16 Scriptural Reasons NOT to Take The Bible Literally FROM TIME TO TIME I get e-mails asking why the Bible shouldn’t be taken literally. One of the reasons is that the scripture itself makes this clear. I’ve decided to provide the scriptural reasons themselves all in one post so I can refer people to it. This is by no means an exhaustive list, but it gets the point across. Old Testament Scriptures 1) Psalms 78:2: “I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old.” Dark sayings of old are ancient teachings in the forms of riddles and parables. The Biblical writers call them “dark” because the meanings are hidden, or concealed. They are meant to figure out through careful meditation, prayer, and contemplation. Why would the Lord speak to us like this? The answer is provided in the following scripture. Download Now!137 Downloads A Game of Cards THE FOLLOWING CURIOUS ARTICLE IS TAKEN FROM AN ENGLISH NEWSPAPER OF THE YEAR, 1773 and is called the “Perpetual Almanac of the Soldier’s Prayer Book”, by Risand Dane a private soldier belonging to the 42nd Regiment, who was taken before the mayor of Glasgow for playing cards during divine service. Being sternly reprimanded for this act, the soldier explained as follows, beginning with the ace: “It reminds me there, is but one God. When 1 see the duce, it reminds me of the Father and son. When I see the three it reminds me of Father, Son and Holy Ghost. The four‑spot reminds me of the four evangelists: Matthew Mark, Luke and John. The Five reminds me of the five wise virgins who trimmed their lamps, there were ten, but five were foolish. Download Now!651 Downloads All Who are Led by The Spirit of God are The Sons of God For as many as are led by the SPIRIT OF GOD, are sons of God. (Romans 8:14) Download Now!797 Downloads The Beast of The Field – Nord Davis BEAST IS A FREQUENTLY USED, AND WIDELY MISUNDERSTOOD WORD found in Scripture. When one thinks of a Beast in today’s modern English usage, the concept is limited to those four-legged animals with hooves, paws and claws. However, the Hebrew word Chay does not only refer to ordinary animals, but in the English of the days of King James, it was not uncommon to refer to the hard working Negro people as Beasts of Burden. Thus, we see the unusual language of our Bible that uses this term for them. It did not carry the degrading or derogatory thought that such usage would imply today. Until we come to grips with this Biblical phrase, “The Beasts of the field,” there is no way that we can grasp advanced, Biblical Truth. Students should run this phrase through Strong’s Concordance, but let me show with a few verses what I am getting at here. I think that these few verses will give a deeper meaning to the first chapters of Genesis, the foundation of all of God’s Word. Genesis 9:5-6 states:……… Download Now!794 Downloads Bible Roots of Early European Mythology DOES BIBLE PROPHECY actually speak to us of the Norse and related peoples of Europe? I believe that it does, and that these peoples can trace their descent from the Biblical lost tribes of the House of Israel, removed out of their land in Assyrian captivity two thousand seven hundred years ago, and lost to recorded history. The Caucasian peoples, including the Norse, migrated out of Asia into Europe in the early pre-Christian centuries, and have fulfilled many of the prophecies in both the Old and New Testaments concerning Israel in the latter days. Let’s begin our study in the foremost prophetic book of the New Testament, Revelation. In Revelation chapter 12, there appears a spectacular vision which has intrigued Christians for centuries. The vision concerns “a woman.” Bible commentators see this woman as representing Israel, and the vision as prophetic of events which were to take place in world history. Download Now!852 Downloads A Short History of Our English Bible Early Church History and The English Bible BEFORE THE END OF THE SECOND CENTURY AD the gospel was brought to London, England. There might have been early translations of portions of the Greek New Testament into English. None are extant[1]. It remained for missionaries from Rome in the fifth century to bring Jerome’s Latin Vulgate to England[2]. The need was great for an English translation of the Bible[3]. Medieval Church History and The English Bible An intelligible liturgy that both priest and laity could understand gave an impetus for the paraphrasing of Scripture into the English language. Foremost of the portions of the Bible paraphrased became the Psalms, sometimes with meter[4]. Caedmon, (a seventh century monk) made a metrical version of some portions of Scripture. Bede translated the Gospels into English. It is alleged that he finished translating the Gospel of John on his deathbed in A.D. 735. Alfred the Great (reigned 871-899) translated the Psalms and the Ten Commandments[5]. Some interlinear translations remain from the tenth century[6]. The Lindisfarne Gospels are cited as the most famous of this period (ca. 950)[7]. Aelfric (ca. 955-1020) made idiomatic translations of Scripture portions. Two of these exist until today. Almost three hundred years later, William of Shoreham and Richard Rolle each translated the Psalter. Rolle’s work included a verse by verse commentary. Both Psalters were popular at the time of John Wycliffe (ca. 1329-1384)[8]. Download Now!461 Downloads Biblical Gardening “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” – Genesis 1:1 THERE IS SO LITTLE WRITTEN ON THE SUBJECT OF BIBLICAL GARDENING. Plants that are mentioned in the bible have been covered well. I’m hoping, however, that this document will spark more interest in the laws of biblical gardening and help us to return to a more biblical way of life. This is not intended to be an exhaustive study, nor is it intended to be the only gardening reference in your collection. This document should be used in conjunction with the bible, and with organic gardening books, many of which have helpful hints at planting seeds, increasing yield/productivity, companion planting for pest control, and collecting seeds. All biblical quotes are from the Authorized King James Version (AKJV) of the bible, with the LORD and GOD replaced with YHWH, the proper Hebrew transliterated name of God. This name is pronounced “Yahweh” according to many biblical scholars. “After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.” – Matthew 6:9 Italics are retained and were added to the text by the translators of the AKJV. Removing them sometimes gives different meanings to the text. Bold is added for emphasis. “And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for YHWH God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.” – Genesis 2:5 Download Now!644 Downloads Book of Kailedy The Kolbrin is a collection of ancient manuscripts said to have been salvaged from the Glastonbury Abbey arson in 1184. The Kolbrin is also said to have had a connection to Jesus, historically through his Great-Uncle, Joseph of Arimathea. This Culdian Trust version of The Kolbrin was publically disclosed online by Professor James M. McCanney, M.S. Download Now!818 Downloads David’s Greater Son Many have been led to believe that our Saviour Jesus Christ is of the race we designate as Jews today. Because of this conception, when the activities of certain Jews and their organisations are criticized, the immediate rejoinder is, “You know Jesus was a Jew and you must be good to the Jews, for a curse is pronounced upon those who are not.” Our Saviour was not a Jew, as Jews are now defined, and it is imperative that every Christian understand this. It is also important to know that the blessings under the covenant made with Abraham only apply to those among his descendants who conform with the covenant terms. By Jewry’s rejection of Jesus Christ as their Messiah, they deliberately repudiated the covenant and became His enemies, as Jesus Himself declared. This booklet presents irrefutable evidence proving that Jesus Christ, while He was not a Jew, was, nevertheless, of the line of Abraham, an Israelite of the seed of David, born of the Virgin Mary. Through Him, as both Redeemer and Saviour, the covenant promise will be brought to its full fruition: “In thee and in thy seed shall all families of the earth be blessed.” Download Now!804 Downloads Does The Book of Esther Belong in The Bible As many know, the name of “God” or “Lord” does not appear even once in the book of Esther. And I reject the Companion Bible’s assertion that it is hidden in acrostics seems a little too convenient (made up after the fact?) and Kabalistic to me. Especially as there is no rhyme nor reason as to how the so-called acrostics are located. It is as though someone just looked through the book for a couple of instances where certain words followed one another. Remember that Bullinger was a friend of the converted Jew Ginsburg, and that Ginsburg was studied in the Cabbala (Kabbalah). This type of counting and letter sequencing seems very Kabalistic. I just don’t like the feel of it, at all; it seems eerily reminiscent of the “Bible Code” type spurious books. “…no lie is of the truth” (1 John 2:21). Download Now!833 Downloads Cave of Treasures The Cave of Treasures was introduced to the world by Giuseppe Simone Assemani, the author of the Catalogues of Oriental Manuscripts in the Vatican Library, which he printed in Bibliotheca Orientalis in four thick volumes folio. In Vol. ii. page 498 he describes a Syriac manuscript containing a series of apocryphal works, and among them is one the title of which he translates Spelunca Thesaurorum. He saw that the manuscript contained the history of 5,500 years, from the creation of Adam to the birth of Christ, and that it was based upon the Scriptures. He says that fables are found in it everywhere, especially concerning the antediluvian Patriarchs, and the genealogy of Christ and His Mother. He mentions that the Patriarch Eutychius also describes a cave of treasures in which gold, frankincense, and myrrh were laid up, and refers to the “portentosa feminarum nomina,” women of Jesus’ ancestry. No attempt was made to publish the Syriac text; in fact, little attention was paid to it until August Dillmann began to study the Conflict of Adam and Eve in connection with it, and then he showed in Ewald’s Jahrbüchern (Bd. V. 1853) that the contents of whole sections of the Book of the Cave of Treasures in Syriac and the Conflict of Adam and Eve in Ethiopic were identical. Download Now!820 Downloads Esdras Book 2 2 ESDRAS (also called 4 Esdras, Latin Esdras, or Latin Ezra) is the name of an apocalyptic book in many English versions of the Bible. Its authorship is ascribed to Ezra, a scribe and priest of the 5th century BC, although modern scholarship places its composition between 70 and 218 AD. It is reckoned among the apocrypha by Roman Catholics, Protestants, and most Eastern Orthodox Christians. Although Second Esdras was preserved in Latin as an appendix to the Vulgate and passed down as a unified book, it is generally considered to be a tripartite work. Download Now!808 Downloads Far Above Rubies IN the following biographical sketches of the more famous women of Israel an attempt has been made to supply what can hardly be said to exist already: a short historical work which might enable the reader of the