What can you learn from John the Baptist?

Four simple lessons from John the Baptist

God works though individuals

Be quiet before the Lord

Position and prestige are unimportant in the kingdom of God

Use money properly & scripturally

[KJV] [Matthew 11:11] Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

NON GREATER BUT THE LEAST IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN GREATER THAN HE

[KJV] John 3:30 He must increase, but I must decrease.

It’s like double entry bookkeeping – for increase there must be a decrease or else the trail balance will show an error – the debits & the credits must balance.

What were his strengths and how will we be greater?

There is much we can learn from John and apply to our lives and ministries.

1. Be quiet before the Lord.
   

John spent time with the Lord isolated from distraction.

It is no coincidence that Moses, David, Paul, John the Baptist, and Jesus all spent time alone with the Lord God in the desert.

The desert is a quiet place.

Today, television, the Internet, music, movies, handheld entertainment all compete for our time and can even become addictive. I need to get aside somewhere to pray. I used to like to walk as I prayed. I used to hop in my car & drive to a lonely spot, often with a great view of the countryside, and pray sometimes while sitting in car & sometimes getting out.

MAR 1:35-39

[KJV] [Mark 1:35] And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.

[KJV] [Mark 1:36] And Simon and they that were with him followed after him.

[KJV] [Mark 1:37] And when they had found him, they said unto him, All men seek for thee.

There is a deep significance in this fact that Jesus so often during His Ministry turned aside for periods of prayer.

He has just spent His energies in healing the crowds of sick; and now this expenditure of power is followed quite naturally by the restoration of power. This is the top-up experience that refreshes and restores him.

If the healer himself found this necessary, how much the more should the patient — myself!

For I too have spent my energies time and time again — spent them in rather a different way — in enduring my particular cross, in facing up to pain and distress, in trying to sustain the will to live. Furthermore, unless I do renew my energy in prayer, there seems to be little alternative to cracking up completely.

Prayer is not an optional extra; it is the very power of my life.

Going Aside to Pray.

[KJV] Luke 9:10 And the apostles, when they were returned, told him all that they had done. And he took them, and went aside privately into a desert place belonging to the city called Bethsaida.

I let Jesus take me aside. When he calls then I drop what I’m doing and go with him.

[KJV] Luke 9:11 And the people, when they knew it, followed him: and he received them, and spake unto them of the kingdom of God, and healed them that had need of healing.

Do I follow Jesus when he hides himself? Do I hide myself sometimes?

MAR 6:31 And he said unto them, Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while: for there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.

So busy I have no time to eat let alone pray. I get pushed and engaged with the business of living & ministering. I do not need days or weekends off, I just need a quiet place for an hour or two. I always make certain that I get these times of short respite. The stillness of my heart & the voice of prayer and thanksgiving refresh and restore me.

32 And they departed into a desert place by ship privately.

Sometimes I need a private space for a short time – that is all it takes to centre myself in the rest that is God and the centre of his great heart of love.

Mat_14:23 And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when the evening was come, he was there alone.

I am not heard for my “much” praying. I just know that I must not run on empty.

Mar_6:46 And when he had sent them away, he departed into a mountain to pray.

Sometimes I have to make a departure to just go aside to pray. I like random rather set daily at a set time to pray. My need for pray changes with the demands and challenges of the day.

Luk_6:12 And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.

Sometimes I separate myself for a night.

Luk_9:28 And it came to pass about an eight days after these sayings, he took Peter and John and James, and went up into a mountain to pray.

Jesus sometimes takes me aside. Sometimes I go aside to find him.

Act_10:9 On the morrow, as they went on their journey, and drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour:

Peter learnt from the master. Let’s hope that I can!

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Four simple lessons from John the Baptist

1 God works though individuals

2 Be quiet before the Lord

3 Position and prestige are unimportant in the kingdom of God

4 Use money properly & scripturally

[KJV] [Matthew 11:11] Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

NON GREATER BUT THE LEAST IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN GREATER THAN HE

What were his strengths and how will we be greater?

There is much we can learn from John and apply to our lives and ministries.

1. God works though individuals.
   

[KJV] [John 1:6] There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.

God typically works through individuals.

People are God’s method of getting things done – no amount of programs, events, ideas or systems will change this.

After all the most efficient system there is is angelic – not bound by time or space won’t wear out an endless engine no fuel etc. BUT God uses redeemed people.

Men & women filled with the Holy Spirit are his witnesses – angels may be his messengers but we are his witnesses.

In 1 Corinthians 12, Paul describes each follower of Christ as a different part of the body of Christ.

We have varied backgrounds, skills, spiritual gifts, and personalities. These talents are given to us for his service. When are talents & gifts are combined with a righteous lifestyle & a cheerful disposition, we are ready. We will be called into his service.

This God-given diversity is intended to make us more effective collectively in reaching our world for Christ.

1CO 12:1-31

~The Use of Spiritual Gifts

[KJV] [1 Corinthians 12:1] Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant.

[KJV] [1 Corinthians 12:2] Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.

[KJV] [1 Corinthians 12:3] Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.

[KJV] [1 Corinthians 12:4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.

[KJV] [1 Corinthians 12:5] And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.

[KJV] [1 Corinthians 12:6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.

[KJV] [1 Corinthians 12:7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.

(God uses us each individually to bring profit & benefit to us all.)

[KJV] [1 Corinthians 12:8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;

[KJV] [1 Corinthians 12:9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;

[KJV] [1 Corinthians 12:10] To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:

[KJV] [1 Corinthians 12:11] But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.

[KJV] [1 Corinthians 12:12] For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.

[KJV] [1 Corinthians 12:13] For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.

[KJV] [1 Corinthians 12:14] For the body is not one member, but many.

(We are individuals in the body of Jesus Christ.)

[KJV] [1 Corinthians 12:15] If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?

[KJV] [1 Corinthians 12:16] And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?

[KJV] [1 Corinthians 12:17] If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?

(We cannot all be the same BUT we can all be used by God.)

[KJV] [1 Corinthians 12:18] But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.

(Each member is different but each member is needed. He uses individuals to help the whole.)

[KJV] [1 Corinthians 12:19] And if they were all one member, where were the body?

(You are a unique individual. There is no one like you. God will not waste your life. You are worth more than any sparrow or endangered species. Your life has value and purpose.)

[KJV] [1 Corinthians 12:20] But now are they many members, yet but one body.

[KJV] [1 Corinthians 12:21] And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.

[KJV] [1 Corinthians 12:22] Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:

[KJV] [1 Corinthians 12:23] And those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.

(This is a sobering thought. God will bestow more abundant honour in the same way. He does not judge like mankind does.)

[KJV] [1 Corinthians 12:24] For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked.

[KJV] [1 Corinthians 12:25] That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.

[KJV] [1 Corinthians 12:26] And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.

[KJV] [1 Corinthians 12:27] Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

[KJV] [1 Corinthians 12:28] And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.

[KJV] [1 Corinthians 12:29] Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles?

[KJV] [1 Corinthians 12:30] Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?

[KJV] [1 Corinthians 12:31] But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.

Be ready for the Lord Jesus to use you for his glory. Do not let your thoughts cheat you. As you are born-again so you are equipped to enter into his service. He uses individuals honour his word and have faith in his name. Remmber god loves cheerful individuals.

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Until next time – your friend in the Lord Jesus, Danny

When I was a young man, before I knew the Lord Jesus Christ as my saviour, I migrated out from the UK to Australia in 1961. To my shock, and at the time, to my embarrassment and sometimes outrage, there were many cultural differences between being a young man in the UK and a young man in urban Australia. No, it was not at the thought of finding kangaroos hopping up the main street of Sydney, but I was appalled at the state of public transport and I refused to get on the first train that pulled into Circular Quay. This train was what Sydneysiders affectionately called the Red Rattler. My first impression was that it was a cattle truck and I wouldn’t climb aboard. One of the main differences that I noticed was the general talk behaviour of young fellows. Easy use of foul language and derogatory remarks appalled me. There was one activity that I had in common both in the UK and Australia. The copious amounts of alcoholic beverage consumption continued unimpaired for one country to the other. The method and behaviour of this consumption was, admittedly, different, but there was one common strand.

In the UK and in Australia, when first meeting with friends and strangers for alcoholic beverage consumption, we clinked our glasses and/or bottles together and mutually called out “CHEERS.” The Australians sometimes added crude comments but this term was a constant. It was actually more frequent than shaking hands when meeting. I don’t think that I ever got any alcohol down my throat in the presence of another person without saying “CHEERS.” I no longer consume alcoholic beverages. It is my choice in the same way that I no longer smoke. I found, to my surprise, that as soon as I became born-again as a disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ that I no longer needed many of the habits that I used to be involved in.

Greeting one another by using the word “Cheers” has a very scriptural foundation. How it got to be associated with copious amounts of alcoholic consumption I have no idea. I’d like to look at three new Testament references to the concept of cheerfulness.

[KJV] Acts 24:10 Then Paul, after that the governor had beckoned unto him to speak, answered, Forasmuch as I know that thou hast been of many years a judge unto this nation, I do the more cheerfully answer for myself:

Whenever we Christians get an opportunity to witness or testify about our Christian faith, we should do it with cheerfulness. We should testify with the same type of enthusiasm that we used when we said “Cheers” to one another as we clinked various alcoholic drinks. We have nothing to be ashamed of, and indeed, we have news and greetings of great importance. When we tell other people about the love of God and the provision of the Lord Jesus Christ as our Saviour we ought to be more than ready to share this information with great cheerfulness with readiness of heart and mind. Cheerfully speaking out about the claims of the gospel, its privileges and responsibilities flows quite naturally to us as we walk in the spirit of the Lord Jesus. We should testify about our Lord Jesus Christ with both a cheerful manner with a cheerful readiness. After all, the scriptures exhorted us to be always ready to give an account of our faith. If you don’t like the idea of being too intrusive in the way in which you testify, you can always start your testimony with a question. Something like, “would you like to hear what I’ve got to say?” I know that some of you may feel that you have to wait until you asked before you tell anybody about the gospel or testify about your experiences of the Lord Jesus Christ. People like to take a narrow view of this Scripture: “[KJV] 1 Peter 3:15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:” this Scripture does not say that you have too actually wait until you are asked before you give a reason for the hope that is in you. Unfortunately I can see a day looming on the horizon when it will be a chargeable offence to attempt to try make a proselyte of somebody without being given an invitation to do so. That will end up with the gospel being less spread than it already is.

Remember that each of us is to be filled with the holy spirit and so become people who testify of the news of the Lord Jesus Christ in all times and places. So be like the apostle Paul be always ready to cheerfully answer for yourself and testify about the power and the fact of the Lord Jesus Christ in your life.

[KJV] Romans 12:8 Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.

This is the next circumstance in which we are to show cheerfulness. Whenever you show mercy or forgiveness of somebody you ought to show this with cheerfulness. Forgiveness and mercy are to be offered cheerfully, freely, happily and completely. The reason for this is because our heavenly Father has cheerfully, without reservations, forgiven us for the sake of his son our Lord Jesus Christ. When we show mercy, kindness or forgiveness to somebody it is on the grounds that we who have been forgiven so much through no deserving qualities of our own, can freely, completely and cheerfully show that same forgiveness and mercy to others. To cheerfully show mercy to somebody is the liberating secret that will release you to a life of abounding joy and rejoicing. There is a certain freeness and abundance in the concept of cheerfulness. It represents the concept of happy “more than enough.” The abounding joy of a cheerful heart is exceptional medicine. To show mercy, even if it is not particularly deserved, with cheerfulness is to take on the very nature of our Lord Jesus Christ.

[KJV] 2 Corinthians 9:7 Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

This verse says it all – God loves a cheerful giver. If there should be one characteristic of the way in which you give it should be with cheerfulness. An attitude of cheerfulness is offset against having an attitude that gives grudgingly or out of a sense of necessity. The galvanising attitude towards giving is cheerfulness. Our giving is not related to a sense of having to give for whatever the reason nor is it flavoured with a grudging or begrudging attitude. Have you ever seen a wilful child that is made to share with a friend? The creased brow, the out-thrust lip, the drooped head and the aggressive stance all scream out that this child is sharing out of a sense of external compulsion and necessity. There is no free spirit of cheerfulness in this example. We, on the other hand, are to be able to give cheerfully, abundantly, completely and freely not expecting anything in return.

Once again that happy abounding attitude that is able to give out on the grounds that you have been given so much in Jesus Christ. I hope that you pursue these attitudes of cheerfulness with the same enthusiasm that you used to clink your alcoholic beverages and greet your friends with “Cheers.”

Some links you may enjoy:

God is painting our sky: http://youtu.be/8BC6flTOGSk

Link to my video on Cheerfulness: http://youtu.be/kCtOCJcc8QM

Link for my 1^st session on Cheer: http://youtu.be/XznG7pQzR8U

Whatever you do, stay full of cheer and let cheerfulness mark the way you behave.

John Singleton, arguably the most successful mass media advertiser whom Australia has ever produced, starts out in his book “mass media advertising is the poor man’s door-to-door salesmen.” Now John Singleton was the first Australian to sell an Australian company, his huge advertising agency, to overseas interests and then get himself employed as a CEO of that American owned agency. He admits that personal face-to-face advertising is the most effective & productive method of gaining “new customers.” Now, it’s obvious that I Lord Jesus Christ understands this principle perfectly well. He commissioned his gospel to be spread by word of mouth face-to-face. There is no better way than the Bible way. The trouble is that one “good idea” leads the way to another “good idea.” The idea is that we as people come up with are not necessarily good ideas.

Take the idea of trying to reach the maximum number of people for the “sake of the Lord Jesus Christ” by the most effective modern-day methods. You could easily end up by following the dictates of modern marketing. This will lead to the concept that you need to be acceptable within the target range of your advertising dollar. And where does this lead? Modern marketing will tell you that the age group between 18 and 29 years old tend to follow modern Buddhist principles. While I don’t want to go into this subject here, this line of thought will lead you to attempt to tailor the message that you wish to market into a format that will be acceptable. This will lead you to accentuate the positives and hide the negatives. The first D is such an advertising campaign or philosophy will be the death of HELL. TO LEAD THE SUBJECT OF HELL OUT OF THE MESSAGE OF THE CHURCH IS BLATANT DECEIT.

