Daily Bible Study
Wayne Blank listened to Herbert W. Armstrong but never joined the Worldwide Church of God
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Wayne Blank's Daily Bible Study
Below is a partial quote from Wayne Blank's Web site:
Readers naturally wonder about the origin of this Daily Bible Study. Is it
sponsored by a particular church group, or denomination? And what about the
author(s)? Who writes Daily Bible Study every day?
Although read by numerous and widely-varied churches, educational institutions
and individuals around the world, Daily Bible Study is independently written
and produced by me. Unless otherwise noted, I am the sole author and source of
the studies and the online sermons.
I was born and raised as a Roman Catholic, but I have had nothing what-so-ever
to do with that organization for over 35 years, since the early 1970s, the
time that I began basing my Christian beliefs solely upon the Word of God,
the Holy Bible. I now strongly disagree with the Church of Rome, or any
other Christian-professing church organization, Catholic or Protestant,
that contradicts the pure Word of God as written in the Holy Scriptures. I have
never been a member of any other church organization. My church
membership today is that of the Biblical Church of God. According to
the Holy Scriptures, church means the people, the "called out ones," who truly
live by the Word of God.
I write the studies for those who choose to visit the web site and read what
is made available. If you are willing to accept what the Bible plainly says,
there is a very good chance that you will find Daily Bible Study useful and
enjoyable.
This Daily Bible Study is the fruit of over 35 years of Bible-based Christian
study. During those more than 3 decades (I'm 53 now), I have read the Bible,
in its entirety, in many different versions, over 200 times - a practice that
I continue every day. I have also carefully studied a tremendous amount of
material, Christian and secular, pertaining to the many aspects of Christianity - the
history, the people, the places, the things, the archaeology, and the prophecy.
I say this in humility, as a simple statement of fact to answer those who have
asked, not as some sort of boast. Those who are called to teach must first
learn.
I produce this web site solely to encourage people to read the Bible
(see 52-Week Bible Reading
Plan), to study the Bible, and especially to believe the Bible.
The Word of God is where the absolute Truth will be found, not from anywhere,
or anyone, else.
Like water from a mountain spring, I believe that Christianity is most pure at
its source. While there are fine and honorable Christian teachers and ministers
here and there around the world, there remains a very fundamental question: Can
the word of any human be more right than The Word of God?
Although I honestly believe that what I write is correct, having carefully
and painstakingly researched all studies that are published, I make no claim
what-so-ever to infallibility. Being a mere sinful human, it's certain that I
am wrong in places (no human is infallible, nobody) - hopefully, very few.
That's the reality of being human that even the writers of the Bible itself
had the honesty and courage to admit.
This is an interesting Web site. Just one caution: With so many Bible studies
to read and so many audio sermons to listen to, you might never actually
get around to reading the Bible itself. Many people have started many great
works over the years that have produced much writing and speaking, and all
with the purported intention being to get people to read their Bibles.
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Reading the Bible 200 times is not enough?
Why mention this guy? Simply for the sake of those who are still interested
in the teachings of the Bible. If God really does exist, and if the Bible really
is His inspired word, then it will always be around regardless of how corrupt
most people become. God will always have people somewhere who read His words,
believe them, and try to obey them.
Okay, here are some more cautions:
Wayne Blank is not perfect. For example, Wayne seems to think that some
Sunday-keepers who wrote songs that contain doctrinal errors nevertheless
"certainly had the heart." Actually, it is debatable whether they ever had the
heart--or the mind, or the eyes, or the ears. Moses told the ancient Israelites,
"But to this day the LORD has not given you a mind that
understands or eyes that see or ears that hear" (Deuteronomy 29:4, NIV).
The idea that it is ok to sing religious songs that contain doctrinal errors just
because he thinks they sound nice is a serious mistake. Lies and error should
never sound nice to one's ears. The truth is that many of those people "certainly
had the mouth." In his 200+ claimed readings of the Bible, Wayne
should have come across what Jesus said to some religious types in the first century.