Bible to realize that the women of both the Old and New Testaments were characters worthy of our highest esteem and very little removed in feeling and thought from ourselves. If this little work has any real value it is as a picture of manners and customs, a drama in which the personages are living characters and not mere historical names. In the beginning woman was the equal of man in every respect; in patriarchal times she had an independence surpassing even today, and was entrusted with the administration of her husband’s property as well as her own. The women of heathen nations were the first to lose this independence which was retained by the women of Israel until the captivities. Upon the return of the Jewish captives from Babylon to Palestine a marked change is discernible; family life was never again the same. The women of both Houses of Israel had become degraded to the level of the women of their captors, and a woman was viewed by her husband as a mere chattel and his slave. Perhaps no better illustration of the gradual decline in the status of women of ancient times could be found than that to be seen in the Gizeh Museum, near Cairo. Here there is displayed a long line of Egyptian monarchs in stone; at the end where the most ancient were placed the queen sat by the side of the king, of equal size and importance. A few centuries down the line the queen is found to be smaller than the king; progressing farther down the line the queen is found to be much smaller and to sit on a lower level than the king. Lastly, the queen is no longer carved out of a stone block, she is merely sketched in portraiture on the stool upon which the king sat or upon the arm of his throne. Download Now!466 Downloads The Bible – For Whom was it Written? IT MAY NOT HAVE OCCURRED TO YOU, but the Bible was written about and to only one people and nation – the nation of true Israel. The only time other people were ever mentioned in the Bible was when they came into contact with God’s people, Israel. Download Now!758 Downloads Francis Bacon and The King James Bible IN THE CORRESPONDENCE COLUMNS OF BACONIANA OF JANUARY 1948, there appeared a letter on the above subject from Earle Cornwall. In it he says: Here of late I have been reading a bound volume or two of the Baconian booklets, two years earlier Baconiana Magazine, and the Life of Alice Bamham and Thos. Meautys, all from curiosity concerning Bacon’s life. He was surely a fascinating character. I have as yet no “Life” of Bacon. Somewhere I have seen one of those short references to his connection with the translation and publication of King James* Holy Bible, 1611—at least the statement that he had some connection with this great work. Yet in my recent search I cannot find any reference whatever to Bacon and the Bible: if he was connected with it he should have credit. Download Now!39 Downloads Francis Bacon and The King James Bible In his first regnal year, King James presided over a conference between Episcopalians and Puritans. The primary topic for discussion concerned the numerous, and sometimes conflicting versions of the Bible—most of which were not written in English. The Puritan leader John Rainoldes stressed the need for a uniform English translation of the Bible. The King approved the idea, and commissioned a force of 54 translators to execute the project. The translators were then arranged into six groups operating under specific guidelines. It was the consummate set-up. Bacon had every intention of producing his own translation of the Bible since his teen years, and the King provided the perfect opportunity and means for its implementation—along with the ideal cover for which Bacon was only too happy to insure that James would receive full credit for the undertaking. Hence, the “Bacon Bible” would forever be known as the King James Version by virtue of Bacon‘s need for a patron to finance such an immense project, and a front man behind which he could operate with complete invisibility. Download Now!915 Downloads Genesis Disclosed The Christian world have ever been in search for the pure word of God, and we have all supposed that it was contained in the Bible now in common use. The discoveries set forth in this work, however, will clearly show the following astounding facts: That the name of a class of human beings made in the account of the creation has been eliminated from that account, although that name was specially given by God himself. That the creative name [was] given in the same account to the man put into the Garden of Eden, although it occurs in the first eleven chapters of the Hebrew Genesis thirty-six times is not to be found in our Bible at all, having been eliminated from the account of creation as well as from the body of the Bible. That a very important word has also been eliminated, and another of opposite meaning substituted, by which the class of human beings above referred to has been left out of the creative account, and thus the whole nature and meaning of the Genesis on this subject changed. That by similar eliminations and substitutions the flood has been made universal. It will not be our object to trace back and find out where these stupendous errors have arisen, but to deal with them as they stand in our King James Bible, the whole discussion being confined to the misuse of two names and one word. Download Now!862 Downloads The Original Geneva Bible CHRISTIANITY IS THE RELIGION OF THE INCARNATE WORD, JESUS CHRIST, AND OF THE WRITTEN WORD, THE BIBLE. Wherever Christianity has gone, it has developed translations of Scripture as a necessity. The promise of Pentecost, where people of various origin heard of “the wonders of God in their own tongues” (Acts 2:11), has been fulfilled and continues to be increasingly fulfilled in the process of Bible translation. The whole Bible, or portions thereof, is now available in print in more than 2,000 languages. In the British Isles, turbulent times accompanied the work of translating Scripture, but the first written translation of the whole Bible was made under the influence of John Wycliffe (c. 1330–1384). Even though it had to be copied by hand, and in spite of a prohibition against English translations, there are still some two hundred manuscripts of it extant. The first published text was William Tyndale’s translation of the New Testament (1526), based on the Greek and Hebrew texts, in Worms, Germany. He had completed the translation of the Pentateuch, Jonah, and Joshua-2 Chronicles before being martyred in 1536. Download Now!516 Downloads God’s Broken Promises CHARLES BRADLAUGH, an able King’s Counsel and member of the British Parliament for many years, stood before a great audience in London, Bible in hand, and read out the great covenants God made with Abraham, and also confirmed by His oath and later reaffirmed to his seed. He then asked, “Have those promises ever been fulfilled to the Jews?” No one could say “Yes”. He then said, “And you tell me the God of that book is a God of truth? I don’t believe it.” Thus publicly, and I think sadly, Charles Bradlaugh proclaimed that his faith in the Bible was gone. It had been wrecked by unbiblical teaching, and he became one of the most active infidels of his day, although not an atheist, for he still believed there must be a God, and that man can come into contact with God somehow. Download Now!739 Downloads The History of English Bible Revision Unauthorised Version Gospel According to Rothschild The commonly accepted account of English Bible revision begins in the year 1853 when B.F. Westcott and F.J.A. Hort set out to replace the Textus Receptus with a New Greek Text based on corrupt Alexandrian manuscripts. Virtually all King James Bible apologists start with Westcott and Hort who, they generally agree, were acting alone. However, revision of the English Bible actually began well in advance of 1853—at least in the early 1800’s—as a joint project of the Church of England and American Baptists, sponsored and financed by the House of Rothschild through their innumerable fronts. The following report is presented as a chronology of the stages leading to and during the period of revision of the Authorised Version. The facts which establish the early date of English Bible revision are available in A History of the Baptists: Traced by their Vital Principles and Practices, from the Time of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to the Year 1886 by Thomas Armitage, who was a member of the revisionist American Bible Union. Other sources reveal the hidden connections of key Bible revisers to secret societies controlled by the House of Rothschild, whose agenda was to transform the Christian Bible into an instrument of Zionism. Download Now!816 Downloads Where in Hell Hell is not a Hebrew word, Hell is not a Greek word, Hell is not a Latin word. Hell is an English word from the Saxon’s (Germanic Peoples) that literally means to cover, or hide: paralleling the word grave. [Hell] A word used in the King James Version (as well as in the Catholic Douay Version and most older translations) to translate the Hebrew she´ohl´ and the Greek hai´des. In the King James Version the word “hell” is rendered from she´ohl´ 31 times and from hai´des 10 times. This version is not consistent, however, since she´ohl´ is also translated 31 times “grave” and 3 times “pit.” In the Douay Version (Catholic Version) she´ohl´ is rendered “hell” 64 times, “pit” once, and “death” once. Download Now!847 Downloads How We Got Our Bible LET the scope of this book be clearly understood. The question How we got our Bible is a very wide one and the full answer should tell of the making of the Bible and the writers of the Books and the ancient historical material which they used and also how it happened that this particular collection of books came to be separated from the other literature of the time and regarded as inspired and collected into a Bible. This part of the answer I have already tried to give in another book. The present treatise takes the answer at a later stage when the books were already completed and received as the inspired guide of the Church. It traces the story of the Bible from the early manuscripts of Apostolic days down to the last Revised Version which is in our hands to-day.’ Download Now!911 Downloads Is God’s Name Jehovah? Is God’s Name Jehovah? JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES INSIST THAT GOD’S NAME (YHWH in the ancient Hebrew manuscript copies of the Old Testament) is supposed to be pronounced “Jehovah.” So persuaded are they about this, they believe they are the only church (organization) that has God’s favour because they are the only ones who consistently call God by this name. Yet, Jewish and Christian scholars, who are thoroughly familiar with the Old Testament Hebrew language and how to pronounce Hebrew words, make it clear that the Hebrew word YHWH is more accurately pronounced “Yahweh” (Yaw-Way) rather than “Jehovah.” Richard Abanes, a nationally recognized authority on cults and religions, points out that: The origin of the word Jehovah can be traced to the late Middle Ages (around the year 1500), when Jewish scribes began inserting the vowels from the Hebrew word adonai (“my Lord”) into the name YHWH. The insertion resulted in the hybrid term YaHoWaH. Scribes wanted this new word to remind readers that God’s name was too holy to pronounce, so they should substitute adonah for it when reading biblical passages aloud. Then, when the term YaHoWaH was Latinised, the “Y” and “W” were changed to “J” and “V”—resulting in Jehovah. In other words, Jehovah is a mistransliteration, compounded by the fact that, while “J” has a “Y” sound in Latin, it has a very different sound in English—as in the word jam. Jehovah appears in no literature earlier than about the thirteenth century, and it began to be popularised in the sixteenth century by well-meaning but mistaken Christians. (Richard Abanes, The Truth Behind the Da Vinci Code, p. 19, 83) Download Now!136 Downloads Israel in The Book of Revelation IN OTHER ISSUES, I have traced for you some of the many references to Israel in the New Testament, showing that the New Testament is as much an Israel book as is the Old Testament. In this issue, I want to examine the Book of Revelation, to show you that this, too, is an Israel book. No book in the whole Bible is as little understood as the Book of Revelation. It is a prophetic book: history pre-written. But it is much more difficult to understand than any other prophetic book, because it is written principally in symbols. Download Now!918 Downloads Jacob I Have Loved Esau I have Hated IN THE MID 70’S, I undertook an end depth research / study of the “anti-Messiah Conspiracy” present in the earth, but behind the scenes. I was shocked at what I was learning. Suddenly, a realisation hit me square in the face. Behind every organisation, every facet of this “New World Order”, there were “Jews”. Even more startling was the fact that the “Jewish Bankers” in this nation had financed not only the Bolshevik Revolution, but even Hitler’s rise to power in Germany. It put me on my face before Jah. I told Him if the “Jews” were His chosen people, He chose the wrong ones.He then brought Rev 2:9 and 3:9 to my attention. This is where Jahshuwah states that there are those claiming to be “Jews”, but are NOT “Jews”, and are liars. That it is these that are the “Church” of Satan, and therefore worshippers and followers of him. I was wiped out. Yet I could not reject what I was seeing. No wonder they were behind the entire “anti-Christ” conspiracy to rid the earth of “Christianity”; working to establish the end day “anti-Christ” empire, and to bring forth the “Pure worship of Lucifer”.I began seeking Jah on this and asked Him, “Oh Father, who are these people?” I sure enough found out. They are NOT HIS CHOSEN, but SATAN’S!!! The carnal minds of people that believes EXACTLY OPPOSITE of The Truth, had been programmed to believe that Satan’s chosen WERE JAH’S CHOSEN. What an incredible revelation this was, and is one that is enough to boggle anyone’s mind. Download Now!745 Downloads Book of Jasher Preface Notes of The Parry Edition THE age in which we live has been, and continues to be, particularly distinguished by a laudable desire in the minds of men, to inquire into the various states of knowledge, and of the arts, as they existed in times anterior to the Christian era; animated with these noble and elevated views, a considerable number of individuals, greatly distinguished for their genius and learning, have in succession turned their attention to the East—to those celebrated countries, in which the arts of civilisation and the lights of science first dawned upon, enlightened, and embellished human society. The magnificent and unequalled remains of the arts in Egypt, Babylonia, Assyria, Palestine, and Persia, have, from time to time, been visited and explored; and it has been amidst these fallen monuments of human grandeur, that the adventurous and enlightened traveller has found himself amply rewarded for his laborious and hazardous undertakings; for amidst these wrecks of human greatness, he has succeeded in gathering ample evidence, in confirmation of many of the most important truths recorded in sacred history. Download Now!829 Downloads Book of Jasher THE BOOK OF JASHER (also, Jashar) or the Book of the Upright or the Book of the Just Man (Hebrew: סֵפֶר הַיׇּשׇׁר; transliteration: sēfer hayyāšār) is an unknown book mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. The translation “Book of the Just Man” is the traditional Greek and Latin translation, while the transliterated form “Jasher” is found in the King James Bible, 1611 Download Now!862 Downloads Jesus Christ Was Not a Jew Do the above headlines shock you? We certainly hope they do! for it is about time that the Christian people awaken to the fact that they have been brainwashed by the Jews with the “big lie technique” to the falsehood that Jesus was a Jew. We ask you now, to set aside all prejudice in the matter and as God states in the Bible, “Come let us reason together”. There are two ways that a person can be a Jew; racially or religiously. Let us now see whether Jesus fits either of these categories. Ninety-five percent of the people that we know as Jews today, are mongrels. That is they are a product of the amalgamation of many races. The majority of the Jews are Asiatics, of Mongolian, stock. They are the descendents of Cain. No racial Jew is an Israelite. That’s right, we re-peat, NO RACIAL JEW IS AN ISRAELITE. The Bible itself identifies the Jews as the seed of Cain thereby identifying Satan as their father. Download Now!797 Downloads Jesus Christ Was Not a Jew – Nick Goggin Many Christians and even church leaders are under the mistaken belief that Jesus was a Jew. Nothing could be further from the truth. In the New Testament, the English word ‘Jew’ is a translation of the Greek Ioudaios (Yehudah-os), a Judean or inhabitant of Judah (Yehudah) – Judea – the former territory of the tribe of Judah (Yehudah). Judea and Galilee were two separate states and political entities, as any Bible with maps of the Holy Land in New Testament times will show. Jesus Himself was not a Jew (Judean) living in Judea – he was a Galilean who lived in Galilee (Matthew 26:69, John 7:41), although a descendent of the Tribe of Judah. The Judeans of prominence were not of Judah, but of the evil Edomite people. Pilate was using irony when he wrote ‘Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews [Greek = Judeans]’ (John 19:19) – i.e. ‘the Galilean who was King of the Judeans’, as in ‘Queen Victoria of England, Empress of India’. Jesus grew up in Nazareth in Galilee. His disciples were fishermen from the Sea of Galilee. Christ visited Jerusalem, but spent most of His life in Galilee. John 7:1 says, ‘After this Jesus stayed in Galilee; He could not stay in Judea, because the Jews were out to kill him’. His followers were constrained ‘for fear of the Jews’ (John 7:13, 19:38, 20:19). Download Now!796 Downloads Learned Men Who Translated The King James Bible WHAT GOOD CAN IT DO US to know more about the men who made the King James Bible and about their work on it? Just how did these chosen men revise the Bible from 1604 to 16 11? Who were these men and what were their careers? Were they happy in their labour? Did they live with success after they finished it? How did it affect them? How does the King James Bible differ from Bibles before and after it? Could a group or groups turn out better writing than a single person? These are some of the questions I aim to answer in this volume. The King James men were minor writers, though great scholars, doing superb writing. Their task lifted them above themselves, while they leaned firmly on their subjects. Many have written in wonder about what they achieved. I quote here only from one ardent man with Bible learning, and from one who admired the product while he scorned ways of worship. Dr. F. William Faber: “It lives on the ear like a music that can never be forgotten, like the sound of church bells, which the convert hardly knows how he can forego. Its felicities often seem to be almost things rather than mere words. It is part of the national mind and the anchor of national seriousness. The memory of the dead passes into it. The potent traditions of childhood are stereotyped in its verses. The power of all the griefs and trials of a man is hidden beneath its words. It is the representative of his best moments; and all that there has been about him of soft, and gentle, and pure, and penitent, and good speaks to him for ever out of his English Bible.” Download Now!950 Downloads Light From Nahum IN THIS LAODICEAN CHURCH AGE IN WHICH WE LIVE, we see the Scriptures of Truth under increasing assault from the forces of Modernism and self-styled Higher Criticism. The Virgin Birth, miraculous ministry and even the Resurrection of our Lord are questioned by our leading Churchmen and the faith of many is being daily undermined. We, in the Israel-identity movement, who accept the National Historicist interpretation of the Prophetic Scriptures have however,” —a more sure word of prophecy–-” which, says Peter” —shineth in a dark place until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts”. (II Peter 1 V. 19). We know that Almighty God in His sovereign plan and purpose, allowed the knowledge of our Israel-identity to come to the fore at just that period of time when Modernism began to arise and had our message been accepted by the Evangelicals, faith in God and His Word would have been re-established and confirmed. There is no doubt, whatsoever, but that prophecy fulfilled in history constitutes the most convincing proof of the Inspiration and Inerrancy of God’s Word; this can be well illustrated by a study of one of the least known of the so-called Minor Prophets – Nahum. Who was Nahum? The meaning of names was of great significance to the ancient Israelites and the name “Nahum” means ‘consoler’ or ‘comforter’. We are told little about him except that in the opening verse of his book, he is described as an Elkoshite. Whilst Nahum ministered in Judah, some Bible scholars suggest that Elkosh may have been a village in the area of Galilee, and they point out that the town of Capernaum, the centre of Christ’s ministry means the ‘village of Nahum’, and that, therefore, the birth place of the prophet may have been nearby. There is also said to have been a town called Elkosh, twenty miles north of Nineveh the object of Nahum’s prophecy and some have suggested that he may have been of the Ten Tribes of Israel carried away captive by the Assyrians. Download Now!350 Downloads Misconceptions about Josephus The Judean (To my family and friends in Christian Israel: I wish to posthumously dedicate this article to my e-buddy and colleague, Arnold Kennedy, who was taken from us December 28, 2006. Arnold and I almost had personal contact when he visited the Eastern United States a couple of years ago. He made it as far west as Cincinnati and I made it as far east as Toledo (from Chicago); but we just couldn’t find the time for a face to face meeting. One thing we had in common was our belief in the Exclusiveness of True Israel, namely that the Anglo-Saxon/Caucasian peoples are the True Descendants of the Twelve Tribes of Israel, although Arnold was reluctant to call himself a 2-Seedliner. Some of you may have followed our ongoing dispute as to whether ANY JEW can count as an Israelite or a Judahite. Arnold felt that the Bible could be understood even if we accept that some Jews were Judahites. I