If the peoples of this world have any rights at all, surely it is the right to hear the truth. There can be no freedom without truth. The father of all lies is the devil. He has been cast out. I, for one, have no wish to join him. Now that I am a Christian I should be committed to telling the truth no matter what the cost. The best way to promote and market the Lord Jesus Christ is to tell the truth about the gospel. The whole truth and nothing but the truth – our whole justice system is built on this principle. Eternal matters are far more important than the affairs of this world. This world is destined to vanish away, but the eternal matters are everlasting.

I am attempting to keep these blogs short. Until next time, a fellow servant of the Lord Jesus, I will keep praying and rejoicing, Dan.

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For many years now the publishing of the holy Bible has fallen into commercial hands. There is nothing new in this, in fact, when the first Revision of the King James Bible in the 1880s was to be published there were arguments and copyright battles over the rights of the American edition. The trade in Bibles is a multi-billion-dollar industry.

So what does “Settings of the King James Bible” actually mean? Bible publishers are found to be cavalier and casual in their attention to detail and accuracy when it comes to the actual printing of the material contained in the holy Bible. This is quite apart from deliberately misleading and changing the words of the Bible between editions.

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The printing of the holy Bible is entrenched in commercial hands. It is big business. I personally believe that the King James Bible is the word of God in English. Whoever is the publisher of the Bible, they should take particular care to make sure that the settings are accurate and without flaws.

Type is not set in the same way that it used to be. Once a mistake is made it is very easily replicated over and over again. I am sure that we have all read books which have “setting” mistakes within them. We can often see these types of mistakes when we haven’t written the material ourselves. Sometimes, in our own writing, we brush these embarrassing mistakes off as “typos.” Anybody who has ever published anything has had problems with these “settings” or typological mistakes. We don’t pick up these mistakes in our own material and we don’t pick them up when we believe and trust the material that we are reading. Even so, these mistakes are there and even if they don’t change our perception they can change the perception of other people reading them. We should be able to buy a King James Bible free of careless mistakes in the setting of the printed type.

Most of us will read a Bible, especially King James Bible, with the implicit understanding that the text that we are reading is correct.

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Settings of the King James Bible

When it comes to English Bibles, small changes in Anglo-Saxon words have the power to change your perception and understanding of the word of God. I’ll show you an example of this by carefully comparing the same Bible verse from two different Bible translations in the English language. The two versions that I’ll choose are the King James Bible & the Revised Bible. You have to be careful when referencing Bibles that are called revised. There are several Bibles with the name revise or revised in their title. We want to look at the Revised Bible. The reason for this is because this Bible was the first major English revision of the King James Bible, and it starts a deliberate trend to hide the real word of God from us, the English-speaking people.  

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Here is a brief summary of the revised version: The Revised Version (or English Revised Version) of the Bible is a late 19th-century British revision of the King James Version of 1611. The work was begun in 1879. The New Testament was published in 1881, the Old Testament in 1885, and the Apocrypha in 1894. It is the only officially authorized and recognized revision of the KJV. There were over 50 “scholars” from various denominations on the team. American “scholars” participated by correspondence. The revisers were charged with introducing alterations only if they were required in order to be faithful to the original text. In the New Testament alone, there are more than 30,000 changes made, over five thousand of them based on a new “so-called” better Greek text. I can assure you that they did not stay faithful to the charge that they were given. Brooke Foss Westcott and Fenton John Anthony Hort were the best known of the translation committee members; their fiercest critic of that period was John William Burgon. Hort & Wescott introduced reference documents that were never considered part of the original text at any time in previous church history. Most of the changes are as a result of using these corrupt manuscripts. Hort & Wescott have very detailed profiles that show that they were anything but godly. Burgon strongly opposed this English revision and forcibly argued that the result was not the word of God. This revised version also opens the way for publishers to become extremely protective of their copyright entitlements.

We are going to look at just two parallel versus:

(Heb 1:1 RV) God, having of old time spoken unto the fathers in the prophets by divers portions and in divers manners,

(Heb 1:1 KJV) God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,

The first thing you notice is that the word order and the structure of the sentences are changed. You have to look carefully at them to spot differences. This is not just a matter of using different definitions. The changes between the two will alter your perception about the word of God.

Let us look at two small words “in” & “by.” In the way that the mind Works, these two small Anglo-Saxon words will change your perception of the word of God, unless you are well informed. By saying that the word of God or rather, what God spoke, is “by” the prophets, you imply that what the prophets spoke is the word of God. By saying that the word of God or rather, what God spoke, is “in” the prophets, you imply that what the prophets spoke contains the word of God.

If you believe beyond all reasonable doubts that the Bible is the word of God, then trusting it to reveal God’s words to you is simple. If you believe that the Bible only contains the word of God then you need some sort of reference to show you clearly (I had a split infinitive here “to clearly show you” but I decided to change it) just what is the word of God and what is merely the reports of mankind. By using the simple word in the phrase “in the prophets” you entrench your perception that the Bible, as we know it, only contains the word of God and therefore its meanings are up for change and debate. This implies that you need someone with specialist knowledge to interpret whatever God might have said.

I’m sure that you can see the problems here. By using the word “in” you are now at odds with the word “all.”

(2Ti 3:16 KJV) All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

We would then have to do know what the word “Scripture” means. Is the whole of our Bible the Scripture or is only part of our Bible the Scripture? In other words, if the Bible that we are reading only contains Scripture but is not totally Scripture, then who is qualified to make these distinctions?

I believe that the King James Bible is the word of God in English. This English word of God can be traced all the way back to the day of Pentecost when travellers from Britain heard the gospel in their own native language and brought it back to Britain as the word of God.

(Act 2:8 KJV) And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?

I think that it is wonderful that every vernacular Bible up to & until the work on the Revised Bible all agree with one another. Once the Revised Bible was published the way was open for all the vernacular Bibles in the languages of the world to be polluted and changed into something that only contained the word of God and certainly was not the word of God. I think that Revised Edition translation committee has a lot to answer for.

I have endeavoured to keep this Post short. I would welcome any comments or questions & I have posted this through several different blogs and social networks sites. When you develop a love for the word of God you will have access to something that is far more than just another resource for living.

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My physiotherapist said I did things in my mind first – well she is not saved & sits in spiritual darkness, but she is correct to assume this as this is how it appears. I do things through Christ Jesus in my spirit first and then I just flow on in this.
Be fashioned by the word of God and not by humanist thinking.

The Background:

The following corrects Marslow and his
Existentialism - ACTUALIZING people, as he called them, have the following characteristics that were so popular & circulating around in the 1960′s. He moved past the old ways of sorting people out and came out with observations that floated these sorts of ideas. Of course, he got these ideas, in the first place, by observing monkeys and he assumes that humans come from monkeys.

I was living between Bowral & Mittagong with Henry Gallus. Henry has now been called home to heaven by our Lord Jesus Christ. Henry & I were working our way through the book of Hebrews, using Andrew Murray as a sounding board. Henry used to bring fresh meat home from the butcher’s shop. One day, as we prepared our stew pot, I noticed that the newspaper that the butcher had wrapped the meat in had an article in it about Existentialism and Marslow. Henry & I chuckled at the notion of “strong meat” of the word of God as opposed to “milk” of the word of God. I was intrigued by all this humanism. I had not, in those days, connected the dots between today’s mental health solutions, the revised English bible and evolution. I knew that I did not care for the notion of evolution as it denied the word of God. So, here, in this newsprint fragment, was an explanation of human behaviour that excludes the need for a relationship with God. I looked at it very carefully. The article lists the qualities that a modern fully balanced superior person actually processes. I don’t have the actual newspaper clipping, but I do have my original hand written notes in pen & ink and not biro tucked away somewhere. And, yes, the newspaper used the term “superior person.”.

I took this list, there were 10 points in the newspaper, but there are actually more qualities listed as part of this Existentialist list of superior qualities. It’s all very humanistic, no need for God at all. I have taken them and put them in a scriptural context showing that we born again people are moving towards the type of humanity that God the Father intended for those he created in his image. This is only possible through the blood & life of the Lamb of God.

Anyway I hope that you are blessed by this list. Instead of “superior” I use the term “extra ordinary”

Extra-Ordinary People

A portrait of the type of person Jesus Christ will turn us into if we let Him.

Superior person or extra ordinary person in the sense of above natural thinking, practice & the world

[KJV] ROM 8:7 – 9

[Romans 8:7] Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. [Romans 8:8] So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. [Romans 8:9] But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

[KJV] 1 Corinthians 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

The “humanists” invent nothing.

Once again the “humanists” like the “evolutionists” invent nothing but in their rush to dent God they put their own “humanistic interpretation on what they observe.”

These qualities belong to the spirit filled saint whose mind in renewed by the word of God.

Qualities of an Extra-Ordinary Person

Sons of God with love, power & sound mind

[KJV] [2TI 1:7] For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

Extra- Ordinary Saints; believers in & followers of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Outside the normal ordinary attributes!

Saints who have the following characteristics:

A – Superior perception of reality

You can differentiate what is fake and dishonest from what is real and genuine. This reality is beyond the normal senses.

Discernment – Natural & Spiritual

discern v. 1 perceive clearly with the mind or senses. 2 make out with effort.  discernible adj.

discerning adj. having good judgement. discerningly adv. discernment n

[KJV] Hebrews 5:14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

[KJV] [LUK 12:56] Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time?

[KJV] [1CO 2:14] But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

[KJV] [1CO 11:29] For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body.

[KJV] [1CO 12:10] To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:

[KJV] [HEB 4:12] For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

[KJV] [HEB 4:14] Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.

You “see” & rely on these realities:

My redeemer is God & He is living in me in the power of an endless life

[KJV] [PSA 78:35] And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.

You are an heir of God

[KJV] [ROM 8:17] And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

All power in heaven & earth is given to the one who lives in me

[KJV] [MAT 28:18] And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.

Eternal Life is real.

This is force that drives you

[KJV] [1JO 5:11] And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

B – Increased acceptance of self, of others.

You have a quality that is more likely to take saints as they are than try to change them into what you think they should be –

This same acceptance is applied to your attitudes towards yourself:

If some quality of yours isn’t harmful, you let it be, even enjoying it as a personal quirk.

[KJV] 2CO 12:14 – 13:1

[2 Corinthians 12:14] Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children. [2 Corinthians 12:15] And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved. [2 Corinthians 12:16] But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile. [2 Corinthians 12:17] Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you? [2 Corinthians 12:18] I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? walked we not in the same steps? [2 Corinthians 12:19] Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying. [2 Corinthians 12:20] For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults: [2 Corinthians 12:21] And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed. [2 Corinthians 13:1] This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.

You are not a moaner or grumbler.

You know all thing work for good to them love God & are called according to his purpose.

You know the meaning of “Good Cheer.”

You have the ability to change.

You know the power of your mouth.

C – Spontaneity Increased

Increased spontaneity and simplicity:

You prefer being yourself rather than being pretentious or artificial

Christ writes his law of liberty on your heart – so you can be spontaneous!

You can move & flow in the Holy Spirit!

You live from within!

[KJV] JOH 14:20 – 21

[JOH 14:20] At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.

[JOH 14:21] He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

You know the power of the indwelling life!

You can trust spontaneous action – you are sure of the position of abiding in Christ & this brings an increased spontaneity of action – you cry laugh & respond freely & easily – the life comes from the river within – it is not good manners it’s life.

D – Task-orientation, not self-centeredness

Increase in problem-centring – stronger focus on problems outside of yourself

You are problem-centred

Meaning you treat life’s difficulties as problems demanding solutions, not as personal troubles to be railed at or surrendered to.

E – Desire for privacy

Increased detachment and desire for privacy

You have had a need for privacy, and are comfortable being alone

[KJV] [MAR 1:35] And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.

You are complete in Jesus Christ.

You love people but you are part of the answer not part of the problem

You know that solitude is an asset.

F – Increased autonomy

Sense of independence and autonomy

Independence of culture and environment

You are relatively independent of culture and environment, relying instead on your own experiences and judgments.

You have the ability to depend only on God & not on man & natural thinking

You look to God & you follow Christ Jesus.

G – A vivid and fresh appreciation of reality

A certain freshness of appreciation, an ability to see things, even ordinary things, with wonder

Vivid religious experiences

Higher frequency of peak experiences

A peak experience is one that takes you out of yourself, that makes you feel very tiny, or very large, to some extent one with life or nature or God

It gives you a feeling of being a part of the infinite and the eternal.

These experiences tend to leave their mark on a person, change them for the better

Mountain top experiences –

Often moved by the Spirit –

Like Paul who had times, left for dead, in the deep – jail – 7th heaven etc –

Beyond the mundane –

Living in the power of an endless life

H – Increased identity with humanity

Increased identity with humanity; identification with the human species

You have the ability to understand the human spirit – know your fellow man – know the spirit of a man – understand meetings (the flow of them & know people

I – Greater Freshness & Richness of Emotional Reactions

You enjoy intimate emotional relationships with people

Greater freshness of appreciation and richness of emotional reaction & experiences

You enjoy intimate personal relations & improved interpersonal relations – display brotherly love, compassion or philanthropy Intimate emotional relationships — social interest, compassion, humanity & hostpitality.

You have the ability to feel deeply & have a freshness about it

You can laugh, weep, joy, sorrow, peace or grief

The Holy Spirit can manifest himself in you, do with you what he will because you yield to the spirit

This brings you to improved interpersonal relationships

Deepening friendships -

That I might know him & the fellowship of his sufferings – greater oneness & unity – able to bear burdens – Paul longed after brethren with bowls of mercies

J – Democratic values and attitudes

A more democratic character structure – Democratic values and attitudes

This means that you are open to ethnic and individual variety, even treasuring it.

Ability to meet & greet all planes & types of people

Preach & minister to any – children / adults / rich / poor – people from all walks of life

K – Increased Creativity

Creativity – Greatly increased creativeness; your ability to be creative, inventive, and original

You have the ability to create ideas –

You are ready for inspiration & revelation –

You know that the abiding word of God creates – confessing the word knowing that the creator is your redeemer who brings to nought the things that are & creates what otherwise could not be

L – Own Highly Individual System of values

This drives you – like Paul you walk a path that is beyond what you expect from others – Jesus Christ’s value system was to do only the will of the Father

No confusion of means and ends

You have a different perception of means and ends. You feel that the ends don’t necessarily justify the means, that the means could be ends themselves, and that the means — the journey — is often more important than the end – because you can’t get to the end without taking the journey

You can see the value of the journey –

Recovery road – Christianity explained – Open house.

