Reliable Proof That Scripture Is The World of God
By: Reno Omokri
Tags: Christian, Christmas, Christianity, Africa, Ethiopia

Reliable Proof That Scripture Is The World of God

As an apologist for the word of God, perhaps the most consistent question I have been asked by skeptics, atheists, and persons of other faiths, is this: How can you be sure that Scripture is the word of God?

When the Sanhedrin sent armed men to arrest Christ, they returned without Him. When the Chief Priests asked why, they said “No one ever spoke the way this man does,” the guards replied.”-John 7:46.

And that is precisely the point. I am a voracious reader and an avid traveler. I am no fool. I consume books sometimes more than I consume food, and I can boldly say that ‘No BOOK ever spoke the way SCRIPTURE does.’

I have read the Quran in English and have been tutored on it by Arabic speaking Muslims. I have traveled to Nepal to converse with Buddhist holy men. I have interrogated works of philosophy. I went to the ends of the Earth to see and compare and contrast, and I have not found anything that compares to Scripture.

You ask why? If you read Scripture cover to cover, in the original language, your eyes will open and you will never doubt its divine origin. The greatest challenge with Scripture is that many people read translations (Bibles), and with all due respect, when you translate the word of God, some value gets missing in the translation.

Take forex for example. If I traveled to England and exchanged $100 for pounds, I would get around £74.7. But if I take that £74.7 and try to buy back dollars, I would get $98.3. In the process of conversion, 1.7% of the value is lost.

The same applies to translating Scripture. I encourage believers in Christ the Son of God, to make every effort to read Scripture in the original languages. It is not hard.

But then, how do we know Scripture is the word of God?

Deuteronomy 18:21–22 says:

“How can we know when a message has not been spoken by the LORD?” If what a prophet proclaims in the name of the LORD does not take place or come true, that is a message the LORD has not spoken. That prophet has spoken presumptuously, so do not be alarmed.”

In other words, consistent prophecy coming to pass is proof that any prophecy is of God.

I visited Ethiopia eight times in 2019, and traveled around the country, and discovered the Beta Yisra’el, who were Jews who left Israel along with Menelik, the son King Solomon had with Makeda, the Queen of Sheba, who visited him in accounts captured in 1 Kings 10:1–13.

I also traveled to Israel, where I met the Beta Yisra’el, in their quarters in Tel Aviv. There are now 130,000 of them in Israel, but this is a recent development. Until 1982, almost all of the Beta Yisra’el were domiciled in Ethiopia.

They were relocated to Israel during the Aliyah of the 80s and 90s.

The curious thing is that in 1848, these Black Ethiopian Jews wrote to the Jews of Europe, urging them to unite with them and restore a geographical country called Israel.

Why? What gave them confidence that such a crazy idea was possible? Turn with me to Isaiah 11:11. In the King James Version, that verse reads:

“And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.”

The word Cush might confuse you. So, now let us read it in a newer version:

“In that day the Lord will reach out his hand a second time to bring back the remnant of his people – those who remain in Assyria and northern Egypt; in southern Egypt, Ethiopia, and Elam; in Babylonia, Hamath, and all the distant coastlands.”-NLT.

The word Cush means Black, and it refers to the continent of Africa, and more specifically to the regions around Sheba, which is the old name for Abyssinia, which itself is the old name for the modern nation of Ethiopia.

For over two thousand five hundred years, the Beta Yisra’el. were aware of this prophecy and were waiting for its fulfilment.

You have probably read about the Ethiopian eunuch of Acts 8:26–39. Read that verse. What Scripture was he reading? He was reading the book of Isaiah. In fact, he invited Philip the Evangelist into his carriage to help explain the prophet to him. That Ethiopian eunuch was a member of the Beta Yisra’el. You see, the prophecies of Isaiah has always had a special importance to the Beta Yisra’el, because it meant that they would one day go home.

Now, fast forward to 1982, when Israel began secretly airlifting and freighting the. Beta Yisra’el back to Israel from secret bases in the Sudan.

When their cover was blown, the then US Vice President, the late George H W Bush, just happened to fly to Sudan in 1985, and against then US policy, advocated for the Beta Yisra’el, and soon after, the Aliyah resumed officially.

Why would Bush intervene on their behalf? They were not vital to US interests. It was something that puzzled diplomats.

Mr Bush said he just happened to be visiting a refugee camp, where he met them. According to him, he was moved by sympathy for these people. But the Beta Yisra’el do not believe that Mr Bush was moved by sympathy. They believe that he was moved by God to fulfil the prophecy that the prophet Isaiah made 2,800 years ago.

Today, Isaiah 11:11 has been fulfilled to a T. And this fulfilment ought to give you confidence that Scripture is of divine origin and that, just like the Beta Yisra’el, if you put your trust in Scripture, you will find that God can lead you around, but He can never lead you wrong, because as Hebrews 4:12 says:

“The word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.”

And finally, the beautiful thing about the Beta Yisra’el is that for all these millennia that they were separated from their homeland, they kept their Jewish faith sacred. They rejected practices and beliefs that were alien to Scripture. It was as if they were living in a time capsule that refused to change.

But consider Christians, ever eager to look outside Scripture and accept traditions and practices of pagan origin and are ever ready to defend them using logic and philosophy, rather than Scripture.

No wonder Christ asked “when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”-Luke 18:8.

Reno Omokri

Gospeller. Deep Thinker. #1 Bestselling author of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years. Avid traveller. Hollywood Magazine Film Festival Humanitarian of the Year, 2019.