have taken the opposite point of view, saying that, under no circumstances, can any Jew be counted as an Israelite or as a Judahite. This article, in fact, was composed with Arnold’s perspective in mind. I’m sure that Yahweh – a name which Arnold also did not accept as the Name of Our Creator (one of our other disputes) — will arrange for him to read this article from some place in heaven. In my last email to Arnold, I told him that every boxer needs a good sparring partner to practice against. He accepted the statement as a compliment, which is how it was intended. Arnold forced me to sharpen my arguments, so that we were not just arguing semantics but legitimate cultural differences between Jews and Israelites. Aside from our Scriptural dispute, Arnold had given me, and us, every reason to believe that his surgery was a success , his health was improving and that he would be back with us at full strength. That was not to be, however. Despite our disagreements over Scriptural interpretation, I have only one thing to say: Arnold, you are a very gracious person in addition to being a gentleman and a scholar. See you in the Kingdom. – Eli) Download Now!916 Downloads Mistranslation Deceives Christians THE one-worlders and do-gooders, which includes the bulk of our clergy, educators, politicians, pseudo-scientists, and intellectuals like to quite Acts 17:26 to. prove that all men are of one blood and descendants of Adam and Eve. In their customary deceitful way, they only quote the first half of the verse to make their assinine interpretation a little stronger. Acts 17:26 “And hath made of one BLOOD all nations of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation”. The second half of the verse coincides with the rest of the Bible showing that our Father placed the different races on this planet at different times and ordained that they should live among themselves within prescribed boundaries, not to move in with other races. The key word here is “blood” but through . lack of knowledge and study, these false prophets are not aware that the word “blood” does not appear in this verse in the original manuscripts. It was added in by the translators. See The Emphatic Diaglott, Vatican Document #1209, which. was used when translating The New Testament into English. All Biblical authorities agree with this, even Scofield, see his note in your King James version. Ferrar Fenton has perhaps the best translation: “Himself giving every one life and breath and all things; because He made by One .(Christ) every race of men to dwell upon the race of the earth.” I Corinthians 15:39 makes it a little plainer, so they never quote it, “All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one kind of flesh of men (Adam), another flesh of beasts ( two-legged and four-legged), another of fish and another of birds.” Download Now!757 Downloads The Bible Teaches That Multiculturalism Leads to Calamity and Extinction for The Host Nation HAVE JUST READ “PEOPLE OF FAITH UNITE IN RESPONSE TO TERROR” from a Kent newspaper published in Canterbury. This letter is signed by a motley assorted Babel of religionists ranging from Sikhs, Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, Muslims, The Salvation Army to dozens of silly clergymen who style themselves “Reverend” and wear their collars back to front. The Book which these “Reverend” gentlemen profess to follow clearly teaches: “Be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? Or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?…. Therefore, be ye separate”..II Cor. 6.14-15. Frankly, these so-called leaders of the so-called Christian community disgust me. Their rejection of the plain truth, infantile pronouncements, convoluted reasoning, anti British stance and their total failure to condemn real evil has all but emptied the churches. Less than 5 per cent of the British now go to Church. Across this land tens of thousands of churches have become defunct and closed down, while the Muslims are building new mosques and the Hindus new temples in England. Download Now!772 Downloads Is There A Need to Be Born Again? WITH ALL THE DISTRACTIONS AROUND US TODAY we would do well to heed these words from John’s Gospel (4/14), for one of our greatest needs in these times is to know the truth and to live accordingly. Now there is only one sure place to obtain truth and that is in the infallible word of God. I use the word infallible deliberately, because logic demands that the Almighty, Himself infallible, would not have caused a book to be written for the guidance of His creation, that was anything less. The first step towards arriving at truth is therefore to realise this, and to accept the fact that the Bible is God’s word, inspired by Him, and as such does not contain the thoughts or wisdom of fallible man. Nor is it permissible for man to alter the words of this book either by taking from or adding to it. Likewise he may not assume to have the ability, moral-intellectual, or otherwise, to criticise this, the work of his Maker. Download Now!801 Downloads The New Testament = New Covenant These young men had opened their discussion with me by asking me if I was a “New Testament” Christian. When I did not respond promptly enough, they began their presentation to me by taking me down the primrose path of the Roman Road. My first question to these sincere people was this: “What is the New Testament, anyway?” In any sales arena, once you get the prospect talking or asking questions, you are on your way to a sale. Having told me that they were graduating students, they were more than willing to answer my question. Further, since they had claimed that glorious status, it was up to them to explain the term. One of them told me that while the Old Testament dealt with the Jews and The Law, the New Testament was primarily for the Gentiles and operated under Christ’s Grace. He flatly stated that the New Testament Church was not to be concerned with The Old Law, which had been abandoned at The Cross, but was to emphasise Christ’s Grace. Download Now!780 Downloads New Testament, Old Testament or Whole Testament I wonder if any of my readers have ever attempted to collect a set of books or magazines, only to find that one part was missing. It was so frustrating, without that missing part the story was unintelligible, you simply could not get the grasp of it because the vital, often the fundamental part was missing. Download Now!821 Downloads The Old Testament Roots of Celtic Mythology THE MYTHOLOGY OF DRUIDISM is said to have been brought to England in ancient times by Hu Gadarn Hysicion, who came from the east with a party of colonists and built Stonehenge. Who were these Eastern colonists? Historians tell us that Phoenician-speaking peoples colonized the British Isles in early times. The Israelites, a seafaring people, spoke a Phoenician dialect, and the early history of these two peoples is intertwined. The Bible speaks of Israelites sending “ships to Tarshish,” or Spain, and Solomon’s navy sailed with the Phoenicians on their trade and colonizing expeditions. (2 Chron. 9:21; Isa. 60:9) Phoenician speaking peoples, including Israelites, colonized Spain and Britain in ancient times, mining ores such as silver, iron, tin, and lead, as we document in our tract, “ANCIENT HEBREW SEA MIGRATIONS” The Druidic religion of early Britain should therefore exhibit signs of both Hebrew and Phoenician origins. Download Now!775 Downloads Palmoni or The Numerals of Scripture This is called “free Inquiry,” because it is strictly such : the subject with which it deals being entirely an open question, and the investigation of it being con- ducted with all due deference (I trust) to prejudices which it may disturb, but without any appeal to mere authority, whether of the early Church or the modern. In some parts of the work the ground has been broken by others, and I have of course availed myself of the advantage of their labours. The chronology, for example, has been learnedly explored by Browne, in his Ordo Sæclorum, a book frequently referred to in the course of this Inquiry. But I have not simply followed Browne. A mistake of his, in one important point, led me to work out the whole scheme de novo et ab ovo. The result has been that, with the exception of this one point, I find my effort to harmonize in the main with his, and so far as the principle is concerned to be more than corroborative of his remarkable conclusions.
M. Mahan. Download Now!423 Downloads The Parable of Ruth The Story of Ruth has been treated only as a historical account of one of the ancestors in the line of Yahshua. Ruth’s second husband, Boaz, was a Patriarch of that lineage. Ruth and Boaz bore Obed, the father of Jesse, and grandfather of David. Much speculation has been purveyed about Ruth’s racial ancestry. Those who preach the gospel of race-mixing insist that Ruth was a non-Israelite. A careful reading of the text proves otherwise, as Ruth is called the near kinswoman of Boaz. (Ruth 3:12.) Boaz’s exact words to her are, “And now it is true that I am thy near kinsman: howbeit there is a kinsman nearer than I.” Download Now!872 Downloads Perfect Hatred I HAVE HAD THIS MESSAGE ON MY HEART FOR QUITE SOME TIME NOW. I have already studied this out and I know what Yahweh has shown me so I have no reservations in sharing this gospel truth. I am very careful when it comes to teaching any subject and basing it upon scripture. I will not put a teaching out until I have studied it and prayed about it. I have no reason to teach lies, but I have all the reason in the world to teach the truth. The truth is not a popular message. Are the messages you hear and read and believe, popular? Can you click on the Jew-Tube and hear what you believe by your favourite TV evangelist? Are you a victim of mainstream religion and so-called Christianity Today? Is the message that you listen to a message that is popular amongst the masses? Well if it is, I would venture to say that what you are listening to or reading is NOT TRUE. Download Now!766 Downloads Race Mixing and The Bible IN Exodus 20:13 (LXX), we find the sixth commandment, a commandment we find repeated in the New Testament in Romans 13:9 and elsewhere (cf. Matthew 5:27, Luke 18:20, Mark 10:19, Jacob (James) 2:11, et al.). So we immediately notice that this commandment is explicitly stated in both the Old and New Testaments. The reason is that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever (Heb. 13:8). With God, there is no variance or shadow of turning (Jacob 1:17). Obviously, this sixth commandment is very important. In most translations of the Bible, Exodus 20:13 and Romans 13:9 are translated: “Thou shalt not commit adultery.” In the literal translation of the Anointed Standard Translation of the New Testament and in the true translation of the Ten Commandments in The Truth Unveiled, these passages are translated as: “You will not mongrelise.” In many people’s minds, there is a very great difference between these two translations, though, as we shall see later, this is due primarily to the purposeful degeneration of the etymology of the word adultery. At issue in the Greek Septuagint and in the Greek New Testament are two Greek words: ou moicheuseis. Download Now!850 Downloads Rahab and Ruth – Who Were They? The Truth About Ruth