He said, "Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you
hypocrites; as it is written: 'These people honor me with their lips, but their
hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain; their teachings are but rules
taught by men.' You have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to
the traditions of men" (Mark 7:6-8, NIV). Wayne might be
finding it difficult to accept just how blinded and deceived the whole world
is, including the Catholics and Protestants who imagine themselves to be
Christians.
Some people mistakenly think that they know all the reasons for God's laws, and
this little bit of false "knowledge" then becomes a dangerous thing to them.
Don't buy into that idea that Wayne seems to have that God's laws about
clean and unclean animals in Leviticus 11:1-47 are just a matter of health
and not a matter of righteousness. Near the end of these rules, God told his
chosen people, "I am the LORD who brought you up out
of Egypt to be your God; therefore be holy, because I am holy"
(Leviticus 11:45, NIV). So, it seems to be a matter of holiness, not just a
matter of health. Obeying God's instruction is very important. The New Testament
explains that, "Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact,
sin is lawlessness" (I John 3:4, NIV). "Dear
children, do not let anyone lead you astray. He who does what is right is righteous,
just as he is righteous. He who does what is sinful is of the devil, because
the devil has been sinning from the beginning (I John 3:7-8, NIV).
Taking God and His instruction seriously is the right--or righteous--thing to
do. If anyone thinks otherwise, perhaps they need to start at the beginning and
read the Bible through one more time. Maybe this time around they will notice
that the first recorded human sin was some woman eating something that God had
told her not to eat. The Devil, ever so slippery, encouraged her to eat the
forbidden fruit. The Devil made it sound like it was okay to disobey God's
instruction. The Devil made it sound like it was not even a matter of health.
But, God was displeased with the disobedience, and the woman did
eventually die as a result of eating it, which sort of affected her health,
and sort of proved the Devil to be a liar from the beginning. If they had been
around back then, virtually all the religious leaders of today would have also
encouraged her to disobey God and eat it.
While talking about some of the wrong ideas that Wayne Blank has adopted,
something should be said about the annual Sabbaths and festivals that God gave.
Wayne has learned that not only is there controversy about when to observe
Passover and Pentecost, but also about when to observe every other festival as well.
Wayne said that it is "fine" for different people to observe the annual
Sabbaths at all sorts of different times as long as they "leave others in peace"
and "have respect" for their many different ideas about when to observe these things.
This is, no doubt, intended to sound nice and reasonable. Yet, something does not
sound either reasonable or "fine" about people who claim to be God's followers
being in complete confusion and observing His festivals on all sorts of different
days because the spirits that are guiding them are not leading them into all truth,
or even into truth at all. The world is full of people who observe Sunday rather
than God's weekly Sabbath because they are either spiritually blind or else
simply rebellious. That is not "fine." Maybe
just reading the Bible 200 times will not help unless God also opens the reader's
mind and reveals the truth to the reader..
A lot of the teachings of Wayne Blank will sound familiar to former members
of the WCG. There is a reason for this. Wayne did not come up with these
ideas all by himself. Notice the quote below from his Web site:
... there are over a billion Roman Catholics in the world; however the day is
coming when they, in great numbers, are going to discover how badly they've
been deceived and they're going to rise up and free their minds and bodies from
that Satanic deception, as this author did as an individual over 30 years ago
thanks to a certain preacher in Pasadena, California whose "trademark" challenge
was "Don't believe me, believe your Bible!" Daily Bible Study would not exist
today if not for Herbert W. Armstrong, a very (as I later learned) imperfect,
sometimes wrong (just like every other human), at times foolish, egotistical,
arrogant, perverted sinner, and true man of God when it came to overall
Biblical understanding (I can almost hear the cheers, and the boos, to that one) ...
In his 200th online sermon, for October 11, 2008, called Branches,
Wayne Blank said he was never a member of the WCG. He explained that he
had tried to join the WCG in his younger days but the minister who interviewed
him was too huffy and acted like a Roman Catholic Bishop. Sigh.
At least Wayne has simple ideas and teachings. He has not yet fallen
into the trap that has ensnared so many hundreds of former WCG members into
thinking that they are prophets, or one of the two witnesses of Revelation,
or some other great, deluded embarrassment full of wrong prophetic dates to
waste one's time.
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