A sense of humour that is philosophical, not hostile –

You have an un-hostile sense of humour — preferring to joke at your own expense, or at the human condition, rather than directing your humour at others

M – Resistance to Conformity & Enculturation

Resistance to conformity & to cultural conformity; resistance to enculturation. And they resisted enculturation, that is, they were not susceptible to social pressure — they were, in fact, nonconformists in the best sense of the word.

Resist someone forcing on you what could be called “stuff” – culture or personal value systems

Just like the Jews tried on the Gentile Christians – you can tell the difference between this type of enculturation & real revelation

You have the ability to maintain your God given identity regardless of the company you are in

A transcendence of the environment rather than just coping.

You make a change by just being!

You are an over-comer

In many ways you are vulnerable

You can often suffer considerable anxiety and guilt — but realistic anxiety and guilt, rather than misplaced or neurotic versions.

You can be absentminded and overly kind.

You can be tough or hard when you have to be.

You can have moments of ruthlessness, surgical coldness, and loss of humour.

You have these following qualities

Truth – rather than dishonesty

Goodness – rather than evil

Beauty – not ugliness or vulgarity

Unity, wholeness, and transcendence of opposites – not arbitrariness or forced choices

Aliveness – not deadness or the mechanization of life

Uniqueness – not bland uniformity

Perfection and necessity – not sloppiness, inconsistency, or accident

Completion – rather than incompleteness

Justice and order – not injustice and lawlessness

Simplicity – not unnecessary complexity

Richness – not environmental impoverishment

Effortlessness – not strain

Playfulness – not grim or humourless drudgery

Self-sufficiency – not dependency

Meaningfulness – rather than senselessness

You have the following characteristics:

1.    Superior perception of reality

2.    Acceptance of self and others

3.    Spontaneity

4.    Desire for privacy

5.    Sense of independence and autonomy

6.    A vivid and fresh appreciation of reality

7.    Task-orientation, not self-centeredness

8.    Vivid religious experiences

9.    Increased identity with humanity

10.    Intimate emotional relationships with people

11.    Democratic values and attitudes

12.    No confusion of means and ends

13.    A sense of humour that is philosophical, not hostile

14.    Creativity

15.    Resistance to conformity

16. A transcendence of the environment, rather than just coping.

17. Own Highly Individual System of values

These saints are Individuals

1. They avoid publicity, fame, glory, honours, popularity, celebrity, or at least they do not seek it for its own sake. It is not terribly important one way or another.

2. They do not need to be loved by everyone.

3. They generally pick out their own causes, which are apt to be few in number, rather than responding to advertising or to campaigns or to other people’s exhortations.

4. Their fighting is not an excuse for hostility, paranoia, grandiosity, authority, rebellion, etc., but is for the sake of getting things right. It is problem-centred.

5. They manage somehow simultaneously to love the world as it is and to try to improve it.

6. They respond to the challenge in a job. A chance to improve the situation or the operation is a big reward. They enjoy improving things.

7. They do not need or seek for or even enjoy very much flattery, applause, popularity, status, prestige, money, honours, etc.

8. Expressions of gratitude, or at least of awareness of their good fortune, are common.

9. They tend to be attracted by mystery, unsolved problems, by the unknown, and the challenging, rather than to be frightened by them.

10. They enjoy bringing about law and order in the chaotic situation, or in the messy or confused situation, or in the dirty and unclean situation.

11. They try to free themselves from illusions, to look at the facts courageously, to take away the blindfold.

12. They feel it is a pity for talent to be wasted.

13.    They tend to feel that every person should have an opportunity to develop to his or her highest potential, to have a fair chance, to have equal opportunity.

14. They like doing things well, doing a good job, to do well what needs doing. Many such phrases add up to bringing about good workmanship.

15. They get great pleasure from knowing admirable people (courageous, honest, effective, straight, big, creative, saintly, etc.)

16. They enjoy taking on responsibilities (that they can handle well) and certainly don’t fear or evade their responsibilities. They respond to responsibility.

17. They uniformly consider their work to be worthwhile, important, and even essential.

18. They enjoy greater efficiency, making an operation more neat, compact, simpler, faster, less expensive, turning out a better product, doing with less parts, a smaller number of operations, less clumsiness, less effort, more foolproof, safer, more elegant, less laborious.

The above is a portrait of someone who is patiently awaiting the Lord Jesus.

These qualities are only possible because you are a new creature and all things have become new.

[KJV] 2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

[KJV] Galatians 6:15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.

Daniel Wooldridge from thoughts spanning from 1964 to 2011

Here is what you asked for – it is the account of my wonderful experience with your brother Geoffrey in 1963 – 4. I was a constant visitor at your home in Narromine. Your mum (Pam) was so very kind to me. I hope that you, family & friends like it.

Geoffrey 1963 – 4

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I arrived in Narromine in late 1963 or early 1964. I had hitchhiked all away from Mittagong, through the Blue Mountains and along the great Western Highway to Dubbo. I then hitchhiked down the Narromine Road that leads into western New South Wales. At every ride that I got I witnessed about the power the Lord Jesus to save, I remember that I was received very well and at least two of the drivers gave me money to help me on my way. The last lift dropped me in the main street in Narromine which was exceptionally wide with trees growing up the centre of it. The driver was a cowboy pulling horse float he wanted me to go all the way to Broken Hill because he said that the gospel was very much needed out there. I didn’t continue with him but I will always remember his invitation. I did not know where to go but I did know that Bruce Kerr was in the town. I eventually found him. His landlady didn’t believe that I was in the will of God in coming to Narromine. Somebody else had actually been asked to go but I said I was going. Bruce’s landlady was determined to remove herself from me and also Bruce. Bruce lost his lodgings so that left it to us to go down the stock route in his combi van and camp down by the river. We slept outside on the ground and in the morning we woke up surrounded by sheep as far as we could see. We both felt that this was a prophetic sign that there were many souls to be saved in the town. I have a photograph of us at that camp on the first day.

I eventually got to meet the Richards family. I can remember the street that they lived in, it was parallel to the main street on the Trangie side of town and nearly at the end of the street. Mrs Richards was very warm and welcoming. I spent some time living with Bruce in a caravan parked near the Sollaces’ place. I had a great time with Bruce. On one journey we wrote “I’m just a branch.” Bruce played a Ukulele & I think that I was playing a slide guitar. We sang, prayed and preached. It was soon Easter and we travelled down to Bowral for an Easter convention. At this convention Bruce decided not to return to Narromine and indeed the oversight of the church decided that it wasn’t the right time to go to Narromine. I believed that it was the right time for me to be in Narromine so I returned on my own without any backing from any church or church leadership at all. I rented a very old house, the rent must have been zero, and the Richards house of became like a second home. I was living next door to young Betty Sollars who is now Betty Camac. The one thing, about the Richards home, that I really do remember was their wood stove and how when you open firebox door you can cook the most delicious toast imaginable. Needless say I had many a slice of toast at the Richard household. I got to know the kids very well. They were a young and happy family. Geoffrey was their little boy, not yet at school and he and I became great mates. I loved him and, I believe, that he loved me.

I held meetings in the CWA Hall. We broke bread every Sunday morning and I collected to children for a Sunday school in the work Ute, and if I couldn’t get that, I hired a taxi to go and get them. It was a great time, people were saved & I baptised them in the river. I was told that you could not run a church without a car, but i did. As far as I was concerned, God was moving. The Richard kids got saved and filled with the Holy Spirit. We all used talk in tongues together as we toasted bread at the stove in the kitchen.

This is a story about Geoffrey and a certain dream that he had regularly. In this dream he would see a large black hand. The palm of a black hand was facing towards him sort of like a stop sign when you put your hand out fingers in the air palm towards someone to indicate that you wanted them to stop. I always used to ask Geoffrey what the dream meant. Geoffrey always said that the dream meant that the Black Hand stood for the sins of the whole world. Every time he had the dream he would come and tell me about it and I would ask him what the dream meant and he would tell me that the Black Hand stood for the sins of the whole world.

One day, and I’m almost certain it was at the Richards’ house; Geoffrey came to tell me that he had had the dream again. He said “I saw a big black hand in front of me.” I asked him, “Geoffrey what does the Black Hand stand for?” he said, “It’s the sins of the whole world.” In my mind’s eye I see myself sitting down and Geoffrey standing in front of me. His little head is hung down and his shoulders are slumped. This time I felt that the answer would be different somehow. So I asked again “Geoffrey what does the big black hand stand for?” There was a long silence as Geoffrey, his head hung down, just stands there. Gradually he lifts up his head to look at me. His little lips are trembling and huge fat tears are leaking from his round eyes and roll down his little cheeks. He starts to speak through the sobs “it’s my sins, It’s all my sins” he mumbles. I can see them even today, splashing down. To tell the truth the memory still gives me goose bumps. I either knelt down with him or scooped him up in my arms on my lap. “Yes, Geoffrey” I said, “it is your sin but the Lord Jesus gave you this dream so that he could show you how to understand it because he wants you to ask him to forgive you and to come to live in your heart. Would you like that?” He said that he would like that to happen and so we prayed and he asked the Lord Jesus to come into his heart. The tears turned to smiles and do you know that he never had that dream again.

Later, after I had left Narromine, the Father gave permission to his son the Lord Jesus to call Geoffrey home to heaven. It must have been so sad for all his family and years after, when I heard about this, I was stricken but heartened that this little boy knew who Jesus is and what he has done and what the Father expected him to do about this news. Geoffrey is one of the crowd of witnesses that have been cheering me on to live for my LORD JESUS CHRIST with all my heart, mind & strength. I can see him standing on the ramparts of heaven. On that great day when the Father sends back His son to collect us, Geoffrey will be among that number riding a very different cloud & I shall rise to meet them in the air.

I hope that you are ready to meet Geoffrey on that day. You have to do what Geoffrey did. He knew that he had sinned and he knew that there was forgiveness for him but he had to ask the Lord Jesus into his heart. He had to have a bad conscience about his sins and want peace with God. Be like Geoffrey and let the Son of God come to you and restore you to the Father’s side.

Daniel Wooldridge recalling events from 1963/64

[KJV] Hebrews 12:1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

[KJV] Job 22:13 And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?

[KJV] Acts 1:11 Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.

[KJV] Jude 1:14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,

[KJV] Matthew 25:30 And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

~The Incomparable Christ

[KJV] Colossians 1:13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:

[KJV] 2 Samuel 22:29 For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.

[KJV] Isaiah 42:7 To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.

~Jesus Is the Light of the World

[KJV] John 8:12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

Postscript:

I really enjoyed my time serving my Lord Jesus Christ in Narromine. I have a few other stories of that time of Jesus & me. Sometime after this Bruce married Rosie and he was asked to start the Full Gospel Church in Narromine. He had a new house built. Bruce felt that he could not be really effective if I was in town. I was asked to move on, which I did. I moved to Orange for a while were the adventure in the Lord Jesus continued.

All these many years later, 2010, I start crosslife virtual church fellowship and find Trish Richards (well not Richards now) at 54 and a grandmother, still living for her Lord Jesus. Who tell the way and adventure of the LORD JESUS CHRIST?

Dan Wooldridge

danw@crosslifechurches.org

20/12/2010

[KJV] Genesis 1:27  So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

As soon as God created us, he starts to talk to us.

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[KJV] Genesis 1:28  And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

Language is the means of God’s communication and fellowship with us. God is the father of truth, and so, when he fellowships with us, he speaks the stream of holy true. Satan, the devil, the slimy one, used to communicate with God and knew the language of God. Satan is the father of lies.

[KJV] John 8:44  Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

Revelation 3:8: I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.

Do You Want To Be Someone Who Has Not Denied His Name?

We are here, He knows our works, and the door is open which no mere man can shut. We can walk through this door, even if we are weak. Weak, you say, what about the hearts of some worshipers today? Hear the roar of worship today but mixed with a thirst for power & worldly prosperity. It is a bit like the howl of the shout in the camp:  

[KJV] 1 Samuel 4:5  And when the ark of the covenant of the LORD came into the camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth rang again.

This turned out to be a false shout as they got trounced in the next battle. Even if there is true anointing in a gathering it is not necessarily able to change the heart of an anointed worshiper:

[KJV] 1 Samuel 19:23  And he went thither to Naioth in Ramah: and the Spirit of God was upon him also, and he went on, and prophesied, until he came to Naioth in Ramah.

[KJV] 1 Samuel 19:24  And he stripped off his clothes also, and prophesied before Samuel in like manner, and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Wherefore they say, Is Saul also among the prophets?

All this prophesying did not change the heart of Saul. Even in te New Testament we find a whole church moving in the power & flow of the gifts of the Holy Spirit but this does not make them mature. In fact, they were carnal and acted like babes in Christ Jesus, squabbling and backbiting, following earthly lusts. The Corinthian church may have not come behind in spiritual gifts but they were not walking in true holiness.

[KJV] 1 Corinthians 1:7  So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:

[KJV] 1 Corinthians 1:10  Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

It is something to consider. Anointed worship & your part in it, although invigorating & stirring at the time, may leave you as cold to the obedience of the living word as you were before you entered into the meeting.

So the devil is always a liar, and his language is always a stream of unholy lies, sometimes mixed with bits of truth. And so, we humans constantly receive two streams of communication, two streams of language into our consciousness. One stream of communication comes from our heavenly Father and is a stream of holy true. The other stream of communication comes from our arch enemy, the devil, and is a stream of unholy lies. Our heavenly Father can never tell a lie to us, our arch enemy, the devil, can never tell a truth to us. The one only speaks holy true to us, the other one only speaks unholy lies to us.

There are two streams of communication, one is always holy and the other is always unholy. God the Father’s communication is always transparent and clearly true. Satan’s communication is often more like a alphabet soup, mainly lies but disguised with samples of truth to bring confusion and high doubts about the word of God. The devil tries to hide his true identity. God the Father gives us the discernment to be able to sift the truth from the lies, the truth from the untruths and the holy from the unholy.

So these two streams are flowing towards us, the one is light, bright and crystal clear, the other is sludgy, dank and black. One stream is holy and the other stream is unholy.