There is no Book of the Bible so poorly translated as the Book of Ruth, and no single chapter so distorted by religious bias and dogma as the first one. Before we can get down to the straight-forward information that God gave us in the Hebrew text of His own Book we must learn a few simple geographical, judicial and historical FACTS. Download Now!1286 Downloads King James Bible Removed Translators Preface The Removed Translators’ Prefix To The following thesis by a modern Download Now!860 Downloads Revelation Unfolded To all those reading this document, please understand that it is merely an outline of a very difficult subject; but Spirit has motivated me to publish at this time, for the hour is growing late. The Apocalypse deserves a more thorough treatment, but this outline will have to do for now. If a particular statement or viewpoint seems outlandish or unsubstantiated, please write to me and ask for an explanation. I sincerely believe that we Israelites of the Christian Identity Movement will, by putting our heads together, come to a complete understanding of the Holy Scriptures as we prepare for the Judgment Day. I hope that this document adds to our understanding. Since the Apocalypse prophecies cover a period of over 5,000 years {from the Empire of Egypt until the present}, there is much to cover. Most of the material presented herein is a combination of my own research and that of two authors: Howard B. Rand and Bertrand Comparet. Of all books ever published on the subject of John’s Revelation, Howard B. Rand’s Study In Revelation stands apart in its level of scholarship and historicity. I would go so far as to say that, if you read no other books on the subject, you will know more about it than those who have read every other book on the subject. {Study In Revelation is available from Destiny Publishers, POB 177, Merrimac MA 01860.} The same is true for Bertrand Comparet’s audio tape series on Revelation. I have a very old set of these tapes which are barely audible. Fortunately, that tape series has recently been transcribed by Clifton Emahiser, 1012 N. Vine St., Fostoria OH 44830, and is now available in print form and on CD Download Now!758 Downloads The Hoskin Report – Sacred Food THE CHRISTIAN WEST has been conquered. Its God is being replaced with the god of its conqueror. Observance of many things done formerly in obedience to the God of Israel is now outlawed by the conqueror’s statutes – Sabbath “blue laws,” trial by strangers, taxes, imprisonment to punish, and racial intermarriage, to name a few. The following is a brief study of the ancient Western ritual of eating; who, when, and under what conditions one eats. To insist on observance of these eating rituals today would be to incur the wrath, and punishment, of the king who has outlawed them. However, from an historical standpoint, it is educational to study what our ancestors considered to be important. It is even more interesting to note professional Christian organizations and people WHO HAVE NO EXCUSE FOR THEIR REFUSAL TO DO THAT WHICH GOD REQUIRES. Their REFUSAL speaks louder than their words. It tells you their probable commitment to the rest of the WORD which is God. Download Now!704 Downloads Satan Lost in Translation NKJV Bible is counterfeit translation – The History of the English Bible THE FIRST HAND‑WRITTEN ENGLISH LANGUAGE MANUSCRIPTS OF THE BIBLE WERE PRODUCED IN 1380’S AD BY OXFORD THEOLOGIAN JOHN WYCLIFF (WYCLIFFE). Curiously, he was also the inventor of bifocal eyeglasses. Wycliff spent many of his years arguing against the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church which he believed to be contrary to the Bible. Though he died a non-violent death, the Pope was so infuriated by his teachings that 44 years after Wycliff had died, he ordered the bones to be dug‑up, crushed, and scattered in the river! Gutenberg invented the printing press in the 1450’s, and the first book to ever be printed was the Bible. It was, however, in Latin rather than English. With the onset of the Reformation in the early 1500’s, the first printings of the Bible in the English language were produced. illegally and at great personal risk of those involved. William Tyndale was the Captain of the Army of reformers, and was their spiritual leader. He worked most of his translating years alone, but had help from time to time as God discerned he needed it. Indirectly, he had the help of Erasmus in the publication of his Greek/Latin New Testament printed in 1516. Erasmus and the great printer, scholar, and reformer John Froben published the first non‑Latin Vulgate text of the Bible in a millennium. Latin was the language for centuries of scholarship and it was understood by virtually every European who could read or write. Download Now!367 Downloads Seventh Commandment Forbids Race Mixing THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT STATES, “Thou shall not commit adultery.” We have been led to believe that means sexual relations with another’s spouse. The Tenth Commandment states, “Thou shall not covet thy neighbour’s wife” nor any other possession of your neighbour. Your minister will tell you, both Commandments mean the same thing. Do you believe, for one moment, that with only Ten Commandments, God would duplicate? No, I do not believe any reasonable person would. If just thinking about it is a sin, then it is only common sense that the actual act is also sin. This makes the Seventh Commandment absolutely superfluous. If God wished to repeat for emphasis as he does many times in the Bible, he would have put the two statements into one Commandment, connected them saying, “Again I say unto you.” The Billy Grahams of the world do not want you to know the true meaning of the Seventh Commandment. WHY? Let us investigate. Download Now!799 Downloads The Mystery of The Star of Bethlehem MUCH HAS BEEN WRITTEN ABOUT THE EXACT CIRCUMSTANCES surrounding the birth of Christ. Although the Jews deny that Jesus was the Messiah, the fact is that Jesus fulfilled up to 425 prophecies about His coming. {This website contains a number of these prophecies: These prophecies, contained within the priesthood’s own scrolls, prove conclusively that no one else could possibly have been the one intended, the “anointed one,” for no one else comes even remotely close to fulfilling any of the prophecies – not even one! It is quite shameful of the so-called “Christian” theologians, that they have never challenged the rabbis to explain why they don’t consider Jesus to be the Messiah, given the fact that He fulfilled so many Messianic prophecies from the Old Testament!! Download Now!810 Downloads Studies in Genesis The question as to whether or not there were human beings on the earth prior to the time of Adam in the Garden of Eden, has been argued pro and con through long centuries of time, but all too often these arguments have been between proponents of radically different schools of thought, who have usually been more concerned about proving the truth of their own viewpoints in the matter rather than carefully analysing the evidence to discover the truth. While I am convinced that Adam and Eve, in the Garden “set eastward in Eden,” were not the first human beings on the earth, it is not my purpose in this article to “prove” that this was the case, but rather to critically consider the facts and the evidence, without argument and then leave the reader to form his own conclusions. Of course, in an article of this nature it will be impossible to consider all of the evidence, but I shall try to give enough to show that snap judgments may lead to very erroneous conclusions. Download Now!823 Downloads The Beast of The Field – Eli James Children of Israel, there is a dispute within Two-Seedline concerning the “beast of the field” and the “beast of the earth.” Virtually all Two-Seedliners consider the “beast of the field” to be a reference to non-White hominids (humanoids that walk on two legs). As an example of this opinion, I have provided links, at the end of this essay, including Jason Blaha’s “Beast With a Hand?” which elaborates on this position. However, there seems to be some confusion on this point, so I have decided that a thorough word study is in order. Up until now, all Two-Seedliners I have studied agree that the other races were already in existence when Adam and Eve were formed in the Garden of Eden. For example, Dr. Wesley Swift taught that all of the non-White races existed for eons before Adam was created in the Genesis account. With this statement, I totally agree. Also, according to Swift, the White Race is only 6,000 years old. Bertrand Comparet and Sheldon Emry also believed this. In my opinion, however, the White Race, although the last in the order of creation, is very much older. Since the Genesis 1 account is dealing with eons (Hebrew yowm), not literal days, we must strive to harmonize the language of Genesis 1-4 with natural history. My Enmity Series goes into great detail about these eons and the order of creation. The Enmity Series can be found at www.anglo-saxonisrael.com Download Now!1122 Downloads The Book God Signed WHEN I WAS VERY YOUNG, as were many other students, was fond of airing my views at the Speakers Corner which is in Hyde Park, London. I had been brought up to believe the Bible to be the Inspired word of God. It was an assumption that I accepted as being no less certain than that the world was round and that night followed day! Quite naturally, armed with such an authority, I quoted the Bible copiously and, providing I could find a Bible text to fit the occasion, was convinced that that was the end of any argument! It was a few days before Christmas, when I was about twenty years of age —and I’m not going to let on how long ago that was—when I got my comeuppance! A very pleasant man, not looking nearly as wicked as he should have looked, parried every assertion I made with the simple but profound words `Yes that IS what the Bible says but how do you KNOW that the Bible is the Word of God?’ Well I DID know, as every Christian knows, that the Bible is the Word of God because the Holy Spirit had revealed it to me and nobody who has had that revelation can ever doubt the fact. I could sing with the hymn-writer of old `I need no other argument, I need no other plea, it is enough that Jesus died and that He died for me!’ There are millions of people in the world of all nations, of every social strata and of all levels of education who have had that experience! We, I can assure the doubter, need no other argument, for we have received the knowledge from God Himself by direct revelation. It is not easy however to conduct a discussion on the basis of one having an inner-feeling which obviously no-one else can comprehend! The pleasant man did not destroy my faith in the Bible being the Word of God but he did cause me to wonder how I could prove TO DOUBTERS that the Bible is the Inspired Word of God. How, I wondered, could it be proved from evidence EXTERNAL to the Bible that the Bible is the Word of God? That great Evangelist/Revivalist my good friend the late Principal George Jeffreys used to say `Bible prophecy is the test of Bible inspiration.’ He was right! When it is realised that, at the time of writing, over two thirds of the Bible was written to foretell future events it will be seen that the Bible is the most prolific book of prediction in the world!
