The DaVinci Code

by Frederick Hoehn, copyright 2012, all rights reserved.  

Hi Dave:

You asked me once what I thought of The Davinci Code.  I told you that it’s junk.  I also knew a Christian brother who started talking to me about a numerical code in the Bible.  I had thought perhaps he and I would be good friends prior to that.  

But, no, there is not some secret code in the Bible.  The code is in the words.  If people will read the words and understand them, now they have the secrets from the Bible.  God didn't want it to be difficult, nor secret.  

However, I believe there are some things in the Bible that people don't generally understand just because they've read over it once.  We must be diligent in our Bible studying, "comparing spiritual things with spiritual." (1 Cor 2:13)

Smith Wigglesworth was a great man of God who lived from about 1859 to about 1945.  There's an excellent book about him titled, "Smith Wigglesworth, Apostle of Faith."  The author is Frodsham.  Publshed by Gospel Publishing House, Springfield, MO.  

Wigglesworth said we should read the Bible, "not commentaries."  Wigglesworth preached the Gospel, got many born again, healed the sick, raised the dead, spoke in unknown tongues.  

The best commentary on the Bible is the Bible itself.  If someone doesn't seem to understand a certain passage in the Bible, they should compare other scriptures on the same subject.  

And they should ask God to help them understand God's word.  God gives wisdom & understanding.  Jesus said ask and you shall receive (Matt chapt 7)  Also, when we pray, we should "believe that you receive the things you ask for, and you shall have them" (Mark chapt 11).  

In fact, there's a scripture that talks about "the wayfaring man even if he's a fool won't err therein" (in God's plan of salvation.)  In the Old Testament, I think.  In one of the prophets, probably.  

I don't currently have a concordance for looking up where scriptures are in the Bible.  The best concordance to the King James Bible is, I believe, the Strong's unabridged concordance.  A recent version of the Strong's Unabridged Concordance is called "The Strongest Strong's."

I was having some dental pain while also doing a little traveling, so I took some pain pills.  But the problem seemed to be getting worse.  I know from the Bible that healing belongs to us as Christians, along with salvation from sins.  

I remembered something Norvel Hayes had said.  I guess he had been sitting on a platform at a church, perhaps as guest speaker.  He said the Lord told him, "If there's anyone out there with anything wrong with their bodies, they're not worshipping me enough."

I remembered that the one book in the Bible that seems to be most focused on praise and worship is the Psalms.  After the traveling, I had been listening to audio cassette tapes of Alexander Scourby reading the King James Bible, the book of Isaiah.  

So I put that cassette aside, and began listening to the Psalms.  I probably listened 4 or 5 hours, and also quoted along with Scourby parts that I had in my memory.  There's a Psalm where in every verse is the phrase, "For his mercy endures forever."  And I would speak those words along with Scourby.  You can also get it on compact discs, which are somewhat sturdier than tapes.  

Perhaps I did like that also the next day.  The pain went away, and I stopped taking pain pills, praise God!  Norvel Hayes is pretty decent as a Bible teacher, and he has books and tapes and, I think, DVD's.  On the internet, his web address is www.nhm.cc
 
I recently happened to catch Norvel Hayes on Direct TV (one of the satellite TV networks.)  He was on the GTV channel ("God TV" they call it--seems like it was channel 365.)  They probably have it on some of the cable TV networks.  

Hayes said he had a female student.  There was something wrong with her legs.  She used crutches when she walked.  He told her to command her legs to be normal every day.  She started commanding her legs to be normal every day, and sometimes several times a day.  

After about six months, she went to the mall with her friends.  She was walking along with her crutches, and she felt the power of God come on her.  She threw down her crutches, and walked off with normal legs.  That's what Hayes said.  I believe it.  

Norvel said the Lord told him, "My people don't worship me enough, and you don't either, son.  You tell the people if they'll spend time worshipping me, they can have anything they want."

You and I talked about the casting out of devils, or demons.  I told you about an authority in that field, Kenneth E. Hagin.  He has cast out many demons out of people.  Though he passed in about 2003, he has written close to a hundred books, most of which are best sellers (have sold more than a million copies each.)  

He has a son, Kenneth W. Hagin.  You can write to Kenneth Hagin Ministries, P.O.Box 50126, Tulsa, OK 74150.  Or, you can order K.E.Hagin's books on the Internet at www.Rhema.Org

Rhema Bible Training Center is the Bible College that K.E.Hagin started in Broken Arrow, OK, near Tulsa.  Kenneth W. Hagin. also has written books, but I prefer Kenneth E.Hagin.  Also there are audio cassette tapes and videos and DVD's. 

I think I asked you about your foot being bandaged.  I believe you said you'd had a dream where you'd been fighting a dog & kicked in the dream.  But as you kicked in the dream, you also actually kicked your leg, and your foot hit the wall or something, as I recall.  

I said then, and I still believe it was a demon that gave you the dream and caused that problem.  In Luke 10:19, Jesus gives his followers authority over all the power of the enemy.  

And in Ephesians chapt 6, we see that our main enemy is not flesh & blood (people), but rather (and K.E.Hagin says these are the four categories of demons) principalities, powers, rulers of the darkness of this world, and "spiritual wickedness in high places."  But this last part, in quotations, Hagin says, a better translation is "wicked spirits in high places."