If the devil’s communication was pure lies it would be startlingly obvious and we could spot the lie immediately. So the Devils communication always lies hidden deceitfully within a form of truth. Don’t forget that he is the master deceiver because liars are deceivers. The devil deals in deception. Eve was deceived by the disguised lie of the devil.

[KJV] 1 Timothy 2:14  And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.

Do not underestimate the power of deception.

[KJV] Romans 7:11  For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.

Satan has the power to deceive us unless we discern his evil and resist the temptation.

So these two streams of communication flow through our mind from the spiritual world. In the natural world these two forms of communication are best recognised into tangible forms, Holy Bibles and unholy Bibles. Remember that an unholy Bible is going to be a subtle mixture of part truth disguising the entrance of lies.

So we have Holy Bibles and we have unholy Bibles. This next section is going to be plundered and plucked from Gail Riplinger’s excellent article from her website: http://is.gd/iDPOH

And so, to go back to our original question, “Do you have a holy or an unholy Bible?”

What is the holy Bible?

Well it’s more accurate to say “which is the holy Bible?” In the English language our holy Bible is the King James Version. This Bible is inspired and preserved as the living word of God by God himself.

[KJV] [Psalms 12:6]  The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.

 [KJV] [Psalms 12:7]  Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.

 [KJV] [2 Timothy 3:16]  All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

This is because all the English translations of the English Bible up to & including 1611 came from holy & trusted sources.

What are unholy Bibles?

Unholy Bibles in the English language are every English translation of the Bible that has been done since around 1880. This is because the source documents used in making these new translations come from an unholy source.

What about these two streams of source documents. One stream is holy and the other stream is unholy. We should not be surprised at this; it is the natural course of events that all communication coming from the spiritual world should have a holy source and an unholy source. God has given us the gift of discernment to be able to tell the difference if only we hunger and long to do his will.

[KJV] John 7:17  If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.

[KJV] 1 John 2:27  But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.

So these holy and unholy source documents, where did they come from?

Gail Riplinger – The following is a short description of the history and fruit of these two streams of “holy” and “unholy” Bibles, ending with a checklist you can use to determine whether you have a “holy” or “unholy” Bible in your hands. This is surely the most important issue confronting the body of Christ before Jesus Christ comes back. He has warned us in 2 Timothy 4:3-4 as to what the choice of most will be. What will you choose? Will you uphold Truth with the minority of Christians or follow the majority of the Body of Christ into falsehood? Quoted from Gail Riplinger http://is.gd/iDPOH

When I quote Gail, I expand the verses for you & add a few comments.

[KJV]   2TI 4:3 – 4

[2TI 4:3] For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;  [2TI 4:4] And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. 

Don’t you like the sound of these phrases?

“Will not endure sound doctrine”  I know someone whom I’ve known since they were a child who has said that doctrine is no longer important.  After all, doctrine will divide the whole church and we want to stand for unity at any price.

“after their own lusts” Unfortunately we have been led to think of lusts as sexual, so we discount the possibility our involvement in this. In this case “lusts” infer our strong desires or inclinations. In other words, our own strong opinions and acts that discount being subject to the word of God.

“heap to themselves teachers” Heap? Yes heap, pile upon pile of false teachers. There are plenty of them; unfortunately there are piles of them everywhere. Even in New Testament times there were 10,000 instructors but few fathers. (teachers in the New Testament were called by God and the term implied a vocation not the humanist collection that we find today) What the ratio of instructors to fathers is today is anybody’s guess, one thing is certain is that is is worse today.

[KJV] 1 Corinthians 4:15  For though ye have ten thousand instructers in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

“Having itching ears” Not itching for the truth that’s for sure. Their ears itch continually for every wind of doctrine and the so-called convenient truth.  Total freedom is the call of the day, definitely no legalism here. Their ears are fine tuned to pick the instructors that they want & need to continue in their own lifestyle.

“turn away their ears from the truth” These people deliberately turn their ears away from the truth. It’s a sort audio turning of a blind eye. At least Nelson was noble when he put the spyglass to his blind eye.

[KJV] Acts 17:11  These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

I’m afraid there is nothing noble (in the spiritual sense) about this lot.

“shall be turned unto fables” Watch out you lot. You start the slide and another force turns you to fables. No, these are not story book fables; these fables are toxic and as they flood the heart they will make a shipwreck of the real true faith!

[KJV] 1 Timothy 1:19  Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:

That’s the trouble their good conscience gets destroyed and they end up on the rocks without having the sense to realise that they have crash-landed. Who, on earth, would want to be counted among their number?

So what sort of Bible will you be using? Will you be using a holy Bible or an unholy bible? I know at least one person who has thrown all of her unholy Bibles into the rubbish bin where they belong, because I’m led to believe that one of the source documents used for the unholy Bibles was found in a rubbish bin.

Mind you, a friend of mine who is a “sort of Calvinist” disagrees with me. He is part of a group of huge fast growing churches in the USA. I say, sort of Calvinist, because they accept election of the names of those to be saved & the election of the names of those to be damned. However, they seem not to be part of Calvin & the Geneva logic. Anyway he tells me that the story of the rubbish bin is a lie. He exclaims, “The manuscript was not found in a rubbish bin!”. I simply said “Oh well have it your way but the other manuscript was held among the Roman Catholic Secret Archives until they deemed, after 1000 odd years, to release it to some corrupt necromancers to start a stream of polluted unholy bibles. “No answer” came the bold reply. The unholy bibles need putting in the rubbish bin as they contain “some truths” but mixed with toxic waste.

Gail Riplinger – It was the first created being, Satan, who questioned what God said: ”Yea, hath God said?” Apostasy, sin and death started with questioning God’s words, subtracting from them, changing them and adding to them. Compare Genesis 3:2-3 with the original command in Genesis 2:16-17. God gives three warnings against this in his word: Deuteronomy 4:2; Proverbs 30:5-6; Revelation 22:18-19. Yet, mankind has been practicing what Jehudi did about 600 B.C. in Jeremiah 36:23-24: destroying God’s words in God’s book and thereby calling God’s judgment on himself, either on families, churches, or whole nations, as exemplified the last 2,500 years in Israel, Greece and Asia Minor, North Africa, Germany, The Netherlands, U.K. and U.S.A.  “Quoted from Gail Riplinger http://is.gd/iDPOH  “

[KJV]   GEN 2:16 – 17

[GEN 2:16] And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:  [GEN 2:17] But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. 

~The Fall of Man

[KJV] Genesis 3:1  Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

Can you spot the lie here? “God has said you can’t eat any of the fruit from any of the trees in the garden” says the serpent. Now, lf the serpent had said “God said you can eat all the fruit from all the trees in the garden,” Eve would have spotted the error and resisted the serpent.

 [KJV]   GEN 3:2 – 3

[GEN 3:2] And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:  [GEN 3:3] But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. 

“Lest ye die” This is not as strong as “thou shalt surely die!”.  This softening is down to Adam as he tells Eve what God has commanded. Adam does not shine very well as the federal head of the human race, which is why God gave him an example in Eve to show him that in future he should stay in subjection to his invisible God seeing as he had a visible example of his wife’s subjection to him. One thing I will say to their credit, they stayed together through thick and thin and loved each other, not separating as is so often seen today when trouble or calamity hits a family.

[KJV] Genesis 3:4  And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

Quick as a flash the serpent picks up this slight change in the shade of meaning and pushing in, expands the gap between truth & error. “Ye (all of you plural – Eve & all her seed) shall not surely die” And so the doorway is open for  full-blown temptations that attack all the senses so that she falls headlong into the trap. So, beware of slight changes to the truth, it’s the last thing that you want. Do you know that you can stop temptation dead in its tracks by being attuned to the slight variances away from God’s truth?

Changing the word of God always brings its own reward.

[KJV] Deuteronomy 4:2  Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.

[KJV]   REV 22:14 – 15

[REV 22:14] Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.  [REV 22:15] For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie. 

How many commands in the New Testament? I’m told that, there are some 1050 commands in the New Testament for Christians to obey. As you walk the new life in the spirit you will obey them without always knowing them since they are written on your heart. It’s when you disobey them that you get a big jolt. If you have any sense or sensibility you will stop dead in your tracks when you get jolted and fix the matter.

 [KJV]   PRO 30:5 – 6

[PRO 30:5] Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.  [PRO 30:6] Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar. 

It is clear that if you change the word of God you will be found a liar.

[KJV]   REV 22:18 – 19

[REV 22:18] For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:  [REV 22:19] And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book. 

I think these two verses are chilling. Look at the story of the penknife (this word is only used once in the King James Bible).

The Penknife Story

[KJV]   JER 36:23 – 24

[JER 36:23] And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth.  [JER 36:24] Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words. 

Some people have no fear of God and no discernment. It makes you wonder, doesn’t it, that they could calmly sit there laughing and chatting around the fire while a penknife was used to cut out the pages of God’s holy word and then they toss those pages into the flames of the fire.

We, as a people, are so stupid that if that original penknife, that was used to cut out those pages, were to be discovered somewhere today, it would fetch millions in the auction houses of this world. How stupid and how crass to continue to use it (a new type of penknife called some types of scholarship) so that man should continue to cut out and remove words or even letters from words from God’s holy Bible. I’m glad I’m not standing in their shoes.  I get “goose bumps” just thinking about it.  By the way, this King is missing from the blood line of our Lord Jesus Christ in Mathew.

I was never any good at modern foreign languages, in fact having a doubtful command of a modern language, in my case French, may have halted my entrance into Oxford College, Oxford University UK, if I had had the chance to complete my British education to go there. I was booked to go and needed two or three “A” levels and sit my Responsions. The “As” were a dongle, I was in the Scholarship Science Sixth (less than 13 boys out of a school of 360 boys– but don’t worry we still had to know the “classics” as well as English literature.

I know just one language, English, but I’m glad to say that I know it very well. I know that God has preserved his word, his pure word, in the English language in the form of the King James Bible. I also know that he has also preserved his pure word in Holy Bibles of other languages that were published pre- 1880s. Why, you may ask, well these pure, preserved holy bibles all used the same set of early document copies of copies going back to New Testament times.

I’m better at dead languages and hopeless at non English languages. Well I learnt Latin with a bit of Greek. I suffered a Greek education at preparatory school where we read those foul, pagan Greek authors.

Actually all language goes back to the Tower of Babel. If you listen carefully there are smatterings of similar words all through all languages. Last night I was talking with A Vietnamese nurse who got out of Vietnam to go to USSR & then via many countries to our sun burnt land of Australia. She said the word “toilet” runs right through all modern languages. If someone learns English as a second language even if they only have a very small command of it, I can easily make myself understood. I listen to them speak. Each language handles the sentence order & syntax differently. So I put my English into the word order that their native tongue IS using. I can tell this because they tend to speak English in the word order of their native tongue.

My next main project for publication will be about the pureness, simplicity, ease and directness of the form of English used within the King James Bible.

Gail Riplinger – God inspired His words (Job 32:8; 33:4; Jer. 36:2-4; 2 Pet.1:20-21) and preserved His words (Psalm 12:7-8; Matt. 24:35). This is not limited to the original writings. Compare Jeremiah 36:1-2 with Jeremiah 36:21-23 as well as Jeremiah 45:1 with Jeremiah 51:63. The third “original” is what the Lord actually gave us to read and study. The first two were destroyed! In addition to this, the Scriptures never refer to themselves as originals: Acts 8:32; 17:11; 2 Timothy 3:15,16.

“Quoted from Gail Riplinger”@ http://is.gd/iDPOH

God inspired His words

 (Job 32:8; 33:4; Jer. 36:2-4; 2 Pet.1:20-21)

[KJV]  [JOB 32:8] But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding. 

What we all need is the inspired word of God NOT just the thoughts of men & women. Jesus said that his words are Spirit & Life:

[KJV] John 6:63  It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

[KJV]  [JOB 33:4] The spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life. 

So we are made (fashioned & formed) to hear His words; in fact our minds are made for the word of God & the word of God is made for our mind. Our brains are created to house our minds made to receive and belief in the living word of God. This is so so cool, as my youngest daughter might say. In fact you start reading the King James Bible through from Geneses to Revelation your mind will gradually be formed to see things from God’s point of view and your grip of English, its use & comprehension, will grow beyond all expectation. After all, the King James Bible had the job of teaching an illiterate nation English. In my experience we have plenty of Australian white males who are all but illiterate. If your English is poor, especially in comprehension, then pick up a King James Bible & start at Genesis, cover 3 chapters odd a day and in a year you won’t know yourself.

DO NOT TAKE AWAY FROM THE WORDS OF THIS BOOK

[KJV] Revelation 22:19  And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

How plain is this! Do you need to be a scholar? Please note is take away of the words of the book. That’s not just changing whole words but changing the letters of words. Of course there are many different words in English to use for the same sort of meaning. If you did this in the King James Bible you would mess up all the literary devices that run through this bible that are pleasant to the ear & are memorable. These are things like rhyme, meter & alliteration. Let me tell you that the literary devices of Shakespeare pale when compared to those used in the King James Bible. I went to a British Public School. Very Protestant, a Church of England College devoted to the highest values of British culture. We did not study godless Shakespeare; we studied the word of God. King Henry the VIII started this school system. If you want to study English literary devices I don’t think you can find a richer source in the English language than the King James Bible. 

But unholy bibles don’t just change words & letters to destroy these beautiful literary masterpieces, no; they change the meaning’s outcome. They downgrade a warning, upgrade earthly living and demote the position of our Lord Jesus Christ. It’s not what I would want to do for all the tea in China as they used to say.

AN EXAMPLE OF DEMOTING THE INSPIRED WORD

[KJV]   JER 36:2 – 4

[JER 36:2] Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day.  [JER 36:3] It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.  [JER 36:4] Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah: and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book. 

The Living Word always speaks to stir our faith to be able to repent if we need to. We need the Living Word more than the earth needs rain.

INSPIRED

[KJV]   2PE 1:20 – 21

[2PE 1:20] Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.  [2PE 1:21] For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. 

Holy men speaking as they were moved by the Holy Ghost – this is how we got the word of God in English the King James Bible. Now this bible is available to all who speak English & if you don’t know English well, this bible will teach you as you read it.

