Pharaoh King of Egypt (Part 16)
This post continues from where I’ve stopped at Pharaoh King of Egypt (Part 15) last time. There, I have shown from scripture and physical evidence how the mystery of iniquity is at work to take the Spirit of the LORD out of the way, so that that Wicked, that man of sin and the son of perdition, may be revealed in his time.
2 Thessalonians 2:7-8 "For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. 8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:"
I’ve also demonstrated how it is the Spirit of the LORD that is keeping a check on the oppressive governmental power or abuse of authority in this world. When the Spirit of the LORD is taken out of the way, that is when liberty would be replaced by tyranny. The Spirit of the LORD accompanies the word of God. Where the word of God is preached, there is liberty. That’s why the years of intense persecution could not diminish pure bible Christianity, but had in fact caused it to multiply and become stronger.
Exodus 1:11-12 "Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses. 12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel."
The greater the affliction, the more bible Christianity multiplied and grew, just like what happened to the children of Israel in the time of Exodus. The Devil knew that, and he knew that in order to completely uproot the church of the living God, he must implode it from within, by re-writing the genetic instructions of the body of Christ. The 66 Books of the Holy Bible is the DNA of the church, the genetic material where the genetic instructions of the body of Christ are encoded. Since the late 1800s, they began to roll out many "bible" versions which were much different from the original Holy Bible, but they demand the church to acknowledge those as the word of God. Since then, the NIV, ESV, NASB, NLT, NKJV, etc which have their roots in the "Critical Text" have flooded churches all over the world, while the 1611 King James Bible is in the process of being kicked out from every Christian home.
“In time, the Jesuits got into the Bible departments to teach the young impressionable men who would become future Protestant pastors. ‘Let’s see how accurate the King James is against the ‘original Greek.’ The Greek they used from was Satan’s Alexandrian manuscript (Vaticanus)… the students didn’t know they were being deceived… Daily in their classes the word of God was criticized and cleverly put to ridicule. Young men who came believing the King James Bible was the word of God were soon turned against it… Pastors and radio preachers are constantly correcting the word of God and recommending other translations…’ The Vatican is busy secretly pouring millions of dollars into multitudes of new Bible translations…” — Jack T. Chick
They have lied about the 1611 King James Bible, and created all sorts of excuses for churches to NOT teach from it nor learn from it nor read it before the congregation. They had slandered those who stick to the original Holy Bible, labeling them "KJV-Onlyists," mocked at them, and treated them spitefully. Many churches caved in. Those who switched sides to modern bible versions never truly believed the words of the LORD on the first place, and as churches all over the world flourished and increased, those churches that are still faithfully upholding the 1611 King James Bible have become the minority. All of a sudden, churches that used to be the majority have now become the minority, and are in danger of becoming extinct from attacks coming from all fronts, forcing them to relinquish their doctrines about the inerrancy of the word of God.
2 Corinthians 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."
Paul tells us in this verse that there were many in his time that were already corrupting the word of God. Today, there are hundreds of so-called translations of the Holy Bible or New Testament in the English language alone. Of those hundreds of versions, only the 1611 King James Bible is translated from the Masoretic Text for the Old Testament, and the Received Text (Textus Receptus) for the New Testament. The Hebrew Masoretic Text, which undergirds the Old Testament translation, was already in existence at the time of Jesus and he accepted it totally. The Greek Textus Receptus, an edition of the Greek text established by Erasmus in the 16th century, undergirds the New Testament translation. All modern bible versions, even though no two bibles agree totally with each other, were mostly translated from another source. That other source is the highly corrupted Rudolph Kittel Text for the Old Testament and the Westcott and Hort Text for the New Testament. The Greek text of Westcott and Hort came from a very limited and selected number of manuscripts, primarily based on the Vaticanus (B) and Sinaiticus (Aleph) manuscripts of the fourth century, both of which were originated from the Alexandrian School.
Acts 6:8-10 "And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people. 9 ¶ Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen. 10 And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake."
In this passage of scripture, we see synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen who himself is a figure of the pure word of God, full of faith and power. Verse 10 tells us that those fake bibles could never resist the Spirit of the LORD in the 1611 King James Bible by which the church of the living God stands upon, and so in their zeal to destroy the pure word of God, they “suborned men,” as in:
Acts 6:11 "Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God."
They hired false witnesses to lay false accusations against Stephen, in as much as they blasphemously took upon themselves to criticize the 1611 King James Bible as corrupt and fraudulent, laying claims on the word of God that are totally not true. This is just like how the chief priests, and elders, and all the council sought witness against Jesus, for to put him to death.
Matthew 26:59-60 "Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death; 60 But found none: yea, though many false witnesses came, yet found they none. At the last came two false witnesses,"
Many witnesses came, yet they could not find anything they could use to put Jesus to death. Then we read in Matthew 26:60 “At last came two false witnesses…” The Westcott and Hort Text came from two sets of manuscripts — the Vaticanus (B) and Sinaiticus (Aleph). The Codex Vaticanus was "found" in 1481 in the Vatican library in Rome where it is currently held, and from whence it received its name, while Codex Sinaiticus was "found" in a dustbin at St. Catherine's Monastery at what many people consider Mount Sinai in 1844 and in 1859. The Westcott and Hort's Greek New Testament is the source text for almost all of today's modern bible translations. It is a Critical Text produced by people who use the critical method of blasphemously taking it upon themselves to "correct" the bible to get the "original" or "real" meaning or intent like such as in literary criticism when the stance is taken that the writer meant something more than what they expressly said. Satan introduced these two false witnesses, namely the Vaticanus and the Sinaiticus, both having survived because common people didn’t use them and in fact, they disagree with each other in thousands of places! Thus, even though these and other corrupt manuscripts are in the minority of all extant New Testament manuscripts, their readings have been accepted by many people as viable alternatives because there has been a “falling away” (2 Thessalonians 2:3) from the truth. Someone did a study previously and listed down the irreparable differences between these two manuscripts.
