little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

     When The Word of God is being taught to someone line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little, and there a little, and It becomes boring by that method, and dull to their hearing, then God's Word has become a 'stone of stumbling' to those. What's the result of that stumbling in The Word? The result is to "fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken

 But because of who? Who is to blame? Let me put it this way; if you care about our Lord Jesus Christ, for He is The Living Word (John 1), then you are going to get to the task of studying His Word in understanding for yourself, and not relying on any man. God sends teachers of His Word as a help, but we each are still directly responsible to Him. And line by line study is how our LORD wants us to do it.
     How many studying with me have thought that I was the one who was giving understanding in The Word of God? The Understanding does not come from me; It comes from our Lord by His Spirit. And when His Word is covered sincerely line by line in depth, you're going to' get to know our Heavenly Father's Will and His Salvation through His Son per His Word. And by this method of Bible study you will not fall backward, nor be broken, nor snared, and definitely not taken by the false one! I love you all, and I know most of you are here to learn The Word and how to study it. I'm also greatly indebted to our Lord for His offer of Salvation and for His allowing me to go deeper in His Word. But still, check me out in it for yourselves, asking The Father to bless your Bible study through His Son Jesus Christ.

Isa 28:14     Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this People which is in Jerusalem.

     Now our LORD is going to turn a bit of that mocking back upon those who would feign a proper line upon line study in His Word. Our LORD is letting us know through His prophet Isaiah where the main "covenant with death" is going to be, i.e. in Jerusalem. The "house of Israel" (ten tribes) isn't just left out of this either, as many believers on Christ which have not studied, and are being led to fall away, will also suffer this event with the false one being setup there.

Isa 28:15     Because ye have said, "We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:"

     The state of stumbling at God's Word is exactly of those types of traits. You're either in God's Word or you're not. Some teach that the Book of Revelation is already dead history, and even that The Old Testament Books are all dead history, with no future prophecy. There is prophecy in each and every Book of God's Word that still is yet future (I may let you all hold me to that in offering proof in a separate Bible study some day).
     Some think and teach that believing on God's Saviour Jesus Christ means not having to do any work for Him during the great tribulation, and they think to 'escape' instead. That's why these say, "When the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us". In modern English they're saying, "When the great tribulation begins and the antichrist comes, it won't affect us, because we won't be here; we're going to fly away! But you others, you're going to be left behind!" Our LORD obviously has something else to say about that, and He said it right here in Isaiah 28:15 about those deceived. Our LORD added "for we have made lies our refuge," with their false deceptive words of flying away, mocking them with their own words of delusion! (It's fair, for that's what they had to do to confuse many into believing that false doctrine, i.e., by adding to God's Word). When the 'Left-Behind' doctrine even became a Hollywood production that should have warned many believers on Christ of the any moment fly away deception. So make no mistake, the doctrine of flying away, i.e. rapturing out prior to the coming of the antichrist, is a major false doctrine as declared by our LORD.

 

 Here and in Ezekiel 13:20;