Title: The Word Came to Me

Topic: Word

Summary: The Bible is a large block of text that hasn't changed for a couple of thousand years; yet it describes "the word of the Lord" as a living force that speaks directly to people about what is going on in their lives and surroundings. How can we reconcile these two views?

Use the reference links below to follow along in the Bible as you watch.

References:
Genesis 15:1-2
1 Samuel 15:10-11; 2:12-14, 17; 3:4-10, 15-18; 15:13-14, 22
2 Samuel 7:4; 24:11-12
1 Kings 6:11-14; 12:22, 24; 17:1-4, 8; 18:1; 19:9; 21:17, 27-28
2 Kings 20:1-7
1 Chronicles 22:6-10
Psalms 105:17-19
Jeremiah 1:1
Jonah 1:1-3; 2:10; 3:1, 3; 4:9
Zechariah 4:8-14
Luke 3:2-3, 8, 10; 12:20
Acts of the Apostles 22:6-10

446. Who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, to kill a third of mankind. This symbolizes their being in a perpetual effort to take away spiritual light and life from the people of the church.

To be prepared means, symbolically, to be in the effort to do something. For the hour, day, month and year means, symbolically, continually and perpetually, the same meaning as for all time. To kill means, symbolically, to take away spiritual light and life from people of the church (no. 325). And a third symbolically means all (no. 400).