so we are left with the plain
fact that it is factually incorrect when it states that a thistle spoke. Likewise the