The scriptures are pure -even water retrieved from deep inside very old icebergs are not purer – the scriptures are the purest of the pure. You just can’t get anything that is purer than the Holy Scriptures.

[KJV] [Psalms 12:6]  The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.

Purified seven times is no accident. The King James Bible is the 7th English translation. It was a polishing work that took the earlier 6 English bibles, the true Church fathers (not the Roman Catholic lot that are so favoured today), and many bibles in other languages including ancient documents that we don’t have today, into account to use and compare in order to produce an ageless work that spans time. The King James Bible is the true time traveller. It’s made up, in the main, of our own everyday words (called Anglo Saxon) with hard to understand words explained within its own text. How neat & tidy is that?

SETTLED FOR EVER

[KJV] [Psalms 119:89]  For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.

[KJV] [Matthew 24:35]  Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

[KJV] [Psalms 19:7]  The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.

Forever settled, unable to pass away, perfect & sure. How about that? His true word will not change. You & I can surely trust this holy word of God. Aren’t you glad about that?

And preserved His words

(Psalm 12:7-8; Matt. 24:35).

[KJV]   PSA 12:7 – 8

[PSA 12:7] Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever. 

[PSA 12:8] The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted. 

God has to preserve his word because the wicked can’t stand His word & will destroy His word by the truck load or failing that, destroy his word letter by letter and Word by Word.

[KJV]  [MAT 24:35] Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. 

His word will never be destroyed from this planet but you, don’t you let his word be destroyed from your heart or mind.

Gail Riplinger – This is not limited to the original writings. Compare

 Jeremiah 36:1-2 with Jeremiah 36:21-23 as well as Jeremiah 45:1 with Jeremiah 51:63.

Quoted from Gail Riplinger http://is.gd/iDPOH “

[KJV]   JER 36:1 – 2

[JER 36:1] And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that this word came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,  [JER 36:2] Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day. 

[KJV]   JER 36:21 – 23

[JER 36:21] So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll: and he took it out of Elishama the scribe’s chamber. And Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes which stood beside the king.  [JER 36:22] Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.  [JER 36:23] And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth.

[KJV]  [JER 45:1] The word that Jeremiah the prophet spake unto Baruch the son of Neriah, when he had written these words in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying, 

[KJV]  [JER 51:63] And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates: 

Gail Riplinger – The third “original” is what the Lord actually gave us to read and study. The first two were destroyed! In addition to this, the Scriptures never refer to themselves as originals: Acts 8:32; 17:11; 2 Timothy 3:15,16.

Quoted from Gail Riplinger http://is.gd/iDPOH “

[KJV]  [ACT 8:32] The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth: 

[KJV]  [ACT 17:11] These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

[KJV]   2TI 3:15 – 16

[2TI 3:15] And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.  [2TI 3:16] All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 

All this talk of scholars pouring over “originals” to better tell us what “exactly” is in the word of God is not needed. We have the scriptures in English in the form of the King James Bible. Have you looked at the business deals of the modern bibles. It’s quite revealing. They go to law over copyright, they are owned by ungodly men who profit from more bibles with evermore steps away from the truth. Look at the publisher of your current favourite modern bible. Google the publisher’s name and read the results.

THE AMPLIFIED BIBLE STORY
Gail Riplinger – The Lockman Foundation and Dcwcy Lockman sponsored and copyrighted the Amplified Gospel of John back in 1954 and the Amplified New Testament in 1958. Zondervan then took it over and in 1962 came out with Job through Malachi. In 1964 they published Genesis through Esther. In 1965 the entire Amplified Bible was complete.

Zondervan has recently been taken over by Harper San Francisco, a secular publishing house that was in turn bought out by Rupert Murdoch, media’s “prince of darkness.” Zondervan has been in secular hands for some time.

One of the members of the Amplified Version committee, Dr. Franklin Logsdon has renounced the Amplified Version, as well as the New American Standard.

He said:

“As a member of the editorial committee in the production of the Amplified New Testament, we honestly and conscientiously felt it was a mark of intelligence to follow Westcott and Hort. Now, what you have in these books strikes terror to my heart It proves, alarmingly, that being conscientiously wrong is a most dangerous state of being. God help us to be more cautious, lest we fall into the snares of the arch deceiver.”

The books that Logsdon referred to are Which Bible? and True or False? by Dr. D. O. Fuller. These showed Dr. Logsdon, for the first time, the corrupt nature of the Westcott and Hort Greek text underlying new versions– that would include the Amplified, the NIV, and the NASB. The particular problem with the Amplified Bible is that it is guilty of adding to God’s word. It is called an “expanded translation.” It is in direct violation of Revelation 22:18 which says: “For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:” Proverbs 30:6 adds: “Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.” We are forbidden to add anything to the word of God, and the Amplified Bible translation has done just that.

http://is.gd/iZEHL

AV Publications stock these books as well as Dr. Franklin Logsdon’s audio testimony if you are interested. You can also get my masterpiece “How to Find the KJB’s Built-in Dictionary DVD series”

Gail was kind enough to add this back cover”

While you are on this site please get:

The Hidden History of the English Scriptures by Gail – what a sister this lady is – when she was young she hit University wanting to read every book in the library and then went on to become the nominated Ambassador of Education for USA. She had so many Uni Chairs it makes the head spin. She got saved and then found the King James Bible – then, some time later, she found me or I found her, matters have never been the same for me. I would have loved to sit in as a student of hers or had her as a tutor. She does not teach church Doctrine as a teacher. She is patient collator gathering what many want kept hidden. She is a researcher who names her quotes and gives honour where honour is due. She can sit at my table anytime. Since she has met me she has encouraged me, prayed for me and cried when she was looking at my efforts. WOW what a girl! It’s so easy for a preacher, we quote the scriptures and don’t have to put up a thesis. We open our mouths and the Lord Jesus fills it as we flow in the Holy Spirit. We just need to have the correct verse references to the scriptures we quote. In fact we don’t even have to quote references. We can just say “one in a certain place said” how cool is that! At the end of this post I’ll put the flyer for The Hidden History of the English Scriptures

Gail Riplinger web site http://www.avpublications.com/

I found material about the Amplified bible  on the top of the 2^nd page of a search for The Lockman Foundation. Follow the link to read more. All of the above is a matter of fact and not conjecture.

If you are interested there are other reports that you can read.

This does not fill me with any confidence that this is a holy bible, does it you?

Very important

Gail Riplinger – God blesses inspired translations as given in Scripture: Joseph speaks Egyptian to his brother, which was interpreted (Gen. 42:23) and written in Hebrew.

In the New Testament, Paul speaks in the Hebrew tongue in Acts 21:40, but Luke writes Acts 22:1-21. Where he would be speaking exclusively in Greek. The same occurs in Acts 9:5-6 and 26:14, see where Jesus Christ’s Hebrew words are written down in Greek by Luke as Scriptures. Interestingly, the word “translation” in the AV 1611 defines itself as a change from a worse to a better situation, as given in 2 Samuel 3:10, Colossians 1:13, and Hebrews 11:5.

Quoted from Gail Riplinger http://is.gd/iDPOH

[KJV]  [GEN 42:23] And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spake unto them by an interpreter. 

Joseph speaks Egyptian & an interpreter translates into Hebrew BUT the inspired account is written in Hebrew, which is an interpretation of what was actually said.

[KJV]  [ACT 21:40] And when he had given him licence, Paul stood on the stairs, and beckoned with the hand unto the people. And when there was made a great silence, he spake unto them in the Hebrew tongue, saying,

Spoken in Hebrew, YES, BUT translated and written in Greek by Luke as the inspired word of God.

[KJV]   ACT 22:1 – 21

[ACT 22:1] Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence which I make now unto you.  [ACT 22:2] (And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)  [ACT 22:3] I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.  [ACT 22:4] And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.  [ACT 22:5] As also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders: from whom also I received letters unto the brethren, and went to Damascus, to bring them which were there bound unto Jerusalem, for to be punished.  [ACT 22:6] And it came to pass, that, as I made my journey, and was come nigh unto Damascus about noon, suddenly there shone from heaven a great light round about me.  [ACT 22:7] And I fell unto the ground, and heard a voice saying unto me, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?  [ACT 22:8] And I answered, Who art thou, Lord? And he said unto me, I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest.  [ACT 22:9] And they that were with me saw indeed the light, and were afraid; but they heard not the voice of him that spake to me.  [ACT 22:10] And I said, What shall I do, Lord? And the Lord said unto me, Arise, and go into Damascus; and there it shall be told thee of all things which are appointed for thee to do.  [ACT 22:11] And when I could not see for the glory of that light, being led by the hand of them that were with me, I came into Damascus.  [ACT 22:12] And one Ananias, a devout man according to the law, having a good report of all the Jews which dwelt there,  [ACT 22:13] Came unto me, and stood, and said unto me, Brother Saul, receive thy sight. And the same hour I looked up upon him.  [ACT 22:14] And he said, The God of our fathers hath chosen thee, that thou shouldest know his will, and see that Just One, and shouldest hear the voice of his mouth.  [ACT 22:15] For thou shalt be his witness unto all men of what thou hast seen and heard.  [ACT 22:16] And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.  [ACT 22:17] And it came to pass, that, when I was come again to Jerusalem, even while I prayed in the temple, I was in a trance;  [ACT 22:18] And saw him saying unto me, Make haste, and get thee quickly out of Jerusalem: for they will not receive thy testimony concerning me.  [ACT 22:19] And I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue them that believed on thee:  [ACT 22:20] And when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting unto his death, and kept the raiment of them that slew him.  [ACT 22:21] And he said unto me, Depart: for I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles. 

Paul spoke the above in Hebrew, but Luke writes in the Holy Bible in Greek. Nothing out of order here because the inspired word of God is a translation of a speech made in Hebrew.

[KJV]   ACT 9:5 – 6

[ACT 9:5] And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.  [ACT 9:6] And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do. 

 [KJV]  [ACT 26:14] And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. 

Here are the words of Jesus Christ spoken in Hebrew are translated by Luke into Greek & so become the word of God.

The LORD JESUS CHRIST speaks to Paul – spoken in Hebrew translated in the Bible in Greek, translated again into English in the King James Bible

These are the verses where the English word “translate or translation” are used in the King James Bible. Notice that the use of these words implies a movement or change to a better state of affairs.

[KJV]  [2SA 3:10] To translate the kingdom from the house of Saul, and to set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan even to Beersheba.  (a better state)

[KJV]  [COL 1:13] Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:  (a better state)

[KJV]  [HEB 11:5] By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. (a better state)

Gail Riplinger – In Matthew 4:1-11, Jesus Christ and Satan both quote Scripture, but the god of this world changes it!

He has been corrupting the New Testament from the start (2 Cor. 2:17; 4:2), accomplishing this today in the west mainly through tradition (Mark 7:13), philosophy (Col.2:8) and science falsely so called (1 Tim.6:20), and in African, South-American and Asian countries through persecution and confiscation and burning of Bibles. The lie today is that Satan never had his hand in Bible corruption one time in over 2,000 years, and that the best “Bibles” show up at the end of the Laodicean church age. However, God has already warned that this age will end in the apostasy of the body of Christ.

“Quoted from Gail Riplinger”@ http://is.gd/iDPOH

Matthew 4:1-11

[KJV]   MAT 4:1 – 11

[MAT 4:1] Then was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.  [MAT 4:2] And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.  [MAT 4:3] And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.  [MAT 4:4] But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.  [MAT 4:5] Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple,  [MAT 4:6] And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.  [MAT 4:7] Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.  [MAT 4:8] Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;  [MAT 4:9] And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.  [MAT 4:10] Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.  [MAT 4:11] Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him. 

You see here how Satan takes the fact that Christ Jesus is the creator and changes its application. He part quotes the scripture. He gets rebuffed twice from the word of God and then he shows his true colours. He comes right out with it appealing to the humanity of Jesus to offer him the world if Jesus would worship and obey him.  If Satan tried his twisting of the scriptures on the Lord Jesus Christ, don’t you think that he will do it to us wholesale?

[KJV] Psalms 91:11  For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. [KJV] Psalms 91:12  They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.

Gail Riplinger – Jesus Christ and Satan both quote Scripture, but the god of this world changes it! He has been corrupting the New Testament from the start (2 Cor. 2:17; 4:2), “Quoted from Gail Riplinger”@ http://is.gd/iDPOH

[KJV]  [2CO 2:17] For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ. 

I was just sitting here scanning this verse for any mistakes I might have made when I copied it here, when I was struck by the 2 BUTs. One is about his attitude and the other is about God. It must be deep in our character & heart that we will not corrupt the word of God for any reason or any price.

OK. Who is corrupting the word of God these days? It the same old same oh, some are working on written forms of the word as they did to the New Testament scriptures down in Egypt (Origin & co) to corrupt the holy word of God & false teachers (instructors) preaching un-truths to itching ears, even from a pure written source. They are like the Jewish Christians stamping all over the Gentile Christians with traditions and half baked truths. They were so persuasive that they hook in an apostle and friend of Jesus Christ himself. All I can say is “Watch out, get a mind that is able to compare truth with untruth and take affirmative action against all junk as dangerous toxic teachings.

[KJV]  [2CO 4:2] But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

This is affirmative action. Hidden dishonesty, walking in craftiness and handling the word of God deceitfully, these are the descriptions given in the word of God to those who corrupt the Scriptures in any way. Do you really want to take part in this?

Gail Riplinger – accomplishing this today in the west mainly through tradition (Mark 7:13) “Quoted from Gail Riplinger”@ http://is.gd/iDPOH

[KJV]  [MAR 7:13] Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye. 

Tradition will kill the effect of the word of God. These traditions are passed on in tutor to student, Mentor to pupil. These days the corruptions turn the word of God inside out and call “the supper of our Lord Jesus” a tradition. Lord Jesus help us!

Philosophy (Col 2:8)

[KJV]  [COL 2:8] Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. 

Philosophy of men & the world will spoil you. You should beware what you give yourself to. When you are spoiled, you are rotting & your faith starts to smell.

Science falsely so called (1 Tim 6:20)

[KJV]  [1TI 6:20] O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called: 

Modern bibles like to put forward the notion that they are scholarly & scientific, beyond question by the unlearned. The unlearned are treated like the unwashed when it comes to questioning them and their motives. The King James Bible translators were pious, godly and above all Christian they wrote for the unlearned. The uneducated could read for themselves the wonders on the WORD OF GOD. The best speakers that I know make certain that the unlearned can follow them. They, certainly, allow inquiry and questions into their work.

