Page 40 - THE REVELATION OF THE THIRD HEAVEN and THE MEAT OF THE WORD

Prophecies about the future are often explicitly or implicitly contingent and
therefore do not ‘come true’, not as a failure of prophecy but because the right or
wrong response has been made (2 Kings 20:1, 5, 6, Isaiah 38:1-7, Jer 27:18, 22,
Jonah 3:2, 4, 10). Also the totality of the Word makes it one unified Prophecy
anyway (Rev 22:19).

Absolute words can be absolute or relative as interpreted by and in their context
i.e. by the Word itself. We see how words such as ‘perfect’ and ‘all’ can be made
relative in the very same verse by a qualification stated at the start of the verse (2
Chron 15:17).

A good example of the Word interpreting itself, which it must do as the Word and
via the Holy Ghost (2 Pet 1:20), is in Genesis 6:3 when human lifespan is set at
120 years. This is not however an absolute limit at all as is made clear by the
subsequent exception of Aaron (Num 33:39) and Jehoiada (2 Chron 24:15). Again
in Psalms 90:10 it says that man lives for 70 years but that is qualified in the same
verse by acknowledging exceptions living to 80 and by the rest of the Word as
above. Finally everything is resolved in Acts when it says that God has determined
the lifespan of all men before their births (Acts 17:26). Every statement in the
Word and every doctrine of the Word is to be understood, interpreted and
explained by every other word in the whole Word - singular - (John 1:1). The
Word contains the words of many stories and works (Luke 1:4) but it is a singular
Word or whole message (John 1:1) and the Word is Christ (John 1:14) and
therefore God (John 1:1). It is a parabolical expression, or exaggeration for
emphasis (1 Cor 2:11), when Luke says he had a 'perfect understanding of all
things' (Luke 1:3).

The words of the friends of Job are right as part of the Word as a default but they
were inappropriate for Job, they were not right for Job or his situation (Job 42:7).
Other parts of what Eliphaz says are untrue (Job 22:6-9, 29:12-13, 42:7). This
establishes that untruths are uttered in the Word, though never by the Word.

Often a statement is not literally true but a form of shorthand which constitutes an
expression for brevity, for example the reference to the ‘gospel of circumcision’ is
not another gospel (Rom 10:16, Gal 1:8), or one of two gospels (Gal 2:7), but a
way of saying the gospel of Christ sent to Israel, namely those circumcised (Gal
2:7).

Another example of the single, unified, and therefore non-contradictory by way of
holism, context of the single Word is the varying descriptions of the armour of God