All the misuse of the Bible we are discussing is the result of false, lying or deceived preachers and Bible teachers misusing the Bible. Such deceivers have long taught that you can ‘name it and claim it all,’ as your personal promises from God. They falsely say ‘all the promises of God are yours.’ They think every page in the Bible is speaking to them, and they want to claim every promise in the book as theirs! But this is not the truth.

Such deceivers say or imply that we today can pilfer the promises of God that He made to the Nation Israel ONLY. They ignore or do not believe Jesus’ own words and those of Paul, seen below.

“But he [Jesus] answered and said, I am not sent but [only] unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” (Matthew 15:24 (KJV)
“These twelve [Messianic Apostles] Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not: ⁶ But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Matthew 10:5-6 (KJV)

“Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision [the Nation Israel] for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers [of Israel only]: Romans 15:8 (KJV)

The idea of inserting anyone’s name or country into any and every place of promise in the scripture is not only wrong, but as you’ve seen, it also is extremely dangerous to one’s faith. It also destroys the very foundation of ‘dispensational Bible study’ … which requires the student of the Bible to know exactly to whom the words of the Bible passage are being addressed. Then also we know who it is not addressing.

Note that three-quarters of your Bible concerns Israel only. So, Christians have a more limited range of expectations, based upon Paul’s “gospel of the grace of God” for the Gentiles of today’s dispensational age of “the grace of God.”

You really wouldn’t want to claim ALL God’s promises. Did you ever noted how God made the earth miraculously swallow up 14,700 men of Israel who … tried to claim privileges, positions, and promises that were not theirs (just read Numbers 16)? To this may say ‘Well, that was a different time, place, and people.’ True, but the principal is the same for those who today foolishly take the Bible’s words and promises ‘personally’ in every place they find … only to find they don’t work out for us today as Gentiles.

The truth is that not every promise in the book is yours. If that were true, wouldn’t ALL God’s promises of CONDEMNATION in the Bible be yours, also? Consider this verse;

“Death has come up into little our orphan Annie’s windows…” (a corrupted form of Jeremiah 9:21)

This then doesn’t have the same fuzzy feeling as the promises of blessing that do not even apply to you anyway.

Misappropriating of God’s words is ‘stealing.’

• Just imagine, if I was reading through the deed of your house and I replaced your name with mine. I would be a thief!
• What if the electric company replaced my name on my electric bill with your name. Unjust!

Typically, when a promise to one person is suddenly changed by inserting another person’s name, that person is called a liar, and is in breach of contract.

The fact is that Not Every Promise in the Bible Can Be Claimed by Us Today During this age of “the dispensation of the grace of God” (Eph. 3:2)! For we of “the body of Christ” already have a greater, unconditional, grace filled relationship with God as our Father than was available to the Nation Israel in the Old Testament or in the Gospels and early Acts period.

• For we are already “blessed with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in [union with] Christ” (Eph. 1:13).
• We now know that “all things [the good and the bad things] are [now] working for the good,” spiritually, eternally. Knowing this, we can endure all things by His grace.
• For we right now have ‘Christ in us as our hope of glory.’ We are those;

“To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery [Gk. musterion, the formerly secret plan of God] among the Gentiles; which is Christ In You, the hope of glory:” (Colossians 1:27 (KJV)

We ought not to treat ‘God’s word’ so dismissively as to misuse His word! Why would God who ‘magnifies His word above His name’ (Psalm 138:2) want us to have a corrupted personalized Bible? Worse yet, why would people buy them? Consider;

“… for thou hast Magnified Thy Word above all thy name.” (Psalm 138:2 (KJV)

Those who misuse the Bible in any way are not magnifying God’s word or His good name. They are misusing His word for the sake of the personal comfort they receive by claiming…  the Good Parts of the Bible that belongs to others as if promised for themselves … while leaving aside the Bad Parts promised for others.