Mark 14:56-59 “For many bare false witness against him, but their witness agreed not together. 57 And there arose certain, and bare false witness against him, saying, 58 We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands. 59 But neither so did their witness agree together.”
The Vaticanus and Sinaiticus are like the two false witnesses who came to witness against Jesus, trying to interpret the real meaning or intent of Jesus’ words, but their witness agree not together. Eventually, despite the fact that the two false witnesses agree not together, Jesus was still rejected and condemned to the cross! Likewise, despite the thousands of disagreements between the Vaticanus and the Sinaiticus, churches and Christians all over the world still worship the modern bible versions that came out of those two false witnesses, calling them “holy and true,” while the 1611 King James Bible are gradually being forgotten and relegated as being too archaic for today’s use. Churches today have been infiltrated by false teachers who think they know better than Jesus. These false teachers are the wolves that Paul has warned us in:
Acts 20:29 "For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock."
These are the false teachers that have climbed up into the sheepfold by some other way, as a thief and a robber. (John 10:1) These are the Christians who are “ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth” (2 Timothy 3:7). The tragedy is that so many have submitted to their beliefs and have abandoned the doctrine of the inerrancy of God’s written word, held to by millions throughout history. Satan dealt a masterstroke to the churches. He introduced a false doctrine to the churches, which was then foolishly adopted even in the face of clear evidence against it. The false doctrine was this: that the older a manuscript is, the more accurate it’s going to be. This is a blatant and cruel lie! In fact, history tells us that if a manuscript survives to be very old, then it generally means that the common people didn’t use it because they thought it to be too full of inaccuracies!
The Textus Receptus or Received Text on the other hand, is predominantly made up of New Testament manuscripts, copies that can be traced back to the time of the Apostles, who discerned for the early church which manuscripts were true and which were corrupted. God preserved the true manuscripts by the body of born again believers throughout history such as the Eastern Orthodox Church, and those manuscripts make up about 95% of all New Testament manuscripts that we have today. The majority of the extant New Testament manuscripts constitute a text called the “Traditional Text.” The Received Text was the result of the Protestant Reformation recognizing the pure textual stream and incorporating other considerations to present to the world the true word of God. The Greek edition of the Received Text were further refined upon by Erasmus in the 16th century, resulting in the final form of the Received Text being translated into the English language. The various editions in the line of English bibles leading up to the 1611 King James Bible were then necessary to conform the text to absolute purity, resulting in the pure English text (the Pure Cambridge Edition) printed circa 1900. The King James Bible is the final form of the translated Received Text which corrects any inaccuracies that were present in the previous editions.
In 1605, one year after King James I, king of England, commissioned the translation of the King James Bible, the Jesuits tried to destroy the leadership of Protestant England and the publication of the King James Bible with the Gunpowder Plot. They failed of course. Tried as they might, the Roman Catholic Church could not stop people from getting access to the word of God. Knowing that they could not stop the work of God by persecution alone, the Jesuits decided to go in league with mainstream Christianity in the area of Bible translations with the hope of destroying the pure word of God. Since 1881, there have been well over two hundred translations of the bible, especially the New Testament, and all using the Critical Text to subvert and supplant the King James Bible by claiming that the manuscripts underlying the King James Bible were inferior manuscripts, outdated and faulty, all the while putting out the claim that they have the "oldest and best" manuscripts in their possessions.
Not only was the King James Bible condemned by the scholars, theologians and academics as inferior, it was even classified as a forbidden book under the Roman Catholic Index of Forbidden Books citing harm to the faith and morals as an excuse, and the reading of which is therefore expressly forbidden by the Pope.
1 Corinthians 2:7-8 "But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory: 8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory."
Just like how Satan and his hierarchy of devils working through the chief priests, the elders and the scribes to crucify the Son of man Jesus Christ, thinking that they could gain the victory over God. Needless to say, they have failed to prevent the will of God from coming to past, for their beastly minds could never comprehend the wisdom of God in a mystery. Today, these devils are working through the synagogues of Satan, theologians and academics again thinking that they could destroy the words of the LORD that God has preserved for mankind, to take the Spirit of the LORD out of the way, to make way for that man of sin, the son of perdition. That’s why there has been attacks after attacks on God’s people throughout the history of the church. It is the word of God they are after.
Martin Luther once said:
"No greater mischief can happen to a Christian people than to have God's word taken from them or falsified, so that they no longer have it pure and clear. God grant that we and our descendants be not witnesses of such a calamity. Let us not lose the Bible, but with diligence, in fear and invocation of God, read and preach it."
Paul tells us in:
2 Timothy 4:2-5 "Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. 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; 4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. 5 But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry."
Indeed, let us not lose the Holy Bible, but with diligence, in fear and invocation of God, read and preach it. Preach the word, be instant in season, out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. Where the Spirit of the LORD is, there is liberty. In the absence of the word of God, tyranny will rule over mankind, and the time will come when many will not endure sound doctrine. Why? Because there will be many false teachers pretending to be ministers of righteousness, teaching false doctrines, and cause many to turn their ears away from the truth. Today, we are seeing that happening more and more, because more and more churches are no longer preaching from the pure word of God — the 1611 King James Bible. To continue in Part 17.