The
UnknownBible
Dr.PeterS.RuckmanPresident,PensacolaBibleInstitute
B.A.,B.D.,M.A.,Th.M.,Ph.D.
COPYRIGHT©1984byPeterS.RuckmanAllRightsReserved
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TABLEOFCONTENTS
Preface1.TheMilitantFundamentalistWhoWenttoHell2.MobyDickandtheWhiteCrocodile3.UneducatedIgnorancevs.EducatedIgnorance4.TheGreatHereticalRuckmanite5.GettingtoKnowtheLord6.DoYouKnowtheLord?7.HowaYoungStudentToreUpaSeminaryClassroom8.AFloodofIgnorance9.TheInfighting10.TheUngodlyCatholicMess11.ThePlenaryVerballyInspiredTV12.TheCausesofCorruptionintheBodyofChristEpilogue
Preface
Andnomaninheaven,norinearth,neitherundertheearth,wasabletoopenthebook,neithertolookthereon.(Revelation5:3)
The Authorized Version of the Holy Bible is still ( 1980â1990) the worldâs mostunusualBook.Itstilloutsellsanyotherfivesecularworkscombined,andithassoldmorethanfivetimesasmanycopiesastheASV,LivingBible,NASV,RSV,andNRSVcombined,inspiteofthefactthattheAVhadnopublicitycampaigntoâbackitup,ânopromotionalgimmickstosellittothepublic,andnolargebodiesofChristianscholarsrecommendingittoanyone:notoncein370years.TheothercorruptEnglishversionsoftheBiblewereall the products of massive news media gimmicks, sales promotions, and advertisingcampaignsaccompaniedbygiganticscholarlyâbackings.â
Inspiteoftheworldwidefame(andnotoriety)oftheKingJamesVersion,itis,atthesametime,themostunknownBookintheworldifwearetojudgesuchmattersbyreadingitscontentsand thencomparing itssubjectmatterwithwhatwehearpreached, reportedand taughtabout it in theworld today. Ignoranceof theBible isabsolutelyappalling inAsiaand Japan, and ignoranceof theBible amongRomanCatholics inSouthAmerica,SpainandMexicoisalmostuniversal.Thisexplainswhythereisstillonthisearthtodayademand forBibles that is impossible tomeet;Catholic andCommunist censorshipwillguaranteethedemandisnevermet.
Atthesametimeitismanifest(orwillbeinthepagesthatfollow)thatagreatdealoftheEnglishBible is completely âsealedâ (see theChapter on âUnlearned Ignorance vs.Learned Ignoranceâ) to English speaking people in America who have no VaticanHierarchy orSecret Police to stop them from reading it; this is especially true of thosecollegeanduniversityeducatedâFundamentalistsâwhowereseducedintothinkingthataknowledgeoftheGreekandHebrewlanguageswouldequipthemtobecomeacquaintedwiththeBook.
Theignorance,forexample,ofDr.A.T.Robertson,J.GreshamMachen,andRobertDick Wilson, on prophetic subjects, is phenomenal. Again, if everything that HaroldWillmington, Sidlow Baxter,Myron Cedarholm, KennethWuest, and Spiros Zodhiatesknew about the Bible doctrines of James and Hebrews were put together, it wouldcomprise the most confused mass of incomprehensible nonsense since BJU publishedStewartCusterâspamphletontheKingJamesVersion(1982).
IgnoranceoftheBibleissogreatamongmodern,Fundamentalistprofessorsthat,forall practical purposes,much of theAV is simply an unknownBible to them.Like theirAthenianancestors(Acts17:22)whowereraisedonnewscasts(Acts17:21),themodern,apostate Fundamentalists (the faculties at Dallas, Denver, Grand Rapids, Watertown,Pontiac,Greenville,FortWorth,etc.)aresooccupiedwithlittleearticklingfables(2Tim.4:1â4)thatwholepassagesintheBibleescapethemcompletely.Sincethesepoor,blinded,newsaddictsareunawareof thesepassages, it follows that theirstudentswillbe justas
unaware.Iftheprofessorhappenstoreadthepassage,hewillpurposelyavoidbringingitup to the class and will skip over it; consequently, the students do the same. Theseprofessorsreproduceaccordingtothedivinelawofâeachafteritskindâ(Gen.1);andthisexplainshow50,000ministerialstudentshavebeenabletograduatefromâBibleâschoolsinAmericasince1930(andtheseschoolsallprofesstobelieveintheâFundamentalsâasdefinedbyBobJonesJr.,inhissermonontheBJUcreedandinJackVanImpeâsworkonHeart Disease in the Body of Christ, 1984) and how many have managed to earnpostgraduate degrees, only to drop completely out of sight without accomplishing onegenuinescripturalwork,onesoulwinningrevival,oronespiritualawakeninginanynewcommunity that they entered or in any community to which they returned upongraduating.TheycametoschoolinignoranceofcertainBiblicalpassages;theygraduatedfrom school in ignorance of those passages; and they conducted their ministries inignoranceofthosepassages,sonoonewhoattendedtheirchurchesorschoolscameoutanymoreenlightenedthantheywere.Thesepoor,deceivedyoungmenandwomenwereâconnedâintopayingtuitiontoaâBibleâschool(calledacollege,university,seminary,orinstitute)thinkingtheyweregoingtolearntheBible.
Theydidnâtlearnit.TheydidnâtreallylearnanytranslationoftheBible.TheyweretaughtwhatsometeacherthoughttheBiblewasâabout.âTheproofliesinwhatfollows.Weherepresent twelvechaptersofdiscussiononTHEUNKNOWNBIBLE: aBible
composedofnearly200verses(morethanonehundredwillbediscussedhere)whicharenever dealt with or expounded in the major Christian colleges and universities.Furthermore, no major commentator in the nineteenth or twentieth century has everapplied these verses to his contemporaries or the contemporary age in which he lived.TheseverseshavebeenisolatedorburiedâinthepastâinthehopesthattwentiethcenturyChristiansintheBodyofChristwillnotfindthemandstudythem.Iftheydid,theywouldbegintowonderiftheyhadnotsoldtheirbirthrightforamessofpottagesimplybecausethe kidneybeans had âunquestioned loyalty to the originalsâ stampedon themor somelittlelyingsloganlikeâstandingwithoutapologyfortheold-timereligion.â(ThelatterisahackneyedphraseborrowedbyArlinHortonandBobJonesIII,fromBobJonesSr.)Conmenallhaveâprops.â
We trust this book will be âenlighteningâ (Eph. 5:13). The material in it is notdiscussed in any large school in America or Europe and never will be, for the versesdiscussed here pose a real and âviableâ threat to those Christian educators who worryabout theirscholastic reputationsand their intellectualâimages.âFor these thin-skinned,apostateFundamentalistswhofearridiculeworsethandeath,theseBibleversesmakeupanâunknownBible,âaverbotenBookthatisnottobereadordiscussed,letalonetaughtand preached. The Unknown Bible is the genuine terror of modern, LaodiceanFundamentalism.Youwillunderstandwhyifyoureadthisbook.
TheMilitantFundamentalistWhoWenttoHell
TheyprofessthattheyknowGod;butinworkstheydenyhim,beingabominable,anddisobedient,anduntoeverygoodworkreprobate.(Titus1:16)
Tobeginwiththeproperfoundation,weshallbeginwiththestudyofapassagethatdealsmainlywithwhatGodtoldapreachertosay.Thismayseemtobeaverychildishway to putmatters and an extreme âoversimplificationâ of approaching so important asubject aswe are about to discuss, but any reader of the set of books calledThe BibleBelieverâsCommentarySeries is aware of the fact that there is a vast âcredibility gapâbetween what the Book SAYS God said and what the Book is reported to have said.ReadersoftheBibleBelieversâBulletinarealsowellawareofthefactthatanyChristian,regardless of his educational qualifications or scholastic reputation, can find out themotives and intentions of any Hebrew or Greek scholar by simply comparing hisâcorrectionsâontheGod-giventextwithanytextoftheAuthorizedVersion.Anyeditionwilldojustfine.Thesmokescreenputupin1983byThomasNelsonandSonsbyissuinganapproximatefacsimileoftheoriginal1611edition(itwasnotâexactâbyANYmeans)neverhadanybearingonthemattersweareabouttodiscusshere,andithaslessbearingtoday(1984)thaneverbefore.AnyBiblebelieverwithasixthgradeeducationcanpickupanyAuthorizedVersionandbyturningtotenverseshecanspotâthepiginthepokeâeverytimehestickshissnootoutofanASV,NASV,NKJV,NIV,oranythingelsetocome.
Sotobeginwith,weshallresorttoaseriesofversesthatdealwiththewordsthatGodspoke(notetheplural:nottheâWordâofGod).ThiswouldbetheobviousplacetostartsinceSatanconsideredittobetheproperplacetostart(Gen.3:1).Ifthisspiritualbeingwas âperfect in wisdomâ (Ezek. 28) and âwiser than Danielâ (Ezek. 28:1â4) and hasprovedhimself through6,000yearsofhistory tobeable todeceive thebest andwisestintellectswhoeverlivedonthisearth(everyhumanbeingonthisearthwiththeexceptionofJesusChrist),certainlyhewouldknowwheretostartindealingwiththeBible,knownorunknown.
Here then we present the first case of a portion of Scripture that is completelyunknown to every graduate and postgraduate of every Conservative, Evangelical, andFundamentaluniversity,college,andseminaryinAmerica,withoutasingleexception.
Thepassage is somysterious that theredidnot appearâoneitherScofield editorialboard (old or new editions) or any revision committee putting out a twentieth centuryBibleâone Fundamental scholar, one Conservative scholar, or one Evangelical scholarwhocouldmakeanintelligentcommentonthepassage.
You say: âBrother Ruckman, are you now going to expound the passage therebyprovingagainhowsmartyouareandhowdumbthesegreat,godlymenwere?â
No;fortunatelythereisamuchbetterexpounderofScriptureforthereaderthanPeter
S.Ruckman.The readerneednotdependonanyoneas stupidashim.There is amuchbetterexpounderoftheScripturethansomesavedsinnerwhohasbeenteachingHebrewandGreekandManuscriptEvidenceforthirtyyears.ThankGodwedonâthavetorelyonanyoneasshallowasTHAT!NoonehastorelyonâRuckmanâoranyâRuckmaniteâinordertocorrectthefalseteachingsorblunderingerrorsofEnglish,Cedarholm,Gothard,Walvoord,MacArthur,Swindle,McGee,Sumner,Strauss,andScofield.
ThankGodthedumbestofushaveaninfallibleâstraightedgeâthatcancorrectanyFundamentalistanytimehestepsaninchovertheâcenterlineâinthehighway.Thiswillbeapparentinwhatfollows.
Nowhereisthecase:InNumbers,chapter22apagankingnamedBalak (who isa typeof theAntichrist:
see thematerial on aSyrian Jew fromKerioth inMoab inMark of theBeast, 1959) isupsetaboutthesuddenappearanceof600,000armedmenonhisborders(Num.22:1â4).HesendstoasoothsayerwhoissoimportantintheBiblethathisnameismentionedthreetimesintheNewTestament:oncebySimonPeter(2Pet.2),oncebyJude(Jude11)andoncebytheapostleJohn(Rev.2:14).
TheScofieldnotestakeknowledgeofthesethreereferences:theymentiontheWAYof Balaam, the ERROR of Balaam, and the DOCTRINE of Balaam. So far so good;however,suddenlyaâchilldonecomeovahdemeetinâasthegodlyboardofâdedicatedConservativesâ meet with the âqualified authoritiesâ to give us an âhistoricFundamentalist position.â Suddenly the issue of final authority in regards to SPOKENWORDSthrustsitselfintothenarrativeandwereadthefollowinginterestingaccount:
âAnd God came unto Balaam, and said,What men are these with thee? AndBalaamsaiduntoGod,Balak the sonofZippor,kingofMoab,hath sentuntome,saying,Behold, there isapeoplecomeoutofEgypt,whichcovereththe faceof theearth:comenow,cursemethem;peradventureIshallbeabletoovercomethem,anddrivethemout.AndGodsaiduntoBalaam,Thoushaltnotgowiththem;thoushaltnotcursethepeople:fortheyareblessed.AndBalaamroseupinthemorning,andsaiduntotheprincesofBalak,Getyouintoyourland:fortheLordrefusethtogivemeleavetogowithyou.AndtheprincesofMoabrose up, and they went unto Balak, and said, Balaam refuseth to come with usâ(Num.22:9â14).
Nowreadthepassageagaincarefullyandnoticethatonthesurfacenothingappearstobebadlyoutoforder;atleastnoFundamentalscholarinthelast200yearswithtwenty-twoyearsof formaleducationcouldfindanythingbadlyoutoforder. Ifyoudoubt this,choose at random twenty different commentators on Numbers, chapter 22, plus all thenotes fromforty-fiveEnglish translations, andsee if they tellyouanything reallybadlyamiss. In view of what happens following these verses, someone should have foundsomethingterriblywrongwithverses9â14.Allofthescholarsmusthavereadthepassage
withaPOSITIVEattitudetowardsDISOBEYINGTHEWORDSOFGOD.Yousee,whatfollowsisthis:
âAndBalaamansweredandsaiduntotheservantsofBalak,IfBalakwouldgivemehishousefullofsilverandgold,IcannotgobeyondthewordoftheLORDmyGod,todolessormore.Nowtherefore,Iprayyou,tarryyealsoherethisnight,thatImayknowwhattheLORDwillsayuntomemore.AndGodcameuntoBalaamatnight,andsaiduntohim,Ifthemencometocallthee,riseup,andgowiththem;butyetthewordwhichIshallsayuntothee,thatshaltthoudoâ(Num.22:18â20).
Andthisisfollowedbythis:
âAndBalaamsaiduntotheangeloftheLORD,Ihavesinned;forIknewnotthatthoustoodestinthewayagainstme:nowtherefore,ifitdispleasethee,Iwillgetmebackagain.AndtheangeloftheLORDsaiduntoBalaam,Gowiththemen:butonlythewordthatIshallspeakuntothee,thatthoushaltspeak.SoBalaamwentwiththeprincesofBalakâ(Num.22:34â35).
Andifthatwerenotenough,neartheendofthechapterâwhenBalaamrunsintotheprototypeoftheAntichristâweread:
âAndBalaamsaiduntoBalak,Lo,Iamcomeuntothee:haveInowanypoweratall to say any thing? theword thatGod putteth inmymouth, that shall I speakâ(Num.22:38).
Now,letthereaderreviewtheseverseswhichwehaveprintedinboldfacedtypeandthenaskhimself,âIsnâttheresomethinggoingonherethathastodowiththeâYEAHATHGODSAID,SOCIETYâ?âIsnâtthattherealâmeatâofthepassages?Lookatthem.
1.âAstheLordshallSPEAKuntomeâ(v.8).2.âAndGodSAIDuntoBalaamâ(v.12).3.âFortheLordrefusethtogivemeleaveâ(v.13).4.âIcannotgobeyondtheWORDoftheLordmyGodâ(v.18).5.âThatImayknowwhattheLordwillSAYuntomemoreâ(v.19).6.âButyetTHEWORDwhichISHALLSAYuntothee,thatshaltthoudoâ(v.20).7.âButonlytheWORDthatIshallSPEAKUNTOTHEEâ(v.35).
8.âTheWORDthatGodputtethinmymouth,thatshallISPEAKâ(v.38).Doyouhavetohaveacollegeeducationtoseethethemeofthechapter?IfyoueverhitapassageineitherTestamentthatdealtwithacalltotheministryand
thecontentofthemessagesthataministeristopreachwhohasbeenâcalledâ(2Tim.4:1â6),youcertainlyranintoithere.IfyoueverfoundanyplaceineitherTestamentthatdealtwithGodâverballyinspiringâsomeâplenaryoriginalsâandcallingamantopreachthem,buster,yougotithere,withacapitalâH.â
SuchapassagewillnotfailtobeaDonnybrook(Stalingrad,Waterloo,etc.)toaBibleteacher or preacher (Fundamentalist or otherwise)whohas beenoccupiedwithalteringthe word which God spoke. Mark it down; live by it and die by it: no âborn again,âpremillennialFundamentalistonthefaceofthisearthcouldcommentonsuchapassagefaithfully and honestly if he had spent any amount of time correcting the Bible. Thechaptercomes inon the facultymembersofTennesseeTempleandSantaRosaSchoolslikeanArcticblastonanastyday,anditcontinueswithoutintermissiontoproduceadeepfreezeonthegraduatesandpostgraduatesofBJU,Dallas,FortWorth,andLouisvillewithâdriftsâtwenty-fivefeethigh.
1.âWhatsoeverHeshewethmeIwillTELLtheeâ(23:3).2.âReturnuntoBalak,andthusthoushaltSPEAKâ(23:5).3.âMustInottakeheedtoSPEAKTHATWHICHtheLordhathputinmymouth?â
(23:12).4.âGoagainuntoBalak,andSAYthusâ(23:16).5.âWhathaththeLordSPOKEN?â(23:17).YEA,HATHGODSAID??TheâCaliforniaexpositorsâhaveneverdaredtoexpositthepassageatime(Swindle,
MacArthur,McGee, etc.). The students at Judson, Stetson,Howard,Clark,Mercer, andWake Forrest know nothing about the verses. Hindson and Dobson could no moreexpoundthemthantheycouldexpoundHebrews,chapter6andHebrews,chapter10.
You see, the passages deal with God calling a man to preach WORDS (notâFundamentalsâ)thatGodhasspoken.Numbers,chapters22and23landstheunfaithfulFundamentalist(Biblecritic,Greekteacher,expositorsandexegetes,WycliffeTranslators,andBiblerevisors)rightâsmackdabâintoGenesis3:1.
YEA,HATHGODSAID???DoyourealizethatthegreatestprooftextintheentireBibleforanyonebelievingany
promise thatGodevermade toanyone, in eitherTestament,will be found inNumbers,chapter23,rightinthemiddleofthesedialoguesbetweenBalakandBalaam?ThegreatestverseineitherTestamentofanyBibleforbelievingthewrittenorspokenwordsofGod,andthepromisesthusrecorded,is:
âGod is not aman, that he should lie; neither the son ofman, that he should
repent:hathhesaid,andshallhenotdoit?orhathhespoken,andshallhenotmakeitgood?â(Num.23:19).
Thosewordswerespokenbyafalseprophetwhodiedandwenttohell(2Pet.2:15â17).
NorwilltheHolySpiritletupinthisunknownBibleindrivinghometheWORDSofGodwithaforcethatwouldmakeanX-15onthelinesoundlikeanoldwomansnappingherfingers.
1. âTold not I thee, saying, ALL THAT THE Lord SPEAKETH, that I must do?â(23:26).
2.âHehathSAID,whichheardtheWORDSofGodâ(24:4).3.âIcannotgobeyondthecommandmentoftheLordâ(24:13).4.âButwhattheLordSAITH,thatwillISPEAKâ(24:13).Soundsalmostlikegood
oldMicaiah,themilitantFundamentalistof1Kings22:14,doesnâtit?5.âHehathSAID,whichheardTHEWORDSOFGODâ(24:16).TherehasneverlivedinthenineteenthortwentiethcenturyagreaterBible-believing,
militantFundamentalistthanBALAAM,ifwebelievewhatwehavejustread.Now these Scriptures picture the most improbable thing and the most incredible
character ever associated with the history of Bible preaching. The man doing thepreachinghereispreachingbytheSpiritofGod(24:2);hehearsthewordsofGod(24:4);he sees the future (24:4); he speaks the truth (24:4â9); he has a revelation about theimputed righteousness of God (23:21); he obeys the commandment of God (23:2); hepreaches exactly what God told him to preach (24:13); he has a knowledge of bothAdventsofJesusChrist(24:17);andthenfollowinghissermonheiskilledinbattle(Num.31:8)andiscastintoouterdarkness(Jude7â11).
HowisthatforaFundamentalistâGiantoftheFaithâboldlycontendingfortheâfaithoncedeliveredtothesaintsâ!?
When theScofieldBoardofEditors slams into thepassage like twodozenbananasslammingintoaturboprop,theyarescatteredtothefourwinds.Theversethatthrowsbothcommitteesintotheexospheresays:
âAndtheangeloftheLordsaiduntohim,Whereforehastthousmittenthineassthesethreetimes?behold,lwentouttowithstandthee,becausethywayisperversebeforeme:Andtheasssawme,andturnedfrommethesethreetimes:unlessshehadturnedfromme,surelynowalsoIhadslainthee,andsavedheralive.AndBalaamsaiduntotheangeloftheLord,Ihavesinned;forIknewnotthatthoustoodestinthe way againstme: now therefore, if it displease thee, I will getme back againâ(Num.22:32â34).
The problem that all of these âgreat, good, godly, dedicated, qualified, reverentBiblicistsâ have is WHY DID GOD TELL BALAAM TO GO WITH BALAKâSPRINCES(22:20)ANDTHENNEARLYKILLHIMBECAUSEHEWENT(22:33)?
WhenHaroldWillmington(D.D.,professorandDirectorofBiblicalStudiesatLibertyUniversity,Lynchburg,VA)slamsintothepassage,hebringsalonghistrainingatMoodyBibleInstitute,CulverStocktonCollege,CaliforniaGraduateSchoolofTheology,TrinityEvangelicalSchool,AshlandTheologicalSeminary,andDallasTheologicalSeminary.
Hebombsoutlikeahippywhoneverfinishedjuniorhighschool.All this poor, ignorantman can say is that âAfter asking themessengers to stay all
night, Balaam received the desired permission but was warned to say only what Godwantedhimtosayâ(LibertyBibleCommentary,OldTimeGospelHour,1982,p.296).
Having admitted that Balaam had obtained permission to go with only a warningabouttheCONTENTofhismessage,HaroldWillmingtonisunabletoteachanotherversein the Bible. At verses 31â35, he freezes in his dead orthodox iceberg of scholasticdegrees (all belowzero) andgoes into an irrelevant dissertation aboutChrist and sevenpeopleintheOldTestamentwhosaidtheyhadsinned!
FortyyearsofformaleducationhaddonenothingforBalaamorWillmington.ItcertainlydidnothingforPettingill,Scofield,English,orEdHindsonwhentheygot
tothepassage.TheScofieldBoardgoesintoasonganddanceaboutâpermissiveanddirectivewills,â
whensuchmattersarenotevenhintedatinthepassage.(TheideapresentedtousintheNSRB is that since it was Godâs PERMISSIVE WILL for Balaam to go and HisDIRECTIVEWILL for him to go (22:12), that He was going to kill the preacher aftergivinghimPERMISSIONTOGO(Num.22:20).
Imagine calling that kind of muddled nonsense âscholarshipâ after reading aboutPaulâstriptoJerusalemagainsttheDIRECTIVEWILLofGod(Acts21â26)!
Aswehavesaidbeforeonseveralhundredoccasions,âYoumesswiththatBookandGodwillmesswithyoâmind,honey,âandGodisnorespecterofastringofcollegesanddegreesthatgotomakeupamuddauberâsnest.Hewillscrewupthemindofaâborn-again, Bible-believing Fundamentalistâ who believes in âplenary, verbally inspiredoriginalsâasquicklyasHemessedupthemindsofJimJones,M.M.OâHair,TinyTim,WalterMondale,TedKennedy,AdolphHitler,orJesseJackson.