Download Now!840 Downloads The Deluge THE development of sin, after the fall of our first parents, was such that God determined to sweep the offending race from the face of the earth by a mighty deluge. This was consummated sixteen hundred and-fifty-six years after the creation of Adam, or two thousand two hundred and sixty-two years by the chronology of the Septuagint. The Bible contains the only historical record of this great event; but traditions, said to be found in almost all parts of the world, confirm the fact that a destructive deluge once occurred. It is hard to account for the universality and similarity of these traditions, supposing them to exist, without granting them an historical basis. Cuneiform inscriptions on clay tablets in Assyria and at Babylon corroborate the Mosaic account. The object of the flood was to destroy the race of Adam. It was the wickedness of ” the Adamite ” that God saw was great in the earth,” and “it repented God that he had made the Adamite on the earth.” “And the Lord said, I will destroy the Adamite whom I have created from the face of the earth.” I give here the translation “the Adamite,” instead of “man,” for, whether “ha-Adam” can generally be translated “the Adamite” or not, it is plain that in these two texts it refers to the descendants of Adam. To perpetuate the race God resolved to save Noah and his family. This pious patriarch is described as “a just man and perfect in his generations” that is, in his genealogy: his family history proved him to be of unmixed blood running back to Adam. Download Now!824 Downloads The End Time Prophecy to Edomite Canaanite Jews and All Jews KNOWING ALL JEWS CLAIM to be Ashkenazi Canaanite Khazar Edomite Blood by all their own admissions in all their encyclopaedias, etc etc as compiled here and the Scriptures very clearly say Jews are mongrels mixed and no longer related to Israel, but of Esau and Cain by Christ words, and the records of Scriptural genealogy; the Bible prophecies to them and their satanic seed. We’ve compiled some of the verses dealing with their END TIME DESTRUCTION as Prophesied by YAHWEH our God who promises to fulfil it in our days. I use KING JAMES VERSION, sometimes I replace the name LORD with YAHWEH to add reverence to His name, and replace God with Elohim, and Jesus with YAHSHUA because: “His name is GREAT, and Greatly to be praised!” Eze 25:14 “And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger and according to my fury; and they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord GOD.” Download Now!858 Downloads The Holy Trinity Of all Christian beliefs, the doctrine of the HOLY TRINITY, THE TRIUNE GOD — is for many people, the most difficult to understand. There is however, the unquestionable authority of Jesus Christ himself for believing that the GODHEAD contains three separate and distinct persons, THE FATHER, THE SON and THE HOLY GHOST. (Matthew 26:19) Jesus divested Himself of His divine power and became Son of Man, nevertheless He claimed absolute divinity. In fact the Jews charged him with blasphemy for having made himself “equal with God” (John 5:18). There was no doubt pf this, for as GOD the SON, He said, “I and my Father are one (John 10:30), although as Son of man, He acknowledged that “my Father is greater than I.” (John 14:28) Of His own eternal GODSHIP, he said, “And now O Father, glorify thou me, with the Glory which I had with Thee before the world was.” (John 17:5) Download Now!759 Downloads The Last Signpost “THE TIME IS FULFILLED, AND THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS AT HAND”. “REPENT; AND BELIEVE THE GOOD NEWS.” (Mark 1. 15) WE ARE GETTING VERY NEAR THE END OF THE JOURNEY. It has been long, hard, and dangerous: the road often rough and stony, many foot getting torn and wounded. But the glad news is this, that the end is at hand; the end of “this present evil age”, as the Scriptures call it. Soon the “King” is coming, to mete out His rewards of honour and service to those who have been “found faithful”. These Overcomers, we are told, will then live and reign with him a thousand years” clothed in His own resurrection Image of immortality. We thus see, that although this little book is entitled “The Last Sign Post”, it is not so much the End we wish to look at, but a glorious New Beginning. Not a Departure, but a wonderful Arrival, reaching the Dawn of a new and long-awaited Day of Peace on earth, in which men will be led to do God’s Will here in earth, as in heaven. As far as “this present evil age” is concerned, we are not out of the wood yet. There is a dark cloud gathering! But, to all who have eyes to see, this cloud has a magnificent silver (if not ‘golden’) lining! Those who are in close touch with God and with His truth and revelation and Word for us today, who rejoice in that “wore sure word of prophecy, whereunto we do well that we take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place until the day dawn”, are not fearing pending evil. Their “heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord”! Are you one of these? and if not, why not? Download Now!392 Downloads The Mistaken J OFTEN HEARD IN THE CHURCHES OF OUR LAND IS THE REFRAIN SUNG ABOUT THE SAVIOUR, “There’s something about that name–” In our English-speaking world we have been taught that the saving name of the Redeemer of Israel is “Jesus.” So accepted is this name that few stop to consider its authenticity. But the truth is, there is indeed “something about that Name.” That “something” is the inescapable fact that the Savior’s name is not Jesus, and never was. What’s more, the Name of the Heavenly Father is not Jehovah, a designation that is only five centuries old. Churchianity has so thoroughly immersed the world in the error of this tradition for the past 500 years that few even think to research the matter or to consider the consequences of calling on the wrong name. As a result, most continue believing that the Hebrew Savior is called by a Latinised Greek name that could not possibly have existed at the time He walked the earth. It’s a name that would have been completely foreign to Him. Eminent French historian, scholar, and archaeologist Ernest Renan acknowledges that the Savior was never in His lifetime called “Jesus.” In his book, The Life of Jesus, Renan doubts that the Savior even spoke Greek (p. 90). Greek was mostly the language of business and commerce n cosmopolitan circles. As for the Father’s Name, the hybrid “Jehovah” came into existence through the ignorance of Christian writers who did not understand the Old Testament Hebrew. Credit for the error is given to Petrus Galatinus, confessor to Pope Leo X in the 16th century. Download Now!135 Downloads The Rapture of The Wicked THERE ARE TWO GREAT DIVISIONS OF THOUGHT regarding people’s view of prophecy: the Futurist and the Historicist. Both teach that Christ will return to earth, but the division arises over the manner of His coming and its timing in relation to “the Tribulation.” Now some may say, what difference does it make HOW Christ returns, so long as we all believe that Christ will indeed come? Is it really an important issue? How will our viewpoint of prophecy affect our thoughts and actions in preparation for the return of Christ? First of all, it should be established that our eternal destiny and salvation does not stand or fall upon our belief in either viewpoint. However, our doctrines will determine our courses of action and our basic attitudes and outlook on the world in general. Thus, the issue is important to that degree. The Historical view holds that the tribulation in the book of Revelation is almost completely fulfilled, except for the final downfall of “Mystery Babylon.” The Futurist view teaches that almost all of Revelation’s events have a future fulfilment. Download Now!795 Downloads The Sixth Law IT IS SAID THAT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS are laws that are applied in every civilization, regardless of where this civilization is, or who initiated them. When Moses received the Ten Commandments directly from God on Mount Sinai, the nation of Israel was isolated in the desert. No other nations were close by. Moses did not only receive the Ten Commandments from God, but also the Torah. He was on the mountain for forty days, and it doesn’t take that long to write ten lines. Why were these Ten Commandments so important to God that He personally came down to earth to give them to Moses? If they were just ordinary laws that were already being implemented and followed by other civilizations at that stage, then why did they specially have to be given to Moses? Between the time when Adam and Eve were formed and the Israelites were in the desert, around 2000 years had passed. During that time God had made a covenant with Abraham, and he had appointed Jacob as the founding father of the nation that God had chosen for Himself. To understand this idea of God’s Nation, one must return to the time when the first two people were created. In Gen. 1:26 we read for the first time that a being was created in the image of God. No others were created in His image. Thus it is understandable that God would select this special being for a special purpose or task. Download Now!911 Downloads The Tetragrammaton THE ORIGIN OR INVENTION OF LETTERS IS A SUBJECT that has frequently engaged the attention and researches of learned men, and as often defied their power to explain, with any considerable amount of probability and satisfaction. The several alphabets of the known world, indeed, exhibit that mutual similarity of form, which fully warrants them in assigning to the whole class one common source; but that source is apparently sought for in every place except where, we are persuaded, it can alone be found. It has been very much the fashion hitherto to depreciate the literature and traditions of the Cymry; yet we can confidently assert that in them lie treasures which would amply compensate for any amount of trouble that may be taken in arriving at them. The patient and-impartial study of Welsh lore will assuredly tend to throw no inconsiderable light upon the science and mythology of all nations. Even the sacred Tetragrammaton of the Hebrews, taken by itself, is perfectly inexplicable—we cannot see how it represents the great I AM, and wherefore it is invested with extraordinary terror—or why it may not be pronounced or revealed. But the origin and reason of all this are discovered to us in the Bardic traditions. There we learn that God created the world by the melodious threefold utterance of His Holy Name—and that the form or figure of that Name was /1\ , being the rays of the rising sun at the equinoxes and the solstices converging into a focus—“the eye of light.” These rays, we are informed, according to the influence which the sun has upon the earth at the different seasons which they represent, show God in His various characters as a Creator, a Preserver, and a Destroyer. Download Now!477 Downloads The Three Headed Eagle of II Esdras I will first quote the relevant passages from II Esdras 11, which gives the entire vision. Then, Chapter 12 gives an “interpretation,” although we must still correlate the interpretation with historical