The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling!

Backward and Forward!

I'm sure you have used an expression similar to this; "He knows his subject backward and forward". It means a person has achieved a high degree of surety and confidence in the knowing and doing of their particular field of study. All of us want to go to a medical doctor that knows medicine "backward and forward", because that level of knowledge and skill can mean the difference between life and death.

When studying Scripture most people read a passage or a verse in one direction, because that is the way they have been taught, and then try to understand the meaning based upon that one-way linear method. It is our experience here at Spirit of Truth Ministry that in order to find truth we must truly look at Scripture in a non-linear way, by not only reading the verse in the usual direction (front to back), but in the other direction (back to front) as well, particularly in passages that are difficult to decypher.

Example:

"But be sure of this, that if the head of the house had known at what time of the night the thief was coming, he would have been on the alert and would not have allowed his house to be broken into." Matt. 24:43.

This text can be confusing because of the expectation of the Christian church that Jesus will come at a time when "every eye will see Him", and NO ONE can know that time. Yet going from back to front we see that it is important for this person to NOT let his house be broken into, and to do that he must be alert. Alert for what? Jesus is saying that He will come at 'night', a time with no overt signs and wonders,  and that the 'head of the house'  must 'know 'the time of that coming as a thief. So now we see that this 'head of the house' WILL KNOW the time of His coming.

This is just part of the method we use to find truth.