In Mark chapt 16, Jesus said, "These signs shall follow those who believe:  In my name they shall cast out devils,  they shall speak with new tongues (languages), ...they shall lay hands on the sick & they shall recover."  

So, Jesus wants his people to cast out devils.  Norvel Hayes said the Lord told him that these words in Mark chapt 16 are the most important words that ever came out of Jesus' mouth.  

It was Pastor Win Worley who came to Houston and taught me that yes, even Christians, can have demons.  I hadn't known that.  I believe you mentioned that before becoming a Christian, you had been a Buddhist.  

Don't know a lot about Buddhism, but I know they have their chants.  Perhaps in doing some of those Buddhist activities, you picked up some demons.  

Demons don't ever want to go out of a person once they get in, until that person dies.  Then they go looking for someone else to get into.  They don't have to go out unless a Christian casts them out.  Unfortunately, there's not enough teaching about this.  

Another authority on casting out devils was Dr. Lester Sumrall, who started LESEA Broadcasting, which is also on the Internet.  Sumrall had three sons that went into the ministry.  

In fact, I saw Lester Sumrall teaching on Direct TV recently, though he has passed on.  But it was a video.  Direct TV has some religious channels at about channel 360 to 379.

Norvel Hayes is also an authority on casting out of devils, and was a student of Lester Sumrall.  There's an excellent book by Sumrall, "Demons, the Answer Book."  

Especially see the Chapter, "Bitten by Demons," about a woman in the Philippines that Sumrall cast demons out of perhaps sixty years ago.  It was a national news story at the time in the Philippines.  

The woman had teeth marks in her arm from being bitten by demons.  The teeth marks were clearly not of human teeth.  

There is an excellent book by Charles Capps, "God's Creative Power Will Work for You."  It has sold over 4 million  copies.  His address is P.O. Box 69, England, AR, 72046.  

The book is about quoting God's promises to help you get whatever you need from God, such as healing or finances, or whatever.  Or go to www.CharlesCapps.com. 

I've seen that book also at Christian book stores. There is also a trilogy by Capps that includes that book.  If the store has the trilogy and not that book, I suggest get the trilogy.

Another source for Christian books--I believe there's a "Christian Book Distributors" in Peabody, MA.  I believe they’re on the web.  Not sure how good their "Charismatic" section is (or "Full Gospel" or "Pentecostal")  In other words, with the signs following of Mark chapt. 16.

President Barak Obama told a huge lie in a speech.  It was the day he announced he would send thirty thousand more soldiers to Afghanistan.  In the first few minutes of about a thirty minute speech he said, "Islam is one of the great religions of the world."  

No it's not.  Islam sends every one of its followers to hell.  A great religion doesn't send its followers to hell.  Jesus said, "You must be born again," (John, chapt 3.)  The Muslims are not born again, unless they convert to Christianity, in which case, they can't remain Muslims since the two religions are quite incompatible.  

How could Obama be a Christian and tell such a lie?  I wonder how many people have become, or will become Muslims because of that false statement by Obama.  Even if it's only one person, their blood is on his hands if they go to hell.

The followers of Islam are the Muslims.  The Muslims don't know God, and they don't know Jesus.  They say that God's name is Allah.  I haven't found that name anywhere in the Bible.  

But in one of the Arabic languages, perhaps Allah is a word meaning "the God."  But it's not enough to have a word meaning God.  My Dad knew the word "God," and went to hell anyway.    

The Muslims say that Jesus was a good man and a prophet, but not the Son of God.  There was a Muslim man who lived in the same building as I did in Houston, TX.  I learned that he played chess, and he and I played some chess.  

One day I said to that man, "You people say Jesus is a good man and a prophet, but not the Son of God.  In saying that, you contradict yourselves.  Jesus said he's the Son of God.  So, if you are correct, then Jesus is not a good man, but a liar; not a prophet, but a false prophet."  The man surprised me with his answer.  

He said, "Jesus didn't say that."  He meant Jesus didn't claim to be the Son of God.  But surely Jesus did claim to be the Son of God, in at least three places in the New Testament.  Jesus was brought before the Jewish High Priest who asked him, "Are you the Son of God?"  Jesus said, "I am."

Jesus was talking with his disciples and asked them, "Whom do men say that I am?"  They said some were saying he was Elijah or one of the prophets.  Jesus said,  "Whom do you say that I am?"  Peter said, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."  Jesus said, "Blessed are you, Simon, son of Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed it to you, but my Father in heaven."  

But the King James Version New Testament calls Elijah Elias, Elisha Eliseus, and Isaiah Esaias.  Greek forms of the Hebrew names, apparently. 

So why didn't the Muslim man know that Jesus said he's the Son of God?  Very simple.  The Muslim man reads the wrong book.  He reads the Koran, when he needs to be reading the Bible.  

Reading the wrong book can send you to hell, and all Muslims are on their way to hell, unless they become born-again Christians.  However, God doesn't want us to start killing Muslims who won't convert to Christianity, even though some Muslims kill those who won't convert to Islam.  

I said to that same man one time, "You don't have Jesus."  He said, "Oh, we have Jesus, he's one of our prophets."  I said, "You don't have Jesus as Savior."

Actually, it's not fair to say that Jesus is one of their prophets.  If they believed that Jesus was really a prophet, then they ought to be very diligent to find out everything that Jesus had to say while he was on earth.  You can't do that by reading the Koran.  You must read the Holy bible to find out what Jesus said.