events. What is discussed hereinafter comes from two main sources: Dr. Eugene Scott and James Scott Trimm. I will refer primarily to a transcription of a lecture given by Dr. Scott, plus minimal discussion of Mr. Trimm’s viewpoint, which is similar, with the exception of the identification of the Three Heads. Download Now!1441 Downloads Time is Short Scholars and the Second Advent The following extracts are taken from “Notes of Recent Exposition” which appeared in the March 1953 issue of “The Expository Times”. WE WERE RECENTLY SURVEYING SOME OF THE MOST NOTABLE PUBLICATIONS in the last year or two– What struck us most vividly was not simply the renascence of eschatology but the revival of interest in what is commonly called “the Second Advent”. Fifty years ago, or even less, our pundits took a different view. If they did not seek to get rid of the doctrine altogether on the ground that it was no part of the permanent message of Christ and His apostles, they skated over the subject in the most perfunctory manner. Now, our theological leaders seem to be resolved that we take the idea very seriously indeed. Part of the reason for the renewed interest in eschatology is no doubt the fact that we have been living through apocalyptic times, when the very foundations of our civilisation have been profoundly shaken. Part of the reason also is the fact that our New Testament scholars have proved that the apostolic gospel is shot through with eschatology so that the man who refuses the eschatological key cannot begin to understand it aright. And part of the reason is the fact that with the advent of the A and. (still more) the H bomb, the end of the world has become, for many minds, a live possibility. At any rate, our theologians are determined that as Christians we should give more serious thought to the ideas of the end of the world and the coming of Christ–– “Our ministers, so far from preaching often about the Second Advent, tend in choosing hymns to fight shy of those which sing about it–-“It appears to us, therefore, that one of the major theological tasks before the Church is that of rethinking the whole issue of Christian eschatology. Download Now!361 Downloads The Trees and Plants Mentioned in The Bible THE interest surrounding that limited portion of Western Asia which modern writers agree to call by its classical name of PALESTINE, is wholly unparalleled both in nature and degree. The love of the Swiss for their native mountains, or the Scotsman’s attachment to the land of brown heath and shaggy wood,’ affords but a faint type of that glowing and reverent affection with which Christians of every race and nation have constantly regarded their more than Fatherland—the birthplace of their faith and hope. The devotion which once drew pilgrims to its venerable metropolis,—to them the geographical centre of the globe,—established hermits amidst its rocky solitudes, and inspired the grand but reckless fanaticism of Crusaders, finds its modern counterpart in a growing and intelligent interest in all that concerns the Holy Land, its history and topography, its past and present inhabitants, and its vegetable and animal productions. Science has taken the place of superstition; and without the loss of true reverence, sacred sites, long encircled with the delusive halo of legend and romance, are measured and mapped out by the careful hand of the surveyor. Download Now!804 Downloads What Was The Real Sin in The Garden of Eden? DID ADAM AND EVE EAT THE WRONG APPLE, and cause death and suffering to be entered into the world for every subsequent soul on this earth, from that time in the Garden of Eden forward until the end of times? Absurd as this may sound, it is what most Christians are taught from their respective Church systems (Denominations and Faiths). Let’s first look at it from their skewed perspective, then we will learn the truth from our Father’s Word; The Bible. They (our religious leaders in the Churches, Temples, and Synagogues of today) would have us to believe that Almighty God would be so petty as to punish some twelve billion souls, because two of them were insubordinate in their selection of produce. Yet they don’t teach us why this would so infuriate such a kind, loving, and forgiving God; and kindle His wrath to such a magnitude that He would allow death to enter in for all of mankind. They can’t answer why God would do that, because there is no answer for what did not happen, their facts are wrong from page one. And if you start out on any quest of any knowledge, whether the knowledge be of everyday issues or the knowledge be of the Divine and perfect plan of Almighty God; you must start out at a sound genesis (beginning) or you can never hope to end at a sound terminus (conclusion). Download Now!1116 Downloads When Was The Beginning? Commonly Referred to as The Tree Earth Ages Teaching THESE ARE THE FIRST THREE ENGLISH WORDS IN THE BIBLE. But when was this beginning? Did it begin a mere six-thousand years ago with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden? What does the Bible tell us? As with all of God’s word, there is so much more written just below the surface right there before our eyes, hidden to most but there for the discovery of all. Let’s dig it out! We will study what God’s Word, The Bible, says about the beginning; the beginning of not only the history of the creation of the world as we now know it today, but also the creation of the world that then was, as well as the world that is to come (Heaven). These are known as Earth Ages, and there are three of them spoken of in the Bible; we will learn of them in this study. We will also read of time-gap in scriptures, a great flood and destruction other than and before Noah’s flood; we will even read of dinosaurs in the scriptures. Download Now!860 Downloads Who is Gog? BRETHREN, THE WORD OF YAHWEH MUST BE THOROUGHLY UNDERSTOOD in these dangerous last days. One of the flock of the Company of Nations of Israel, has revealed to me that Dr. Wesley Swift taught that this world order would come to an end in the year 2011. I was gratified to hear this because I have come to the same conclusion based on my study of the Mayan calendar. Christian Israelites may rightly ask, “What does the Mayan calendar have to do with biblical prophecy?” Although the evidence is indirect, the associations of the Mayan End Date and the Judgment Day are worth considering. Without going into great detail about the origins of the Zodiac, suffice it to say that the oldest traditions regarding the grouping of the stars of the sky into constellations assign authorship to none other than our forefathers Adam, Seth, and Enoch. The Zodiac, in fact, foretells the story of the First Advent, including the birth, life, mission, death, and Second Coming of our King. (The evidence for this fact is presented in these four books: The Gospel in the Stars, by Joseph Seiss, available from Kregel Books, Grand Rapids, Michigan; The Witness of the Stars, by E.W. Bullinger (Kregel), The Coming of Jesus: The Real Message of the Bible Codes, by Bonnie Gaunt, available from Adventures Unlimited Press, Kempton Illinois, and Raymond Capt’s The Gory of the Stars.) Download Now!841 Downloads Word for Word 1 Genesis Translation by Stephen Howard Anderson SHALOM ALEYCHEM MY FELLOW PURE-BLOODED YISRAELITES! I have been working for many years to produce a copy of the Old Testament with the malicious tampering of the Masoretes and so-called “churches” removed, the Holy Name of Yahweh fully restored, along with the word order corrected where it misrepresents the context of the verse. I have put all margin notes, and the chapter notes following each chapter. Many Strong’s numbers are included, but not for every word. Spelling of proper names of people and places are as they appear in the Hebrew. Please Note – Masoretic vowel pointing has many errors, and some are intentional to deceive the readers because of the Babylonian traditions they followed. Spelling is not consistent, and changes from scribe to scribe. At best, they are only a suggestion for pronunciation. The several sects of jewry have different ways of pronouncing many words, and vary also in their particular “traditions” that they follow. Original paleo-hebrew had no vowels, and there have been two types of vowel indication in more modern times. Many words have unclear meanings, and “opinions” of what they mean were inserted by the former “mistranlators”. Where the meanings are unclear, I have put the word in transliterated Hebrew, and note the problem in the notes for the chapter which follow. I have not inserted any opinions in this translation. The Masoretes changed the spelling of many peoples names that had “yah” in them. This was another attempt to hide The Name. The English mistranslators followed this pattern. I have restored all the names to their proper form, such as Yahudah (Yahweh is praised), instead of Y’hudah. You will note the spelling changes when you compare to other texts. They will pay dearly for their evil works on the day of Judgement. To get this straight from the beginning, the Torah was given to YISRAEL, and not to the jews. In B’reshiyth (Genesis), the RACE of adam was created. This race has distinct characteristics which continue to this day. Strong’s H119 shows this, as it precedes H120. These folks had a rosy complexion, and would blush under their fair skin. Only one racial group qualifies under this description. They entered Europe through the Caucasus Mountains from their former captivity. They were, and are called Caucasians. This is the “white” race of today, and none other, including any of mixed bloodline. Sorry, but pureblood means pure, not mixed. A specific adam is then mentioned, with a capital A, and the Hebrew article ha preceding Adam, thus the Adam as a proper name. It then proceeds down the descendants until it comes to Yaaqob, who was renamed Yisrael by Yahweh. This sub-group of adamics became the “chosen people’ of Yahweh, all of pure seedline, and this entire book is about them. Download Now!843 Downloads Word for Word 2 Exodus Sh’moth (Exodus) Sh’moth refers to the opening words of the book – “These are THE NAMES” in the Hebrew. “Exodus” is Latin for “the going forth”, and was put on this book by the Romish Catholic “church”. It is erroneous, as is most of catholicism, so I won’t be using their title. My translation follows the Hebrew chapter numbering, and some discrepancies will occur between the number of verses in the KJV and this translation. As in “Genesis”, all proper names of people and places will be in the Hebrew spelling. If you want to see the KJV spelling, follow along with your KJV side by side with this translation. This work is Copyrighted © in 2016 by Stephen H. Anderson, and reproduction or quotation for profit is prohibited. Non-profit quotation is permitted, but only with no changes to the text, and full credit given to the translator. Enjoy your studies and May Yahweh Bless and Keep You – Stephen H. Anderson, translator. Download Now!819 Downloads Word for Word 3 Leviticus Wayiq’ra WAYYIQ’RA IS A BOOK OF LAWS and procedures for the Aharonic priests. Also here are many National laws for Yisrael, for health, sexual behavior, proper conduct towards each other, business dealings, conduct toward visiting Yisraeliy from