Wearenot saying that these savedscholarswhostumbledat thepassageandbroketheirtheologicalneckswerepsychotic;wejustsaythatwhentheissueofFinalAuthorityarises in regards to theWORDS thatGod speaks (as it arises here and is sustained forthreechapters),youâbetterhadnâtmesswiththatBook.â
Adoptingourusualpositionâthatanyeditionof theAV issuperior to thecombinedGreek and Hebrew scholarship of all Catholics, Protestants, pseudo-Fundamentalists,Evangelicals, Liberals, Fundamentalists, Conservatives, Modernists, and neo-Fundamentalistsâlet us see what actually happened in Numbers, chapter 22 where a
ConservativeFundamentalistwascalledtopreachandnearlygotkilled.Thistimewewillnotplayâring-around-the-roseyâwhenweget toverses31â36,asJerryFalwellâsâhiredhelpâ did (Dr. HaroldWillmington). This timewewill use the text of theKing JamesBible(anyeditionwilldojustfine)andwatchitcutthespiritualthroats(seethecommentson Col. 2:8 in the Bible Believerâs Commentary on GalatiansâColossians) of everypreacher,teacher,commentator,pastor,bishop,revisor,translator,priest,editor,publisher,andexegeteintheworld.
âAndGodsaiduntoBalaam,Thoushaltnotgowiththem;thoushaltnotcursethepeople:fortheyareblessed.AndBalaamroseupinthemorning,andsaiduntotheprincesofBalak,Getyouintoyourland:fortheLORDrefusethtogivemeleavetogowithyou.AndtheprincesofMoabroseup,andtheywentuntoBalak,andsaid,Balaamrefusethtocomewithusâ(Num.22:12â14).
Didyoureadtheverses?Thesewerethesameversesthatappearedat theverybeginningof thischapter.You
say: âWhyprint themagain?âBecausenoFundamentalist (livingor dead) has yet readthemifwearetojudgebyhiscommentsonwhatfollows(vss.31â36).NowobservethatwhenGodspeakstoHispreacher(andtheLordhadevidentlyrevealedHimselftoBalaammanytimesbeforethisâseeNum.22:6,9),Hegiveshimaâthree-pointoutlineâwhichheistopreach.Onemightsaythatthispreacherisâonhiskneesinhisprayerclosetâprayingforamessage-hegetsamessage.Theoutlineiscleartoanyoneexceptthesavedfacultymembers of Dallas Theological Seminary, Liberty University, Bob Jones University,GARBC,Midwestern, Piedmont,Moody,Wheaton, Fuller, Pillsbury, BIOLA, Harvard,Yale and Tennessee Temple, and Bible expositors like Sidlow Baxter, C. I. Scofield,Swindoll,MacArthur,Goodsky, Lehman Strauss,Webber, Ironsides, Cedarholm, and J.VernonMcGee.
PointNo.1:Donâtgo.PointNo.2:DonâtcurseIsrael.PointNo.3:Israelisblessed.Onemoretime!Didyoureadtheverse?Whatcouldbeanyplainerthanthat?Whaton
earthissodifficultaboutverse12?ReaditagainandseeifâRuckmanâisthedirtydogwho is teaching âheresy.â There is no problem from the start about âpermissiveâ orâdirectiveâwillsofGod.GodgaveBalaamathree-pointmessagetodeliver.
DIDHEDELIVERIT?DidBillyGraham,JimmySwaggart,FrankNorris,JerryFalwell,JackHyles,JohnR.
Rice,LeeRobertson,Bob JonesSr.,T.T. Shields,MordecaiHam,RexHumbard,OralRoberts, and Dallas Billington deliver the message that God gave to them!? Did theydeliverallthreepoints?
Surely anymanwhowould profess, âI cannot go beyond thewordof theLordmyGod, to do less ormoreâ (22:18), andwhowould confess openly, âTheword thatGodputteth in my mouth, that shall I speakâ (22:38), surely such a âbold, brave, militantFUNDAMENTALISTâcouldbecounteduponnottoâgobeyondâwhatGodSAIDorfallshortofwhatGodSAID.SurelysuchaGod-calledpreachercoulddeliverasimplethree-point message in fourth grade English without any background in Greek, Hebrew, orAramaic.Balaam,inhisopenprofession,wasaBiblebelieverwhobelievedtheWORDSofGodandwouldnotADDtothem(Prov.30:6)orDIMINISHfromthem(Rev.22:19).
Hecouldhavebeen thepresidentofanyâWorldCongressofFundamentalismâ thatevermetinthetwentiethcentury.Uponcomingdownfromthepodiumafterdeliveringapowerful message on âTHE AUTHORITY OF THE SCRIPTURES,â he would haveheadedstraighthomeâstraightintoOUTERDARKNESS(2Pet.2:17).
Why?Simple: his profession had nothing to dowith his realbeliefs.HeUSED thewords of God to keep from getting killed. He preached the words of God but (aahhh,dearly beloved!) that wasONLYAFTERTHELOADED PISTOLWAS PUTTOHISFOREHEAD (22:31)! Thatwasafter he was forced against his will (as we have beenforcing Christian universities, colleges, and seminaries for nearly half a century) topreachwhathedidnâtwanttopreachbecauseitwouldaffecthisINCOME.
Now, are you getting any âlightâ on the âverbal, plenary inspired, originalautographsâ?
Yousee,whenGodgavethisapostateFundamentalistthethree-pointoutline(22:12),Balaamdeliberatelyandflagrantlyviolatedeverythinghelaterprofessed,fornosooneristhethree-pointoutlineoutofGodâsmouththantwopointsaredeletedfromthemessage(22:13),andwhenitispreachedithasbeenreducedtoamere:âTHELORDREFUSETHTOGIVEMELEAVETOGOWITHYOU.âPeriod:andImeanâperiod.â
Two-thirdsoftheâdivineoriginalâwasthrowninthewastebasket.Balaammusthavethought that the âoriginalâwas a âconflate textâmanufactured atAntiochby a âLucianRecensionâ (a text produced through smoothing over the âoriginalâ by combining anumber of âtext types,â etc.). That is, Balaam, asWestcott andHort, A. T. Robertson,RobertSumner,KennethWuest,J.R.Rice,Aland,Metzger,Kenyon,Zodhiates,andBobJonesIII,andtheirkinfolk,wereâbirdsofafeather.â(Letushopetheydidnâtallwindupinthesameplace.!)
Observe the amazing anti-Darwinian, anti-Einstein, anti-NEA, anti-Postmillennialprogressoftheâverballyinspiredoriginal.âItbeganwiththreepoints;itwoundupwithone point (22:13). But at least in that one point the Lord was recognized (âThe LordrefusethâŠetc.â).Thatis,ONECOULDSTILLFINDTHEMAINâFUNDAMENTALOFTHE FAITHâ IN THE ALTERED TEXT (see theASV, NASV, RSV, NRSV, NIV, NWT,NEB, etc.). But when the princes of Moab return to their king, they simply report,âBalaamrefusethtocomewithusâ(22:14).
WhathappenedtotheâLordâ?Easy(v.13):HEGOTRUNOUTOFHISOWNBOOK(see1Tim.3:16intheASV
andNASV,andActs4:27intheNKJVandtheNRSV).
But in spite of this scholarly treatment of âtext restorationâ using âintrinsicprobabilitiesâasaâguideline,âBalaamisgivenanotherchancetopreachthetruth.
Observe the curious development of events that Scofield and two boards of editorscouldnot trace.HereisaFundamentalistwhoswearsthathewillsayexactlywhatGodtells him to say (22:18); yet when told what to say (22:12), he omits two-thirds of itbecauseitwillaffecthisincome.Havingdonethis,hehastheaudacitytosay,âTarryyealsohere this night, that Imayknowwhat theLordwill sayuntomeMOREâ (22:19).How is it that not one faculty member at Moody, Wheaton, Fuller, BJU, TennesseeTemple,GARBC,orPacificCoastâBibleâCollegespottedthistravestyofmorals?AREALL THE FACULTY MEMBERS IMMORAL WHEN IT COMES TO SEEKINGREVELATIONFROMTHEWORDSOFGOD?
Having been unfaithful in the first commission, having lied to his âcongregationâaboutthatmessage,havingrefusedtopreachthewordsofGodthathewastoldtopreach;thisâbold,brave,militantdefenderofthefaith,âetc.,hasthegalltogobacktoGodinhisprayerclosetandseekfurtherrevelationtogetmorematerialtopreach,knowingthatheisnotgoingtobefaithfulindeliveringitifitisgiventohim!Havingrejectedtherevelationgiven to him in his own language (take anAV of theHoly Bible given to themodernChristian, for example), Balaam seeks for more âlightâ on the âoriginalsâ (like anymodernHebreworGreekscholar,forexample).Youhaveneverreadonthefaceofthisearth amore revealingdescriptionof themethods,motives, and conduct of themodernseminary and university professors staffing the Conservative schools of Europe andAmerica.
TheyarekintoBalaameveniftheydonâtknowit.Nowcomesthecapstone.HavingpickeduptheinformationthattheScofieldBoardof
Editorscouldnotfind(seetheirnotesonthebottomofpage198,ineitheredition),wecanapproach verses 31â36 in amuchmore scriptural fashion than these blind guideswhosportfivedegreesfromsixtotenmuddaubersânests.Thesepoorcampfiregirlswhotalkabout the âoriginal autographsâ cameunder such terrible conviction for their sinswhentheyreadNumbers22:12â14thattheyhadtodigupsomeâhobbyhorseâtosidetracktheirstudentsandfollowers.TheincrediblecommentoftheScofieldBoardofEditorswasonlythatBalaamâchose the path of self-will and self-advantage, and Jehovah could not butgravelydisapprove.â
AfterthatyoumightwriteinblockcapitallettersB-A-L-O-N-E-Y.TheâpermissivewillofGodâ(Scofieldnote)andtheâdirectivewillofGodâ(Scofield
note) are not involved ONE TIME anywhere in the chapter or ONE TIME in eitherchapter following it.What is involved isapreacher like thoseon theScofieldBoardofEditors or those who wrote for the Liberty Bible Commentary (Lynchburg, VA) beinggiventheWORDSofGodtopreach,swearingonastackofGreeklexiconsthattheywillpreachthoseWORDS,and thenrefusing topreach thosewordsbecauseof thepotentialdamagetheywouldaccrue;theirincomesandimageswouldsuffer.
GodinHismercygrantsBalaamanadditionalrevelation,butitisatimebomb:IFthemencometocalltheeriseupandgowiththem.
LookatthescripturalconditionswhichWillmingtonandScofield(andallotherswhohadanyconfidenceinmenlikethem)couldnâtfind.
1.âIFTHEMENCOMETOCALLTHEE.âDidtheycometocallhim?(Thank God you have a more reliable authority than âRuckmanâ to answer that
question!).âAndBalaamroseupinthemorning,andsaddledhisass,andwentwiththeprincesofMoabâ(Num.22:21).
Yousee,theydidnâtcometocallhim.Such straw dummies as âdirective and permissiveâ wills never enter into the
transactionsbetweenGodandBalaamonetime:NOTONCE.WhatwehavehereisplainandopendisobediencetheSECONDTIME;thefirsttime
havingbeenNumbers22:12â13,whichwehavejustdiscussed.2.ThereisasecondconditiongivenwhichimpliesaRESPONSE.Note:âButyetthe
wordwhichIshallsayuntothee,thatshaltthoudo.âTherewasnoresponsefromBalaamtothiscommandment.Balaamdidnotcommithimself;hedidnâtpromiseGodanything.Whydidnâthe?Easy: read1Timothy6:10 inanyEnglishversionprinted since1800, including the
âNewâKJV.Balaamhadâlettuce trouble.âHehadaâgreen fixationâorâtimepaymentsyndrome.âHesawgreenleavesfloatingbeforehiseyes(Num.22:7)whenhegotupinthemorning.HepromisedGodnothinguntil theSWORDOFTHELORD(22:31)wasplacedonthethingheworshipped:HISBELLY(Rom.16:18).
NO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL IN AMERICA WILL BACKTRACK TO THE TRUTHAFTER HAVING SPENT TEN TO SIXTY YEARS ON THE ROAD TO APOSTASYUNLESSTHESWORDOFTHESPIRIT(Heb.4:12)ISPLACEDONTHEIRTHROAT.
âSpeaking the truth in loveâHASNOT, ISNOT,ANDWILLNOTACCOMPLISHANYTHINGINTHISGENERATIONINDEALINGWITHTHISKINDOFPEOPLE.God didnât waste five minutes âgravely disapprovingâ (Scofield note) of Balaamâsconduct.He roadblocksBalaamâsmeansof transportationanddrawsa sword tokill thelying fool; and He would have killed him if the donkey hadnât feared Godmore thanBalaam.
Sowiththemotivationtoâsharewithothersâtheâtotalthrustâofbeingabletoâcopewithspiritualrealities,âetc.BalaamfinallyconfessesthathehasâNOPOWERATALLâtosayanything(22:38).AndfromhereonhepreachesundertheinspirationoftheHolySpirit(24:2)thewordofGodandthewordsofGod(24:5),andhedeliversallthepointsgiventohiminGodâsâoutlinesâforhissermons.Sinceheneverreallybelievedthewordsthat he preached (that is, he retained a mental reservation while âusingâ them!), heretainedhisrealconvictions,whichhadtodowithLETTUCE(1Tim.6:10).
Hegotkilledandwenttohell.Heâusedâsomethinghedidnâtbelieveandprofessedtobelievewhathedidnâtreally
believe.
Andherewehavedemonstratedâbeyondareasonabledoubtâ(alegalterm)thatthereare parts of the English Bible (AV) that are completely unknown, and no amount ofscholastictraining,noamountofexperienceindealingwiththeâoriginallanguages,ânoamountofknowledgeof âtransmissionof text types,ânonumberof earneddegrees, noamountofyearsspentinpostgraduateresearches,andnopracticaloutwardmanifestationsof a godly or SEPARATED LIFE would enable any scholar (saved or lost), of anyprofession,tounderstandthispartoftheBibleifthatscholarhadevermeddledwith(orwantedtomeddlewith)theWORDSofGod,eitherinhisclassroomorfromhispulpitorinhisprivatestudy.
Awordtothewiseissufficient:donâtmesswiththeBook.
MobyDickandTheWhiteCrocodile
NebuchadnezzarthekingofBabylonhathdevouredme,hehathcrushedme,hehathmademeanemptyvessel,hehathswallowedmeuplikeadragon,hehathfilledhisbellywithmydelicates,hehathcastmeout.(Jeremiah51:34)
Wenow take one step further into our study of the famous âUnknownBible,â thatBible which is composed of scores of verses that modern Christian educators knownothing about, or if some of them perchance are acquainted with the verses they arecarefulnevertoteachthemtotheirstudents.Thisisthegreatpiousâcover-upâofthisage;it has to do largelywith the fact thatwe are in theLaodicean period of church history(Rev.3),andinthisperiod,theBodyofChristdesirestoâheaptoitselfteachershavingitchingears.âThesesaved,âbornagainâapostateswillturntheearsoftheyoungpeopleâawayfromthetruthâandintoâfablesâ(2Tim.4:4).
Themainreasonfor this is thatninetypercentof thefacultymembersofanymajorschool of higher learning in America (Evangelicals and Fundamentalists, as well asunsavedLiberals)areas thoroughly intimidatedbyacademicstandardsandâscienceâastheworstunsavedCommunistintheNationalCouncilofChurchesorintheVatican.Weare not referring here to straw dummies like âstandards of separationâ or âbold standsagainstNeo-EvangelicismâoranyofthathogwashputoutbyFundamentaliststocoveruptheirownsinsofBiblerejection.Whatwearesayingisthatninetypercentoftheapostate,Fundamentalisteducatorshavebeenbrainwashedbythespiritofthisage,reachingthemthroughtelevision.Thisspirit(Eph.2:1â3)isapositivespirit(seeGen.3:1)thataffectsamanâs approach tomakinga living; and the spirit of this agebreathes throughall newsmediasourcestwenty-fourhoursaday.
This twentieth century spirit (inAmerica)may be best described by identifying itsPHILOSOPHY. The philosophical dictum it puts forth is: âREJECTANYNEGATIVETRUTHSTHATGO âCROSSGRAINâORTHATMIGHTAFFECTYOUR INCOMEORYOURâIMAGE.ââ
NowTHATistheâspiritofthisageâinAmerica;andthatisthespiritofnearlyeveryeducatedChristian (1 John4:5)whoprofesses tobelieve in theâplenary inspirationâofthe âverbally inspired originalsâ as his final authority. You see, these unread, unseenâoriginalsâposenorealthreattohisIMAGEorhisINCOME.Whatposesagenuineandviable threat to both is the text of theProtestant English Reformation (AV, 1611). Thereason for taking a âbold standâ for the âplenary verbal inspiration of the originalsâ isCOWARDICE,pureandsimple.Thecowardisafraidofhisincomeandhisimage.
Themodern,apostateFundamentalistsarejustasworldlyasPontiusPilate,Herod,orDemasandtheâproofisinthepuddin.â
Anyonewhotakestimetoreadthisbookletwillseeâhowthecookiecrumbles.âThe
versesofScripturewillspeakforthemselves.Theircontentwillshowanyreaderwithasixthgradeeducationwhytheseversesarenotbroughtupintheclassroomsandneverwillbebroughtoutintotheopen.TheywillbetreatedasaplagueofleprosybyhypocriticalFundamentalistswhowasteyourtimeblabbingaboutâinspiredoriginalautographsâandtheirâunquestionedloyaltyâtothem.Anyonecanbe loyal tosomethingthatnoonehaseverseenandthathasnobearingonhisincomeorimage(goodorbad)onetimein1,800years.
Nowhereisagreatpassage.
âCanst thoudrawout leviathanwithanhook?orhis tonguewithacordwhichthou lettestdown?âŠUponearththere isnothis like,who ismadewithout fear.Hebeholdethallhighthings:heisakingoverall thechildrenofprideâ(Job41:1,33â34).
Nowifthereisanydoubtinyourmindaboutourownhonesty,integrity,sincerity,andscholarshipâandwegrantthattheremaybeagooddeal!âyoushouldobtainacopyofthe so-called âNewKJVâ (which is not an Authorized Version at all) and look at thecomment on these verses as approved of by Criswell, Dollar, Henderson, Farstad,Hindson,Willmington,Dobson, and company.They admit that this part of theBible isUNKNOWNtothemandtheywillpubliclyconfessthisignorancetotheBodyofChrist.
Letâs nail it down: the best so-called âFundamentalist brainsâ in this countryâtheveryâcreamofEvangelicalandConservativescholarshipââdonâtknowenoughaboutaKingJamesBible in their own language to commenton an entire chapter of thirty-fourverses.Countthem:thirty-fourverses.OnewholechapteroftheBibleisunknowntothefacultyandstaffofLibertyUniversityatLynchburg.InthesixschoolyearsthatIattendedBobJonesUniversityIdidnotfindoneprofessorinthegraduateschoolorundergraduateschoolwhocouldtellmeanythingaboutanythingintheentirechapter.Thosemen(1945â1955)weretheoutstandingrepresentativesofFundamentalscholarshipwhoprofessedtobe able to set the standards for Conservative scholarship in America for the Body ofChrist.
NowwhycouldnâtthesemenexpoundJob,chapter41?Whatistheproblemwiththechapter?ThereisnâtanyproblemwithoneverseintheentirechapterunlessaFundamentalistis
worriedabouthisINCOMEorhisIMAGE.Theonlymanon thisearth towhomJob,chapter41 isaâthreatâ is toaneducated
sinnerwhohasbeenbrainwashedbythespiritoftwentiethcenturyAmericaâtheworldlyspiritof thisagepropagatedby thenewsmediaâthatunholyspirit, thatworldly, carnalspirit, that Bible-rejecting spirit which leads the faculty members, editors, publishers,translators, revisors and consultants for the NKJV, that identical spirit that led thetranslatorsoftheASVandNASV.ItisTHATspiritthatpreventedonehundredpercentof
theConservatives,Evangelicals,andFundamentalistsfromexpoundingapassage that isasclearasanychapterintheentirewordofGod.
Yousay,âExplainyourself,BrotherRuckman.Expoundtousthepassage.âWhy should I waste your time and my time when God has already explained the
passagetoyou?Whyaskme foranexpositionwhen theHolyGhosthasalreadygivenany fool the
explanationofthepassageclearerthanaplateglasswindowwiththepaneknockedout?Now lest you should think we are speaking sarcastically with âtongue in cheek,â
pleaseturntothefollowingpassagesintheAuthorizedVersion(anyeditionwilldonicely)andobservehow theHolySpirit has forcedNelson,Hindson,Dobson,Hutson,Afman,Price, Farstad, Willmington, Wiersbe, Batson, Matson, Datsun, Hatsun, and Ratsun todenytheirbirthrightinordertoretaintheirINCOMESandtheirâIMAGES.â
ReadthesepassagesandthenlookGodAlmightysquarelyinthefaceinyourprayercloset and tellHim that âRuckmanhasmisrepresented thesegood, godlymen.âGoon,readthepassages:Iâdoubledogdareyouâtoreadthepassages.
âCanst thoudrawout leviathanwithanhook?orhis tonguewithacordwhichthoulettestdown?â(Job41:1).
âIn that day the Lordwith his sore and great and strong sword shall punishleviathanthepiercingserpent,evenleviathanthatcrookedserpent;andheshallslaythedragonthatisintheseaâ(Isa.27:1).
âAndthegreatdragonwascastout,thatoldserpent,calledtheDevil,andSatan,whichdeceiveththewholeworld:hewascastoutintotheearth,andhisangelswerecastoutwithhimâ(Rev.12:9).
âThoubreakesttheheadsofleviathaninpieces,andgavesthimtobemeattothepeopleinhabitingthewildernessâ(Psa.74:14).
Now,didyouREADtheverses?Didyoureadthemtwice?Havingreadthemtwice,couldanyofyouwithaclearconsciencelookGodAlmighty
straightinthefaceinyourprayerclosetandtellHimthatâLeviathanâwasanâunknownanimalâ or a âlarge unknown animalâ? Could you (or your friends) look Jesus Christstraight in the eyeballs at the Judgment Seat of Christ and tell Him that you honestlythoughtthatâLeviathanâwasaCROCODILE?Thenhowdoyouexplainyourinabilityto
do this with a clear conscience and the ability of the âgood, godly, dedicatedFundamentalistsâ to do it with a clear conscience unless THEY had a SEAREDCONSCIENCE(1Tim.4:2)?
Theydiditwithoutbattinganeye.Andthere,myfriend,isamysteryofiniquityfullydemonstratedtoeveryChristianin
theBodyofChristinthiscentury.ThesewillfullyignorantagnosticsareFundamentalistswhoprofess to be your âpeersâwhen it comes to learning theBible!Nothing could bemoreunholyormorecarnalormoreworldlyormoreungodly.NothingonthisearthcouldbemoreGoddefyingandmoreUNGODLYthananeducatedFundamentalistprofessingtobelievethatâtheBibleISthewordofGodâandthenpretendinghedoesnâtunderstanditwhenactuallythetruthisthatitsclarityandplainnesshasoffendedhim,becauseifhestoodbyit,itwouldcosthimthelossofincome(seeBalaaminthepreviouschapter)orhisscholasticâimage.â
Suchplayacting(TheGreekwordforâhypocriteâmeansaprofessionalactor:howâsthat for an âoriginal nuggetâ!) and suchpiouspretenseproducesBible ignorance in theheartsandmindsofthosewhofollowsuchafakir;itmakesthestudentasstupidandasdeceitfulashisprofessor.IhavemorerespectforAdolphHitlerandJimJones;andasfarasIâmconcerned,suchmenareneitherdedicated,separated,sanctified,norspiritual:theyarebelly-worshippingworldlingswhofearfortheirownfleshynecks(Rom.16:3â4,16â18).
Wellwhymake such an issue over one chapter?Arenât theremany chapters in thewordofGodthatarebeyondunderstanding(forexample,theSongofSol.5â6;Zech.1â3,etc.)? Yes, but you see, this chapter is a detailed description of the one whom theseâmilitantFundamentalistsâprofesstobefighting.Job,chapter41isadescriptionoftheirenemy (and your enemy) according to the baloney they dish out from their pulpits andclassrooms.WhatcouldbemorevitaltoaclassroomofChristianyoungmenandwomenthanadescriptionoftheenemytheyaregoingtobeengagedinfightingalloftheirlives?Yet,loandbehold,thepassageisUNKNOWNto55,000graduateswhohavegraduatedfrom fiftyChristian schools in the last fifty years; to them it is as unknown as it is toHindson,Willmington,Price,Martin,Afman,andFaulkner.
