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6 Hope of Israel Ministries BIBLE Correspondence Course Test 5

interpretations of what Christianity is supposed “And the SERPENT said unto the
to be. Obviously all cannot be YEHOVAH’S woman, YE SHALL NOT SURELY DIE."
Christianity. (Genesis 3.4.)
It may come as a surprise to you that In effect Satan was saying: “I know that
Satan the Devil is not opposed to quoting God SAID ‘thou shalt surely die’ -- but He didn’t
Scripture. He even had the gall to quote really MEAN that you would die. What God
Scripture to Yeshua the Messiah, the first-born meant when He said ‘thou SHALT surely die’
son of YEHOVAH God. YEHOVAH is the was ‘thou shalt NOT surely die."’
author of scripture! “Then the devil taketh him To this day Satan’s ministers preach this
up into the holy city, and setteth him on a same doctrine of error.
pinnacle of the temple, And saith unto him, If The only way that Satan is able to
thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: FOR deceive people is to make them believe that
IT IS WRITTEN he shall give his angels charge YEHOVAH God does NOT mean what He says.
concerning thee: and in their hands they shall He offers to mankind what the carnal mind
bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot WANTS instead of what YEHOVAH God
against a stone" (Matthew 4:5-6; Luke 4:9-11). knows is best for man. Then in order to give it a
Satan is EAGER TO quote Scripture -- “Godly” and “Christian” flavor he quotes a few
but TWISTS and TURNS it in order to apply it in scriptures OUT OF CONTEXT, explaining that
his way. Let’s notice the first example in the YEHOVAH doesn’t mean what He says after
Bible of how Satan twists the Word of all.
YEHOVAH God, showing how Satan’s The pitiful thing about it is that mankind
ministers ALSO TWIST THE SCRIPTURES has GULLIBLY SWALLOWED the doctrines
TODAY. of Satan the Devil. Since creation, mankind has
“Now the SERPENT was more subtle been hoodwinked into believing the Devil,
than any beast of the field which the LORD God despite the fact that he says EXACTLY THE
had made. And he said unto the woman (Eve), OPPOSITE of what YEHOVAH God says!
Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree When YEHOVAH first told man “THOU
of the garden?" (Genesis 3:1.) Notice how he SHALT SURELY DIE!” (Genesis 2:17), Satan
begins by asking a CLEVER and SUBTLE said, “YE SHALL NOT SURELY DIE!” (Gen-
question, stressing the NEGATIVE side, trying esis 3:4.)
to put YEHOVAH God in a BAD LIGHT. WHICH DO YOU CHOOSE TO BE-
“And the woman said unto the serpent, LIEVE?
We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: The Devil has counterfeited much of
But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of YEHOVAH’s Truth in order to deceive mankind
the garden, GOD HATH SAID (this is into thinking HIS way is YEHOVAH’s way.
YEHOVAH’S Word quoted from Genesis Satan has appropriated the TITLES of the
2:17), Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch servants of YEHOVAH God and called his chief
it, LEST YE DIE" (Genesis 3:2-3.). Eve knew leader (the pope) an apostle, when actually
YEHOVAH God had very plainly said that if she YEHOVAH God labels this individual as a
ate of the fruit of this tree she would die -- a very FALSE apostle and prophet. And Satan has
simple statement that YEHOVAH makes all the used, and WILL again use, MIRACLES TO
way through the Bible, explaining that if a man DECEIVE THE PEOPLE!
commits sin, DEATH IS the automatic penalty Since Yeshua the Messiah performed
(Romans 6:23). When YEHOVAH God SAYS miracles, and since he prophesied that certain
death, He MEANS D-E-A-T-H, NOT ETER- signs (miracles) would follow his believers
NAL LIFE in hellfire! (Mark 16:15-18), Satan the Devil has also