Gail Riplinger -, and in African, South-American and Asian countries through persecution and confiscation and burning of Bibles.  The lie today is that Satan never had his hand in Bible corruption one time in over 2,000 years, and that the best „Bibles“ show up at the end of the Laodicean church age. However, God has already warned that this age will end in the apostasy of the body of Christ.  “Quoted from Gail Riplinger”@ http://is.gd/iDPOH

There are these two streams of Bibles:

A stream corrupted, false, imitation “unholy” bible, as opposed to;  a stream pure, true, real a “holy” Bible

Originated in: Egypt: type of the world as opposed to; Originated in: Antioch: start of Gentile Christians

Whose Fruit is: monastery, dark ages, suppression as opposed to; Revivals, Reformation, Liberty, Progress.

Darkness, persecution, state-church setup as opposed to; Light, Democracy, Freedom of speech. “Quoted from Gail Riplinger”@ http://is.gd/iDPOH

Gail Riplinger – Here follows a useful checklist of Bible verses to help determine whether you have a “unholy” or “holy” Bible: “Quoted from Gail Riplinger”@ http://is.gd/iDPOH

1) Omission of whole verses:

GONE: Mat 17:21 “Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.”

[KJV] Matthew 17:21  Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.

[NIV]   MAT 17:22 – 23

[MAT 17:22] When they came together in Galilee, he said to them, “The Son of Man is going to be betrayed into the hands of men.  [MAT 17:23] They will kill him, and on the third day he will be raised to life.” And the disciples were filled with grief. 

v21 is GONE look for yourself

This verse about true deliverance is missing – you just read past it

GONE: Mat 18:11 “For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost”

[KJV] Matthew 18:11  For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.

[NIV]   MAT 18:10 – 12

[MAT 18:10] “See that you do not look down on one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.  [MAT 18:12] “What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off? 

V11 IS GONE

This is a top verse but it is missing!

GONE in some printings: Mat 21:44 “And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.”

[KJV] Matthew 21:44  And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.

 [NIV]   MAT 21:43 – 45

[MAT 21:43] “Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit.  [MAT 21:44] He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but he on whom it falls will be crushed.”  [MAT 21:45] When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard Jesus’ parables, they knew he was talking about them. 

MISSING IN EARLIER EDITIONS OF New International Version  BUT NOW RESTORED: IN & OUT WHO CAN TELL?

Mind you if your modern version has side or foot notes you will be able to read little doubt creators telling you that some odd looking manuscript name does not support it, they put it in anyway. Remember there are 2 very different sets of manuscripts used in making bible translations – those holy ones out of Antioch & those unholy ones out of Egypt.  The false is trying to snuff out the true. Wake up shake your head – throw the corrupt unholy versions into the rubbish bin from whence they came.

GONE: Mat 23:14 “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For ye devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.”

[KJV] Matthew 23:14  Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.

[NIV]   MAT 23:13 – 15

[MAT 23:13] “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.  [MAT 23:15] “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are. 

V 14  IS GONE

Look at this verse, whom are the scribes these days? No wonder that they dropped this one.

GONE: Mar 7:16 “If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.”

[KJV] Mark 7:16  If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.

[NIV]   MAR 7:15 – 17

[MAR 7:15] Nothing outside a man can make him ‘unclean’ by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a man that makes him ‘unclean.’”  [MAR 7:17] After he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about this parable. 

V 16  IS GONE

I’ve been told that the King James Bible is made longer than the originals. Don’t you love it. What originals are they talking about here. What makes you think that the “Originals” were in Greek when the scriptures say otherwise. If you would like to read some of my posts on this vital subject  read this series of posts.Tthere are 4 posts in this series – read all 4:

http://crosslifechurches.org/blogs/?p=163

Just click NEXT to follow these posts.

GONE: Mar 9:44, 46 [KJV]

GONE: [KJV] Mark 9:44  Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.

GONE: [KJV] Mark 9:46  Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.

[NIV]   MAR 9:43 – 47

[MAR 9:43] If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life maimed than with two hands to go into hell, where the fire never goes out.  [MAR 9:45] And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two feet and be thrown into hell.  [MAR 9:47] And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell,  43 And if your hand puts a stumbling block before you and causes you to sin, cut it off! It is more profitable and wholesome for you to go into life [that is really worthwhile] maimed than with two hands to go to hell (Gehenna). if your hand puts a stumbling block before you and causes you to sin, cut it off! It is more profitable and wholesome for you to go into life [that is really worthwhile] maimed than with two hands to go a), into the fire that cannot be put out. http://read.ly/Mark9.43.AMP

45 And if your foot is a cause of stumbling and sin to you, cut it off! It is more profitable and wholesome for you to enter into life [that is really worthwhile] crippled than, having two feet, to be cast into hell (Gehenna). http://read.ly/Mark9.47.AMP

Follow these 2 links to see that these hot verses 44 & 46 are gone. Understand that Gehenna is a smouldering garbage dump that will hardly last forever. The King James translators knew that it meant hell/

V 44 & 46  ARE  GONE

GONE: Mar 15:28 “And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, And he was numbered with the transgressors.”

[KJV] Mark 15:28  And the scripture was fulfilled, which saith, And he was numbered with the transgressors.

[NIV]   MAR 15:27 – 29

[MAR 15:27] They crucified two robbers with him, one on his right and one on his left.  [MAR 15:29] Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads and saying, “So! You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days, 

V 28  IS GONE

GONE: Mar 16:9-20, containing the bodily resurrection from the dead of Jesus Christ, His great commission, and His bodily ascension into heaven.

[KJV]   MAR 16:9 – 20

[MAR 16:9] Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils.  [MAR 16:10] And she went and told them that had been with him, as they mourned and wept.  [MAR 16:11] And they, when they had heard that he was alive, and had been seen of her, believed not.  [MAR 16:12] After that he appeared in another form unto two of them, as they walked, and went into the country.  [MAR 16:13] And they went and told it unto the residue: neither believed they them.  [MAR 16:14] Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.  [MAR 16:15] And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.  [MAR 16:16] He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.  [MAR 16:17] And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;  [MAR 16:18] They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.  [MAR 16:19] So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.  [MAR 16:20] And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen. 

[NIV]   MAR 16:8 – 20

[MAR 16:8] Trembling and bewildered, the women went out and fled from the tomb. They said nothing to anyone, because they were afraid.  [MAR 16:9] When Jesus rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had driven seven demons.  [MAR 16:10] She went and told those who had been with him and who were mourning and weeping.  [MAR 16:11] When they heard that Jesus was alive and that she had seen him, they did not believe it.  [MAR 16:12] Afterward Jesus appeared in a different form to two of them while they were walking in the country.  [MAR 16:13] These returned and reported it to the rest; but they did not believe them either.  [MAR 16:14] Later Jesus appeared to the Eleven as they were eating; he rebuked them for their lack of faith and their stubborn refusal to believe those who had seen him after he had risen.  [MAR 16:15] He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation.  [MAR 16:16] Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.  [MAR 16:17] And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues;  [MAR 16:18] they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well.”  [MAR 16:19] After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, he was taken up into heaven and he sat at the right hand of God.  [MAR 16:20] Then the disciples went out and preached everywhere, and the Lord worked with them and confirmed his word by the signs that accompanied it. 

V9-20 are marked as not being in the so called originals

Mind you if your modern version has side notes or foot notes you will be able to read little doubt creators telling you that some odd looking manuscript name does not support it, they put it in anyway. Remember there are 2 very different sets or groups of manuscripts used in making bible translations – those holy ones out of Antioch & those unholy ones out of Egypt the false is trying to snuff out the true.

Wake up shake your head – throw the corrupt unholy versions into the bin from whence they came.

GONE:  LUK 17:36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. 

[KJV] Luke 17:36  Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

[NIV]   LUK 17:34 – 37

[LUK 17:34] I tell you, on that night two people will be in one bed; one will be taken and the other left.  [LUK 17:35] Two women will be grinding grain together; one will be taken and the other left.”  [LUK 17:37] “Where, Lord?” they asked. He replied, “Where there is a dead body, there the vultures will gather.” 

V 36  IS GONE – MEN WILL BE OK some WOMEN WILL GET LEFT BEHIND – ACTUALLY MEN WILL BE ALSO BE LEFT BEHIND – SO PREPARE YOUR HEART FOR THAT DAY.

How do you do avoid being left behind like this? This is the power of the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

GONE in some printings: Luke 22:20 “Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.”

[KJV] Luke 22:20  Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.

[NIV]   LUK 22:19 – 21

[LUK 22:19] And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.”  [LUK 22:20] In the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.  [LUK 22:21] But the hand of him who is going to betray me is with mine on the table. 

MISSING IN EARLIER EDITIONS OF NIV BUT NOW RESTORED: IN & OUT WHO CAN TELL?

Mind you if your modern version has side or foot notes you will be able to read little doubt creators telling you that some odd looking manuscript name does not support it, they put it in anyway. Remember there are 2 very different sets of manuscripts used in making translations – those holy ones out of Antioch & those unholy ones out of Egypt the false is trying to snuff out the true. Wake up shake your head – throw the corrupt unholy versions into the bin from whence they came.

GONE: Luke 23:17 “For of necessity he must release one unto them at the feast.”

[KJV] Luke 23:17  (For of necessity he must release one unto them at the feast.)

[NIV]   LUK 23:16 – 18

[LUK 23:16] Therefore, I will punish him and then release him.”  [LUK 23:18] With one voice they cried out, “Away with this man! Release Barabbas to us!” 

V 17  IS GONE

GONE in some printings: Luke 24:12 “Then arose Peter, and run unto the sepulchre ; and stooping down, he beheld the linen clothes laid by themselves, and departed, wondering in himself at that which was come to pass.”

[KJV] Luke 24:12  Then arose Peter, and ran unto the sepulchre; and stooping down, he beheld the linen clothes laid by themselves, and departed, wondering in himself at that which was come to pass.

[NIV]   LUK 24:11 – 13

[LUK 24:11] But they did not believe the women, because their words seemed to them like nonsense.  [LUK 24:12] Peter, however, got up and ran to the tomb. Bending over, he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves, and he went away, wondering to himself what had happened.  [LUK 24:13] Now that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem. 

MISSING IN EARLIER EDITIONS OF New International Version BUT NOW RESTORED: IN & OUT WHO CAN TELL?

Mind you if your modern version has side or foot notes you will be able to read little doubt creators telling you that some odd looking manuscript name does not support it, they put it in anyway. Remember there are 2 very different sets of manuscripts used in making translations – those holy ones out of Antioch & those unholy ones out of Egypt the false is trying to snuff out the true. Wake up shake your head – throw the corrupt unholy versions into the bin from whence they came.

GONE in some printings: Luke 24:40 “And when he had thus spoken, he shewed them his hands and his feet.”

[KJV] Luke 24:40  And when he had thus spoken, he shewed them his hands and his feet.

[NIV]   LUK 24:39 – 41

[LUK 24:39] Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.”  [LUK 24:40] When he had said this, he showed them his hands and feet.  [LUK 24:41] And while they still did not believe it because of joy and amazement, he asked them, “Do you have anything here to eat?” 

MISSING IN EARLIER EDITIONS OF NIV BUT NOW RESTORED: IN & OUT WHO CAN TELL?

Mind you if your modern version has side or foot notes you will be able to read little doubt creators telling you that some odd looking manuscript name does not support it, they put it in anyway. Remember there are 2 very different sets of manuscripts used in making translations – those holy ones out of Antioch & those unholy ones out of Egypt the false is trying to snuff out the true. Wake up shake your head – throw the corrupt unholy versions into the bin from whence they came.

GONE: Acts 8:37 “And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.”

[KJV] Acts 8:37  And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.

[NIV]   ACT 8:36 – 38

[ACT 8:36] As they traveled along the road, they came to some water and the eunuch said, “Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I be baptized?”  [ACT 8:38] And he gave orders to stop the chariot. Then both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water and Philip baptized him. 

V 37  IS GONE  WHAT A VERSE

You could call this verse Salvation Central!”

GONE: Acts 28:29 “And when he had said these words, the Jews departed, and had great reasoning among themselves.”

[KJV] Acts 28:29  And when he had said these words, the Jews departed, and had great reasoning among themselves.

[NIV]   ACT 28:28 – 30

[ACT 28:28] “Therefore I want you to know that God’s salvation has been sent to the Gentiles, and they will listen!”  [ACT 28:30] For two whole years Paul stayed there in his own rented house and welcomed all who came to see him. 

V 29  IS GONE

GONE: Rom 16:24 “The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.”

[KJV] Romans 16:24  The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

[NIV]   ROM 16:23 – 25

[ROM 16:23] Gaius, whose hospitality I and the whole church here enjoy, sends you his greetings. Erastus, who is the city’s director of public works, and our brother Quartus send you their greetings.  [ROM 16:25] Now to him who is able to establish you by my gospel and the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery hidden for long ages past, 

V 24  IS GONE

I WANT THE GRACE OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST WITH ME, DON’T YOU?

2) Part of a verse is omitted in:

PART OF THIS VERSE IS GONE: 1 Joh 5:7 “For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.”

[KJV] 1 John 5:7  For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.

[NIV]   1JO 5:6 – 8

[1JO 5:6] This is the one who came by water and blood – Jesus Christ. He did not come by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.  [1JO 5:7] For there are three that testify:  [1JO 5:8] the Spirit, the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement. 

COMPARE WITH

[KJV]   1JO 5:6 – 8

[1JO 5:6] This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.  [1JO 5:7] For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.  [1JO 5:8] And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one. 

A CLEVER BIT OF EDITORS’ SNIPPING!

PART OF THIS VERSE IS GONE: Mat.19:9b “and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.”

[KJV]  [MAT 19:9] And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery. 

[NIV]  [MAT 19:9] I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, and marries another woman commits adultery.” 

SNIP SNIP LETTER BY LETTER WORD BY WORD – THE WORD IS BEING CHANGED TO ANY OLLD WORD

ARE you going to say that in a permitted separation due to fornication (adultery or any unholy sexual acts) the man may re-marry BUT not the woman and so not commit adultery, are you?