other countries, conduct toward aliens of other races in Yisrael, holy days and feasts, food laws, and sacrificial laws. The sacrifice for the propitiation (covering over) of sin has been eliminated by Yahshua Messiah. He made the last sacrifice of Himself, and animal sacrifice is no longer needed. The other laws that do not have to do with sin sacrifice still stand, however, and they are all common sense laws. Heaven and earth have not passed away, yet. Some words are unclear today as to the type of unclean animals. The meaning has been lost over time, and where this occurs, I will note it in the Chapter Notes following the chapter. The term “leprosy” is used in connection with fabric, and houses. This was a mold or mildew that was unhealthy to be around, such as toxic “black mold” in our time. This would cause severe health problems from breathing in the spores, and they had no other term to use back then, so they termed it “leprosy” for want of a better word. Leprosy concerning people, however, is actual flesh destroying leprosy, which then was incurable, and resulted in eventual death for those afflicted with it. Yahweh cured several people of it in Scripture, and this was always considered a major miracle. Even today, with modern drug treatments, leprosy is a true horror to cure. Where “leprosy” is used in the KJV and others, but actually refers to some type of skin disease, I have used “skin disease” for accuracy. As in the first two books of Mosheh, proper names of people and places are as in the Hebrew for spelling. Strong’s© Numbers will be used after key words a single time. Chapter notes will be small in this book, as a lot of it is fulfilled sacrificial stuff. I will note the verses where laws still stand, and why. There is quite a bit of this in here, so read the Chapter notes carefully. Please note – All words spoken by Yahweh and His messengers will be in bold type. This work is Copyrighted© in 2016 by Stephen H. Anderson, and may not be reproduced for profit. Quotations are permitted, but only if no changes are made to the text, and due credit is given to the translator. Where a Chapter ends, and there is some room, lines for writing your own notes while studying will be inserted in the otherwise blank space. I hope you are enjoying these translations, and receiving knowledge of Yahweh’s Holy Word from them. May Yahweh Bless and Keep You. Praise Yahweh! Stephen H. Anderson – Translator Download Now!782 Downloads Word for Word 4 Numbers rabdmb B’mid’bar THE ACTUAL NAME OF THIS BOOK IS “IN THE WILDERNESS”. It has been changed to “Numbers”, because they mustered the troops, and counted them, so they called it “Numbers”. In this book, there are often several men with the same name in some passages, and they must be differentiated by their FATHER’s name. As in my prior works, all proper names of people and places will be in the Hebrew spelling, with English letters. When several English words are need for one Hebrew word I will underline them for the first usage, followed by their Strong’© number. Compare this text with whatever translation you use, and you will note the differences where the scribes have tampered with the verses. Don’t be surprised at some radical differences, as the scribes have done much damage. Where Yahweh is speaking, the text will be in bold type. This work is Copyrighted © by Stephen H. Anderson, and may not be reproduced for profit. Quotations from the text are permitted, but only with no alterations, and due credit given to the translator. Enjoy your studies, and may Yahweh Bless and Keep You. Stephen H. Anderson, Translator Download Now!833 Downloads Word for Word 5 Deuteronomy Sepher Elleh Debariym I HAVE BEGUN THIS COMPUTERISED VERSION IN NOVEMBER 2016. There were some text errors in the earlier versions, due to lack of sufficient research material when I first typed it. I have stated that this will be an ongoing work, and whenever new knowledge is available, and would make changes necessary, they would be made. Nothing is more important than accuracy when dealing with Scripture. “Deuteronomy” is translated as “Second Law” in the Septuagint, but the actual name of the book is “These Are The Words” – Elleh 428 Debariym 1697 plural. The book begins with these words, and thus the Hebrew title for the book. This is not a “second law”, but a repetition of what Mosheh had said to Yisrael previously. An entirely new generation had arisen in Yisrael, and the old one had perished in the wilderness. The new folks needed to hear these words, and Mosheh wrote them down, and the scroll was placed in the Ark of the Covenant. As in the other four books of Mosheh, proper names will be in the transliteration format, as they are spelled in Hebrew. If you want the KJV spelling, refer to your KJV. I will not indicate Masoretic vowel points, as they are often in error, and varied from scribe to scribe as to spelling. They were for help in pronunciation, but the scribes changed much of the text to hide the Holy Name of Yahweh. They substituted #136 adonay for The Name, because of Jewish “tradition”. I have indicated where this has occurred in the margin notes, and have replaced the Name of Yahweh where it belongs. Chapter notes are mine, and you may agree or disagree as you please. I am Yisrael Identity in belief, and Scripture firmly supports this. If you think you have found error, look it up for yourself. My research material is as follows – Complete Word Study Old Testament, and the Dictionary for it (AMG Publishers) Brown, Driver, Briggs, Gesenius Hebrew/English Lexicon (Hendrickson Publishers) A Tanak for the Hebrew (J.P.S.). The JPS Tanak is the most accurate I could find as to the Hebrew, but anything published by Jews needs careful examination. Their “English translation” is an absolute fraud. It does not even approach saying what the Hebrew says, so don’t even bother with it. Words that are underlined are one word in the Hebrew, even though several words are used in English. Strong’s numbers will follow words where needed in italics, but I will only do this a few times, and then only the word will be used. This work is Copyrighted © by Stephen Howard Anderson, and may not be commercially reproduced without written permission from the translator. If quoted in a publication, credit must be given to the translator for the quoted material, and no alterations may be made to the material being quoted. Stephen Howard Anderson, Translator Download Now!798 Downloads Word for Word 6 Joshua Sepher Yahshua The Book of Yahshua is a continuation of the journey of the people of Yisrael into the “Promised Land” across the Yarden River. They would be required to fight several bloody battles for this territory, and were commanded by Yahweh to completely destroy the “cursed seed” people, so they would not be a “thorn in the side” in the future. Yisrael did not accomplish this, and these people are a “thorn” today. Yahshua’s very name means Yah is salvation, and is the identical Hebrew name of the Messiah, Yahshua. It has been tampered with in spelling over the years, and I have restored it to the original form, without regard to the erroneous Masoretic vowel point version. The Talmudists have done all they could to hide the Name of Yahweh, and as Yah(weh) is part of the name of Yah(shua), they have altered it as well. As in my other works, a word or number(Strong’s) in italics is inserted for ease of reading, or for information purposes, but is NOT IN the Hebrew text. Names of places and people in the margin are spelled as in the KJV for reference purposes. In the text itself they will be in transliterated form of the Hebrew. Download Now!827 Downloads Word for Word 8 1 Samuel Sepher Shemu’el 1 THE BOOK OF SHEMU’EL (8050 Samuel) was one book until 1517, when the “Hebrew Bible” was published. This change into two separate books was influenced by the “church” of Rome, and is another wrongful modification of Scripture. I was going to recombine them, but decided that it would cause unnecessary confusion for those trying to reference this text from other versions of the Bible that are now in print. Shemu’el held the “office” of Prophet. He was the last of the Shophetiym (Judges) in Yisrael. He bridges the gap between “judges” and “kings” in Yisrael. This book shows Yisrael foolishly desiring a “king”, to be like the other nations around them who did not worship Yahweh. Bad decision on their part. Shemu’el means “asked of El”, from sha’al 7592, to ask as a favor, or to lend or borrow, plus 410, El, as a title “God”, referring to Yahweh. See verses 1:20, 27, and 28 for reference to the reason for this name for the boy Shemu’el. Download Now!838 Downloads Word for Word 7 Judges Sepher Shophetiym (The Book of Judges) JUDGES HERE DOES NOT MEAN A “JUDGE” as in a courtroom today. In Hebrew, it carries more of the meaning of a “leader” than anything else. This could be a civil leader, or a religious leader, or a prophet that had a lot of influence in the nation. One man as a “judge” did not rule over all of Yisrael. Indeed, sometimes several were at work at one time during the period, which lasted about 350 years. Shemuel (8050 Samuel) was the probable author of this book, and most likely while he was living. Only thirteen of the fifteen judges are in this book. Eliy (5941 Eli) and Shemuel are in 1 Samuel. Here, chapters 1 and 2 are an introduction, and 3 through 16 recount the stories of the judges who led or rescued the people. Chapters 17 through 21 describe the conditions of the times. Neither the introduction, nor the conclusion follow the time-line of the story order of the judges. The order of the judges are, Othniyel (6274), Ehud (261), Shamgar (8044), Deborah (1683), Gideon (1439), Abiymelech (40, Abimelech), Tola (8439), Yaiyr (2971, Jair), Tiptach (3316, Jephthah), Ibtsan (78,Ibzan), Eylon (356, Elon), Abdon (5658), and Shim’shon (8123, Samson). Mikayehu (4321, Micah) was not a judge, but had a false priest, and worshiped idols, and is in chapter 17 following the story of Shim’shon. Please remember, some of the judges were not all “good”, and made some personal mistakes, but served the purpose called for by Yahweh. Shim’shon was a good example of this at his end. Download Now!827 Downloads They and You Are Called “Christians:” Why? And the disciples were called Christians first at Antioch (Acts 11:26). WE ALL UNDERSTAND THIS VERSE—or do we? Obviously it means that the name “Christian” was not applied to anyone until it was given to the Israelite Disciples of Christ that day in Antioch. But WHO CALLED THEM CHRISTIANS? Did the Jews? Did the Romans? Or did GOD call them Christians? God speaks to His people in Isaiah 62:2 — “—-And thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord shall name. ” And in Isaiah 65:15 God tells Israel through the prophet Isaiah that HE will “. . . call his servants by another name.” As good as our various English translations of the Bible may be, they are unable to bring out all that is in the Greek. In his book THE MINISTER AND HIS GREEK NEW TESTAMENT, A. T. Robertson says, regarding our English translations, “It is not possible to reproduce the delicate turns of thought, the nuances of language, in translation (to English). The freshness of the strawberry cannot be preserved in any extract.” Download Now!423 Downloads |