Gobackandreadtheversesagain.DIDYOUEVERSEEACROCODILEWITHMORETHANONEHEAD?If theanimal isanâunknownanimal,â thenhowdoesoneexplain thefact thatboth
JohnandIsaiahcould identifyhimmore than1,300yearsbeforeChristopherColumbuswasborn?
Arenâtwe shut up to some pretty ghastly conclusions about theNKJV? Dowe notrightlyassumethepositionthatmenlivingmorethan1,800yearsago(Isaiahmorethan2,600 years ago) knew more about Biblical truth and Biblical scholarship that ONEHUNDRED COLLEGE EDUCATED, CONSERVATIVE AND EVANGELICALSCHOLARSINTHETWENTIETHCENTURYTHATPUTTHENKJVTOGETHER?
Yes,thatiscertainlythecorrectassumption.
Nowwhatistherealproblem?TheproblemisthatifeveryConservativeandEvangelicalscholaronANYboardof
anyâupdatedtranslationâreadthepassages(andyoureadthem)andunderstoodthem(andyou understood them) and believed them (and we trust YOU believe them), THEYWOULDNOTHAVEDAREDLETANYOFTHEIRâPEERSâORASSOCIATESKNOWIT!
Thiswouldhavebroughteverlastingdisgraceuponthemassuperstitious,unscientific,unscholarlyâhillbilliesâwhowereunfit totranslatetheScripturessincetheybelievedinmythological monsters. So they, âwith one consentâ (Luke 14:18), feignedAGNOSTICISMtosaveface(seeMatt.21:23â27).
Doyoudoubtouranalysis?Areweagainbeingâtooharshâ?OpentheâUnknownBibleâandthistimeopenittoMalachi1:3andread.
âAndIhatedEsau,andlaidhismountainsandhisheritagewasteforthedragonsofthewildernessâ(Mal.1:3).
Now,gopickupanyEnglishversion in thisworldpublishedsince1611butaKingJamesAV(andImeanâAUTHORIZED,âIdonâtmeanNKJV)andtelluswhathappenedtoâthemtheredragonsâmentionedinthepassage.
They disappeared. They vanished out of every English âBibleâ printed since 1800.Theyvanishedasquicklyandasquietlyandascompletelyasthevaporofyourbreathonacoolmorning.Why?Canâtyouguessbynow?!DonâtyouknowthatifHendersongotupatSpringfieldandconfessed thathebelieved inâDRAGONSâ that theentire facultyandstaffwouldlaughhimoff thecampus?Whyofcourse theywould.ThewholeoutfitwasbrainwashedagainsttheAVbeforetheywerehired.
WhatdoyousupposewouldhappenifTrumanDollarorWarrenWiersbegotupataâCongressâ and said they believed in âDRAGONSâ?Why theywould be the laughingstockofâMilitantFundamentalism.âDonâtyouknowwhatwouldhavehappenedtoZaneHodgesorFarstadatDallasTheologicalSeminaryiftheyhadREALLYstoodbytheAVtext?
Youdonâtknow?Whydonâtyouknow?AREYEYETWITHOUTUNDERSTANDING(Matt.15:16)?ImaginesomelittlesissifiedupstartlikeSumner,Hindson,Dobson,orBobJonesIII,
telling the Board of Editors of the Sword of the Lord that they believed in dragons!Imaginethat!OfcoursetheydonâtbelieveinâDRAGONSâ!Whatmaninhisrightmindbelieves in that? Who but a Bible-believing ,North Carolina hillbilly would believeMalachi1:3asitstands(andhasstoodforover370years)inanyedition.Doyouseetherealproblemyet?Yousay,âItâsstillobscure.âItstillis?Allright:âhearthisâ(astheysay
intheNavy).
âThewildbeastsofthedesertshallalsomeetwiththewildbeastsof the island,andthesatyrshallcrytohisfellow;thescreechowlalsoshallrestthere,andfindforherselfaplaceofrestâ(Isa.34:14)
There is nothing like a careful reading of theAV (any edition) to showwhy ninetypercent of the faculty members of any major, Fundamentalist school are nothing butapostates.Doyousee thewordâSATYRâin theverse?Lookfor it in theHolyBible ifyoumisseditintheASV,NASV,NKJV,RSV,NRSV,NWT,NEB,NIV,etc.
Yousee,thewordisfoundinonlyoneBible:anAuthorizedVersion.âYouâll sure look a long timeâ before you find it in any other version. (Like Erich
MariaRemarquesaidinAllQuietontheWesternFrontwhentheCOwascallingtherollafter two weeks of action in the front-line trenches: Heâll call for them a long time.Theyâreoutthereintheshellholesorinthehospitalorblowntobits.)
You wonât find any âsatyrsâ in any âreliable translationâ recommended by ANYfaculty member of any large Christian college or university. If they say the AV is aâreliable translation,â then theymust lie like a dog, for theAV says âsatyrsâ in Isaiah,chapter34,andnoonebelievessuchcreaturesexist.
IstherealreasonfortheâUnknownBibleâyetmanifest?Doyouyetunderstandwhyweusetheapproachandtheâlanguageâaboutthesemattersthatwehaveusedforthirty-fouryears?Doyouunderstandwhywespeakasrudelyandasroughlyaswespeak(2Cor.3:12)?
Why,thesemodernâFundamentalistsâarescaredsilly;theyarefrightenedoutoftheirwits by theworldly, godless, depraved carnal spirit of the twentieth century. They talkabout âmilitant standsâ and being uncompromising âgiants of the faithâ and âboldlydefendinghistoricpositionsâwhentheyareasyellowastheyolkofanegg.Theywouldback off from the AV text before ANY UNSAVED LIBERAL IN THE NCC IF HECONFRONTEDTHEMWITHâDRAGONS,ââSATYRS,âANDâLEVIATHAN.âTheselittlepussyfootingprimadonnaswillnot stickby theBook; theywillnotbe true to theBook; theywillnotdefend theBook;and theyhaveneverbelieved theBooksince theywenttoschoolandwerebrainwashedbyachicken-livered,yellow-bellied,backslider(andwesaythatwithcharity-naturally!)whowasjustasCOWARDLYastheyare.Thereisnocureforapostasy;itisnotremediableandawaitsjudgment.
ThemotivebehindignoringandalteringsuchversesintheBible,byallinvolved,isworldly and Satanic and has nothing to do with âdefending the faithâ and absolutelynothing to do with âscholarshipâ if that word was stretched to its extreme limits. Forexample,thefactthatthewordâLEVIATHANâisusedonetimeintheBible(Ps.104:26)as a reference to a WHALE could by no means justify the weird conclusion that theLeviathanofJob,chapter41isaâlarge,unknownanimalâorâunknownseamonsterâor
âcrocodileâorâhippopotamus.âAfterall,awhale(seeMobyDick)isatypeofSATANintheScriptures (seeEzek. 29:3â4 and 32:2), and anyEnglish speakingAmerican on thefaceofthisearthwithajuniorhighschooleducationcouldfindthatoutifheopenedanAVandreadit.
ThephenomenonwhichwehavenowdemonstratedTWICEcanonlybeexplainedinone way, for no one could say seriously that these apostates were so stupid that theycouldnâtreadtheirownlanguageintheirnativetongue,sinceitisapparentthatanyoneofthemhadatleastsixyearsofHebrewandGreekbehindthemandatleasttwelveyearsofEnglish on an undergraduate level. We are shut up to one inescapable and grislyconclusion:thatconclusionwasarrivedatinthefirsttwoparagraphsofthischapter.
TheonlyRATIONALexplanationforsuchblindstupidity,suchblunderinginfidelity,suchcraftyequivocation, suchBible-rejectingapostasybyâmilitantFundamentalistsâ isthattheyhavepersonallyandindividuallybeenconditionedbytheworldlyphilosophyofTV, radio, newspapers and magazines to instinctively protect themselves from anydiscussion(orassociationwith)ofanyversesintheBibleoranyverseintheBiblethatmightjeopardizetheirINCOMESortheirscholarlyâIMAGES.â
These apostates have been converted by the newsmedia into humanistic relativistswithout abandoning their professions in the âfundamentals of the faith.â They havebecome utilitarian Pragmatists while still holding to âhistoric positions.â In a nutshell,theyhaveAPOSTATIZEDandâturnedtheirearsawayfromthetruthandturnedthemintofables.â And that is why the Scofield notes (in either edition) confine âapostasyâ tounsaved Liberals (see 2 Tim. 4:1â6). The Conservative scholars who wrote theircommentsby2Timothy,chapter4didittoprotectthemselvesfromdetection,astheyhadalreadymadeuptheirmindswhentheywroteoutthenotesthatâsatyrs,ââdragons,âandâLeviathanâ do not exist and have never existed. To them, Leviathan could not be aâdragon,âfor to themtherearenodragons,EVENTHOUGHTHESCRIPTURESSAYTHATTHEREARE.
To these belly-worshipping worldlings who pass off as âgiants of the faith,â suchpassageshavetoremainasanâUnknownBibleâandforthemâthemistofouterdarknessâ(atleastinregardstounderstandingthetruthsofsuchScriptures)isreserved.TheyqualifyasâblindleadersoftheblindâandtheyoungChristianmenandwomenwhoaregullibleenoughtofollowthem(sotheywonâtbemadefunofasaâRuckmaniteâ)willcertainlyfallintothesameditchwiththem.
UneducatedIgnorancevs.EducatedIgnorance
Foritiswritten,Iwilldestroythewisdomofthewise,andwillbringtonothingtheunderstandingoftheprudent.(1Corinthians1:19)
The Scriptures we are studying are the terror of apostate Fundamentalists andConservativesinthetwentiethcenturybecauseiftheyarebroughtupanddiscussedtheywillrevealtwothingsimmediately:firstofall,thatthepeoplewhomaketheloudestnoiseatâCongressesofFundamentalismâabouttheâAuthorityoftheScripturesâdonotbelievethatanyBookon thisearth is theâScripturesâ; andsecondly, theywillnot tolerate theopendiscussionofanystatement fromanyBible thatcould jeopardize their incomesortheir âimagesâbybringing ridiculedownon theirheads forbelieving theBibleas theyhave it.We just gave threeoutstanding samples: satyrs, dragons, andLeviathan; and asyou saw from the documented evidence, there wasnât one seminary educatedâFundamentalistâ in America and there wasnât onemember of one revision committee(Conservative or Evangelical) who believed anything about those words found in anyeditionof theAuthorizedVersion.Theattitude theyhad toward thesepassages (see thelast chapter)was total and complete infidelity, absolute unbelief as rank as anyLiberalMethodistbishoppromotingJesseJacksonorthePLO.
One of the great dictums of Biblical criticism set up by Bible-rejecting apostates(Griesbach,Lachmann,Hort,Kenyon,Tischendorf,etal.)of thenineteenthcenturywasthatâdoctrinalpassagesare suspect.âNow in laymanâs language this simplymeans thatâany timeyoufindaverse in theBible that isagood,strong,plain,clear-cutstatementbackingup theDeityofChristor theTrinity,youcanâsuspectâ that theversehasbeenmanipulatedbyanoverzealous,Biblebelieverinordertoreinforceareadingwhichâinthe plenary, verbally inspired original autographsâ was not emphatic enough. Cases inpointwouldbe1Timothy3:16intheâBiblesârecommendedbyBJU(ASVandNASV)orActs 4:27, 31 in the âBiblesâ recommended by Tennessee Temple and Liberty BaptistCollege(NIVandNKJV) and 1 John 5:7â8 in the âBiblesâ recommended byWheaton,Moody,andFuller(NIV,ASV,RSV,NRSV,etc.).
Ineverycase,thephilosophicalspeculationhasbeenthatsomeonemusthavemeddledwiththesewordstoreinforcethetruth,whereasiftheyhadbeenleftalonetheywouldnothavereinforcedthetruth.
Of such high-minded nonsense we may say reverently (and with charity):APPLESAUCE. (The Army of 1938â1945 had a much more fitting word for itâacompoundwordâbutIamsurethatitcouldhardlybecalledreverent.â)
Wecomenow to threepassages in theâUnknownBibleâwhich thebeliever shouldknowifonlyforthepurposeoflearningsomethingthathisteachersandprofessorscannotknow.(Ifthisseemsalittleharshorunkindoregotistical,letthereaderturntothechapterinthisworkthatdealswithDavidâsfamousprofessionoffaithinPs.119:99â100).Many
timesourreadersâjumpthegunâandassumethatourviciouslanguagecomesfromabadspiritorabadattitude.Theyarequitemistaken.Itcomesfromadesiretodrivehomethetruth.Amansaidtomeonetime,âIfItalkedlikeyoutalkandusedthelanguageyouusesomeonewouldprobably takeashotatme.âMyanswer to that is,âIf I talkedlikeIdotalkanduse thevocabularyIdouseanddonâthave the right spirit that Ihaveabout it,Godwouldhavekilledmethirty-twoyearsago.âGodevidentlyknowssomethingaboutourministry thatmanyof the leadingChristianâcelebritiesâ inAmericadonâtknow.Atleast it is certain that the professors and teachers at the major Christian colleges anduniversitiesdonâtknowabout it, for theycannotexplain thirty-fiveyearsofblessedandfruitfulministriesaccompaniedbyunlovingandâabusiveâlanguage.
HerebeforeusarethreeversesofScripturethatnevercomeupataâWorldCongressofFundamentalism.âTheyarenotpreached,asfarasIknow,fromanypulpitinAmerica.InsixschoolyearsatBobJonesUniversityIneverheardtheversesmentionedorreadandneversawthemonalistofScripturesgiventoanyonetostudy.TheseScripturesdealwiththeveryfirstfundamentalofthefaith:BELIEVINGWHATGODSAID.WhatGodsaidismoreimportantthantheVirginBirthortheDeityofChristortheBloodAtonement,since,afterall,allthreeofthosegreatâFundamentalsoftheFaithâwerelearnedbybelievingtheWORDSfoundintheBOOK.
WewilldowelltocloselyexamineandcarefullyscrutinizeanypartoftheBiblethatisexpoundingontheimportanceofthewordsthatarerecordedinthatBook.AtBJUandotherAlexandrianoffshoots,thisiscalledaâhobbyhorse,âfor,afterall,theirmaineffortsare built around promoting their own institutions, their own friends, and their ownâimagesâ; their ministries have been from the start primarily self-promotion, self-propagation, self-magnification, and self-preservation. No one with any spiritualdiscernment is fooled by such pious claptrap for half a minute. If it werenât for THEBOOK(andwedonâtmeanâtheoriginalautographsâ),BobJonesUniversitywouldhaveneverbeenbuilt.IfitwerenotforTHEBOOK(andwedonâtmeantheâverbal,plenaryinspiredoriginalsâ),TennesseeTempleschoolswouldneverhavecomeintoexistence.IfitwerenotforTHATBOOK(andwedonotrefertotheâinerrantoriginalsâ),JerryFalwellwouldneverhavebuiltthefirstbuilding.Thatisthetruthofthematter,andyouknowitandIknowitandGodknowsit,andsodoeseverysavedpersononthefaceofthisearthwhethertheywillâownuptoitâornot.(Iftheywillnotâownuptoit,âitisonlyproofthat they are afflictedwith the same plague ofworldlinesswhichwementioned in thepreviouschapter.)
Yousee,THEFEAROFRIDICULE (thatmightaffect incomeor image) is the realâguiding light,â the radar beam, the steampower, the jet thrust, the fuel pump, and thelocomotive thatdrives, leads,andguides theseapostateFundamentalists innearlyeverysingleoneoftheirteachingendeavors.Andevenwhentheyareprofessingtohaveagreatâburden for soulsâ or a missionary zeal or a love for âhigh academic standardsâ orconvictions about âsecondary separation,â the whole superstructure is activated andmotivated and held together and sustained by one supreme âFundamentalâ thatovershadows all others; one godless, worldly, hellish principle: DONâT LET ANYEDUCATEDPERSONMAKEFUNOFUSFOROURLACKOFSCHOLARSHIP.
ThatistherealmottoandthemesongofLaodiceanChristianhighereducation;anditisthehallmarkoftheapostasywithintheBodyofChrist.Itisapplicabletoninetypercentof the saved faculty members who are involved in higher education. Again we willillustratesothatmatterswillbeasclearastheGulfofMexicoonacloudlessdayinJune.
âFortheLordhathpouredoutuponyouthespiritofdeepsleep,andhathclosedyoureyes:theprophetsandyourrulers,theseershathhecovered.Andthevisionofallisbecomeuntoyouasthewordsofabookthatissealed,whichmendelivertoonethatislearned,saying,Readthis,Ipraythee:andhesaith,Icannot;foritissealed:Andthebookisdeliveredtohimthatisnotlearned,saying,Readthis,Ipraythee:andhesaith,Iamnotlearnedâ(Isa.29:10â12).
Now here is a ânuggetâ if you ever unearthed one, for it is aimed at the religiousleadersofthepeopletowhomweregiventheâOraclesofGodâ(Rom.3:2).Thesepeoplearelistedasâprophets,âârulers,âandâseers,â theverypeopleinchargeofteachingandpreaching and judging the truth. All three groups are included in verse 11 (âAnd thevisionofALLisbecomeuntoyouâŠâ).
NowwhatplaceintheScripturescouldbemoreimportantindealingwiththeBiblethanthisplacewhereweread,âAstheWORDSOFABOOKâŠwhichmendelivertoonethatislearnedâŠANDTHEBOOKisdeliveredtohimthatisnotlearnedâŠâWouldnâtyouthinkthataBibleteachercouldfindsomethinginapassagelikethat?
HereisaâBookâ(youarereadingabookrightnow);hereisaBOOK(andtheBibleisaBOOK);hereisaBOOK(Isa.29:11),anditisnotoneofâmanybooksâaboutwhichthere is âno endâ to making (Eccl. 12:12). No, this Book is a Book that God hadsomethingtodowith,forHecontinueswith,âForasmuchasthispeopledrawnearMEwiththeirmouthâŠandwiththeirlipsdohonourMEâŠbuthaveremovedtheirheartsfromMEâŠandtheirfeartowardMEâŠâ
WereadthatonacertaindaythedeafwillâheartheWORDSOFTHEBOOKâ(Isa.29:18).CouldtherebeanydoubtinyourmindaboutwhatBookthisis?WearequotingfromIsaiah,which,asanyoneknows,isintheOldTestament.WhentheOldTestamentended, the Lord said: âA book of remembrance was written before him for them thatfearedtheLORD,andthoughtuponhisnameâ(Mal.3:16).
But,mymy,whatastrangeBOOK!!First of all, this Book is taken to an educated scholarwith a Ph.D. (or at least an
M.A.) and he is requested to âRead this I pray thee.â Here comes his answer: âICANNOT,FORITISSEALED.âButtheimplicationthatfollowswouldshowthateventhough itwas sealed (Isa. 29:11), the scholar could have opened it. This is perfectlyapparentwhenonereadsverses13and14.Thescholarlied.Hepretendedthathecouldnâtopenthesealswhenhecould.Letâsputitovertheplatewaisthigh;helied,hewasaliar.
Hewasaneducatedliar(âonethatislearnedâ),forhecouldhaveeasilyopenedtheseals.WhentheBiblewasfinished,thelastthingthatChristtoldJohnwasâSEALNOTTHESAYINGS OF THE PROPHECYOF THIS BOOKâ (Rev. 22:10). Christ broke thesealsonthelastBookwaybackinRevelation5â6.ObservethattheâsealingâontheBookthat isdeliveredto thiseducatedliarwasonlyonitbyvirtueof thefact thathehimselfwasBLIND(Isa.29:10)andthattheLordHimselfwastheauthorofthisblindness.Whenthe liar said it was âsealed,â he meant that it was âfigurative,â âhighly symbolic,ââapocalyptic,â or (to put it in the language of a genuine apostate) that âthe text wascorrupted,ââtherewasascribalerror,ââanerrorinthetransmissionofthetext,âetc.
Butmattersdonotendhere.Afterthis,thiseducatedass(andwehavesubstitutedthetermforâliarâsinceâliarâmightoffendsomeofyoupeoplewhoarealwayssoconcernedabout âlack of love for the brethrenâ), this educated ass, I say (we use the word withcharityasitpicturestheoldnatureoftheunregeneratedmanwhobybirthisaliar:seeJob11:12), this educated ASS (we repeat for âemphasisâ) has just been told by the HolySpirit:
âFormymouthshallspeaktruth;andwickednessisanabominationtomylips.Allthewordsofmymouthareinrighteousness;thereisnothingfrowardorperversein them.Theyareallplain tohimthatunderstandeth,andright to themthat findknowledgeâ(Prov.8:7â9).
ThepassageisintactineveryeditionofeveryAVprintedoneithersideoftheAtlanticforover360years.
If the words (note the plural: not the âWordâ of God) of Godâs mouth are inârighteousnessâandifthereisânothingfrowardorperverseinthemâthenâtheyareALLPLAINtohimthatunderstandethâŠâ
HowcouldaneducatedChristiansaytheywereâsealedâ?Theyarenotsealedtoamanwhoâunderstands.âIstheeducatedASS(andwesayitonemoretimetoestablishyouinsounddoctrine)
confessingthathehasnounderstanding?HereheisgivenaBookwithwords(noticetheplural: not âWordâ) and thewords areâall plain to him that understandethâ and hedoesnâtunderstandthem,eventhoughheholdsthreeearneddegreesandisaâProfessorofAncientLanguagesâandprobablytheheadofaâBibleâDepartment!
Quiteaconfessionforaneducatedidiot:heisâlearnedâbuthasnounderstanding.Heisâeverlearningyetneverabletocometoaknowledgeofthetruth.âIfthewordsofGodareâTHEWORDSOFTHEWISEâ(Prov.22:17)andamanis
commandedtoapplyhishearttothisknowledge(Prov.22:17),howdidthislearnedASS(and we use the term to root and ground the reader in âsound speech that cannot becondemnedâ)ofIsaiah,chapter29failtoobeythecommandment?Especiallysincehehas
sethimselfupasaBiblicalscholarwiththeauthoritytoteachthewordofGodtoothers(seers,prophets,rulers)?
YouwonâtanswerthatquestionbeforetheMillennium.Now,doyouwant toknowwhysuchapassageofScripture isneverbroughtupat
Maranatha,Cedarville,Mid-South,Midwestern,SantaRosaSchools,PensacolaChristianSchoolsorLibertyBaptistCollege?Well,youdonâthavetoaskmetofindoutbecause:
1.Myopinionofthematterisirrelevant.2.WhyshouldIgiveyoumyopinionwhenGodhasalreadygivenHis?LookattheexplanationtheHolySpiritHimselfgaveaboutthisdebacle.
âAgoodnameisrathertobechosenthangreatriches,andlovingfavourratherthansilverandgoldâŠBowdownthineear,andhearthewordsofthewise,andapplythineheartuntomyknowledge.For it isapleasant thing if thoukeepthemwithinthee;theyshallwithalbefittedinthylips.ThatthytrustmaybeintheLord,Ihavemadeknowntotheethisday,eventothee.HavenotIwrittentotheeexcellentthingsincounselsandknowledge,ThatImightmaketheeknowthecertaintyofthewordsoftruth;thatthoumightestanswerthewordsoftruthtothemthatsenduntothee?â(Prov.22:1,17â21).