PART OF THIS VERSE IS GONE:  Mat. 20:22 “and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?”

[KJV]  [MAT 20:22] But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say unto him, We are able. 

[NIV]  [MAT 20:22] “You don’t know what you are asking,” Jesus said to them. “Can you drink the cup I am going to drink?” “We can,” they answered. 

SNIP SNIP LETTER BY LETTER WORD BY WORD – THE WORD IS BEING CHANGED TO ANY OLD WORD

PART OF THIS VERSE IS GONE: Mark 6:11“Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment, than for that city.”

[KJV]  [MAR 6:11] And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear you, when ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city. 

[NIV]  [MAR 6:11] And if any place will not welcome you or listen to you, shake the dust off your feet when you leave, as a testimony against them.” 

SNIP SNIP LETTER BY LETTER WORD BY WORD – THE WORD IS BEING CHANGED TO ANY OLD WORD

PART OF THIS VERSE IS GONE: Mark 9:29 “and fasting.”

[KJV]  [MAR 9:29] And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting. 

[NIV]  [MAR 9:29] He replied, “This kind can come out only by prayer.” 

PART OF THIS VERSE IS GONE in earlier printings: Mark 9:42 believe “in me.”

[KJV]  [MAR 9:42] And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea. 

[NIV] Mark 9:42  “And if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to be thrown into the sea with a large millstone tied around his neck.

MISSING IN EARLIER EDITIONS OF NIV BUT NOW RESTORED: IN & OUT WHO CAN TELL?

Mind you if your modern version has side or foot notes you will be able to read little doubt creators telling you that some odd looking manuscript name does not support it, they put it in anyway. Remember there are 2 very different sets of manuscripts used in making translations – those holy ones out of Antioch & those unholy ones out of Egypt the false is trying to snuff out the true. Wake up shake your head – throw the corrupt unholy versions into the bin from whence they came.

PART OF THIS VERSE IS GONE: Luke 23;42 “Lord“

[KJV]  [LUK 23:42] And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. 

[NIV] Luke 23:42  Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.”

SNIP SNIP LETTER BY LETTER WORD BY WORD – THE WORD IS BEING CHANGED TO ANY OLD WORD

PART OF THIS VERSE IS GONE in earlier printings: Luke 24:51b, “and carried up into heaven 52a. And they worshipped him”

[KJV]  [LUK 24:51] And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven. 

[NIV]  [LUK 24:51] While he was blessing them, he left them and was taken up into heaven. 

[KJV]  [LUK 24:52] And they worshipped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy: 

[NIV]  [LUK 24:52] Then they worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy. 

MISSING IN EARLIER EDITIONS OF NIV BUT NOW RESTORED: IN & OUT WHO CAN TELL?

Mind you if your modern version has side or foot notes you will be able to read little doubt creators telling you that some odd looking manuscript name does not support it, they put it in anyway. Remember there are 2 very different sets of manuscripts used in making translations – those holy ones out of Antioch & those unholy ones out of Egypt the false is trying to snuff out the true. Wake up shake your head – throw the corrupt unholy versions into the bin from whence they came.

Changed to alter meaning: John 6: 69 “Christ the Son of the living God.”

[KJV]  [JOH 6:69] And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God. 

[NIV]  [JOH 6:69] We believe and know that you are the Holy One of God.” 

THE ONE AGAIN! WHO IS THE ONE, PRAY TELL? This is New Age Stuff again.

The Lord Jesus Christ DEMOTED YET AGAIN: John 9:35 “the Son of God” changed to Son of Man.

[KJV]  [JOH 9:35] Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when he had found him, he said unto him, Dost thou believe on the Son of God? 

[NIV]  [JOH 9:35] Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and when he found him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?” 

ALWAYS DEGRADING OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST INTO A MERE MAN = A CREATED BEING!

PART OF THIS VERSE IS GONE: Acts 9:5-6 “it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?”

[KJV]   ACT 9:5 – 6

[ACT 9:5] And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.  [ACT 9:6] And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do. 

[NIV]   ACT 9:5 – 6

[ACT 9:5] “Who are you, Lord?” Saul asked. “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,” he replied.  [ACT 9:6] “Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.” 

NO SENSE OF AWE OR WORSHIP HERE FEEL THE SLIMY FOOTED ONE

it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks   by losing this one, of the greatest bible pictures is lost.

When I was at prep school we had a strange collection of young students; an ambassador’s son, A Jewish boy with his own rabbi and the son of a police inspector with the MET who was the 1^st policeman to be shot & murdered in peace time  after the war. What wonderful mixed bunch to live with. The Jewish boy let me sit in when the rabbi was teaching him. What a language, the writing ran right to left, all the letters of the alphabet were pictures and only one single letter rosé above the line. So much better than the Greek that classics’ master used to teach. The missing word “pricks” was the ox goad (the picture of the one word that rises above the line, What was Saul (Paul) kicking against? The resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ from the dead, is the answer.  There is so much to say about ox goads and tent pegs, a young wife & an evil hard man that this letter is connected with.

PART OF THIS VERSE IS GONE: Rom 1:16 the gospel “of Christ.”

[KJV]  [ROM 1:16] For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.  

[NIV]  [ROM 1:16] I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. 

WHAT GOSPEL DO YOU MEAN, PRAY TELL?

PART OF THIS VERSE IS GONE: Rom. 8:1 “who walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit.”

[KJV]  [ROM 8:1] There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 

[NIV]  [ROM 8:1] Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, 

GET INTO JESUS & LIVE AS YOU PLEASE, REALLY!

PART OF THIS VERSE IS GONE: Rom 13:9 “Thou shalt not bear false witness.”

[KJV]  [ROM 13:9] For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 

[NIV]  [ROM 13:9] The commandments, “Do not commit adultery,” “Do not murder,” “Do not steal,” “Do not covet,” and whatever other commandment there may be, are summed up in this one rule: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” 

NO WONDER! WHO DO THINK IS BEARING FALSE WITNESS HERE?

PART OF THIS VERSE IS GONE: 1 Cor 5:7 is sacrificed “for us“

[KJV]  [1CO 5:7] Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: 

[NIV]  [1CO 5:7] Get rid of the old yeast that you may be a new batch without yeast – as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 

SACRIFICED FOR WHOM, I WONDER – SO MANY QUESTIONS, SO MANY BITS MISSING OR CHANGED!

PART OF THIS VERSE IS GONE: 2 Cor 4:10 the “Lord” Jesus

[KJV]  [2CO 4:10] Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. 

[NIV]  [2CO 4:10] We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. 

OH WELL, LET’S DEMOTE HIM YET AGAIN!

PART OF THIS VERSE IS GONE: Gal. 3:1 “That ye should not obey the truth“

[KJV]  [GAL 3:1] O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? 

[NIV]  [GAL 3:1] You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified. 

OBEY THE TRUTH, DON’T BE SILLY! TRUTH, WHAT IS TRUTH? WHAT EVER YOU DO, DON’T ASK US.

PART OF THIS VERSE IS GONE: Eph 3:9 who created all things “by Jesus Christ“

[KJV]  [EPH 3:9] And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ: 

[NIV]  [EPH 3:9] and to make plain to everyone the administration of this mystery, which for ages past was kept hidden in God, who created all things. 

OH NO LET’S HIDE THE FACT THAT JESUS CHRIST, CREATED ALL THINGS & AS THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON OF GOD, PRE-EXISTED HIS BIRTH BY MARY – HE MIGHT END UP EVERLASTING!

PART OF THIS VERSE IS CHANGED: Phil. 4:13, I can do all things through “Christ.”

[KJV]  [PHI 4:13] I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. 

[NIV]  [PHI 4:13] I can do everything through him who gives me strength. 

AFTER ALL MY WIFE GIVES ME STRENGTH BUT WHO IS THIS “HIM”, PRAY TELL?

PART OF THIS VERSE IS GONE: Col. 1:14 In whom we have redemption “though his blood“

[KJV]  [COL 1:14] In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins: 

[NIV]  [COL 1:14] in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. 

NO BLOOD NO WASHING NO REDEMPTION NO POWER SO IT’S BACK SO THE SIN AGAIN & AGAIN FOR THE NEXT TIME ALWAYS TREADING THE SAME OLD GROUND

PART OF THIS VERSE IS GONE: 1 Thess 5:27 “holy” bethren

[KJV]  [1TH 5:27] I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the holy brethren. 

[NIV]  [1TH 5:27] I charge you before the Lord to have this letter read to all the brothers. 

HOLY! DON’T MAKE ME LAUGH – YOU CAN’T BE HOLY

PART OF THIS VERSE IS CHANGED: 2 Thess 2:2 “day of Christ” changed to “day of the Lord.”

[KJV]  [2TH 2:2] That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. 

[NIV]  [2TH 2:2] not to become easily unsettled or alarmed by some prophecy, report or letter supposed to have come from us, saying that the day of the Lord has already come. 

WELL I KNOW WHO CHRIST IS BUT WHO IS THIS LORD?

PART OF THIS VERSE IS CHANGED: 1 Tim 3:16 “God” changed to “he who” was manifest in the flesh.

[KJV]  [1TI 3:16] And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory. 

[NIV]  [1TI 3:16] Beyond all question, the mystery of godliness is great: He appeared in a body, was vindicated by the Spirit, was seen by angels, was preached among the nations, was believed on in the world, was taken up in glory. 

WHICH “HE”- I THOUGHT THE POINT OF THIS BUSINESS THAT GOD WAS MANIFEST IN THE FLESH! THIS MUST BE A DIFFERENT GOSPEL!

PART OF THIS VERSE IS GONE: 1 Tim 6:5 “from such“, i.e. men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, “withdraw thyself.”

[KJV]  [1TI 6:5] Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself. 

[NIV]  [1TI 6:5] and constant friction between men of corrupt mind, who have been robbed of the truth and who think that godliness is a means to financial gain. 

I THOUGHT WE WERE TO GET AWAY FROM SUCH PEOPLE – NOT GENDER ASSOCIATING IN THE HOPE I WILL BECOME FINANCIALLY INDEPENDENT

PART OF THIS VERSE IS GONE: 2 Tim 1:11 teacher “of the Gentiles.”

[KJV]  [2TI 1:11] Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles. 

[NIV]  [2TI 1:11] And of this gospel I was appointed a herald and an apostle and a teacher. 

WHY, PAUL WAS A JEW OF THE JEWS – STAY WITH WHAT YOU KNOW, PAUL!

PART OF THIS VERSE IS GONE: Titus 2:4 young women “to be sober.”

[KJV]  [TIT 2:4] That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, 

[NIV]  [TIT 2:4] Then they can train the younger women to love their husbands and children, 

WE DON’T WANT OUR WOMEN TO BE DULL & SOBER WE LIKE THEM WITH A BIT OF SPICE!

PART OF THIS VERSE IS GONE: Heb. 1:3 he had “by himself” purged our sins

[KJV]  [HEB 1:3] Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high: 

[NIV]  [HEB 1:3] The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven. 

BUT HOW DID HE DO THIS?  I THOUGHT HE DID THIS BY HIMSELF BY HIS DEATH BY HIS BLOOD BY HIS RESURRECTION

PART OF THIS VERSE IS CHANGED: James 4:4 “adulterers“

[KJV]  [JAM 4:4] Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. 

[NIV]  [JAM 4:4] You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. 

OH YES WE MEN CAN GET INTO IT BUT GOD HELP THE WOMEN BECAUSE WE WILL STONE THEM ONE WAY OR ANOTHER

PART OF THIS VERSE IS GONE: 1 Pet. 4:14 “on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified“

[KJV]  [1PE 4:14] If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified. 

[NIV]  [1PE 4:14] If you are insulted because of the name of Christ, you are blessed, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. 

WHAT’S A FEW MISSING WORDS ANYWAY! SNIP SNIP

PART OF THIS VERSE IS GONE: 2 Pet. 2:17 darkness is reserved « forever »

[KJV]  [2PE 2:17] These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.  

[NIV]  [2PE 2:17] These men are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them. 

NO FOR EVER – NOT TO WORRY WHAT GOES UP COMES DOWN – IT’S A CIRCLE CYLINDER – LIGHT WILL FOLLOW DARKNESS – HELL IS NOT FOR EVER – ALL HUMANS WILL BE IN HEAVEN ONE DAY!

Here is a quote about Hades: “Eventually after a certain time, regardless of where they ended up, souls would drink from the Lethe, forget their previous existance and reborn to the land of the living. This was a form of reincarnation, with the dead returning to life because death was so boring.” Taken from Mythology  Hades, god of the Underworld -  http://is.gd/jlkLm

PART OF THIS VERSE IS GONE: 1 John 5:13 “and that ye may believe on the name of he Son of God.”

[KJV]  [1JO 5:13] These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. 

[NIV]  [1JO 5:13] I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life. 

THERE IS A REASON FOR THIS REPETITION. WE BELIEVE ON THE NAME OF THE SON OF GOD OR ELSE WE CANNOT KNOW THAT WE HAVE ETERNAL LIFE

PART OF THIS VERSE IS GONE: Jude 1:1 “sanctified”

[KJV]  [JUD 1:1] Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called: 

[NIV]  [JUD 1:1] Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James, To those who have been called, who are loved by God the Father and kept by Jesus Christ: 

SANCTIFIED NOT JUST CALLED – MADE HOLY NOT JUST INVITED!

PART OF THIS VERSE IS CHANGED: Rev. 22 :19 “book of life” changed to “tree of life.”

[KJV]  [REV 22:19] And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book. 

[NIV]  [REV 22:19] And if anyone takes words away from this book of prophecy, God will take away from him his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book. 

BOY I THOUGHT MY NAME IS THE BOOK OF LIFE – OF COURSE YOU CAN HAVE YOUR NAME BLOTTED OUT OF THE BOOK OF LIFE. WHY WAS AN ANGLE WITH A FLAMING SWORD PLACED TO STOP ADAM & EVE GETTING TO EAT OF THE TREE OF LIFE. IF YOU EAT OF THE TREE OF LIFE YOU ARE HOME SAFE!

PART OF THIS VERSE IS GONE: Isaiah 9:3 and “not” increased the joy. “not” omitted

[KJV]  [ISA 9:3] Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil. 

