When the Bible Unlocked
Post 1 in the series: When the Scales Fell
Written by Sia Page
I grew up going to church. Sunday school, youth camp, Wednesday night church with my childhood best friend... it was part of my rhythm. I always loved God the best way I knew how.
But somewhere along the way, I wandered. Like so many of us.
Life pulled me in different directions. Eventually, I moved on.
Not just from church, but from God.
And still, He never let go.
A New Beginning
On June 16, 2018, I was born again. That was the 3rd of Tammuz, 5778 on the biblical calendar.
I didn’t know that at the time.
I didn’t even know there was a biblical calendar.
But that day changed everything.
I started going back to Sunday church because that’s what I knew.
I wanted to grow. I wanted to understand His Word.
But something felt off.
I had questions.
A lot of them.
And the answers I was getting didn’t seem to line up with Scripture.
Then I Started Digging
It didn’t happen overnight. I didn’t suddenly understand everything, and I still don’t. It was slow. A layer-by-layer kind of thing. And honestly, it still is.
I started watching a YouTube channel called Faithful Performance, and for the first time, someone was walking through Scripture in a way that actually answered questions I didn’t even know I had.
It was like the Bible had always been speaking, but now I finally had ears to hear it.
I couldn’t unsee it. I couldn’t unhear it.
It cut straight through.
“For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword,
piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow,
and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”
— Hebrews 4:12, NKJV
My discernment was waking up.
I started testing everything I’d been taught.
Not with emotion, but with the Word.
(Faithful Performance, Mark Biltz with El Shaddai Ministries, and Bill Cloud with Jacob’s Tent have all been very helpful resources for me — and they still are.)
Here were just a few of the questions that started coming up:
Why does the Bible say Yah’s year starts in the spring, but we celebrate the new year in winter?
Why does Scripture teach about the Sabbath and feast days, but we’ve replaced them with holidays never mentioned in the Bible?
Why do I keep finding things in Scripture that no one ever taught me?
And the biggest question of all:
If these things are in the Bible,
why didn’t I see them before?
That’s what this series is about.
Not judgment.
Not religion.
Just truth and the understanding Yah is revealing to me little by little.
The kind that changes everything when your eyes are opened and the Word finally starts to unlock.
“You will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.”
— Jeremiah 29:13, TLV
In the next post, I’ll share what I discovered when I stopped asking,
“Why isn’t that in the Bible?”
and started asking,
“What has been there the whole time?”