Somebodyunderstoodthewords(notetheplural:nottheâWordâofGod).Godwrotesomebodyâexcellent things incounselsandknowledgeâ andHemade themknown tosomebody(Prov.22:19).Hemadethemknowntosomeoneforapurpose:thattheymightâknow the CERTAINTY OF THE WORDS OF TRUTHâ (note the plural: notâfundamentalsofthefaithâ)sothatwhensomeonesenttothemforananswer(seeEzek.14:1â10,forexample)theycouldanswerthemwithâTHEWORDSOFTRUTHâ(notetheplural:nottheâWordâofTruth).Whocouldthisbe?
TowhomweretheWORDSoftruthrevealed?Itcouldnâthavebeento the learnedPh.D., for tohimtheywereSEALED.(At least
thatisthealibithathegaveforhavingnoâcertaintyâaboutthewordsandthewordsnotbeingâmadeknownâtohim:âHESAITHICANNOT,FORITISSEALED.â)
Well,ifthiseducatedass(thetermisaBiblicaltermandnottobeconfusedwithsuchanti-Biblical slang as âscholarship,â âoriginal autographs,â âqualified authorities,â âtexttypes,âandotherpaganmishmash)cannotunderstand thewords in thisBookandif theunlearnedmancannotunderstand thewords in thisBook(Isa.29:11â12), thenwho is itthatdoesunderstandthem?
Whois it thatknowstheâcertaintyâof them(Prov.22:21)?Afterall, theignoramus(thehillbilly)âthefellowwhonever finishedhighschoolâsaid(whenhegotaholdoftheBook):âIkaintreaditâcauseahainâtgotnobooklarnin(âIAMNOTLEARNEDâ).
Herewehavequiteasituation,wouldnâtyousay?
No wonder the âBibleâ departments at Bob Jones University, Tennessee Temple,Dallas,andDenverneverdiscusssuchmatters!Afterall, theScripturesareheredealingwith the very words found in the Bible. What could be more foreign to a âBibleâdepartment than a detailed study of a Bible with WORDS in it that are âtrue andcertain,â that someone can knowbecause they are âplain,â and yetaLEARNEDMANcanâtlearnthemandanUNLEARNEDMANcanâtlearnthem!
Votazituation,Abbey!ItalmostremindsusofthatpassageinRevelation,chapter5whereweweretoldthat
ânomanwasfoundworthytoopenorreadtheBook,neithertolookthereon.âCanyouseeyethowârelevantâallofthisis?Canyounotseetherelationshipofthese
greatBiblicaltruthstoallofthistwentiethcenturyFundamentalisthotaircomingoutofChristian schools about âRuckmanâ and âRuckmanitesâ? Why, these passages areunknowntoeveryfacultymemberofDallasTheologicalSeminaryfromLewisS.ChafertoFarstad.NooneatBobJonesfromDr.BrokenshiretoPanosianeverdiscussedthem.
TheversesstateTHATAMANCANKNOWTHECERTAINTYOFTHEWORDSOFGOD(nottheâWordâofGod)ANDYETCANNOTKNOWTHIS(INISAIAH)IFHEISLEARNEDORUNLEARNED.
LetâsseeyoufigureTHAToneoutwiththeâverbal,plenaryinspiredQ-bert.âLetâs try it with the AV (any edition will do just fine). Obviously the Bible is
composedofWORDS,butthesewordsareâsealedâtoaneducatedmanwhoistryingtopreserve his image or income (see Isa. 29:13â16 in the context). Thesewords are alsohiddenfromanunlearnedmanifheistryingtocoverupsomeothersinthanâimageandincomeâ(seethesamecontext).TheauthorofthisignoranceistheLordHimself.
âFortheLordhathpouredoutuponyouthespiritofdeepsleep,andhathclosedyoureyes:theprophetsandyourrulers,theseershathhecoveredâ(Isa.29:10).
ThepassageisaperfectmatchmatetoEzekiel14:4â11wheretheauthorofdelusionistheLordagain(asHeisAGAINin2Thess.2:11).WehaverunsmackintoheartmotivesagainwheretheyareinvolvedwithtryingtounderstandthewordsofGod.Thisblowsoutthe stackall talk about âscholarshipâandâqualified authorities,â forneither scholarshipnor ignorance has anything to dowith learning thewords ofGodorunderstanding thewordsofGod.Neithereducationnor lack of educationwill equip any sinner (saved orlost) to really understand the Book; and since this basic, fundamental, Biblical truth isdisbelievedbyevery seminaryanduniversityprofessor in theworld (savedor lost), thepassageswehavejustlookedatwillremainaspartofanâUnknownBibleâthatisnevermentionedinanyclassroomonthisearth.
TheterribletruthisthatâallthewordsâofGodâsmouthareinârighteousnessâ(Prov.8:8,ALLOFTHEM)becauseHismouthspeaksthetruth(Prov.8:7),andwhenHespeaksof âexcellent things that are right thingsâ (Prov. 8:6), these excellent, truthful and right
thingsareâALLPLAINTOHIMTHATUNDERSTANDETHâ(Prov.8:9).IftheyarenotplaintoYOUitisbecauseyoudonotunderstand,andifyoudonotunderstandthencertainly your problem (and the problem of the rascal who taught you) is a HEARTPROBLEM: it has nothing to do with Greek grammar, Hebrew sufformatives, oldermanuscripts, transmission of texts, reliable versions, conflated readings, âintrinsicprobabilities,ââdynamicequivalents,âarchaeologicalfindings,cursives,oruncials.
Theproblemisaheartproblem,exactlyasitwasaheartproblemintheheartofeveryPh.D.,B.D.,D.D.,M.A.,Th.M.andL.L.D.ontherevisioncommitteesofeveryEnglishâBibleâpublishedsince1880.
Theireducationmadethemjustasstupidasafourthgradedropout.Thegreat, fundamental,basic,Biblical truthwehaveherestates thatGodwillmake
the truth known andwillmakeHiswords known to someone (Prov. 22: 19) in writing(Prov.22:20) so theycanknow theâCERTAINTYâof thosewords (Prov. 22:21).Theycanbeâkeptâwithinaman(Prov.22:18).Theycanbeâfittedâ tohis lips (Prov.22:18)andwithhis lipshecanâanswerâwith thoseâwordsof truthâ(Prov.22:21)anyonewhosendstohimforcounselingorinformationaboutanythingthatGodhasrevealed.SimonPetersayssimply:
âIfanymanspeak,lethimspeakastheoraclesofGod;ifanymanminister,lethimdoitasoftheabilitywhichGodgiveth:thatGodinallthingsmaybeglorifiedthroughJesusChrist,towhombepraiseanddominionforeverandever.Amenâ (1Pet.4:11).
Andwhatshallwesaytothesethings?Well,allwecansayis that thedeadliestenemiesofBiblical truthinAmericainthe
Body of Christ since 1901âthe men who have done more to destroy the faith ofAmericans in the words of God than all infidels, Modernists, Catholics, Communists,Atheists, andHumanists combinedâhave been the educatedConservative scholars andteachersWHOWERESOAFRAIDOFRIDICULETHATTHEYAPPROACHEDTHEWORDSOFGOD (note the plural: not the âWordâ)WITH THE IDEA INMINDOFPRESERVINGTHEIROWNIMAGESANDINCOMES (seeâMobyDickand theWhiteCrocodileâ).
According to the public profession of thesemen in Isaiah, chapter 29, they cannotunderstandtheplainwordsoftruthâtherightwordsofwisdomandknowledgethatareabsolutelycertain.TheysayoftheBible:âICANNOTREADITFORITISSEALED.â
ItisonlySEALEDtopeoplelikethem.Iftheblindleadtheblind,etc.Letthemspeakfortheirownkindandtestifytotheirownignoranceandagnosticism.
LetthembearwitnessthattheLordhasâpouredoutuponthemthespiritofdeepsleepâ
(seethetext).Godsaidthattheprophets,rulers,andseerswereâcovered.âTheyhaveanunknown Bible they cannot understand. They cannot read it because for them it isâsealed.âMayitnotbesealed(orremainanâUnknownBookâ)tothoseofyouwhohavebettersenseandmorehumility.
TheGreatHereticalRuckmanite
Isnotmywordlikeasafire?saiththeLord;andlikeahammerthatbreakeththerockinpieces?(Jeremiah23:29)
For several pages now we have been reading Scriptural passages that point out aterrible truth in regards to our generation; and this is the truth that among the highesteducatedChristiansinAmericainthetwentiethcentury,muchoftheBibleisanunknownBook. The ignorance is not confined to unsaved Liberals or secular students in statecolleges.
Thetwoversesweareabout to lookatare literallytheâBlackDeathâfor thesavedFundamentalistwhoholdsearneddegrees.AsilencecomparabletoYankeeStadiumat4A.M. descends upon Pacific Coast Bible College, Maranatha, GARBC, and DallasTheologicalSeminarywhenthesetwoversesareproduced.Theversesagaindealwiththefirst fundamental of the Christian faith. Since there isnât one âfundamentalâ that aâFundamentalistâ can believe in (that is so), that came from any other source than theScriptures, belief in the Scriptures is the âKing Kongâ of the fundamentals. After all,nearly every systemof pagan religions on this earth has counterfeits of theTrinity, theVirginBirth, theResurrection, theNewBirth, etc. (see the vast amount of documentedevidenceinHislopâsTwoBabylons,1959).BobJonesSr.,(1883â1968)saidmanytimes:âWhatever the Bible says is so.â He always gave that as the first grounds forinterdenominationalcooperationamongChristians;whereChristiansdonotbelieve that(âwhatevertheBiblesaysisSOâ),THEREARENOGROUNDSFORCOOPERATIONNO MATTER WHO THINKS THERE ARE OR NO MATTER HOW MUCHEVIDENCE IS PRODUCED TO CONVINCE THE SUCKER THAT THERE IS.âConvincingthesuckersâis,today,inAmerica,afull-timeministry.
HerearethetwoversesexactlyasBobJonesSr.,readthemallofhislife.TheyreadthiswayinanyeditionoftheAVexactlyasJohnWesleyandGeorgeWhitefieldreadthemand exactly as Spurgeon and Finney read them.DwightL.Moody and J. FrankNorrisreadthemasyouseethemhere.
âAndtheScripture,foreseeingthatGodwouldjustifytheheathenthroughfaith,preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations beblessedâ(Gal.3:8).
âFortheScripturesaithuntoPharaoh,EvenforthissamepurposehaveIraisedtheeup,thatImightshewmypowerinthee,andthatmynamemightbedeclaredthroughoutalltheearthâ(Rom.9:17).
Ignoring the âverbally inspired original autographâ hobbyhorse that the hobbyhorseridersofFundamentalismridefrommorningtillnight,letusobservethatthesetwoversesdealwiththeveryfirstfundamental:whattheScripturessay.Butthesetwoversesarenotinnocent, harmless, little verses like âthus saith theLordâ and the verses you often seequotedinbookstryingtoproveâtheinerrancyoftheScriptures.âNo,theseversescommitthe âunpardonable sinâ in the eyes of Truman Dollar, A. V. Henderson, Rodney Bell,Farstad,JamesPrice,FredAfman,J.R.Faulkner,ZaneHodges,MyronCedarholm,E.S.English, and Walvoord. These verses give the credit for producing the WRITTENSCRIPTURES to the WRITTEN SCRIPTURESâNOT GOD!âwhen there were nowrittenScripturespresent!
Now how is it that a young man or young woman can go to four years ofundergraduateschoolatPensacolaChristianCollege,BaptistUniversityofAmerica,SantaRoseSchools,orLibertyUniversityandneverhavetheseversesexplainedtothem?
1.TheyareNewTestamentverses.2.TheywerewrittenaftertheresurrectionofJesusChrist.3.TheywerewrittentosavedGentilesintheBodyofChrist.4.TheywerewrittenbytheApostletotheGentiles.5. They were found in books that deal with the two first fundamentals of NewTestamentsalvation:JUSTIFICATIONBYFAITHandETERNALSECURITYBYFAITH.
How could any âgood, godly, dedicated, reverent Biblicistâ have overlooked theseverseswhilebeingpaidtoâteachtheBibleâ?
Well, theâpiginthepokeâisnothardtofind;inthefirstverse(Gal.3)wearetoldthatâTHESCRIPTUREforeseeingthatGODwouldjustifytheheathenâŠâ
Betterdoaâdoubletake.âTheversepresentedtheScriptureasalivingperson.Now this is a âno noâ in any schoolwhere the Ph.D.s andM.A.s are usurping the
authorityoftheScriptureswhileprofessingtobelieveinthembecausetheyâuseâthem.IfyouareaâBibleâteacherengagedinsettingupyourownopinionsandpreferencesasthefinalauthorityintheclassroominsteadoftheScriptures(whileâusingâtheScripturestomakealiving),youwouldnâtcareforthisverse.ItsmacksofâBIBLIOLATRY,âifweareto believe the backslidden apostates at Dallas Theological Seminary. Furthermore, theverse gets more violent as it proceeds, for it says, âTHE SCRIPTUREâŠpreachedbeforethegospeluntoAbraham.â
Nowwhat?ThistimethewordâSCRIPTUREâwasinsertedinsteadofâGod.âTheyreplacedHim.Readtheverseagain.IfthefacultiesatSpringfield,Arlington,Cedarville,Watertown,Greenville,Chattanooga,andDallascanâtget it in400 readings,wouldyougetitintworeadings?
You see, anyone who knows anything about the history of manuscript evidence,textualcriticism,highercriticismorBiblicaltheologyknowsthattherearenoScriptures
aroundanywhereinGenesis,chapter12toâpreachthegospelâtoanyone.MosesdidnotwriteGenesis,chapter12tillwellover200yearsafterAbrahamwasDEAD.
TherewerenoâScripturesâtopreachanythingtoAbraham.HowdoyousupposePaulgotsoâscrewedupâinâBibliolatryâthathecouldmakea
blunder like the one hemade inGalatians 3:8? âForeseeingâ is the activity of a livingperson;apieceofpaperwithinkonitcannotâforeseeâanything.Itmayforetellorpredictor forecastsomething,but itcertainlycannotâFORESEE.âThat isanattributeofDeity(seethearticleonâDoYouKnowtheLord?â).
Nowdonâtwehaveaâfinekettleoffishâ(pickle,howdoyoudo,etc.)here?HereisaverseofScripture (notâGodâ)preachingsomething toAbrahamwhenAbrahamhadnopieceofpaper (papyrus,vellum,ostraka, leather,wood,orclay tablet)with inkon it topreachANYTHINGtohim(Observe:âTheSCRIPTUREforeseeingwhatGodâŠ.â).WhydidnâtPaultellusthetruthaboutit?ItwasGOD(notanyâScriptureâ) thatpreachedtoAbrahaminGenesis,chapters12,14,and24,andineveryotherplace.
Paulhasunwittingly(andblasphemously,ifwearetobelievecrackpotslikeTrumanDollarandthemenwhotaughthim)ascribedtoTHEWRITTENSCRIPTURESoneofthequalitiesofDeityandthenhasusedthetermâSCRIPTUREâ(Gal.3:8)asasubstitutefortherealpreacher:GODHIMSELF(Gen.12:1â4).
Paulwasabadboy!Nowtheunholyblasphemy(ifwefollowthefacultyandstaffofTennesseeTemple)
ofthishereticalRuckmanitecontinuesasheevidentlysetsupaCULTofBibliolators;fornotbeingcontentwithGalatians3:8,PaulwritesthesewordsinRomans9:17.
âFortheScripturesaithuntoPharaoh,EvenforthissamepurposehaveIraisedtheeup,thatImightshewmypowerinthee,andthatmynamemightbedeclaredthroughoutalltheearthâ(Rom.9:17).
Note:âTHESCRIPTURESAITHUNTOPHARAOHâŠâItsaidnothingofthekind.Therewere no Scriptures around to say anything to Pharaoh. Thewords that Paul
citeswere not even said to Pharaohwhen theywere spoken. Thewords that Paul cites(âevenforthissamepurposehaveIraisedtheeupâ)werenotâsaidâbytheScripturesatall: THEY WERE SPOKEN BY GOD TO MOSES (NOT PHARAOH) TO BEDELIVEREDTOPHARAOH,ORALLY.
AnyDVBSstudentknowsthatthequotationisfromExodus9:16andthatthecitationbeganwithâAndtheLORDsaiduntoMOSESâ(Exod.19:13).
TheApostle to theGentiles(whotoldBiblebelievers tofollowHIMasapattern:1Cor. 4:16 and 1 Tim. 1:16) is having a little trouble in distinguishing the differencebetweenGODandthewrittenwordsoftheBible.
Yousay,âWell,heisquotingScripturesthatbythattimehadalreadybeenwritten.âYes,buthedidnât say just âTHESCRIPTURESAITHâŠâandhedidnât sayâIT IS
WRITTEN IN THE SCRIPTUREâŠ,â nor did he say: âThe Scripture was fulfilledWHICHSAIDâŠ.âHesaid,âFORTHESCRIPTURESSAITHUNTOPHARAOHâŠIHAVERAISEDTHEEUP,THATIMIGHTSHEWMYPOWERâŠâ
Yousee,theantecedentinRomans9:17forâIâandâMyâ(God)istheScripture,forthe Scripture is speaking in Romans 9:17 (âFOR THE SCRIPTURE SAITHUNTOPHARAOHâŠâ).
Asaboywhowasaskedtogiveabookreportonabookaboutpolarbearssaidonetime in school: âThis book tellsmemore about polar bears than I care to know.â PaulholdsthewrittenScripturesintoohighesteemforthefacultymembersatMaranatha,BobJones,andTennesseeTemple.HeinsertedthewordâScriptureâforGodtwiceintheNewTestamentepistles,knowingwhathewasdoingwhenhedidit.PaulisdrivingintheâfastlaneâandtheFundamentalistsinLaodiceacannotkeepupwithhim.
Say!What does YOUR pastor and teacher have to say about such terrible âculticheresyâ?Doesnâtthepoorfoolcontractlockjawattheseplaces?Ithinkso.HeissohunguponhisfearthatâBibliolatryâwillcausesomeeducatedasstomakefunofhimthathewouldrathercuthis throat(andyours to!)withabutcherknife than to take theridiculethatisgoingtobeheapedonBiblebelieversinthenexttenyearsbytheSovietCatholicState-Church of America. The two verses are an âUnknown Bibleâ to 50,000 savedgraduates of Conservative universities, colleges, and seminaries; those verses put thewrittenwordsofGodontoohighaplanefortheconceitedASSES(andthatistheproperwordnomatterhowmuchTVyouhavebeenwatching)whodesiretoreplacethemwithlexicons,grammars,commentaries,versions,andâstudyhelps.â
Theâbottomlineâisworse.You see, when Paul quoted these words from Exodus and Genesis (in these two
passages cited), he didnât have ONE âVERBAL, PLENARY, INSPIRED ORIGINALAUTOGRAPHâOFEITHERBOOKWITHIN 500,000,000MILESOFHIM,NORTH,SOUTH,EAST,ORWEST.
PaulhasgivencredittotheScriptureswhichhewasreadingatTHATtimeasbeingpowerful enough tobeused insteadof thewordâGODâ inRomans9:17andGalatians3:8.
Thereitis:chokeonit.WhenPaulusedthewordâScriptureâin2Timothy3:16âthegreatâprooftextâthat
DonaldWaiteusesfromcoasttocoasttoprovethatâRuckmanismâisaheresy!âitwasareference to Scriptures which Timothy had and read. (See 2 Tim. 3:15, which DonaldWaitehasfailedtoseeinthetwentyyearshehasbeenâdefendingtheTextusReceptus.âOldfoxesknowhowtocovertheirtracks.)
When the Ethiopian Eunuch had the âScripturesâ opened to him (Acts 8:35), hecertainlywasNOTreadinganyâverbal,plenary,inspired,originalRosemaryâsBaby.âTheideaofteachingthattheEthiopianeunuchhadIsaiahâsâoriginalautographâinActs8:32!
Theveryidea!YoutalkaboutHERESY!Thegallofthesehalf-wittedfanaticssayingthatthewordâSCRIPTUREâ(2Tim.3:16)isonlyareferencetoâoriginalautographsâ!Whythenerveofsomehalf-baked, fanaticalupstarts!Theeunuchwas reading theScriptures(Acts8:32)ANDâALLSCRIPTUREISGIVENBYINSPIRATIONOFGOD.â
It turns out that Paulâs âverbal, plenary, inspired originalsâ were nothing buttranslationsofcopiesoftheoriginalsofGenesisandExodus.Sincethereisânosuchthingas an inspired translationâ (to quote nearly EVERY PRESIDENT, FOUNDER, ANDFACULTY MEMBER OF EVERY MAJOR CHRISTIAN COLLEGE IN AMERICA,INCLUDING ALL FUNDAMENTALIST AND CONSERVATIVE SCHOOLS), Paulâscitations inGalatians 3:8 andRomans 9:17 in theNewTestamentcould not have beeninspiredeveninTHEIRoriginalform,fortheywereTRANSLATIONS.
Thereitisagain:chokeonitagain.ThestaffandfacultyatBJUalreadyhave:Godstrangledtheirkindwithitmorethan
370yearsago.
GettingtoKnowtheLord
Andyehavenothiswordabidinginyou:forwhomhehathsent,himyebelievenot.(John5:38)
IntheprecedingchapterwesawhowPaulwasguiltyofâBibliolatryâintheeyesofallof thewriters forFaithMagazine (Bob JonesUniversityPress) and theFundamentalistJournal(Lynchburg,Virginia);andtothoseofuswhobelievetheBook,thiscrisisshouldamounttosomethingakintofourpineneedlesfallingoffofawhitepinesomewhereintheSt. Regis forest south of Bay Minette. The institutions who call Bible believersâRuckmanitesâwouldallagreethatPaulwasaviciousâBibliolaterâonthegroundsofhiswritings (Gal. 3 andRom. 9), sowemay dispensewith the institutionswithout furtherdiscussion.
Nowwe come upon twomore remarkable verses aboutwhich our institutionalizedâpeersâareasquietasaturkeyfarmonThanksgivingafternoon.
In1Samuel3:1wefindthatââŠThewordoftheLordwaspreciousinthosedays,âandthenweproceedtoreadinthesamechapter(v.7),âNowSamueldidnotyetknowtheLord,neitherwasthewordoftheLordyetrevealeduntohim.âThisdoesnâtendmatters.Wereadoncemoreinthesamechapter(v.21),âAndtheLordappearedagainin Shiloh: for the Lord revealed Himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of theLord.â
Notice that in all threecases theScriptures are talkingabout theLordappearing tosomeoneandspeakingsomething;here,in1Samuel,thewordswhichtheLordspeaksarespoken by a visible âTheophany.â (âTheword of the Lordwas precious in those days;therewasNOOPENVISION.â)Of thesewordswhich theLORDspoke toSamuelweread,âAndSamuelâŠdidletNONEOFHISWORDSfalltotheground.â
When these verses are placed togetherwith other verses in 1Samuel, noonebut aGreekorHebrewteachercouldfailtoseetheimplications:thewordoftheLord(1Sam.15:23) is the equivalentof theâCOMMANDMENTof theLordâ (1 Sam. 15:24) andthis is called by SamuelâTHEVOICE of theWORDS of theLordâ (1 Sam. 15:1).Notice that when these verses are placed alongside each other, another Biblical truthappearswhich is as deadly to Laodicean scholarship (Custer, Neal, Panosian,Wisdom,Sumner, Dollar, Wuest, Zodhiates, Hort, Trench, Thayer, Berry, Metzger, Aland, andFarstad)asâMobyDickandtheWhiteCrocodile.â
WhatappearsastheBiblicaltruththatlinesupexactlywithHebrews4:12,wheretheantecedentofâHIMwithwhomwehavetodoâisâTHEWORDOFGOD.â(âAllthingsarenakedandopenâtotheâWORDOFGOD,âwhichisadiscernerofmanâsthoughts.)
