How to Use Our Commentaries
Preparation for reading: Before starting each reading, remember to pray to the Creator of the universe, asking him to guide you into all truth and to help you understand his Word during your study.
Post structure: For didactic reasons, each long post has been divided into smaller sections so that the reader will not be overwhelmed by receiving too much information at once. We recommend that readers pause at the end of each section to digest what they have read, reflect, and pray.
Make sure to read the entire study: Our series are expository studies that analyze the biblical book as a whole and within its context, following the inspired biblical writer’s line of reasoning. Reading everything, and in order, from start to finish, is essential. This approach ensures that the reader will have a better understanding of the message that God wants to convey through the biblical book under analysis.
Authority of the Bible: We want the Bible to be our authority. So, quotations that do not refer to the meaning of the original words, archaeological data, or historical facts—the interpretative quotations—are not given for the purpose of citing the writer or theologian as authority, but because the statement affords a ready, clear, and biblical presentation of the subject.
Focus on pertinent topics: Although the production of our materials involves the study of the biblical book verse by verse and word by word, what we bring to the public is not a verse-by-verse commentary. Given the urgency of our time, as we find ourselves living during the final pages of this age’s history, we must not linger on less pertinent topics or provide unnecessary information about a biblical verse. We have been commissioned to show the truths for this present time, giving “meat in due season.” Therefore, our Bible commentaries are not strictly verse-by-verse.
Where our sources come from: None of the texts quoted in our articles, whether from theologians, archaeologists, linguists, or historians, come from researchers who share the set of doctrines that we have extracted from the Bible and present here. All of our sources come from impartial researchers.
Enhancing your understanding: In our series, we sometimes include chapters between the main ones to clarify previous sections or prepare you for what is coming next. It is important to pause and read these appendices, as they provide essential knowledge for understanding the biblical book under analysis. For example, Daniel and Revelation reference many other biblical passages and doctrines; a lack of familiarity with them will certainly prevent a correct understanding of the messages in these biblical books. Therefore, these appendices ensure everyone, whether new to Christianity or even long-time believers, has the necessary background for a correct understanding.
Use of historical texts: Although it may seem so, the historical texts quoted in our publications are not commentaries on the prophecies, nor were they written with the purpose of endorsing what the biblical text says. Historians were simply writing about history, and history has been unfolding as prophesied in the Bible.
Translation approach: We observe that a more literal translation of the biblical text is usually the one that accurately conveys the biblical author’s intended meaning, aligning with the immediate context and the broader testimony of Scripture. In the case of prophecies, it also aligns with historical data that shows their fulfillment. Therefore, we prioritize a more literal translation of the biblical text whenever possible, even if it results in language that slightly deviates from standard English usage.
Questions & Answers: At the end of each post, the reader will find a Q&A section about the chapter of the biblical book that was studied. This section includes questions asked on Google, Reddit, Quora, and other websites, as well as questions from our readers. So, if you still have questions about the chapter studied, please send them to our email address: questions@thebloodstainedbanner.org
Possibly, each chapter of our series may chalenge your world views or practices.
Having our beliefs or practices contradicted is completely normal when we are studying the Bible and receiving more light from heaven.
If you already are a Christian, this does not mean that you or others that did not know that new information (new for you, for your knowledge) before are not Christians. Think about it: Is your knowledge about what is right and what is according to the sound doctrine the same as when you just converted? No, if you are a Christian and study the Bible Did you not throw away some wrong beliefs and practices throughout your Christian walk? Tomorrow you will know more about God’s will and will correct things that you did not know was wrong in you. Does this mean that today you are not a Christian? Of course not.
“Not knowing that I should do something or that I was doing something wrongly means that I was condemned or not saved?” No, the Bible means exactly what it says when it says that “Jehovah is just in all his ways, and merciful in all his works” (Psalm 145:17). As it is written, “God overlooked the times of ignorance.”
Did you receive from God all the light when you just came to God? No, you received a small portion of it, according to what you could receive. The Master said to his students: “” ()
As it is written, “And the path of the righteous [is] as a shining light, Going and brightening till the day is established.” (Proverbs 4:18)
Notice that the righteous one, when he had little light, he was still called “righteous” by the Word of God. There were still some darkness of the night, which was fading away as his path received more and more light until the day which their path will have full light, the light of the midday. The righteous one is the one who receives light and even more light after that. So, rejoice for being considered by God worth of receiving more light, light that takes away a little more of our darkness. Rejoice for having your beliefs and practices corrected by the Word of God. It is the wicked who does not receive light.
The next verse says: “The way of the wicked [is] as darkness, They have not known at what they stumble.” (Proverbs 4:19)
“My son, be not despising chastening of the Lord, nor be faint, being reproved by him,
6 for whom the Lord doth love He doth chasten, and He scourgeth every son whom He receiveth;’
7 if chastening ye endure, as to sons God beareth Himself to you, for who is a son whom a father doth not chasten?
8 and if ye are apart from chastening, of which all have become partakers, then bastards are ye, and not sons.
9 Then, indeed, fathers of our flesh we have had, chastising [us], and we were reverencing [them]; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of the spirits, and live?
10 for they, indeed, for a few days, according to what seemed good to them, were chastening, but He for profit, to be partakers of His separation;” (Hebrews 12:5-10)
It is true, no one likes to be corrected or have their wrongs pointed out; but we need to learn to regard it as a blessing.
The apostle continues: “and all chastening for the present, indeed, doth not seem to be of joy, but of sorrow, yet afterward the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those exercised through it — it doth yield.” (Hebrews 12:11)”