PROVE ALL THINGS BIBLE STUDY
"THE ORACLES OF GOD"
"If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do
it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through
Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen"(1 Peter 4:11).
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Some in God's Church-today say that the Jews throughout the ages made all calculations and
compensated for all times and days in regards to the Hebrew calendar. They say it is correct and we
should keep it as the authority for keeping God's Holy Days, because the oracles of God were entrusted
to Judah. Some have said, "If the Holy Days were being observed wrongly by the Jews when Christ was
alive, He would have corrected them." Would He? Let's find out more what God says in His Word about
the Jews and the oracles of God.
King James version throughout, referenced by
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance.
1. Does the word oracle mean, the Word of God in the Old Testaments?
Answer: According to Strong's Concordance #1697, the word oracle in Hebrew is DABAR, which means,
word" referring to the Word of God. The word oracle in the Old Testament refers to the Word of God! II Samuel
16:23 "And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he counselled in those days; was as if a man had enquired at the
oracle of God: so was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom."
2. Does the word oracle only refer to the Word of God ?
I Kings 6:5,16,19-23,31; I Kings 7:49; 8:6,8; II Chron. 3:16; 4:20; 5:7,9 and Psa. 28.2
Answer: The word oracle in the Old Testament can also refer to the inner sanctuary or Holy of Holies, the
room in the temple that was built for God; where the Ark of the Covenant was kept. In the Ark are the stone
tablets of the Ten Commandments and on the Ark sat-YHWH the Eternal Jesus Christ, the Word of God. In
Hebrew the word is DEBIR (#1687 in Strong's). John 1:1, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was
with God, and the Word was God." John 1:14 "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we
beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth."
3. Does the Word oracle mean the Word of God in the New Testament?
I Peter 4:11; Hebrews 5:12; Romans 3:1-2; Acts 7:38.
Answer: The word oracle in the New Testament is used in the plural-ORACLES. Strong's #3051--the word
LOGION--in Greek means: an utterance of God! Oracles is mentioned only four times in the New Testament.
The NIV Translates oracles in the above four scriptures as the "very Word of God, God's Word, The Living
Words."
4. Were the Oracles of God only entrusted to Judah? Acts 7:37-38
Answer: The oracles are the Words of God given in the wilderness to the Israelites and the Words of Jesus
Christ in the New Testament. God inspired Moses to write the first five books of the Old Testament. Moses was
entrusted with the oracles of God!
5. Who did Moses: give the oracles: to ? Deuteronomy 4:44-45
Answer: Moses gave the Nation of Israel the Words of God (the ORACLES) the 12 tribes, not just the tribe
of Judah!!
6. Did God give Israel the Sabbath as a sign, between Him and them? Ezekiel 20:12
Did they reject God's laws and defile His Sabbaths? Verse 13?
Answer: God gave Israel the Sabbath and Holy Days and they have been preserved by the Scribes to this Day
as history confirms.
7. Did God stop them from keeping their own feast days and holidays? Amos 5:21
Answer: God did not like their feast and holidays but He did not stop them from keeping them. As God's
people we must choose to follow God's feast and Holy Days as the Bible describes in Leviticus 23, not the
postponements that are incorporated into the Hebrew calendar that man has established!
8. Was God pleased when Judah celebrated their own feast and sacred meetings? Isaiah 1:13-14
Answer: Judah kept their own new moon festivals and feast as well as God's Sabbath, but God hated their
appointed feasts!
9. Did God say they could make up their own festivals and holy days? Deuteronomy 4:1-2.
Answer: They were not to add to or take away from the Word of God (ORACLES) .
Deuteronomy 12:32; Proverbs 30:5-6; and Revelation 22:18-19.
10. Did God warn His disciples about the doctrines of the Pharisees and Sadducees? Matthew 16:6,12.
Answer: If Judaism was keeping the oracles of God; Jesus would not need to warn His disciples to be ware
of the doctrine of the Pharisees and the Sadducees. They were not and are not doing what God requires!
11. What did Jesus say about the Scribes and the Pharisees? Matthew 23:27-28.
Answer: He said that the Scribes, the very ones who were recording the Oracles of God for us, and the
Pharisees were full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. They were not keeping God's laws.
John 9:39-41; Luke 11:37-54; 20:46; Mark 12:38-40.
12. Should we be afraid to stop-keeping the Hebrew calendar dates that postpone God true Holy Day?
Answer: Matt 5:17-20, "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to
destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise
pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and
shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them,
the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall
exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven."
WE CAN NOW SEE THAT THE ORACLES (UTTERANCES) OF GOD ARE THE WORDS OF GOD.