These accidental comparisons of the written words (the âWORDS,â according toSamuel)withGodHimself causes bleeding duodenal ulcers and angina pectoris amongthe facultymembersofmodernConservativeandEvangelical schoolswho fearridiculeworsethansin,sickness,ordeath.
Theverseslaybarethreeânakedtruthsâbeforeourfaces;andthesetruthsaredecreedbytheHolySpirit,theThirdPersonoftheGodhead,theveryauthorofthewords.
1.Therecanbeaâfamine in the landâwhere thewordsofGod become âpreciousâbecausetheyareunavailable(Amos8:11).
2.WhenGodrevealsHimselftoaman,HerevealsHimselfbytheâword.â(WemaythankGodthatwhentheThessaloniansheardthewordofGodtheyreceiveditânotasthewordofmenâbutasitwasintruth,âthewordofGod,â1Thess.2:13.)
3. Not only does God reveal Himself by His âwordâ (note the small âw,â not thecapitalâWâfortheIncarnateChristinJohn1:1â2)butHisconversationsarecomposedofWORDS(1Sam.3:19);and,finally,noticethatwhereamandoesnotâknowthewordoftheLord,âhedoesnâtknowtheLORD(1Sam.3:7).KnowledgeoftheLordJesusChristis bound up inseparably with His âwordâ and His âwordsâ (see Rom. 10:17 and John8:47).
AllissopatentlyclearthatnoonecouldmissitbutaHebreworGreekteacherwhoselifeministry isgetting rid of thewords ofGodwhile pretending he is called to restorethem.
Jesussaidthat:1.TheknowledgeofHisDeityandHisFatherâsDeitydependeduponyoureceiving
HisWORDS(John17:8,nottheâWordâofGod).2.âIf aman lovemehewill keepmyWORDSâ (John 14:23, not the âWordâ of
God).3.Thesewords(nottheâWordâ)camefromHisFather(John14:10).4.AnswerstoprayerwerefoundwiththosewhokepttheseWORDS(John15:7,not
theâWordâofGod).DOYOUHAVETHOSEWORDS?DOYOUKEEPTHOSEWORDS?Does the man that taught you have those words? Does your preacher keep those
words?SincethereisnâtoneFundamentalist,livingordead,whohaseverseenANYOFTHOSEWORDSâifthosewordsaretheâverbal,plenaryinspiredoriginalautographsâ(seeanyâprofessionof faithâbyanymonkey)âwhydidGod tellyou todo somethingyoucouldnâtdo?
GodrevealsHimselftosinnerstodayexactlyasHedidthenwhereitcomestowords.ItrustyoucanfindHiswordsandreadthem.
ThesewordsareUNKNOWNtoeverymajorscholarinAmerica(savedorlost)ofanyprofession of faith (Neo-Evangelical, Liberal, Fundamentalist, or Catholic) if he thinkstheyaretheâoriginalmanuscripts,âfornosuchthingsexist.
Nowwouldyouliketobeignorantof31,000plusversesofScripture?ALL MAJOR GREEK AND HEBREW SCHOLARS ARE BECAUSE THEY
CONFESS (AS DONALD WAITE) THAT THEY HAVE NEVER SEEN THE
SCRIPTURES:NOTONEVERSEIN31,000PLUS.SmallwonderwecallthisbookTHEUNKNOWNBIBLE.
DoYouKnowtheLord?
Jesussaithuntohim,HaveIbeenso long timewithyou,andyethast thounotknownme,Philip?he thathath seenmehath seen theFather; andhow sayestthouthen,ShewustheFather?(John14:9)
TheHolySpirithaspickedupthenastyhabitthroughthecenturiesofâknockingthescrewsloose,âsotospeak,inthemindsofcollegeeducatedgraduateswhoearndegreesinpostgraduateseminaries.Aswehaveoftensaid,âTheLordhasamonkeywrenchthatwillfitanynut.âTheymesswiththeBooksotheLordmesseswiththeirminds(seechapters1â2). If you want to see the operation in progress, buy a copy ofCusterâs Last Stand(Pensacola Bible Institute Press, 1982) and observe what the head of the âBibleDepartmentâatBobJonesUniversityhas tosayabout thepersonalityof theLordJesusChrist.Thispoor,misguidedfool(withearneddegrees)wasteachinghundredsofyoungmenandwomeneveryyearatBJUthattheLordJesusChristneverspokeanunkindwordtoanyoneandthatHewasneverharshorsarcasticinHisdealingswithmen.TocomeoutwithaâDisneyworldâ theology like that,BJUhad to rejectmore than500verses in theOld Testament andmore than fifty in theNewTestament. ToCuster, these 550 verseswere an âUnknown Bibleâ; and like his superstitious Athenian ancestors (Acts 17), hecouldnomorehandlesixthgradeEnglishinplainprintwhereitdealtwithGodâswordsthanhecouldhandleatelephonebookwritteninCoptic.
NowweallunderstandthatâGodwasmanifestintheflesh.âFurthermore,wehavethediscoursesofourLordJesusChristrecordedinMatthew,Mark,Luke,andJohn,plustheactionsattendingHisministry.SurelythisisenoughtogiveusacompleteideaofHischaracterandpersonality.AtleastthatiswhatistaughtineverymajorChristiancollegeinAmerica.
But such a teachingnullifies someof themost valuable information in thewordofGod about the opinions and attitudes of our Saviourwhere they expressHis innermostpersonality.Apersonhasaâpersonality,âandtheDivinepersonalityisnoexception.Thispersonality(howeverdocumentedintheNewTestament)isabsolutelyincompletewithouttheOldTestamentpassageswheretheLordistalkingaboutHIMSELFinthefirstperson.
Jesusâ statements about Himself in the New Testament are largely confined to HisrelationtotheFather(seeMatt.11;John5â7,10,14,17).WhenHespeaksofHimself,Hedoes identify Himself as the âGood Shepherd,â the âBread of Live,â the âWater ofLife,âtheâWay,theTruth,andtheLife,âetc.,andHedoesinvitementocometoHiminordertohaveaccesstoGod(Matt.11:27).ButHerarelyevergivesoutwithapersonalopinionaboutHimself.ItistruethatHepreachesatHiscongregations(seeMatt.5â7)andagainstthem(Matt.23andJohn8);itisalsotruethatHespendsmuchtimeteachingthemmanythings(Matt.13,24;Mark13;Luke17,21;etc.),butwhatismissingwillbefoundinIsaiah,chapters40â48whereGodspeaksofHimselfinthefirstpersonsingular.HereGodâsrealpersonalityshinesthrough:itisanti-Humanitarian,anti-Catholic,anti-Darwin,anti-News Media, anti-Science, and anti-sympathetic. In short, Isaiah, chapters 40â48
picturesuchaghastlyportraitofAlmightyGodthattheversesaresimplyerasedfromthemindandmemoryofeveryConservative,Evangelical,Charismatic,andFundamentalistinAmericawhoistryingtoestablishagoodâimage.â
âTowhom thenwill ye likenme, or shall I be equal? saith theHoly oneâ (Isa.40:25).
Theverseasksmankindaquestion.Whydoesnâtsomeeducatedevolutionistattempttoanswerit?Thequestionhasbeenpostedformorethan2,600years.
âProduceyourcause, saith theLord;bring forthyour strongreasons, saith theKingofJacobâ(Isa.41:21).
Why are we constantly being told by philosophers, scientists, educators, andnewspaperjournaliststhatreligionandsciencearenotinthesamecategorysinceFAITHisunreasonable(notrational)whilescienceisreasonable?(SeeanysetofbookswrittenbyanyonewhofollowedDarwin,Huxley,Paley,Lyell,orHaeckel.)GodAlmightyopenlychallengedtheseeggheadsmorethan400yearsbeforePlatowasbornandHechallengedthemtodebatewithHiminregardstoREASONS.
âLet thembringthemforth,andshewuswhatshallhappen: let themshewtheformerthings,whattheybe,thatwemayconsiderthem,andknowthelatterendofthem;ordeclareusthingsfortocome.Shewthethingsthataretocomehereafter,that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may bedismayed,andbeholdittogetherâ(Isa.41:22â23).
Yousee,whenGodcalls forthallof theseAtheists,Agnostics,Fascists,Humanists,âThird Worlders,â popes, Communists, Catholics, Evolutionists, and Socialists (samecrew:differentnames) to produce their âcausesâ and âreasons,âHeHimself set up thecriteriaforjudgingtheâreasonablenessâoftheirreasons.Hegetsnotakers.Heneverwill,forthecriteriawhichHesetupistheABILITYTOPREDICT.TheApostleJohnwastoldthat,âThetestimonyofJesusistheSpiritofPROPHECYâ(Rev.19:10).
NoticetheridiculeandsarcasmthatarepartofGodâsâpersonality.â
âDo GOOD, or do EVIL, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together.Behold,yeareofNOTHING,andyourworkofNOUGHT:anABOMINATIONishe
thatchoosethyouâ(Isa.41:23â24).
YouneverhaveheardthatpreachedonPTL.YouhaveneverheardthatbroughtupatanEcumenicalCouncil.Youhaveneverheardanypopediscussitandyouneverwill.That isGodAlmighty tellingmankind to âdo right orwrong,â it doesnâtmake any
differencetoHim!Hecouldnâtâcareless.âYou see, there are things about Godâs innermost personality that educated
Fundamentalistsknownothingaboutatall,anddonâtdaretoeventalkabout.Verse23issarcasmasviciousandvenomousasyoueversawitpublishedinanyanti-
Semitic literature published by Julius Streicher (1930â1940). You are not going toâdismayâtheTrinitynomatterwhatyoudo;andifyoucanâtpredictthefuture(v.22),youarenot really âscientific,ââ forpinpointpredictions, given800years aheadof time,dealwithmathematical probabilities. Psychology, Sociology,Humanism, andPhilosophy arenot scientifically precise: Mathematics and Bible prediction ARE: THAT IS GODâSFIELD.
For example, the chances of forty-eight prophecies on Jesus Christâs First Comingbeing fulfilled (as all of themwere) is about oneout of ten to the147thpower.Weallknow that there are not thatmany electrons in the known universe. There are not thatmany electrons in three universes the size of ours. After performing this mathematicalimpossibilitywheretheoddsarebeyondtherealmofcomputersoranyâprobability,âtheLordgivesmanamathematicalestimateofhisownworthinDIGITS.
âYEAREOFNOTHING,ANDYOURWORKOFNOUGHT.âTwozeros.Twoblanks.NowonderDavidsaid,âWhatisman,thatthouartmindful
ofhim?â(Psa.8:4).Thereisnâtoneprofessorofgeology,biology,chemistry,orbotanyinastateuniversity
whoeverfacedthatverseanddealthonestlywithit.Asamatteroffact,suchversesarecompletely unknown to the editors of 500 daily newspapers, the UN, the CFR,400,000,000 Roman Catholics, both houses of Congress, the NAACP, the HRS, theCollege of Cardinals, the AmericanMedical Association, the IRS, the NEA and everyDistrictCourtJudgeinAmerica.
IgnoranceofIsaiah,chapters40â48isuniversal.
âThussaithGodtheLord,hethatcreatedtheheavens,andstretchedthemout;hethatspreadforththeearth,andthatwhichcomethoutofit;hethatgivethbreathuntothepeopleuponit,andspirittothemthatwalktherein:â(Isa.42:5).
HereGod takescredit forcreating theheavens (without a âbigbangâ); and thenHe
takes credit for creating the earth (and in theNewTestament theLord Jesus givesHisassent to this claim:Mark 13:19); and thenHe takes credit formaking everything thatgrowsoutof theground;and finallyHe takes credit toHimself forgiving life toeveryman on this planet (look at the verse). And just as quickly as any little flop-earedâreligious writerâ for the âreligious news serviceâ of the Gannet string sticks his littlemonkey nose into the press with: âEvolution adds flesh and bones to the account ofGenesiscreationismâ(andsimilarcollegiategasbags),theLordsays:âIamtheLordandMYGLORYWILLINOTGIVETOANOTHER.âMotherNatureandDarwindonâtgetanycredits:theyflunkthecourse.
Godâscriteriaforevaluatinghowsmartamanisandhowmuchheactuallyknows isprediction;predictability,according to thestatistical lawsofprobabilityas laiddownbymathematics (Isa. 41:21â23). No sooner does God take credit for everything that manattributed toblindaccidental force (see anybookwrittenbyanyevolutionist in the last200years)thanHethrowsPREDICTIONintothefaceoftheeducatedevolutionistsandhumanitarians who deny His boasting: âBehold, the former things are COME TOPASS,andNEWTHINGSdoIdeclare:before theyspringforthITELLYOUOFTHEMâ(Isa.42:9).
Now how is it that all of the intelligentsia have failed to âpick up the gauntletâ inregards to these matters? Here is the Challenger; here is the challenge.Where are theâtakeronersâ?Iftheseeducatedapeshavesuchahighregardfortheirâbigbangâtheoryandtheirreligiousfaithinâpuddletoparadiseââiftheyaresoexcruciatinglyâscientificâwith their littlemoneymachines (computers)designed to robpeopleof incomeâand iftheythink theBiblicalaccountofcreation inGenesis isnon-scientific (asDistrictCourtJudgesinAmericado,plusalltheGreekphilosopherswhodiedbeforethebirthofPontiusPilate),whydonât theyall just enter the fieldofMATHEMATICS, like theBIBLEdoes,andcompetewiththeBIBLE?
Littlecoldfeetthere,sonny?Mathematicsisjustalittletooâobjectiveâisit,sonny?Youwouldrathersticktosociologyandphilosophywouldyou,sonny?Wipethesweatoffyourbrow,sonny.THEWORDSIPRINTEDWEREWRITTEN800YEARSBEFOREJESUSCHRIST
WASBORNandthereisnotyet(2,600yearslater)oneHumanist(livingordead),notonepsychiatrist(livingordead),notonescientistengagedinmanipulatingDNA,RNA,aminoacids, and âribosomesâ (living or dead); nor one philosopher (living or dead) who hasattemptedtoanswerthechallenge.Therewasnâtanyin700B.C.or600B.C.or500B.C.or400B.C.;norwas thereany inA.D.200orA.D.500orA.D.1000orA.D.1200orA.D.1500oranyotherB.C.orA.D.
âYearemywitnesses,saiththeLord,andmyservantwhomIhavechosen:thatyemayknowandbelieveme,andunderstandthatIamhe:beforemetherewasnoGodformed,neithershalltherebeafterme.I,evenI,amtheLord;andbesideme
thereisnosaviour.Ihavedeclared,andhavesaved,andIhaveshewed,whentherewasnostrangegodamongyou:thereforeyearemywitnesses,saiththeLord,thatIamGod.Yea,beforethedaywasIamhe;andthereisnonethatcandeliveroutofmyhand:Iwillwork,andwhoshallletit?â(Isa.43:10â13).
Notice how this facet of Godâs personality is rarely found in the New Testament.Christ is very careful andmild spoken inHis presentation ofHimself asDeity inmostcases;butthereisnoself-effacement;thereisnopioushumility;thereisnoattempttobeâhumble.âItcomesonlikeatidalwave.
âI,evenI,amtheLord;andBESIDEMEthereisnosaviour.ThereisnoGodelsebesideMEâŠIamGod,andthereisnoneelseâŠIsthereaGodbesideME?Yea,thereisnoGod;IKNOWNOTANY!â(Isa.43:11,45:21â22,44:8).
My,my,my,whataway to talk!Butyouwillnotstop thepersonalityofGodfromrevealingitselfinHisownBook:
âIamtheLord,andthereisnoneelse,thereisnoGodbesideme:Igirdedthee,thoughthouhastnotknownme:â(Isa.45:5).
âSeenowthatI,evenI,amhe,andthere isnogodwithme:Ikill,andImakealive;Iwound,andIheal:neitheristhereanythatcandeliveroutofmyhand.ForIliftupmyhandtoheaven,andsay,Iliveforeverâ(Deut.32:39â40).
HereisnothingasmildasâNomanknoweththeFather,etc.âorâNomancomethtotheFatherâŠetc.âHerewefind:
âForthussaiththeLordthatcreatedtheheavens;Godhimself that formedtheearthandmadeit;hehathestablishedit,hecreateditnotinvain,heformedittobeinhabited:IamtheLord;andthereisnoneelseâ(Isa.45:18).
âTell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hathdeclared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I theLord?andthereisnoGodelsebesideme;ajustGodandaSaviour;thereisnonebesideme.Lookuntome,andbeyesaved,alltheendsoftheearth:forIamGod,
andthereisnoneelseâ(Isa.45:21â22).
âRemembertheformerthingsofold:forIamGod,andthereisnoneelse;IamGod,andthereisnonelikemeâ(Isa.46:9).
Again the appeal (regarding His statements about Himself as absolute Truth andabsoluteHoliness:absoluteGOD)ismadetoPREDICTABILITY:
âAndIwillgivetheethetreasuresofdarkness,andhiddenrichesofsecretplaces,thatthoumayestknowthatI,theLord,whichcalltheebythyname,amtheGodofIsraelâŠIamtheLord,and there isnoneelse, there isnoGodbesideme: Igirdedthee, though thouhastnotknownme:That theymayknow from the risingof thesun,andfromthewest,thatthereisnonebesideme.IamtheLord,andthereisnoneelseâ(Isa.45:3,5â6).
Why is there such a silence from Madalyn Murray OâHair and the NationalAssociationfortheAdvancementofScience?WhereistheCivilLibertiesUnionandtheCatholic Anti-Defamation League? What happened to those 15,000 Humanists in theNationalEducationAssociationwhoweretryingtoshutdowneveryChristianschool inAmerica?Catgotyourtongue,children?
Nothingtopredict,ehkiddies?Kindastupidarenâtyou,kiddies?TheBible predicts 500 events that havenât taken place yet, and it gives the names,
places,andlocalitiesforeightypercentofthem(seeIsa.40,45,65â66;Joel2;Zeph.3;Hosea3;Amos9;Matt.24;Luke17;Rev.13,19â22,etc.).
Gotlockjawdoyou,kiddies?Hereisinkonpaperwheresomeoneprofessestobespeakingandthissomeonebrags
aboutHIMSELFas theonlyTrue,Just,andSupremeBeing in theuniverse;andhavingtakencreditforhavingmadeit(andhavingtakencreditformakingtheverypeopleonitwhodonâtbelieveHim!),HethenchallengesthesepeopletostepintotheringwithHimtotrytoprovethatHeisaliar.Hechallengesthesepeopletobringforthreasonsandcauses(Isa. 41:22) for their position.He tells them simply, âIf youwant to prove that I donâtknowwhatIâmtalkingaboutandyoudo,âthen:
âLet thembringthemforth,andshewuswhatshallhappen: let themshewtheformerthings,whattheybe,thatwemayconsiderthem,andknowthelatterendofthem;ordeclareusthingsfortocome.Shewthethingsthataretocomehereafter,
that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may bedismayed,andbeholdittogetherâ(Isa.41:22â23).
Theycanâtdoit.Neithercanyou.Neither could the Fabian Society, the Esalen Institute, the National Council of
Churches, the Vatican Hierarchy, the UN, the pope, the Communist party, BertrandRussell, the Eupsychian Network, SIECUS, William Glasser, Abraham Maslow,Mohammed, Gandhi, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time, Life, andNewsweek, theSanFranciscoChronicle, theChicagoTribune,Orwell,Mother Shipton,EdgarCayce,Nostradamus,orJeanDixon.
Noone on this earth can tell you the details of the next 1000 years apart from thewrittenwordsoftheOnewhosaid,
âWHO HATH DECLARED THIS FROM ANCIENT TIME? WHO HATHTOLDITFROMTHATTIME?HAVENOTITHELORD?andthereisnoGodelsebesideME;ajustGodandaSaviour;thereisnonebesideME.LookuntoME,andbeyesaved,all theendsof theearth: forIAMGOD,and there isnoneelseâ (Isa.45:21â22).
Whatisrevealedtoushere(withGodspeakinginthefirstpersonaboutHimself)isGodâbraggingâaboutHisownPower,Authority,andKnowledge(justlikeanyscholarona revision committee!).Noone is speaking forHimor testifyingaboutHim. These arepersonal statementswhich theLordmadeaboutHimself.TheyconstituteanâUnknownBibleâtoover4,000,000,000people.
Theeducatedfoolswhoposeasleadersforthesemassesandwhoreadsuchversesarehelplesstorefutethemortoconfoundthem,forthetestoftheirowncredibilitycannotliein âBiblical criticismâ or in âhistorical reconstruction of the mythâ or in âthe Theisticphilosophy of Deutero-Isaiahâ or in trying to find âcontradictions in the Bible.â Theircredibilitylayintheirbeingabletopredictover500itemsindetailbeforetheyshowedup;andthese500itemsmustbepredictedbymorethantwentydifferentindividualsbetween400â3000yearsbefore theyshowup.Furthermore, theymustbefulfilledâto the letterâwhentheydoshowup.
TheBibledoesnothesitatetoâstickitsneckoutâinthesematters.Itboldlydeclares500detailsoffuturehistorythathadnottakenplaceyetin1900,andatleast490ofthesedetailsarestillinthefuture.Thechancesof500detailedpropheciesbeingfulfilledtothelettermore than 2,000years after they are predicted ismore than one out of ten to the800th power. Look at it this way, if some depraved idiot invented and built a mastercomputer that could think, figure, talk, analyze, expound, and store facts at the rate of
900,000,000,000persecond,hecouldnâtevenget in thesameleaguewith theBible, letalone in the same ball park. Some rinky-dink erector set computer that can only store900,000,000,000 facts a second could not win, place or show alongside a Bible, for itwould take such anAfro-construction (there is another term that ismorewidely used)morethan900,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, years to work out the information involved in 500prophecies that all come to pass. That is, it would take it more than900,000,000,000,000,000,000yearsworkingattherateof900,000,000,000aSECOND.
âScience?âDonâtmakeuslaugh.Wehavetheonlytextbookonrealâscienceâthathaseverbeenwritten.Gostickyourcomputerinyourleftear.
Thisbreaksupall the IBMcomputers in thesoftwareshop.Thecomputerchips flyawaywiththefoolswhoinventedthem.ThepassagesinIsaiaharenotonlyunanswered:theyareunknown, for theydonâtdealwithâsharingGodâs loveâorâlettingChristcomeintoyourlifeâorâhelpingyourfellowman.âNomentionismadeinthemofhowtobringinâpeaceonearthâorhowtoâsettlethenearEastquestionâorhowtoâcombatdouble-digitinflationâorhowtoâcopewithmarriedlife.â
TheversesdealwiththeeducatedignoranceandstupidinfidelityoftwentiethcenturyHumanistswhoworshipevolutionandthinktheyaresmarterthanGod.For2,600yearsGodhasgiventhemastandingoffertoprovetheir intelligence; theirbattingaveragefortheballgamewas.0000everytimetheygotuptotheplate.TheLordbatted1000ontheFirstAdventpredictions,manifestingamiracleofmathematics(1outof10tothe146thpower)andHeisabouttobat1000ontheSecondAdventpredictions(1outof10tothe850thpower).TheCFR,Illuminati,Bilderbergers,ClubofRome,FederalReserveBank,theNCC,andtheCatholicchurchwillslowHimdownaboutthewayapileofantswouldslowdownaDC-lOjetgoingfromSanFranciscotoHonolulu.
