“Buy the truth, and do not sell it, also wisdom and instruction and understanding” Proverbs 23:23

Suppose you had a daughter driving home from college for summer vacation. As you wait for her to arrive, you anxiously monitor the weather reports. You become worried as the weather rapidly deteriorates. Storm clouds loom on the horizon. Winds blow fiercely. The heavens open and rain pours down. Trees are blown over. Soon the main road home is impossible. Then you hear from one of your neighbors that it is possible to get through on a secondary road. Cars can navigate around some downed tree limbs. Although communication is difficult, you are able to get a text message to your daughter, carefully detailing how she can get home safely.

More than anything else, Jesus wants to take us through the storms of life and get us home. A storm is coming relentless in its fury. Are we prepared to meet it? The purpose of Christ’s life, death, resurrection and ministry in heaven’s sanctuary is to ensure that we get home. The prophetic messages of Daniel and Revelation are divine instructions especially for an end time people, to help us through life storms so that one day, we can feel the warm embrace of a loving savior.

Throughout the ages, the great controversy has been a battle between truth and error. Satan is a liar and the father of all lies (John 8:44). Jesus is the author of all truth. He declared, “I am the way, the truth and the life” (John 14:6). The truth that sets us free from Satan’s deceptions is found in God’s word. The Bible unmasked Satan’s strategy and reveals God’s plans. The scripture is a lamp to our feet (Psalms 119:105).

We have not followed ‘cunningly devised fables’. The prophecies of God’s word light up the road ahead. They help us distinguish truth from error. Without the Bible, we would be left to the whims of human opinion and easily be deceived. The people of God are directed to the scriptures as their safeguard against the influence of false teachers and the delusive power of spirits of darkness.