History Rewriters In The Bible

As long as men lie, there will be rewriters and unwelcome editors of history.

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History Rewriters In The Bible

This episode is about rewriting history. It's something that's attempted a lot in Scripture. 

Some of what we might call rewriting history is good. God blots out sin and the power of sin in the  future is disabled because He takes the effects of it out. It's gone. By the blood of Jesus. This is a good thing.

But mankind also tends to rewrite history and often there are problems. How can I put it? Man lies! 

Let me talk about some of the examples that I've seen in Scripture of *ahem* rewriting history. 

I’m only going to touch on a few examples. This is a subject that I think I hear angels rejoicing to be mentioned, but I don’t think it’s mine to develop. Listen for a short message after the end of the Appendix to this episode.

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First Example. In the New Testament, There's an example of Herod. Herod beheaded John the Baptist. In Mark 6:16, when Herod heard that Jesus was performing miracles, Herod basically said, 'Jesus is really John the Baptist risen from the dead. That's why he's got all of these miraculous powers.' So Herod was off in his own sin-filled lalaland and was rewriting history. 

Jesus was only six months younger than John the Baptist. He had been around. His ministry had been around before the beheading of John the Baptist. It's something that just a little bit of investigation could have uncovered.

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Another example, Jezebel. In 1 Kings 21, Jezebel knew that her husband -- King Ahab -- wanted Naboth's vineyard. So she wrote an order and told the people in Naboth's town – probably Jezreel – the following:

"Proclaim a fast, and seat Naboth with high honor among the people; and seat two men, scoundrels, before him to bear witness against him, saying, ‘You have blasphemed God and the king.’ Then take him out, and stone him, that he may die."

And using those false charges against Naboth, a crowd stoned him to death at a certain spot in the city. She then presented Naboth's vineyard to Ahab and said, 'You can now enjoy this vineyard.' God was not pleased with that sin -- which included rewriting Naboth's history. And God's! 

Elijah told Ahab that in the same place that Naboth's blood was shed, that's where Ahab's blood was going to drip. And that came to pass.

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Somebody within the sound of my voice is welcome to dig into some of these attempted rewrites of history. Let me just name some others. 

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Pharaoh at one point sent Aaron and Moses out of his presence and rewrote history in the same breath!

After the plague of hail and before the plague of locusts in 

Exodus 10

Verse 8 

So Moses and Aaron were brought again to Pharaoh, and he said to them, “Go, serve the Lord your God. Who are the ones that are going?”

9 And Moses said, “We will go with our young and our old; with our sons and our daughters, with our flocks and our herds we will go, for we must hold a feast to the Lord.”

Verse 11 Not so! Go now, you who are men, and serve the Lord, for that is what you desired.” And they were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.

Exodus 10:8,9 and 11

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In the New Testament,

Peter in Galatians 2 at one point distanced himself, as did Barnabas and others, from eating with their Gentile brothers. The spiritual family meal was important, and by not having that meal together, they were trying to rewrite history -- saying somehow God had not made a complete family with the Gentiles.

I'll note that in our day, we also run the danger of Gentiles pretending that Messianic Jews are not part of the Spiritual family.

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In the Old Testament, When Moses went up Mount Sinai, people came to Aaron and said, 'Aaron, make us gods because we don't know what happened to Moses. 

Exodus 32:4 (Talking about Aaron)... And he received the gold from their hand, and he fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made a molded calf.

Then they said, “This is your god, O Israel, that brought you out of the land of Egypt!”

To have a convenient god they could understand, they simply rewrote history. I'm told that centuries later, when Israel fell into two kingdoms, the northern kingdom would mistakenly point to Aaron's golden calf as a return to the way things ought to be.

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Blessings in Jesus' name. Thank you for hearing God's word and God's intent with God's love, in Jesus. Amen."

As I mentioned, I only touched on a few examples. This is a subject that I think is important. If you’re interested in developing some or all of these ideas and I can help, click the “Send Us Your Thoughts” link.

APPENDICES

Appendix 1 -- A few instances of attempts to rewrite or retell history chronicled in the Bible.

Matthew 21:23

Religious Leaders wanted to erase the impact of Jesus’ ministry asking, "By what authority do you do these things?"

Acts 23:5

A religious leader orders Paul to be struck on the mouth, trying to discourage Paul's court testimony. Paul says the leader who ordered it assumed the role of high priest.

Before the crucifixion

Peter retold history by denying he knew Jesus -- 3 times.

Acts 23:27

In a letter from Jerusalem to Caesarea, knowledge of Paul's Roman citizenship was retold.

Daniel 6:6-7

There's an important difference between the words "These" and "All" used to get a written law passed.

Matthew 17:4

On the Mount of Transfiguration, Peter was in danger of demoting Jesus to the same level as Moses and Elijah.

That's the end of the appendices.

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