HowaYoungStudentToreUpaSeminaryClassroom
And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having neverlearned?(John7:15)
AnyonewhospendsagreatdealoftimereadingtheScriptureforthesimplepleasureofenjoyingitandbeinginterestedinwhatitsayswillsoonbestruckbytheâcredibilitygapâ he finds betweenwhat he is reading andwhat he has been taught by nearly anyteacherinthesecularorsacredworld.TheBibleisstillashocker.Sincemuchofitattacksthe sinsof educatedChristians, it is still an âUnknownBookâonmanyFundamentalistcollegecampuses.Someoftheseversesfallundertheheadingofexposingthefoolishnessofhighereducation(1Cor.1â2);somearedesignedtoexposethesinsofBiblerevisors(2Cor.2:17);somedirectlyattackthedecisionsoftheFederalCourtJudgesinAmerica(1Tim.6);somerundirectlycontrarytoallestablishedâpublicpolicyâasdeterminedbytheAmericannewsmedia(Eph.5andRom.1);someridiculeandmakefunofvariousfaithsandreligions(Matt.23and1Kings18);somerevealGodassarcasticandvindictive(Isa.40â48) as well as loving and merciful; some overthrow âhistoric Fundamentalistpositionsâ (Heb.4,6,10);andothers simplyattackanyone in sightwhoputs toomuchweightonscience,philosophy,psychiatryorhighereducation(1Cor.2;Col.2;1Tim.6).
These versesmake upwhatwe call the âUnknownBible.â They are âverbotenâ incolleges(secularorsacred),andwhenacommentatorhappenstolandononeoftheminwriting a commentary, he sluffs them off as quickly as possible and makes nocontemporaryapplicationtoanyoneinhisdayortime.TheversesareactuallyPOISONintheminds of educatedChristian teachers and professors, although they are just aspure(Prov.30:5) in themindofGodasanyverse in theBible (Luke4:4).WecontinueherewithourstudyontheseversesthatcomposetheâUnknownBible.â
ThefirsttwooftheseversesarefoundinPsalm119:99â100.
âI have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are mymeditation.Iunderstandmorethantheancients,becauseIkeepthypreceptsâ(Psa.119:99â100).
HereareprimeexamplesofBible truths that arenotdiscussed inclassrooms.Whatteacherwithâdegreesâ(Psa.62:9âwhichiscompletelymissinginYoungâsConcordance,althoughYounghadno trouble in finding500,000otherwords!)would toleratesuchanattitudeinaclassroomofministerialstudents?
David,orwhoeveritis,professestobesmarterthanhisteachers.Amansays,âWell,thereferenceistoChrist.âWell,itisnotareferencetoChristhere:
âI said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom. Butthere is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth themunderstanding. Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understandjudgmentâ(Job32:7â9).
AâFundamentalistprofessorâsays,âButthewriterofPsalm119:99â100saysthathekeptGodâs precepts and we know that Christ did this, but David didnât, therefore, itcouldnâthavebeenDavid.âWell,tellussomething,didnâtDavidwrite,âLetthewordsofmymouth,andtheMEDITATIONOFMYHEART,beacceptableinthysightâŠ?â(Psa.19:14).Dooureyesdeceiveusordidhewrite,âIwillsetnowickedthingbeforemineeyesâ(Psa.101:3)?ThewriterofPsalm119hadtoprayforGodtoâopenâhiseyes(vs.18)afterhewentâASTRAYâ (vs.67),andheconfessed thathewasâAFRAIDofGodâsjudgmentsâ(vs.120)becausehehadgoneâastrayLIKEALOSTSHEEPâ(vs.176).
OurFundamentalistprofessorisnotveryattentivetotheBook.Davidprofessestobesmarterthantheâancientsâ(Rosicrucians,theâHiddenWisdom
of Tibet,â the âSecret of theHimalayas,â etc.).What an egotistical profession of faith!Anyone writing for Faith Magazine (Bob Jones University) would have called him aâRuckmaniteâonsight.
Letusdigalittledeeper.
âFor after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, itpleasedGodbythefoolishnessofpreachingtosavethemthatbelieveâ(1Cor.1:21).
Lookatitagain;ithasnâtbeendiscussedinanyclassroomanywhere.Notevenwhere1Corinthiansisbeingtaught.Theversesaidthat themeanswhichtheworldadopted inorder togetaroundknowingGodwasWISDOM(Gen.3:1â6).WISDOMwas thealibiusedbymankindtodamnthemselves.Observe:
âBecausethat,whentheyknewGod,theyglorifiedhimnotasGod,neitherwerethankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart wasdarkened.Professingthemselvestobewise,theybecamefoolsâ(Rom.1:21â22).
WhatdoesGodsaytotheseâwiseâmen?
âForthewisdomofthisworldisfoolishnesswithGod.Foritiswritten,Hetakeththewise in theirowncraftiness.Andagain,TheLordknoweth the thoughtsof thewise,thattheyarevainâ(1Cor.3:19â20).
Whatshouldamandowhothinksthatheiswise?
âLetnomandeceivehimself. Ifanymanamongyouseemeth tobewise in thisworld,lethimbecomeafool,thathemaybewiseâ(1Cor.3:18).
Ifherefusestodothis,howcananyonespothimeverytimeforwhatheis?
âFortheythataresuchservenotourLordJesusChrist,buttheirownbelly;andbygoodwordsandfairspeechesdeceivetheheartsofthesimpleâ(Rom.16:18).
ThiswasthespeechthattheApostlePaulavoidedliketheplague,forheconfessed:
âAndI,brethren,whenIcametoyou,camenotwithexcellencyofspeechorofwisdom,declaringuntoyouthetestimonyofGodâ(1Cor.2â1).
Naturally Paulâs enemiesmarked him out as a rudeman (see 2 Cor. 10:10, 11:16)whosespeechwasâCONTEMPTIBLE.â
NowwherewillayoungministerobtainaâBiblecourseâthattakesupastudyandadiscussion of such passages? A man says, âThey are nonessential and deal with ahobbyhorse.âWell,thatishowanytwo-faced,lyinghypocritewouldhandlethematerialifhewere interested inputtingyouunderbondage tohisEDUCATIONand in limitingyourknowledgeofhis ignorance.Thepassageswe are about to readdescribe themainteachingofbothTestamentsastheyarerelatedtolearningBiblicalTruth.
âStudy to shew thyself approved untoGod, aworkman that needeth not to beashamed,rightlydividingthewordoftruthâ(2Tim.2:15).
Doyouseetheverse?YouhadbetterstareatitawhilebecauseithasvanishedfromeverycopyofeveryEnglishversiontranslatedsince1800.Theso-calledâNewKJVâhasaltered the verse exactly as every Liberal in the NCC altered it in the RSV of 1953.
âHobbyhorseâisit?Thenwhydidthelastforty-fiveEnglishversionsoftheBibleprintedsince 1700 CHANGE THE VERSE? They didnât consider our subject to be aâhobbyhorse.â They considered it to be a potent and viable THREAT to Christianscholarship.
âInthathourJesusrejoiced inspirit,andsaid,I thankthee,OFather,Lordofheaven and earth, that thouhast hid these things from thewise andprudent, andhastrevealedthemuntobabes:evenso,Father;forsoitseemedgoodinthysightâ(Luke10:21).
If great truths are hidden from the âwise and prudent,â wouldnât it be better to beâweanedfromthemilk,anddrawnfromthebreastsâ(Isa.28:9)insteadofâsittingatthefeet of great giants of the faithâ who âboldly stand for the historic fundamentalsâ andcontend with âunquestioned loyalty for the plenary, verbal, inspiration of the originalYankeeDoodlesâ?
âThrough desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddlethwith all wisdom. A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heartmaydiscoveritselfâ(Prov.18:1â2).
(IpulledthoseversesonagraduateseminaryclassatBobJonesUniversity[1962]andâthe place like to have felled apart.â The teacher wasDr. Barton Payne of theNKJVcommittee.Lookat theverses;youâdbetter lookat them;THEYDONâTEXISTINANYENGLISHBIBLEBUTTHEAVOF1611.)
When Hindson, Dobson, Afman, Custer, Neal, Price, Martin, Faulkner, Farstad,Metzger,Newman,MacRae,Panosian,Fink,Wisdom,andcompanyhitProverbs18:1â2,theybackedoff likeacoveyofquailbeforeadiamondback rattler.Theversessaid thatheartmotivedetermines a scholarâs researches into âwisdomâ so that he can easily beâEverlearning,andneverabletocometotheknowledgeofthetruthâ(2Tim.3:7).
âHOBBYHORSEâisit?
âWhoisasthewiseman?andwhoknoweththeinterpretationofathing?amanâswisdommakethhisfacetoshine,andtheboldnessofhisfaceshallbechangedâ(Eccl.8:1).
âAndtheysaiduntohim,Wehavedreamedadream,andthereisnointerpreterofit.AndJosephsaiduntothem,DonotinterpretationsbelongtoGod?tellmethem,
Iprayyouâ(Gen.40:8).
âKnowing this first, that no prophecy of the Scripture is of any privateinterpretationâ(2Pet.1:20).
âThen opened he their understanding, that they might understand theScripturesâ(Luke24:45).
âHowbeitwhenhe,theSpiritoftruth,iscome,hewillguideyouintoalltruth:forheshallnotspeakofhimself;butwhatsoeverheshallhear,thatshallhespeak:andhewillshewyouthingstocomeâ(John16:13).
Theseversesexplainwhy theprecedingverses (Psa.119:99â100)areanâUnknownBibleâ atGARBC,Maranatha,RodneyBellâs school,DaytonHobbsâ school, andArlinHortonâs school, exactly as they are unknown at Harvard, Yale, Tubingen, Oxford,Columbia,andBerkeley.
1.CorrectinterpretationoftheBibledoesnâtliewithANYscholar.2.Correctinterpretationdoesnâtresideinanychurch.3.CorrectinterpretationdoesnâtresideinanyHebreworGreekmanuscripts.4.CorrectinterpretationdoesnâtresideinknowledgeofHebreworGreek.5.Correctinterpretationdoesnâtresideinchurchhierarchy.6.CorrectinterpretationdoesnâtresideinanygroupofgodlyFundamentalistswhogo
around shooting off their hypocritical mouths about âseparationâ and âNeo-Evangelicalism.â
(SeeourchapteronâEducatedIgnorancevs.UneducatedIgnorance.â)Observethatthepassagein2Peter1:19â20hasalsobeenalteredintheASV,NASV,
RSV,NIV,NRSV,NEB,TEV,andalltherest.TheNKJVhasretainedthecorrectreadinginthebodyoftheirtextbuttheyhaveindicatedintheirfootnotethatthecorruptreadingoftheRSVandNRSVandASVandNASV isâreliableâ(Hindson,Dobson,Hutson,Nelson,andHendersonallwantedtoimpresssomeonewiththeirignorance;theydidagoodjobofit.)
NowoldâHermesâwastheGreekgodofâHermeneutics.âHewastheâMercuryâofActs14:12whowastheâchiefspeakerâtohelpyouâunderstandtheoriginalsbetter.âThethinking of these deluded oafswas clear; they believed that a knowledge of languagescould equip a puffed-up egotist to interpret the Bookwhich theHoly Spirit wrote andpreserved, apart from the Holy Spirit who wrote and preserved it (see 1 Cor. 2:4â12).Someof theseâFundamentalistsâ talkabout theHolySpirit inadoctrinalor theological
sense,butwhenitcomestobelievingthattheyhaveHiswordsbeforetheirfaces,theynomorebelieveTHATthantheybelievethatA.T.RobertsonwasunfittoteachaDVBS.
Davidâhadaholtofsomethin,âastheysayâdownhomeâ(seePsa.119:99â100).Whydonâtwetakehisownprofessionforhissecret?
âTheSpiritof theLordspakebyme,andhiswordwas inmy tongueâ (2Sam.23:2).
Highereducation isnot thekey to learning theBible (seeâUnlearned Ignorancevs.LearnedIgnoranceâ).Itneverhasbeenanditneverwillbe.
Higher educationmay equip the learned toappear to bemore enlightened ormorespiritual or wiser, but it will solve nothing in regards to the understanding of spiritualthings(1Cor.2:13).InmanycasesâtakeMauro,S.C.Jackson,Walvoord,Wuest,Driver,Robertson, Cedarholm, Wilson, Machen, et al.âit will prove to be a positiveHINDRANCE. Higher education, in the main, is a business like cosmetics, cars, sex,sports,drugs,newspapers,orTV.Paulgotallofhiseducationbeforehewassavedandhewenttonoschoolofâhigherlearningâafterhewassaved.Peter,James,John,andAndrewnever fooledwithhighereducationbeforeorafter theirconversions; theywentdowninhistoryasâUNLEARNEDANDIGNORANTMENâ(Acts4).TheyknewtheLordJesusChristatleasttentimesbetterthananyheadofanyâBibleâdepartmentofanyuniversityinEuropeorAmerica.
Nowwe are not going to âknockâChristian education, per se.Many a crude, rude,rough,andunletteredmanneedshelpinreading,writing,andârithmetic.âLearningsomemannersandsocialgraceswouldalsohelpinregardstoâopeningdoorsâandinâgettingalongwiththebrethren,âbutwhenitcomestoahigherscholarshipthatsitsinjudgmentontheâUnknownBibleâ(seeabove),ayoungmanneedsthatlikeheneedsaholeinthehead.
TheAV(anyeditionwilldojustfine)isperfectlycapableofcriticizing,judging,andcorrecting theboardof editors of everyversionprinted since1800, including the fakedâNKJV.â The man who meditates on the AVHoly Bible (Psa. 119:99) and keeps itsprecepts (Psa. 119:100)will certainly come to know a great dealmore aboutGod andBiblicaltruththanPhilipSchaff,FrankDelitzsch,J.GreshamMachen,SpirosZodhiates,Hort,Aland,Metzger,Kenyon,Trench,Thayer,oranyotherBible-rejectingapostatewhobelievesintheâfundamentals.â
TheâUnknownBibleâhasspoken:
âWhom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understanddoctrine? them thatareweaned from themilk, anddrawn from thebreasts.â (Isa.28:9).
Lettheignorantprofessorsbeignorantstill:itbecomesthem.
AFloodofIgnorance
Butwithanoverrunningfloodhewillmakeanutterendoftheplacethereof,anddarknessshallpursuehisenemies.(Nahum1:8)
Wretched,miserable, saved sinners (Fundamentalists foremost) have been attackingthewords ofGod for about 100 years now and they have, quite naturally, passed theirignoranceonfromoneschooltoanotherviathefacultymembers.IfyoureadourarticleintheBibleBelieversâBulletinonâTheGermansHadaWordForIt,âyouhavetheheartofthematterexactly.Theseovergrownbabiesaremoreafraidofridiculethantheyareofsin,disease, death, or hell. They ape each other so that their own kind will think they areintelligent;thatisallthereistoit,andthatisallthereeverhasbeentoitsinceJohn7:48.WebroughtthisoutveryclearlyinthefamousfairystoryaboutTheKingâsNewClothes.HerewehavewhatIusedtocallwhenIwasaboyaâBeautâoraâDuzzeyââthelatterexpressionreferringtoaDusenbergcar,whichwasTHEGermanyluxurycaroftheearly1930s.
âForthistheywillinglyareignorantof,thatbythewordofGodtheheavenswereofold,andtheearthstandingoutofthewaterandinthewater:Wherebytheworldthatthenwas,beingoverflowedwithwater,perished:â(2Pet.3:5â6).
Now,towhatdoesthisrefer?InviewofthefactthatallapostateFundamentalistshavetakenthetimeandtroubleto
change the last two verses in 2 Peter, chapter 1, one could hardly say that the SecondEpistleofSimonPeterisofnoconsequence.Afterall,whentheâleadingscholarsâ(thosewho profess to believe in the âplenary, inerrant, verbally inspired,Cotton Patch dollsâ)willtaketimeouttoalteraversesothatitwillprovetheirownprivateinterpretationsandtheories (2Pet. 1:20),we should certainly give theBook inwhich these changes occursomecarefulattention.Andsince2Peter,chapter2turnsouttobethegreatestchapterintheNewTestamentonfalseprophetsinthelastdays,wecanhardlyaffordtobreezeby2Peter,chapter3.
âForthistheywillinglyareignorantof,thatbythewordofGodtheheavenswereofold,andtheearthstandingoutofthewaterandinthewater:Wherebytheworldthatthenwas,beingoverflowedwithwater,perished:â(2Pet.3:5â6).
No.1.Someoneisstupid.No.2.Someoneiswillinglystupid.
No.3.Aworldwasstandinginandoutofwater.No.4.Thatworldoverflowedwithwaterandperished.Nowwhocouldgetamessagesosimpleallmuddledup?Answer: every major fundamental Bible scholar and teacher in the United States,
withoutoneexception.IfyouweretoaskHenryMorriswhattheversesreferto,hewouldsayNoahâsflood:
dittoHarryRimmer,ClarenceLarkin,J.VernonMcGee,Swindle,MacArthur,BobJones,III,andanyothers.Hewouldtellyouthat2Peter3:5â6isareferencetoNoahâsfloodjustasblandlyasaJesuitpriestwouldtellyouthattheprooftextforPeterbeing inRome isActs 12:17. (No, ImeanREALLY.That is theRomanCatholicproof text [Acts 12:17] for Peter going to Rome.We are not speakingwith âtongue incheekâbutratherwearespeakingwithâfootinmouth.â)
Nowobserve; theâworldâspokenof inverse6 (âearthâ invs.5)wasâstanding inandoutofthewaterâintheâBEGINNINGâ(2Pet.3:4).Whenwastheâbeginningâ?InthedaysofNoah?Ifthiswastheearththatâbeingoverflowedwithwater,perishedâ(2Pet. 3:6), it was the earth that âTHEN WAS.â But the earth that âthen wasâ in theâbeginningâwastheoneinGenesis1:1.
THEFLOODOF2PETER,CHAPTER3,TOOKPLACEINGENESIS1:2.Does the Scofield Board of Editors believe this? Of course not. Read the Scofield
notesineitheredition.Those editors knew that something happened to that earth of Genesis 1:1; and
although they got thismaterial fromPember and others, they still had enough sense toknowthattherewasnosuchthingasaâGapTheory.âThereneverwasanyâtheoryâaboutit.SimonPetersettledthematteronceandforallinhisNewTestamentepistle.AtschoolslikeBobJonesUniversity, it is fashionable foregotistical stuffedshirts,whofancy theyareâpeers,â toputout syllabusesonâTheGapTheoryâ and then togive theâprosandconsâ for the âtheory.â In their everlasting effort (which they never give up on and onwhich they never slacken the pace) to convince young men and women that the finalauthority is the interpretation of fundamental scholars (and that you cannot interpretwithoutaknowledgeofHebrewandGreek),thesehyperventilated,bloated,sanctimoniousmegalomaniacsbombardthestudentwithâtohu,ââbohu,ââboohoo,ââwhobeyou,âandâkerflooeyâtomakehimthinkthatHEBREWhassomethingtodowithit.(Seeanyarticlewritten by the apostate Fundamentalist Harold Willmington in any issue of theFundamentalistJournalforthisoperation.EveryarticleistomakeyouthinkthatHebreworGreekhassomethingtodowiththecorrectunderstandingofapassage;notanypassagethatWillmingtoneverwroteoninthelasttwentyyears.)
TheâoriginalHebrewâhadnothingtodowithGenesis1:1â3atall.Itonlymuddiedtheissue.Hebrew is of nohelp at all inunderstanding thepassage; and if âby their fruitswe
shallknowthem,âwemaysaythatanymanwhowouldcorrecttheEnglishtextherewithanyHebrewissimplyamanwhoistryingtogetridoftheNEWTESTAMENT.TheNew
Testament states that the earth ofGenesis l :1was drowned out by a flood ofwater inGenesis1:2.
If therewas theslightestdoubtabout it in themindsof thesenaivesimpletonswhobelieve in âplenary, verbally inspired, original autographs,â all doubt would have beenerased if they had readGenesis, chapter 1. For therewe are told that the âSPIRITOFGODMOVEDUPONTHEFACEOFTHEWATERS.âWhatwaters?
TheoriginalcreationofGenesis1:1wasdestroyedbyafloodofwaterinGenesis1:2.Nowyouareentitledtoyourownopinion;butopinionstothecontraryarenottobe
classified as âscholarly guessesâ regarding theories. They come under the heading ofbabiescryinginthecribbecausetheyhavecontracteddiaperrash.
Yourpeerswhotaughtyouweredumberthanyouare.Nofourthgradechildwithaâlickofsenseâ(whocanreadEnglish)wouldtakeHenry
Morris,HarryRimmer,orClarenceLarkinseriouslyfor threeandone-halfsecondsof2Peter3:3â6;notâonyourtintype.â
Noahâsfloodwasfoundnowhereinthechapter.1.TherewasanearththatâTHENWASâ(readthechapter).2.ThereistheearththatâNOWISâ(readthechapter).3.ThereisanewearththatâSHALLBEâ(readthechapter).There isnothing likereadingaKingJamesBible (anyeditionexcepta fakeâNewâ
KJV) to clear up the Hebrew and Greek department of a Fundamentalist college oruniversity.
Now we can understand why the word âreplenishâ was taken out of 900,000,000copiesoftheAV1611(1611â1982)byforty-fiveEnglishâversions.â
HebrewscholarshiphadnothingtodowiththeremovalofthewordâreplenishâfromGenesis1:28andGenesis9:1(seeASV,NKJV,RSV,etc.).
You see, the word âreplenishâ was taken out of the those passages by the NewScofieldBoardofEditorsandtheâOldTimeGospelHourâ(Lynchburg,VA)becausetheynever found the truth in their own language clearly recorded in BOTH Testaments.âHebrewscholarshipâhadnothingtodowithit.
These changes were to confuse andmuddle the livingwords of the livingGod bypeoplewhothoughttheyweresmartenoughtocorrecttheGod-givenEnglishtextwiththeâoriginalHebrew,âafterpubliclydemonstratingtoGodtheirFather(theyallprofessedtobesaved) that theycouldnotbe trusted in thesimplestmattersof theology in theirownlanguage.HavingdemonstratedtoGodtheHolySpiritandtotheBodyofChristâintheirreadingof2Peter2:3âthat theywere inept, incompetent,disqualifiedNOVICESwhenhandlingthewordsofGod,theytookthewordâREPLENISHâoutofGenesis1:28soyouwouldnotknowthattherewassomeoneonthisearthinGenesis1:2whogotdrownedinaflood:anditcertainlywasnâtNoahâsgeneration!
Wewillnottaketimeinthisarticletogointoallthedetailsofthesematters;sufficeit
to say that the pre-Adamic earthwas not populatedwith humanbeings likeAdam, buttheywereâSonsofGodâandwerecalledâgodsâ (Psa.82).That theywereherebeforeGenesis1:3â7issoapparentthatnoâtheoriesâcouldpossiblyarise,fortheywerepresentinGenesis1:1oneternityâsâmorningâtopraiseGod(seeJob38:1â6).
SecondPeter3:3â6willever remainapartof thatgreatâUnknownBibleâwhich ispurposelyhiddenandcoveredupbyapostateFundamentalistswhowishtopreservetheirownauthorityandintegrityattheexpenseoftheauthorityandintegrityoftheHolyBibleandtheGodwhowroteit.
Theywillkeepyou in thedarkas longas theycan tokeepcontroloveryou,and iftheycannotoccupyyourmindwithhotairaboutâverbally,inspiredoriginals,âtheywilloccupy itwith gas about âseparationâ or âNeo-Evangelicalismâ: ofwhich neither issueamountstoahillofsandalong-sidedestroyingtheBiblethroughignorance.
TheInfighting
Many bulls have compassedme: strong bulls of Bashan have besetme round.Theygapeduponmewiththeirmouths,asaraveningandaroaringlion.â(Psalm22:12â13)
It is not startling at all to find native Greek-speaking Greeks who cannot find abowlingballinabathtubwhereitcomestoexpositinganyGreektextofMatthew,Acts,Hebrews,orJamesusingGreekmanuscriptsoftheNewTestament.Bythesametoken,itisnotintheleastshockingtofindmenlikeRobertDickWilsonâwhocouldreadtwenty-sixdifferentlanguagesâunabletoexpoundthesimplesttruthstaughtinDVBStoyoungpeopleincountryBaptistchurches.A.T.RobertsonâsknowledgeofGreekgrammarwashisundoing;itmadehiminnatelystupidwhendealingwithBiblicaltruth.Thisisusuallytherule,nottheexception.
