not indicate that we have a privilege of telling God what to do. We can be bold in prayer, and God delights to see true faith exhibited. Actually this verse should read from the original, “Ask me of the things that are to come.” This is pertaining, as is the context, to God’s blessed prophetic truth. Q . Delano, California. “What is the best way of reading the Bible? I’ve tried reading through it. I ’ve tried reading different portions. Still I never seem to come up with anything concrete that is truly helpful.” A. There is no one best way of read ing the Bible. Sometimes you will want to read it through consecutively taking a year. We have in our annual Biola calendar a method whereby one can read the Bible through in this fashion. Other people pick out spe cific books and study them. Proverbs with 31 chapters, is excellent, for it has a different chapter which can be studied each day. When you come to a passage you do not understand, set it to one side. You need not stumble or fret over it. Read ■a portion you can understand and frdm which you can get a blessing. Some of the other pas sages will become more meaningful to you later on. A woman once com plained that she didn’t get anything when she read the Bible through, un til she changed her method and let the Bible go through her as she read
Q . Eureka, California. “According to II Timothy 3:8 Jannes and Jambre» u'ithstood Moses. I can’t find these names in the Old Testament. Who were they ? A. In the New Testament we some time find additional materials which do not appear in the Old Testament. This doesn’t mean that the former is any the less a truth. Jude, as an ex ample, tells about Enoch as being a prophet of the Lord. As Paul has writ ten to Timothy, these were two men, no doubt magicians, who were against the knowledge of truth and opposed Moses and Aaron in Egypt as the lat ter two witnessed for the Lord. Q. Turlock, California. “Do you think it’s wrong for Christians to attend con certs and to listen to the music of the old masters?” A.No one can become the conscience of another. If you feel you cannot or should not go, you should stay away. There are many wonderful and devout Christians, servants of the Lord, who thoroughly enjoy attending concerts of a high order. Of course, one needs to make certain that he does not at tend concerts more regularly or more avidly than he does his church, read ing his Bible, or talking to others about their need of the Lord. If we allow concerts or anything else to rob us of our relationship with the Lord, or to side track us, that becomes sin. Q . Santa Cruz, California. “There is a teaching that we can command God to do things for us based on the words of Isaiah h 5 :ll, ‘Concerning the work of my hands, command ye me.’ Is this correct?” A. How can a finite individual, not knowing all of God’s marvelous om niscience and plan for the universe, presume to tell Him what to do? Our Saviour taught us that men ought al ways to pray and not faint, but this verse and the rest of Scripture does
One of the numerous booths which was featured at the 1964 Biola M issionary Conference held in March 13
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