[NIV]  [ISA 9:3] You have enlarged the nation and increased their joy; they rejoice before you as people rejoice at the harvest, as men rejoice when dividing the plunder. 

THE UPSIDE DOWN BIBLE AT WORK AGAIN!

HERE’S ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THIS UPSIDE DOWN BIBLE – LEAD US INTO CONFUSION IN THE UNHOLY BIBLE

[KJV] Proverbs 25:23  The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.

[NIV] Proverbs 25:23  As a north wind brings rain, so a sly tongue brings angry looks.

DOES THE NORTH WIND BRING OR DRIVE AWAY RAIN – THE SLY TONGUE IS NOT DRIVEN AWAY – NO POWER FOR CHANGE HERE

3) Changes in translation:

PART OF THIS VERSE IS CHANGED: 1 Tim. 6:20 “science” falsely so called changed into “knowledge”

[KJV]  [1TI 6:20] O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called: 

[NIV]  [1TI 6:20] Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to your care. Turn away from godless chatter and the opposing ideas of what is falsely called knowledge, 

SCIENCE RATHER LOVES ITSELF & IS WAY BEYOND MERE IDEAS & CAN’T BE FALSE – THIS VERSES TRAUNCES THE OPPOSITION OF FALSE SCIENCE.

There were 5 who lived in the late 1800’s. They knew each other. Their false sciences have been a poison stream flowing into our places of learning even today. They influence the 3 great foundations of our reasoning; bible translations, mental health and the way interact with our environment and the origin of all matter and the species. They want to explain the meaning of life but keep God out of it. They have done more damage than all the cruel & violent leaders put together. They have darkened the souls of endless youth. Most of them were connected, I think to the clergy.

PART OF THIS VERSE IS CHANGED: Rom. 1:18 who “hold” the truth in unrighteousness; “hold” changed to “suppress.”

[KJV]  [ROM 1:18] For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; 

 [NIV]  [ROM 1:18] The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 

THE TRUTH CAN NEVER BE SUPPRESSED IN WICKED PEOPLE BUT WICKED MAN CAN PRETEND TO HOLD THE TRUTH. THESE PEOPLE ARE DOUBLED DAMMED – ANYWAY THE MEANING OF THE VERSE IS CHANGED

PART OF THIS VERSE IS CHANGED: Rom 1:25 Who “changed” the truth of God into a lie; “changed” changed into “exchanged.”

[KJV]  [ROM 1:25] Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. 

[NIV]  [ROM 1:25] They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator – who is forever praised. Amen. 

AN EXCHANGE IS ONE MOVING OUT SO ANOTHER CAN MOVE IN – A CHANGE IS TO ALTER THE FORM OF A MATTER TO SOMETHING ELSE. OUR SLIPPERY CUSTOMER LIKES TO MAKE EXCHANGES – LIKE A CARD SHARP – DOUBT & CONFUSION BEFORE YOUR VERY EYES!

PART OF THIS VERSE IS CHANGED: 2 Cor. 2:17 For we are not as many which “corrupt” the word of God; “corrupt” changed to “peddle.”

[KJV]  [2CO 2:17] For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ. 

[NIV]  [2CO 2:17] Unlike so many, we do not peddle the word of God for profit. On the contrary, in Christ we speak before God with sincerity, like men sent from God.

CORRUPT & PEDDLE ARE NOT THE SAME – TRYING TO MAKE A CRUST SELLING THE WORD OF GOD BY YOUR MINISTRY IS PATHETIC – CORRUPTING THE WORD OF GOD SO THAT THE SAINTS BELIEVE A LIE IS DAMNABLE.

PART OF THIS VERSE IS CHANGED: 1 Pet 2:2 sincere milk of the word, “that ye may grow thereby,” changed into “grow into” (works salvation).

[KJV]  [1PE 2:2] As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: 

[NIV]  [1PE 2:2] Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, 

THE WORD CHANGING YOU & YOU GROWING UP INTO IT IS DIFFERENT – THEREBY – YOU BECOME THE AGENT OF GROWTH

PART OF THIS VERSE IS CHANGED: Job 19:26 ‘yet in my flesh shall I see God” changed into “I shall see God without my flesh”

[KJV]  [JOB 19:26] And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: 

[NIV]  [JOB 19:26] And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God; 

ARE WE HEADED FOR A “SPIRIT” GHOSTLY SPHERE? HADES DON’T YOU KNOW – ACTUALLY TALKING OF HADES GIVES ME THE CREEPS. ELYSIUM FIELDS – TOP PLACE IN HADES – ELYSIUM FIELDS DON’T ASK ME WHAT THE CONNOTATIONS & DENOTATIONS OF THIS PLACE ARE!

I want to see Him come while I’m still the flesh – then my flesh will be changed to a new & different type of flesh. [KJV] 1 Thessalonians 4:17  Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

PART OF THIS VERSE IS CHANGED IN EARLIER PRINTINGS: Job 41:34 “he (devil) is a king over all the children of pride” changed to “king over all proud animals”

[KJV]  [JOB 41:34] He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride. 

[NIV]  [JOB 41:34] He looks down on all that are haughty; he is king over all that are proud.” 

MISSING IN EARLIER EDITIONS OF NIV BUT NOW RESTORED: IN & OUT WHO CAN TELL?

Mind you if your modern version has side or foot notes you will be able to read little doubt creators telling you that some odd looking manuscript name does not support it, they put it in anyway. Remember there are 2 very different sets of manuscripts used in making translations – those holy ones out of Antioch & those unholy ones out of Egypt the false is trying to snuff out the true. Wake up shake your head – throw the corrupt unholy versions into the bin from whence they came.

Zech 11:17 “Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock!” Reference to antichrist. Changed into “useless shepherd.”

[KJV]  [ZEC 11:17] Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened. 

[NIV]  [ZEC 11:17] “Woe to the worthless shepherd, who deserts the flock! May the sword strike his arm and his right eye! May his arm be completely withered, his right eye totally blinded!”

APART FROM A PLAY ON WORDS “THE SHEPHERD WHO IS AN IDOL” THIS IS A CHILLING PASSAGE.

PART OF THIS VERSE IS CHANGED: Acts 2:27,31 “his (i.e. Jesus Christ’s) soul was not left in hell” changed into death or grave.

[KJV]  [ACT 2:27] Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. 

[KJV]  [ACT 2:31] He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption. 

[NIV]  [ACT 2:27] because you will not abandon me to the grave, nor will you let your Holy One see decay. 

[NIV]  [ACT 2:31] Seeing what was ahead, he spoke of the resurrection of the Christ, that he was not abandoned to the grave, nor did his body see decay. 

THESE PEOPLE DO NOT LIKE THE WORD HELL TO BE IN THE BIBLE – IT IS IN THE HOLY BIBLE – they want the shadow ghost world of hades were everyone gets to live again – born again by human parents in the circle of reincarnation.

PART OF THESE VERSES ARE CHANGED: Acts 3:13,26; 4:27,30 “his Son Jesus” changed into “his servant Jesus.”

[KJV]  [ACT 3:13] The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go. 

[KJV]  [ACT 3:26] Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities. 

[KJV]  [ACT 4:27] For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together, 

[KJV]  [ACT 4:30] By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus. 

 [NIV]  [ACT 3:13] The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus. You handed him over to be killed, and you disowned him before Pilate, though he had decided to let him go. 

[NIV]  [ACT 3:26] When God raised up his servant, he sent him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways.” 

[NIV]  [ACT 4:27] Indeed Herod and Pontius Pilate met together with the Gentiles and the people of Israel in this city to conspire against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed. 

[NIV]  [ACT 4:30] Stretch out your hand to heal and perform miraculous signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus.” 

HERE WE GO DEGRADING THE PERSON OF JESUS CHRIST YET AGAIN – 4 TIMES IT MUST BE DELIBERATE!

ENOUGH OF THIS GLOOM – READ ON

NOW FOR GREAT NEWS – GOD’S OWN NEWS!

PLEASE LOOK DEEPLY AT THIS, SO THAT YOU WILL KNOW

For those who have never found peace with God and do not know where their eternal soul goes when they die,

here is Gods plan of salvation:

Rom. 3:10 “As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one.”

Rom. 3:23 “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.”

The punishment for sin is eternal death and hell.

Heb. 9:27 “As it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgement’

Rev. 20:15 “And whosoever was not found written in the book of life, was cast into the lake of fire”

God’s provision for your sinful condition is His Son Jesus Christ:

1 Cor 15:3-4 “For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received how that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures.”

Heb 9:14 “How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?”

Heb.10:14 “For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.”

Rom.5:8 ‘But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”

You can be saved – now.

Eph.2:8-9 “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.”

Rom 10:9,10,13 “That if thy shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.”

Ask the Lord Jesus Christ to save you – now:

“Lord Jesus Christ, I am a sinner and need your forgiveness. I repent of my self-righteousness and believe that you died for my sins, was buried and rose again from the dead after three days. I now trust you the best way I know how to save my eternal soul from hell and cleanse my debt of sin with your holy blood. Thank you for the gift of eternal life. Amen.”

“Quoted from Gail Riplinger”@ http://is.gd/iDPOH

Let me know if you have found this great salvation that was delivered to the saints.

HERE IS THE FLY JACKET OF The Hidden History of the English Scriptures:

The Hidden History of the English Scriptures

Gail Riplinger

The year 2011  commemorates the 400^th anniversary of our beloved King James Bible, published in 1611. To honour this momentous event, Dr. Riplinger has put together THE definitive treatise on our English Bible, one which every English-speaking Christian should have.

WHAT ONE needs to know is distilled into this one book. Having been asked every question imaginable, Dr. Riplinger arms you with the answers. The most important facts and solid-gold historic quotes are packed rock-solid in this dynamite seventy-two page volume.

YOUR ENGLISH BIBLE is traced from Acts 2 to you. This book is not made up of the typical yawn-drawing liberal fables. It distils the cream from the history sections of In Awe of Thy Word and adds newly found quotes that are sure to encourage any Bible believer. For example, you won’t read these three facts in the time-fogged fiction set forth in seminary textbooks:

    1.) IN THE 1500s John Foxe, author of ‘Foxes Book of Martyrs,’ records a statement from what he called “a certain old treatise, found in a certain ancient English book.” This “ancient” book says,        “Also the four evangelists wrote the gospels in divers languages, as Matthew in Judea, Mark in Italy, Luke in Achaia, and John in Asia. And all these wrote in the languages of the same countries…since Christ commanded his apostles to preach his gospel unto all the world, and excepted no people or language” (John Foxe, The Acts and Monuments, 1583, Stephen Cattley, ed., republished at London: R.B. Seeley and W. Burnside, 8 volumes, 1837, vol. 4, pp. 671, 675).  

2.) THE PROLOGUE before the book of Matthew in an edition of the Bishops’ Bible (1500s) said, 

 “Matthew, who also was called Leui, being of a Publican made an Apostle, did first in Iurie [Jewry] write the Gospel of Christ in the Hebrew tongue for their sakes which beleeued of the circumcision. It is uncertaine who afterwards did translate it into the Greeke tongue. Howbeit the copy of the Hebrew is kept vnto this day in the library of Cesarea, which library one Pamphilus Martyr did gather together most diligently. And the Nazarenes, which in Berea a city of Syria, did vse the same booke, gaue vs leaue to copie it out” (J.R. Dore, Old Bibles: An Account of the Early Versions of the English Bible, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1888, 2nd edition, p. 285).  

3.) PAUL’S LETTER to the Galatians, who spoke Celtic, and to the Romans, who spoke Latin, would of necessity be written by him in those languages also. History professor Kenneth W. Harl (Yale Ph.D.) reminds us that it was not a Greek-speaking world when the New Testament was written, as some pseudo-intellectual seminary professors pretend. The Roman Empire had carried their Latin language across the empire. 

      Also, the barbarians and non-urban provinces often retained their native languages, just as they had during their conquest by the Greeks. Scriptures in Berber, Iberian, Celtiberian, Iranian, Sythian, Basque, Ligurian, Cantabrian, Parthian, Angli, Saxon, Gothic, as well as many other languages and dialects, would have been needed immediately to “preach the gospel” (Rome and the Barbarians, Chantilly, VA: The Teaching Company, 2004).  

 The book, The Hidden History of the English Scriptures has many uses:

• As a quick read for those who are time-pressed or who have read In Awe of Thy Word entirely and wish someone would condense its history for their friends.

• As the definitive textbook for homeschool, Christian high schools and colleges.

• As a vehicle for family devotions in 2011 to honour the KJB’s 400^th anniversary. In years to come your children will always remember the nightly family reading of this book, after Bible-reading time, being impressed by how much their parents honoured the King James Bible.

• As a gift for anyone, on any occasion during 2011, to remind them of the miracle of our Holy Bible.
• As a gift to anyone who needs to understand the special, extraordinary, and singular nature of the King James Bible.

• As a treasure trove of sermon and Sunday school material.

• As an answer to the question, ‘Where was the Bible before the KJB?’ ‘What’s so special about the KJB?’ ‘Why should I use the KJB?’ ‘What about the Bible in other languages?’ ‘What qualities does the KJB have that sets it apart from all other English bibles?’.

• As a resource to see how history’s translators studied the Bible.

• As proof that the KJB has not been revised, and is, in fact, “perfect.”
• As a resource to highlight the main errors of the NIV, NKJB, ESV, HCSB, and other modern versions.

• As a resource to demonstrate why the KJB cannot be updated, as the Evidence Bible and the Easy Reader have attempted to do.

• As a demonstration of exactly what kind of changes the KJB translators made in 1611 and why they made them, as well as a list of what sources they used.

If you want to have short, clear answers to these questions without wading through piles of documentation (In Awe of Thy Word) you will enjoy this book.

Have you ever wished someone would put ALL of the important facts about the KJB in a small, quickly-read book? That is what this book does. We guarantee that it will answer many questions and doubts typically tossed at our Holy Bible.

Tuck copies away as a memento and keepsake for your grandchildren; give one to every member of your church; send them to pastors of churches which do not use the KJB and pray for them. (See the next item in the shopping cart to order 5 or more at only $3.49 each!)

 GOOD THINGS come in small packages. This book is like a DNA molecule – small and tightly packed with dynamite facts, as only prayer and Dr. Riplinger’s intense study can bring forth, and as only our beloved King James Bible will allow

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