Now here we have a verse in Isaiah 50:8 which could hardly be called aânonessential.â(Or,toquotetheapostatesatBobJonesUniversity,âahobbyhorse.âThefacultyandstaffofBJUhavebeenridingthehobbyhorseofâplenary,verbalinspirationoforiginalautographsâforsolongtheywouldnâtknowahobbyhorsefromasawhorse.)ThepassagedealswiththesufferingsofJesusChristbeforetheCrucifixion.
âHeisnearthatjustifiethme;whowillcontendwithme?Letusstandtogether:whoismineadversary?Lethimcomeneartomeâ(Isa.50:8).
Therecanbenodoubtabouttheapplicationofourtextifamanreadsverses4and5inthecontext.Furthermore,thestatementthatâThereforehaveIsetmyfacelikeaflintâwouldgiveawaythepassageifnothingelsedid.Again,themanwhoisgoingthroughthetroubleinverse6issaidtobetheâLordâsservantâ(Isa.50:10).Thereisnodoubtaboutthecontextatall.ChristgaveHisbackâtothesmiters,âandHegaveHisâcheektothemthatpluckedoff thehairâandtothosethatspitonHisface(Isa.50:6).Theseversesarewell-known,butwhenascholargetstoverse8,heusuallydecidesthatit istimetotalkabout something else. The problem lies in these words, âWHO IS MINEADVERSARY?LETHIMCOMENEARUNTOME.âAstheversestands,theLordJesusChrist ischallengingsomebody tocome inclose toHim:Hewants thisperson toidentifyhimself (âWho ismineadversary?â). Inaddition to this,He iswanting to standsidebysidewiththatpersonattheJudgmentwherebothofthemcanbeseenandheardandcompared.IfHisadversaryattemptstocondemnHim,âtheLordGODwillhelphim.â
Allofthisisperfectlyunderstandable,butwhenonejoinstheseversestothecontext(vss.5â6)awholenewâareaâorâdimensionâ(twohackneyednewspapercliches)opensup, forwe are reading here that during the exactmoments that JesusChrist sat bound,surroundedbythePraetoriumguardsmenandservantsoftheRomansoldiers(John19:1â3
andMark15:15â20),Hewasdoingthechallenging,notthem.ChallengingWHO?Well,itcanbenoonebuttheâPrinceâ(John14:30,16:11).JesusChristischallengingSatantoaâone-on-oneconfrontationâ(ahackneyednewsmediaclichĂ©).Heisnotmerelyâsteppingintothering,âbutHeisintheringchallengingHisopponenttogetintotheringwithHim.HeisdoingthemostdangerousthingthatanyhumanbeingonthisearthcoulddoiftheBiblepictureofSatan(seeJob1â2)iscorrect.
Theproofof this thinggoingonwillbe found in theNewTestament.Wereadhere(Col.2:15)thatwhenJesusChristcompletedtheAtonementthatheâspoiledprincipalitiesandpowers.âTheseprincipalitiesandpowerswhicharereferredtoinColossians(andinEph.6)havenothingtodowithkings,presidents,mayors,governors,orâtetrarchs,âfortheirdwellingplacesarenotonthisearth:
âAnditshallcometopassinthatday,thattheLordshallpunishthehostofthehighonesthatareonhigh,andthekingsoftheearthupontheearthâ(Isa.24:21).
ObservethatwhereninetypercentoftheBibleteachersteachthatthehighonesâonhighâaregovernors,kings,etc.,theHolyBibleclearlydelineatesbetweentheâhighonesthatareonHIGHâandthekingsthatareâUPONTHEEARTHâ(Isa.24:21).
Now why is there such a silence about these passages? Where are all of theseFundamentalistswhobelievethattheBloodAtonementisoneofthefundamentalsofthefaith?Do theyget a little âleeryâwhen theyapproachpassages thatdealwithSATAN?(Donât answer that question! When Henderson, Dollar, Price, Farstad, Willmington,Hindson,andDobsongottoJob,chapter41âawholechapterdealingwithSatanâtheyVACATED.)
WhatisinvolvedinIsaiah50:8isthis:
âAndheshewedmeJoshuathehighprieststandingbeforetheangeloftheLord,andSatan standingathis righthand to resisthim.And theLordsaid unto Satan,TheLordrebukethee,OSatan;eventheLordthathathchosenJerusalemrebukethee:isnotthisabrandpluckedoutofthefire?â(Zech.3:1â2).
In this contest youwill notice that the Lord refers Satan to the âLord,â exactly asMichael the Archangel referred Satan to the Lord in Jude 9. The words are identical:âTHELORDREBUKETHEE.â
ThesepassagesyieldoneofthegreatesttruthsaboutthepowerofSatanandthepowerofChristfoundanywhereineitherTestament,fortheyrevealthatuntiltheIncarnationofChrist,onememberoftheTrinitywouldreferSatantotheothermemberoftheTrinityforarebuke!AFTERtheIncarnation,whenJesushadâlearned throughsufferingasaSonâ(see Heb. 5:8), He doesnât âreferâ Satan to anyone; He says simple, âGET THEEBEHINDME,SATANâ(Luke4:8).
The Lord Jesus Christ not only defeats the Satanic principalities and powers (whoconstituterealspiritualentities),HetakesontheDevilpersonally,inviteshimtocomeincloseforhand-to-handcombat(Isa.50:6â8),andthentriumphsoverhiminitandâspoilsâhishierarchy(Col.2:15).
These verses dealing with one of the major translations in the spirit world, andconnectedwiththemostimportanttransactionthatevertookplaceonthisearthinregardsto sinners, isnotdiscussedat any length, tomyknowledge, in anyBible schoolon theface of this earth; at least not before the time of this publication (1984). The passagesdescribetheâinfightingâthattookplacebetweentheLordJesusandSatanWHENYOURSOULWASATSTAKE.
TheUngodlyCatholicMess
Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drinkofferingsofbloodwill Inotoffer,nor takeup theirnames intomy lips. (Psalm16:4)
The verses we now look at (and their companion verses) constitute part of anâUnknownBibleâthat isunknowntoeveryRomanCatholiconthefaceof thisearth.IfanyCatholichadaccidentallyreadtheverseshewouldhaveblottedthemoutofhismindandmemoryasquicklyaspossible, for theywouldhavedestroyed theveryheartofhisâreligion.â
âThenJesussaiduntothem,Verily,verily,Isayuntoyou,ExceptyeeatthefleshoftheSonofman,anddrinkhisblood,yehavenolifeinyouâŠAsthelivingFatherhathsentme,andIlivebytheFather:sohethateatethme,evenheshalllivebymeâ(John6:53,57).
NowanypriesttryingtogetaâCatholicconvertâwillquoteJohn6:53â56buthewillstopshort(squealingthetires)beforehegetstoJohn6:57everytime,withoutfail.Inviewofthefact thatmorethan100,000Catholicpriestshavebeenâbrakingsuddenlyâat thisversesinceA.D.490,wemayhavearighttoaskourselves,âWhatisthereaboutverse57thatissodeadlytoRomanCatholicâapostolicorthodoxyâ?Amanwhotakestimeouttoreadtheseâunknownpassagesâdoesnâthavelongtoguess.
JesusChristhasjustbeentalkingaboutsomeoneâlivingoffofHimâbyâeatingâHisflesh andblood.To explain thisHeuses a âsimilitudeâ (âAS the livingFather has sentmeâ).WheneverGodwantstoteachmankindsomething,Healwaysusesasimilitude.Hesays in the Old Testament that He has âused SIMILITUDESâ by the âministry of theprophetsâ(Hos.12:10).Aswehavesaidmanytimesbefore,thetwogreatestwordsintheBible forunderstanding theBibleare neitherGreeknorHebrew: they are the two littleEnglishwordsâasâandâlike.âInJohn,chapter6HewasexplainingwhatHemeantbyâeatingHis fleshanddrinkingHisbloodâsoyouwouldnothave togo toanyCatholicpriesttofindoutwhatHemeant.ACatholicpriestâsprivateinterpretationofwhatChristmeantbyâeatingfleshanddrinkingbloodâisabsolutelyworthless,inviewofthefactthatChristalreadytoldus.
Jesussays,âSohethateatethme,evenheshalllivebyme.âNownoticethatthemanwho âeatsâ Jesus Christ (that is how the literal wording runs) must do it in the exactmannerthatChristdoesitinrelationtoHisFather(âASâŠIlivebytheFather,SOâŠheshalllivebymeâ).Thisimmediatelyshowshowâliteralâtheâfleshandbloodâinverses54â56actuallymustbe,forthereisnoCatholicpriestorbishoponthefaceofthisearthwho is radical enough to teach that JesusChrist was literally eatingHis own Fatherâs
fleshandblood. If it came toa rationalargumentaboutwhetherornotverses53â56 inJohn,chapter6wereliteralorspiritual,JesusChristsettledallmattersofdoubtright inthecontextwhenHedefinedwhatHEMEANTwhenHeSAIDwhatHemeant.ButsincetherewerepeopleinthosedayswhowerejustasblindaboutthesemattersasanyRomanCatholicistoday(seeJohn6:60),Jesusgoesonestepfurtherandclearsupalldoubtastoanyliteralâfleshandblood,âforHesays(inthesecondverseofourâUnknownBibleâ)thatâITISTHESPIRITthatquickeneth, theFLESHprofitethnothing: thewordsthatIspeakuntoyou,THEYARESPIRIT,THEYARELIFE.â
And this iswhy these twoBibleversesareeliminated fromallCatholicmissals,allCatholic catechism, allCatholicmagazines, all Catholic TV programs, and allCatholicâconvertcourses.âJohn6:57andJohn6:63(inthecontextofâeatinganddrinkingChristâsflesh and bloodâ) define and interpret Scripture with Scripture what Jesus meant.completelyandindependentlyandcompletelycontrarytoanyprivateinterpretationsetupbyRomanCatholicpriests,nuns,bishops, cardinals,popes, archbishops,ormonks.Theprivateinterpretation(see2Pet.1:20)ofthesecharlatans,placedontheversesinordertoaccommodate themtoapagancannibalsacrifice, isbasedupon therejectionofChristâsownwordsinthepassage:thewrittenwordsinthepassagewerespokenbytheOnewhomCatholics claim founded their church!Thewords in John, chapter 6 explainwhat theymean. That is, they give theHoly Spiritâs own interpretation of the passage; any otherinterpretationisâprivateinterpretationâ(2Peter1:20).
Paulneatlywindsupthesemattersintoonepackageinthefollowingpassage:
âThe cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood ofChrist?Thebreadwhichwebreak, is itnotthecommunionofthebodyofChrist?Forwebeingmanyareonebread,andonebody:forweareallpartakersofthatonebreadâ(1Cor.10:16â17).
Here we find the âbody and bloodâ of Christ showing up again, but this time thedefinitionisabsoluteinverse17sothatnocannibalwouldthinkthattheLordisspeakingoftheliteralfleshandbloodofanyman.AfterspeakingoftheâbloodofChristâandtheâbodyofChrist,âPaulsays,âFORWEBEINGMANYAREONEBREADANDONEBODY.âInthissalientpassage,theHolySpiritdefinestheâbodyofChristâasabodyofbelievers who make up a SPIRITUAL BODY: for, after all, the âFlesh PROFITETHNOTHINGâsinceitistheâSPIRITthatquickeneth.â
Thisdrawsthestraightedgebetweentheritualâsacramentâofapagancannibal(PopeJohnPaulII)andtheBiblicalmemorialofalocalchurchordinance.TheâBodyofChristâinthisageisabodyofBELIEVERSwhoareâoneinJesusChristâ(see1Cor.12)andHeis in them (Col. 1:27). Christ lives off of His Father (John 6:57) by a SPIRITUALsubsistence,forHesaidthatâGodisaSPIRITâ(John4:24).Christâsmannerofâlivingoffof His Fatherâ is, therefore, the manner in which we are to âliveâ off of His Son byâfeedingâonHis âBody.âChristâsBody in this agecannotbe flesh, forâTHEFLESH
PROFITETH nothingâ; Paul refused to even know Jesus Christ âAFTER THEFLESHâ(2Cor.5:16).
Tothecontrary,thisBodyiscomposedofpeoplewhohavebeenâbornoftheSpiritâ(John3:3â5)andbaptizedintooneBodybyoneSpirit(1Cor.12:13)sothattheynourisheachotherasonespiritualsubstance.
âFromwhomthewholebodyfitlyjoinedtogetherandcompactedbythatwhichevery joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of everypart,makethincreaseofthebodyuntotheedifyingofitselfinloveâ(Eph.4:16).
âThatthereshouldbenoschisminthebody;butthatthemembersshouldhavethe same care one for another. And whether onemember suffer, all thememberssufferwithit;oronememberbehonoured,allthemembersrejoicewithit.NowyearethebodyofChrist,andmembersinparticularâ(1Cor.12:25â27).
TheseconstituteanâUnknownBibleâtoover600,000,000Catholics,astheânaturalmanreceivethNOTthethingsoftheSPIRITsincetheyareâfoolishnessâtohim(1Cor.2:14).IttakesanewbirthtoreadJohn,chapter6.TheverseswelisthereareunknowntoPopeJohnPaulII,BernadetteDevlin,FidelCastro,AdolphHitler,TedKennedy,formerSecretary of State Haig, the editors of Time andLifemagazines, Tip OâNeal, WilliamRandolphHearst,andthepresidentofeverycountryinCentralandSouthAmerica.
Ignoranceisbliss.
ThePlenary,VerballyInspiredTV
Thensaidheuntome,Sonofman,hastthouseenwhattheancientsofthehouseofIsraeldointhedark,everymaninthechambersofhisimagery?fortheysay,TheLordseethusnot;theLordhathforsakentheearth(Ezekiel8:12)
LiketheAthenianquacksofActs17:21(thatversehasbeenchangedineveryEnglishâBibleâsince1800),themodernapostateFundamentalistsâledinthemainbythefacultyand staff atBob JonesUniversityâacknowledge the existenceof the âUnknownBibleâbuttheydonâttaketimetolookintoitbecausetheyareafraidofit.Afterall,thefirstandprimaryreasonwhyanysinnerdoesnâtspenda lotof time in theBible isbecauseâit isagainst him and he knows it.â Conservative and Fundamental scholars are certainly noexceptions; you have just as many ârun-of-the-mill sinnersâ at Ed Nelsons or RodneyBellsorWendellMullensorMyronCedarholmsasyouhaveanywhereelse.
Wenowpickupaninterestingverse,whichquitenaturallyhasbeenchangedinallofthenewâversionsâputoutorrecommendedbyanyone.(Theversewillbefoundwrittenaswequoteithereineveryeditionof theAVthatevershoweduponthisearthfor370years.)Itsays:
âThen ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, anddestroyalltheirpictures,anddestroyalltheirmoltenimages,andquitepluckdownalltheirhighplacesâ(Num.33:52).
Nowthere isONEWORDin thisverse thatFundamental scholarship,Conservativescholarship,andEvangelicalscholarshipfindtobeâhighlyobjectionable.âAsamatteroffact,itwassoâhighlyobjectionableâthatitwasremovedfromeveryâreliabletranslationâonthemarket,includingtheNKJV.
Weâllgiveyouoneguessastowhichworditis.FollowingallofthisblarneyaboutâverballyinspiredautographsâandâGod-breathed
Scriptureâ and all of this apostate gas about âinerrancyâ and the âBattle for theBible,âeveryjackmanofthemdecidedthatonewordinNumbers33:52hadnobusinessbeingthere,althoughithadbeentherefor370years.
Youstillgetoneguess.Yousay,âBrotherRuckman,donâtIhavetohaveaknowledgeofHebrewmanuscripts
toguesswhatworditis?âNo,youcertainlydonât.âBut donât I have to have âat handâ a lexicon by Keil or Delitzsch or a Hebrew
grammarbyGeseniusorKahle?â
No,asamatteroffact,youdonât.âButBrotherRuckman,doInotneedaGreekcopyoftheOldTestamentSeptuagintâ?
Notonyourlife.Yousay,âWhatscholarlyequipmentandtrainingmustIhavetoguesswhichoneof
thesewordshasbeenchangedbyallofthesegood,godly,dedicated,qualified,accredited,separated,Premillennial,soulwinningAPOSTATESintheUnitedStates?â
Simple:allyouhavetohaveisaknowledgeofhumannature; thatâsallyouhavetohave to âdo the job.â With a meager knowledge of human nature you can criticallyevaluate all Hebrew manuscripts, all Hebrew lexicons, all Hebrew texts, all Englishversions,andeveryHebrewscholarwhoeverlived.
âButBrotherRuckman,Imightmakeanerrorinjudginghumannatureatthispoint.âPerhaps;butnotwithaBook(AV1611)availableatyour righthand tocorrectyour
ownerrors:
âAnd when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it waspleasanttotheeyes,andatreetobedesiredtomakeonewise,shetookofthefruitthereof,anddideat,andgavealsountoherhusbandwithher;andhedideatâ(Gen.3:6.)
âAndAbimelechsaiduntoAbraham,Whatsawestthou,thatthouhastdonethisthing?â(Gen.20:10).
âAndLot lifteduphiseyes,andbeheldall theplainofJordan, that itwaswellwateredeverywhere,beforetheLorddestroyedSodomandGomorrah,evenasthegardenoftheLord,likethelandofEgypt,asthoucomestuntoZoarâ(Gen.13:10).
âWhenI sawamong the spoils agoodlyBabylonishgarment, and twohundredshekelsofsilver,andawedgeofgoldoffiftyshekelsweight,thenIcovetedthem,andtook them;and,behold, theyarehid in the earth in themidst ofmy tent, and thesilverunderitâ(Josh.7:21).
âAnd Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of thedaughtersofthePhilistinesâ(Judg.14:1).
âThenwent Samson toGaza, and saw there an harlot, andwent in unto herâ(Judg.16:1).
DoyougettheâdriftâoftheBookyet?These are parts of an âUnknownBible,â if we are to believe the revisorswork on
Numbers33:52.Yousee, theproblemthescholarshadisconnectedwithEzekiel14:1â10,whichwe
talked about previously. The reason why such simple verses cannot be mastered ordiscussedinclassroomsandpulpitsisnotbecauseoftheâarchaicElizabethanlanguageof1611.âOhmy,no!No,ithasnothingtodowiththeâvariationsintheeditionsoftheKingJames Version.âNot in the least. No, the problem goes much much deeper than suchplaypen games as âintrinsic probabilities,â âdynamic and literal equivalence,â âverbalplenaryinspiredoriginals,âoranyotherjettisonedhotairfromtwentiethcenturygasbags.(Jimmy Lockwood of Yorkshire, New York, [Central Baptist] calls these gas bagsâRuckmanâspeers.âYeah,inapigâseye.)
TherealproblemwithNumbers,chapter33liesinthelivingroom.Yousay,âWhere?âIsaid,âIntheLIVINGROOM.âYou say, âBrotherRuckman,what does a twentieth century living roomhave to do
withNumbers33:52?âWell,thetwentiethcenturylivingroomishere:
âThelightofthebodyistheeye:ifthereforethineeyebesingle,thywholebodyshallbefulloflightâ(Matt.6:22).
NowcanyouguesswhichwordwasremovedfromNumbers33:52?Tell us something, ye âGiants ofFundamentalism,âwho are âboldly contending for
the faithâ andwhose âunquestioned loyalty to theword ofGodâmakes you evenwithDonkeyKongandMrs.PacManâohtellus,yeâGiantsoftheFaithâwhoareourâpeersâwhenitcomestostinkinglikearottenappleinapileofrottenbananasâiftheinstructionstothechildrenofIsraelcomingupoutofEgypttypifythecomingofthesavedsinneroutoftheworldsystemandifthetripthroughthewildernesspicturesthecarnallifebetweenEgyptandthePromisedLandandifJoshuaâsentranceillustratesthespiritualwarfareofthebeliever(andsosayallFundamentalandConservativescholarswhodealwithtypes),what are you âqualified PEERSâ doing erasing the INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN TO THECHILDREN OF ISRAEL JUST AS THEY ARE ABOUT TO BEGIN SPIRITUALWARFARE?
WhowouldbeinterestedinsabotageatthatpointbuttheDevil?EvidentlysomeofourâpeersâareBenedictArnolds.The orders from the Commander-in-Chief have been rescinded in favor of the
âcampfiregirlsâandâbrowniesâ(seeProblemTexts,1982).Well, theseâgood,great,godlydedicatedâAPOSTATEShavedecided that theword
âPICTURESâ shouldnât be in theBible; so they took it out. This wouldmean that thepictures of the heathen were not to be destroyed. Thus the members of the LockmanFoundation(NASV)andPhilipSchaffâscommittee(ASV)andFarstadâscommittee(NKJV,Henderson,Dollar,Criswell,Hindson,Dobson,etal.)plusthegraduatesandsupportersofMoodyBibleInstitute(NIV)andtheSouthernBaptistConvention(RSV)havesuccessfullyfoundaway tokeep theirTVSETSINTHEIRLIVINGROOMSANDGETYOUTOKEEPYOURS.
Thatâsarealfirst-class,âscholarlyâoperation,donâtyouthink?Howâsthatforâthecreamofmodern,Evangelicalscholarshipâattemptingtoâupdateâ
theâarchaicAVâsoyoucanâunderstanditâ?Isnâtitamazingtonoticethelengththatâgood,godly,separatedFundamentalistsâwill
go to in the twentieth century inorder to resist theHolySpirit, to pervert theBible, todisobeyGodâsordersand tokeep theirowngods?Saul (1Sam.15:23)wasanamateuralongsideDobson,Dollar,andHindson.Andtheonlyreasonyoudonâtknowaboutthesekindsofmotivations, theonlyreasonwhysomeofyouobjectedtoâBrotherRuckmanâslanguageâ and his âattacks on good, godly menâ (who were his âpeersâ) was becauseYOU EITHER WERE IN COMPLETE IGNORANCE OF THE BIBLICAL ISSUESINVOLVEDORELSEYOUDESIREDTOKEEPYOURFALSEGODSEXACTLYASMOSTDID.BirdsofafeatherhaveanâUnknownBibleincommon.
TheCausesofCorruptionIntheBodyofChrist
FortheythataresuchservenotourLordJesusChrist,buttheirownbelly;andbygoodwordsandfairspeechesdeceivetheheartsofthesimple.(Romans16:18)
Dean Burgon once wrote a masterpiece called The Causes of Corruption in theTraditional Text, 1896. He classified them as intentional corruptions and unintentionalerrorsthelatterbeingâslipsofthepenoreye,âetc.TheâScholarâsUnionâhasalonglistoftradesmenâsterms(seeMonarchoftheBooks,1980)forthesetypesoferrors,butsincenoneofthemamounttoanythingweshalldispensewiththem.However,nomorefittingconclusion to a book could be written than one that deals with the causes of BiblicalcorruptionthatmaketheBibleanâunknownbookâamongLaodiceanFundamentalists.
Rodney Bell (Virginia Beach) was credited in 1983 with having invented the termâPseudo-Fundamentalist.â In retaliation, Jack Van Impe coined the expression âNeo-Fundamentalist.âNaturallyneithertermhadanybearingonanything.Bellwastryingtorun interference for Bob Jones University, who always damned anyone who criticizedthem (no matterwhat he professed), and Jack Van Impe was trying to nullify BJUâsoppositiontohisTVprogramforwhichheneededagreatdealoffinancialsupport.AllofthisisquitesimilartoLindsellâspuerileandsterilebookcalledTheBattlefortheBible(1982),whichwasasirrelevanttoeither(thebattleortheBible)asareportonprojectedhoehandleproduction inSouthDakota.Allof these littleshamplaypenstrawdummiesare the work of the ââcampfire girlsâ and âbrowniesâ (seeProblem Texts, 1982), uponwhichwehavecommentedatlength;theydonâttouchanyrealproblems.
