June 8, 2021 – Click here to listen
I heard from two of my good friends yesterday that they were worried about me because they haven’t seen any Words for the Day posts published lately. They both view it on Facebook and therein lies the answer. I’m still writing it five days per week just as I have for going on 23 years now, but apparently, Mark Zuckerberg and his minions don’t want you to see it. I suppose his algorithms are busily censoring anything they don’t like which is most of Words for the Day.
If you want to receive these posts daily then the safest course is to sign up to receive them by email. You can subscribe following this link here. Then you just need to check your SPAM/JUNK MAIL folder often and see if your email provider is dumping it there with their censorship tools.
Censorship of the Bible includes restrictions and prohibition of possessing, reading, or using the Bible in general or any particular translation of it. Violators of so-called “Bible bans” have been punished by killing, imprisonment, forced labor, and banishment, as well as by burning or confiscating the Bible or Bibles used or distributed. Censorship of the Bible occurred in historical times and is still going on today.
Evil powers have been trying to stamp out the Word since the Lord unveiled it to the world. China, Russia, North Korea, Iran, and a multitude of other countries do their best but the Word is not going away. The Babylonians, Romans, Nazis, Mao, couldn’t do it, and neither will anyone else.
One of the claims which the Bible makes for Itself is that It can never be destroyed. The abundance of copies of the Scriptures now available is proof that it has made good Its claim. In many passages, the indestructibility of the Scriptures is pronounced. In 1 Pet. 1:24 we read: “All flesh is as grass, And all the glory thereof as the flower of grass, The grass withers, and the flower falls: But the word of the Lord abides forever.”
It will never cease to be. Jesus said, “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away” (Matt. 24:35). When the heavens shall have passed away with a great noise, the elements melted with fervent heat, the earth and the works therein burned up, the Bible, the word of the Lord, will yet remain. Isaiah said, “The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God shall stand forever”).
The Scriptures teach that the word of the Lord -must remain until time is no more, and even through the Judgment, for by the word of God we shall be judged. As John tells of the Judgment scene, he says, “And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works” (Rev. 20:12). The Scriptures teach that from the time that the word of the Lord was put in written form, until the Judgment, they shall never be destroyed.
The Bible is the best Book in the world yet is has produced more enmity and opposition than has the combined contents of all our libraries. Why should this be? Clearly because the Scriptures convict men of their guilt and condemn them for their sins! Political and ecclesiastical powers have united in the attempt to put the Bible out of existence, yet their concentrated efforts have utterly failed. After all the persecution which has assailed the Bible, it is, humanly speaking, a wonder that there is a Bible left at all. Every engine of destruction which human philosophy, science, force, and hatred could bring against a book has been brought against the Bible, yet it stands unshaken and unharmed today.
When we remember that no army has defended the Bible and no king has ever ordered its enemies to be exterminated, our wonderment increases. At times nearly all the wise and great of the earth have been pitted together against the Bible, while only a few despised ones have honored and revered it. The cities of the ancients were lighted with bonfires made of Bibles, and for centuries only those in hiding dare read it. How then, can we account for the survival of the Bible in the face of such bitter persecution? The only solution is to be found in the promise of God. “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My Words shall not pass away.”
Words for the Day is not the Bible rather merely a tool that I hope puts things in perspective for those who care to read it. I’m honored that it is being repressed. I know it will disappear, but I’m comforted that the Bible will be around forever and Zuckerberg and those like him will be judged by it.
Rest assured that I will keep writing it until I’m called home or physically incapable of doing so, even if it means hardly anyone is able to read it. So if you want to receive it, get off Facebook and sign up directly. The Word of God will not be stamped out and neither will the words of those who love Him. Spreading the good word is part of putting on the full armor of God. I urge you to do it as well!
Ephesians 6:14
Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness arrayed, and with your feet fitted with the readiness of the gospel of peace. In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one . . .