TherealprobleminthiscenturyisapostasywithintheBodyofChrist,andthecausesof this apostasy are due to some things far more basic and scriptural than anyâdisagreement between goodmenâ or âpreferences for different textsâ or âwhether weshould be separated or doubly separatedâ or âfailure to speak the truth in love to thebrethren,âetc.No, thecausesofapostasy inANYcenturyhavenothingtodowithlittlecollegiateissuesaboutâseparationâandlittletheologicalissuesaboutâthefundamentals.âTheattemptsbyHindsonandDobsonandWillmington(andthosewhosatunderthemandthose who taught them, and those who believed them) to get you to think thatâFundamentalismâisthebigissueisjustâmoreofthesame.âWehavedemonstratedonatleast three occasions (see âMoby Dick and the White Crocodile,â âThe MilitantFundamentalistWhoWenttoHell,âandâTheHereticalRuckmaniteâ)thatthesetypesofmen (and themenwho taught themplus theirstudents) arenot really equipped to evendiscusssuchmattersastherootsandsourcesofapostasyamongBiblebelieversinANYgeneration;theyarewellalongthewaythemselves.Menwhoprofesstobelievewhattheydo not really believe (in regards to final and absolute authority) are not to be takenseriously by anyone with an ounce of common sense. After all, if a man has no finalauthorityhigherthanhisownopinionorâpreference,âheisnothingbutanANARCHIST,
nomatterwhatelseheprofessestobelievein.HowfarwouldyoutrustanyANARCHIST?We now examine several verseswhich appear to be unrelated, butwhen they have
been assembled into a unit itwill bemore than apparent that they stick âcloser than abrother.â
âFortheloveofmoneyistherootofallevil:whichwhilesomecovetedafter,theyhave erred from the faith, andpierced themselves throughwithmany sorrowsâ (1Tim.6:10).
ThemostinterestingthingaboutthisverseisthefactthatithasbeenalteredineveryEnglish translation published by every âgood, godly, etc.,â since 1800. The verse,however,willbefoundaswehavequotedithereineveryeditionofeverypublicationofanyAuthorizedVersionsince1611.There isevidentlyaâstingâsomewhere in theversethatmodern translatorscannot tolerate.Therehas remained in theverse for370yearsaâbarbâthatmodernâgood,godly,etc.,âfindirritating.Theyallseemtohavebeennotonlyirritatedbutâcuttothequickâbytheverse.
Thenextstingerreadsasfollows:
âPerverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth,supposingthatgainisgodliness:fromsuchwithdrawthyselfâ(1Tim.6:5).
Againwemust face a terrible reality; every Fundamentalistworking for TennesseeTemple,BobJones,LibertyUniversity,GARBC,andPacificCoastBibleCollege,alongwith every Evangelical connectedwithMoody,Wheaton, Fuller,Dallas, orDenver hasapprovedofalteringtheversetobringitintolinewiththeNCCwhopublishedtheRSVof1952.Thestingofastingraymustbein1Timothy6:5, ifweare to judgeby the last forty-fiveâupdatedâEnglishversions thathavebombedout.Theverseâdrewbloodâformorethanseventyyearsandtheâmilitantstandâof thesenewâdoublyseparated,uncompromisinghypocritesâdidnotseemtobeabletoprotectthemfromthestroke:theybled.Theybledlikeastuckhog.Alltheâgood,godly,etc.,âatBobJonesandLynchburg(plusanyothersfromanywhere)bandagetheirwoundsandthenaltertheversetotakethestingoutofit;theydonotwishforittowoundtheircompatriotsinthecominggenerationthewayitwoundedthem.
Wenowreprinttheremainingthreeversestogether:
âFor the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness andunrighteousnessofmen,whoholdthetruthinunrighteousnessâ(Rom.1:18).
âWho changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served thecreaturemorethantheCreator,whoisblessedforever.Amenâ(Rom.1:25).
âForwearenotasmany,whichcorruptthewordofGod:butasofsincerity,butasofGod,inthesightofGodspeakweinChristâ(2Cor.2:17).
Thistriumvirateofverses,withtheothercouple(fiveinall),areUNKNOWNtoanystudentor teacherwhohasreplacedanAuthorizedVersionwithaNKJV,ASV,RSV,NIV,NASV,NRSV,NWT,NEB,oranythingelse.
TheyhaveallbeenalteredineveryEnglishversionoftheâBibleâprintedsince1800.ThemoreâdoublyseparatedâtheâmilitantFundamentalistâisthedeeperthegashtheAVtoreinhisconscienceattheseplaces.
Thiswasdonewhileshouting,âWebelieveTHEBibleisthewordofGod.WebelieveintheabsoluteauthorityofTHEBIBLE!TheBibledoesnotcontainthewordofGoditIStheâWordâofGodâŠ!â
NowobservethatthreeitemswillneverenterintoanintelligentdiscussionoranalysisofthesefiveBibleversesasingletime.
1.ProfessionofbeliefinthebasicfundamentalsofFundamentalism.2.TheâstandâtakenfororagainstModernismorNeo-Evangelicalism.3. Standards of separation from the world or the âbrethrenâ according to ANY
standardsfoundinANYpassageofScriptureinANYBible.What any Fundamentalist like Wendell Mullen or Bob Jones III or Walvoord or
Cedarholmthoughtorbelievedaboutthesethree itemshadnoaffecton theirreaction tothefiveverses.Whenpresentedwiththem(exactlyastheystoodintheGod-honoredtextoftheProtestantReformationformorethan370years),theapostateALTERSALLFIVEVERSES. His profession of faith and his standards of separation never enter as adeterminingfactoronetime.Heis ledbyafarmorebasicandpowerfulspiritandheismotivated by a far baser and more powerful motive than such rinky-dinky things asâdoubleseparation,ââmilitantFundamentalism,ââNeo-andPseudo-Fundamentalistsâandotherkindergardensubjects.HerewearefacingfirefromanXambush.
Nowgobackandreadthefiveversesagain.Noticewheretheyareaimed.Followingthat great fundamental of all fundamentals, âAHITDOGALWAYSHOLLERSâ (SamJones,circa1880),letusseeifwecanfindinwhichdirectionthesesmoothstonesfromDavidâsslingaretraveling;hehadFIVEtosling.
1.SecondCorinthians2:17saysthatmanypeopleareengagedincorruptingthewordofGod;notâpeddlingitâormakingâmerchandiseâofit.
2. God is against these people because they âHOLD THE TRUTH INUNRIGHTEOUSNESS.â That is, they have it right in their hands, but they hold it in
unrighteousness.3.YoucanspotthembythefactthattheydesiretoâchangeTHETRUTHOFGOD
intoalie.â4.Theydothisforincomeastheylookatanincreaseinincome(usuallyaccompanied
byanincreaseinattendance,enrollment,bookroyalties,ordegrees)asaproofthat theyareGODLY(seethefirsttwoverses:1Tim.6:10and1Tim.6:5).
NowwouldYOUchangeanyofthosefiveversesastheystoodfor370years.Whywouldnâtyouchangethem?WhywouldANYONEwanttochangethemifyouwouldnâtwanttochangethem.Ifanymanâsheartwasright,wouldhewanttochangethem?WHY?(SeeâUnlearned
Ignorancevs.LearnedIgnorance.â)Arewerightbacktoheartmotivesagain?Howisitthateverytimewecometothis
business of really learning the Book we never run into Fundamentalism, Neo-Fundamentalism,Liberalism,Modernism, separation, Pseudo-Fundamentalism, speakingthe truth in love, light from recent archaeological discoveries, sharing Christ, Neo-Evangelicalism,orâgiftedteachersâ?
Instead, every time we run right âsmack dabâ into a sinnerâs heart motive fortamperingwiththewordsofGod.
Whowas the original corrupter? If you profess to be interested in the sources androotsofapostasy,thenwherediditstart?DidtheoriginalcorruptercorruptthewordofGod or did he âpeddle itâ and âmakemerchandiseâ out of it like theASV,NASV,RSV,NRSV,NIV,NKJV,NWT,NEBsays?
âNowtheserpentwasmoresubtilthananybeastofthefieldwhichtheLordGodhadmade.Andhesaiduntothewoman,Yea,hathGodsaid,Yeshallnoteatofeverytreeofthegarden?â(Gen.3:1).
Whatwastheretoâpeddleâorâmakemerchandiseâoutofhere?DidEvehaveapursefullofshekels?
Why, what Satan was interested in was questioning THE WORDS THAT GODSPOKE.
HasanyoneeverputaquestioninyourmindaboutthewordsthatGodspoke?WhocouldthisbeifheprofessedtobeaâmilitantFundamentalistâ?
Satan believes in all five basic âfundamentalsâwhich JackVan Impe quoted in hisbook onHeart Disease in the Body of Christ (1984) and all five that Bob Jones Jr.,preachedoninhispamphletontheBJUcreed(1980).SatanalsobelievesinfivemorethatbothFundamentalistsforgot:theeternalsecurityofthebeliever,theautonomyofthelocalchurch, the immersionof theadultbeliever inwater, theseparationofchurchandstate,
andtheBiblicalimperativetopreachtheGospeltoeverycreatureonearth.SatanisaFundamentalist;andthereisnothingâpseudoâabouthim.Yousee,whensomeonetriedtoconvinceyouthattheissueofLaodiceanChristianity
wasâFundamentalismâ(ofanybrand), theyhalfwaysucceededindestroyingyourbeliefin theBible.The issueneverwasâFundamentalism.âThatwasa termapplied to someInterdenominational groups between 1900 and 1940 to contrast them with religiousLiberals.(Sincethegovernmentwillgetcompletecontroloverbothgroupswithoutevenhalfaneffort,thereisnâtanypointinâgoingintoalongthing.âTheissuewas,andis,andshallbeFINALAUTHORITY.Itneverwasanythingelseonetimeinchurchhistory.)
Sometime,fordiversionâssake,callasideoneoftheseHebreworGreekscholarswhois always blabbing about âverbally inspired originalsâ and ask himwhy every EnglishtranslationonthemarketerasedtheNewTestamentreferencetoâmanyâbeingengagedinâcorrupting the word of Godâ (2 Cor. 2:17). If he insists that the many were justâpeddlingâ or making âmerchandiseâ out of it instead of corrupting it, it might beinterestingtohavehimshowyou,say,atleastFIVEscripturalcaseswherethiswasgoingonorhadevergoneon.âManyâsurelymeansatleastfivedocumentedcases.
SuchathingdoesnâtoccuronetimeoutsideofthereferencestothefalseprophetsinthelastdaysofJudahandIsrael,wherethepriestsandprophetshadalreadypervertedthewordsofGodandwere teachingacorruptwordofGod forhire. In everyoneof thesecases the charge was âYE HAVE PERVERTED THEWORDS OF THE LIVINGGODâ(Jer.23).YoucannotâpeddleâthepurewordofGoduntilyouhavecorruptedit,for you cannotmakemerchandise of it as it stands:no onewill âbuy it.â You have tocorrupt it (Jer. 23:16, 26, 32, 35;Ezek. 13:16â17; and 2Tim. 4:1â6, etc.). TheCretianâslowbelliesâ(Titus1)werenotâpeddlingâthewordofGod;theywereteachingâthingswhichtheyoughtnottoteachâforthesakeoffilthylucre(Titus1:11).
1.EvedidnotâpeddleâthewordsofGod;shecorruptedthem.2.SatandidnotâpeddleâGodâswords;hepervertedthem.3.PharaohdidnotpeddleGodâswords;hedisbelievedthem.4.Noahâsgenerationdidnotâmakemerchandiseâoftheword;theyridiculedit.5.Lotâssons-in-lawmadenoâmerchandiseâofGodâswords;theylaughedatthem.6.SauldidnâtpeddlethewordofGod;hedisobeyed7.BalaamdidnâtpeddlethewordsofGod;hepreachedthemwithoutbelievingthem
becauseheCOULDNâTpeddleaperversionofthem.8.JoashdidnâtpeddleGodâswords;hejustdidnâttakethemseriouslyenough:neither
didSimonPeter.9. The prophets of Jezebel in 1 Kings never wasted five minutes âmaking
merchandiseâofGodâswords;theydidnâtevenpreachGodâswordsorGodâsword.10.BarJesus(Acts13)peddlednothingthatevenresembledthewordofGod.11.SimontheSorcererdesiredtopeddletheHolySpirit(Acts8),notthewordofGod.
Whereareallof theseâmanypeddlersâ if thewordâpeddleâ is therightwordfor2Corinthians2:17?
Makemerchandise? Why, Godâs God-called preachers are called to make a livingpreachingthewordofGod:
âEvensohaththeLordordainedthattheywhichpreachthegospelshouldliveofthegospelâ(1Cor.9:14).
âIthathpleasedthemverily;andtheirdebtorstheyare.ForiftheGentileshavebeenmadepartakersoftheirspiritualthings,theirdutyisalsotoministeruntothemincarnalthingsâ(Rom.15:27).
Someonenotonlyhastheirâwirescrossedâ(alteringâcorruptâtoâpeddleâ),buttheyareusingdentalflossinsteadofwire.
WhoarethepeoplereferredtointheASV,NKJV,RSV,NIV,NRSV,andNASV?Why,theyaregremlinsandleprechauns,didnâtyouknow?Theydonâtexist.Theyneverexistedanywhereexceptintheimaginationofasinnerwhowasengaged
inCORRUPTINGTHEWORDSOFGODANDCHANGINGTHE TRUTHOFGODINTOALIETOGETGAIN(seeAV,anyedition,Rom.1:18,25;2Cor.2:17;and1Tim.6:5,10).
The only âpeddlingâ would be by the peddlers of a corrupt Bible after it waspublished; theonlyâmakingmerchandiseâ involvedwouldbeusingacorruptBibleandrecommendingit toothers.TheHolySpirit,speakingthroughtheScriptures,comparingScripturewithScripture,tellsusthatwhensomeoneâMAKESMERCHANDISEâofthechildofGod(2Pet.2:3),theydoitwithâfeignedwordsâ(notthewordofGod)andtheirmotiveisCOVETOUSNESS(2Pet.2:3).
NooneâpeddledâtherealWORDofGod: theygotridoftheWORDofGod (Rom.1:18,25).
NowyoucouldnâtfindthetruthofthesemattersunlessyoubelievedtheEnglishAVtext, for the five verses we have discussed here are not found in any other Englishtranslation nomatterwho translated it, what they professed,what their reputationwas,whotaughtthem,whorecommendedthem,orwhopublishedorsoldtheircorruption.
Theonlyplacethatâpeddlingâcouldenterwouldbeaplacelike:
âAnd thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth thewise, andperverteth thewordsoftherighteousâ(Exod.23:8).
ButobservehowallofthemodernapostateFundamentalistshavecoveredtheirtracksbymaking you think that somethingwas being âpeddledâ that wasGENUINE. To thecontrary,themotivebehindtheCORRUPTINGofthewordwastheincome(1Tim.6:10).Nothingpurewas sold; something purewas corruptedso it could sell. Do you see thedifference?
When Job speaksofhis ability to âdiscernperverse thingsâ (Job6:30)he is talkingaboutthewordsthatmenuse(seeJob6:25â26).âRightwordsareforcibleâaccordingtoJob (Job 6:25), so the old black-backed, 66-caliber AV from 1611 forces the modernFundamentalisttoalibi,gyrate,lie,misrepresent,backtrack,andrationalizetocoveruphissins.Thetroubleishearttrouble.TheâmanyâwhoâCORRUPTâthewordofGodtoday(2Cor.2:17)havethesametroubletheirkinfolkhadinPaulâsday(1Tim.6:10).
NowletustakeonelastlookatourâUnknownBibleâandseehowthesemengotintotheconditiontheygotinto,wheretheyhadtocorruptthetruthinordertocoveruptheircarnalmotives.
âAnd if theprophetbedeceivedwhenhehath spokena thing, I theLordhavedeceivedthatprophet,andIwillstretchoutmyhanduponhim,andwilldestroyhimfromthemidstofmypeopleIsraelâ(Ezek.14:9).
âAndforthiscauseGodshallsendthemstrongdelusion,thattheyshouldbelievealie:â(2Thess.2:11).
âThenGodsentanevilspiritbetweenAbimelechandthemenofShechem;andthemenofShechemdealttreacherouslywithAbimelech:â(Judg.9:23).
âNowtherefore,behold,theLordhathputalyingspiritinthemouthofallthesethyprophets,andtheLordhathspokenevilconcerningtheeâ(1Kings22:23).
TheversesareunknowntonearlyeverypsychiatristandcollegeprofessorinAmerica,andEurope,andtheywouldnâtbelieveONEoftheversesif theyreadit.TheversesareneverdiscussedinanyseriesofmeetingsbyanyrevisionboardsoccupiedintranslatingANYportionofanyversion.
1.TheversesstatethatGodAlmightyistheauthoroffalsehoodwheremenpickitupandbelieveit.
2.TheversesstatethatGodwillallowmentobelieveliesforthepurposeofdamning
them. (The New Scofield Reference Bible says on page 774 that âGOD NEVERDECEIVESHISPEOPLE.âTheNewScofieldBoardofEditorswasdeceivedwhentheyrecordedthatfalsehood.)
3.TheversesstatethatGodgivesuncleanspiritspermissiontocarryoutthisworkoffalsehoodanddeception.
4.Theversesstatethatamanâsbeliefdependsuponhisheartattitude:andGodknowstheheartattitude(1Chron.28:9).
5.Theversesstate thatnomancan find the truthwhodoesnâtwant the truth(Prov.2:3â5,John3:16â19).
6.Theversesshowthatnoamountoflearningwillenableanysinnertofindthetruth(2Tim.3:7)ifhehasanidolorâstumblingblockâsetupinhisheartwhileheisseekingthetruth.
7.âTHELOVEOFMONEY ISTHEROOTOFALLEVILâ (the verse is notfoundinonesingleEnglishBibleintheworldprintedsince1800);soiftheâgood,godly,dedicated, separated,etc.,âwhobelieves in theâplenary,verbal inspirationof the,etc.,âlovesmoney,hecannotfindthetruthnomatterwhathiseducationalqualificationsare,nomatter what his IQ is, nomatter whatmaterial he has access to, nomatter howmanylanguages he hasmastered, nomatterwhat his profession of faith is, or nomatter howâgodlyâhisâseparatedâlifeis.
Anidolatorisanidolator.Cases in point are 500,000 Conservative theologians, preachers, teachers, scholars,
linguists, translators, revisors, and exegetes from A.D. 200 to 1990. No Mormon,JehovahâsWitness,SeventhDayAdventist,Buddhist,RomanCatholic,ChurchofChrist,orMohammedan could FINDTHETRUTH IFHE SEARCHEDFOR IT IFHEHADANYOTHERMOTIVEINMINDTHANFINDINGTHETRUTH.
The idols in the hearts of the educated Christians (who, incidentally, are alwaysdisturbedaboutâBibliolatryâorâscribalChristiansâ)arerevealedimmediatelywhentheyattempttoâclarifyâ1Timothy6:5,10,20,ortoâupdatethearchaicElizabethanEnglishâof 2 Corinthians 2:17 in the âlanguage of todayâ so that poor, ignorant âlaymenâ canâbetterunderstandthewordofGod,etc.âTheseidolatorsarepreventedbytheHolySpiritfromunderstandingthesimplestBiblicaltruthsintheBible.Forexample:
1.ThesourceofallSINwasPRIDE(Ezek.28;Isa.14).(NotethePASTTENSE.)2.Thefirstsincommittedonthisearthwascommittedbyawomaninrelationtothe
wordsthatGodspoke(Gen.3).(NotethePASTTENSE.)3. This sin had nothing to do with anyone believing or not believing in ANY
âfundamentalsofthefaith.âIthadtodowithwhatGodSAID(Gen.3).(NotethePASTTENSE.)
4.Thepresent root of âall evilâ (note thePRESENTTENSE) isâTHELOVEOFMONEY.â It is not pride, nor is it âpeddling theword ofGod.â It is theâLOVEOFMONEYâwhichcausesmentopervertandcorruptwhatGodSAID.
Paul, in theNewTestament( ITim.6), is talkingabout thepresentworldsystem inwhichhelived; this is theworldsystemthatwillbeherein theâLASTDAYSâ(2Tim.3:1),ifwearetobelievewhathewroteintheEpistlestoTimothy.Heisnottalkingaboutthe theological source of sin before Genesis, chapter 1, nor is he expounding on theearthlymanifestationsof sin inGenesis, chapter3.He is talkingabout theâLOVEOFMONEYâ which lies behind the Mafia, the CFR, the Federal Reserve Bank, theBilderbergers, theIlluminati, theHouseofRothschild, thedrugtraffic, theliquortraffic,the traffic in pornography, commercial advertising, fascism, communism, socialism,capitalism, thenewmedia,allstrikesanddemonstrations, theHRS, theNEA,RockandRollmusic,allTVprograms,allecumenicalovertures,theNAACP,theVaticanhierarchy,all newer English âtranslationsâ of the Bible, power, politics, divorce and separationproceedings,willsandinheritances,andninety-ninepercentofalleconomicandbusinesstransactionsanywhereintheworld.
So1Timothy6:10hasdisappearedoutofeveryEnglishBibleintheworldexceptone.Yougetoneguessastowhichonethatâoneâis.
NowhowdoesGodfeelabout thesevilesinnerswhocorruptHiswords inorder tocover up their own sins that have to do with the love of money? You never saw itdiscussedinanyâprefaceâthatâgodlyâmenwrotetotheirnewandâclearerâversions.
âAnditshallcometopass,thatastheLordrejoicedoveryoutodoyougood,andtomultiplyyou;sotheLordwillrejoiceoveryoutodestroyyou,andtobringyoutonought;andyeshallbepluckedfromoffthe landwhitherthougoesttopossess itâ(Deut.28:63).
âIalsowill laughatyourcalamity; Iwillmockwhenyour fearcometh:â (Prov.1:26).
âHethatsittethintheheavensshalllaugh:theLordshallhavetheminderisionâ(Psa.2:4).
âSeenowthatI,evenI,amhe,andthere isnogodwithme:Ikill,andImakealive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out ofmy handâ(Deut.32:33).
Godwill rejoice todestroysinners; thatâswhat thepassagesaid(Deut.28:63).THEâSINNERSâINTHATPASSAGEAREHISOWNCHOSENPEOPLE.
HowdoyousupposethatarealBiblebeliever(notsomefakirlikeTrumanDollarorBobJonesIII)wouldreacttosuchananti-humanitarianblastfromtheOnewhocreated
humanbeings?Wouldhenotâtakeheed tohiswaysâandâlookwell tohisgoingâandmakesurethatheâtrembledatthewordsoftheMostHighâ?(SeeIsa.66:2forthecorrectChristianresponse.)
Well,howdothesemodernFundamentalistâgiantsofthefaithâreacttosuchwords?DotheyreactasgoodKingJosiahdidin2Chronicles34:27?Itrownot!
Themodernâgiantofthefaithâ(whoboldlyproclaimsfaithintheâplenary,verballyinspired, inerrant, original autographsâ) simply alters Godâswords and perverts Godâswordsandbringsthemintolinewithhisowndepravedidols.
1.TheysaythatGodwillNOTrevealHiswrath toamanwhoâholdsthetruth inunrighteousnessâ (Rom. 1:18), but will only reveal it to an unsaved man whoâsuppressesâorâholdsdownâthetruth.
2.Theydeclare thatGodwillNOT revealHiswrath to a revisorwhoâchanges thetruthofGodintoaLIEâ(Rom.1:25),butonlytoamanwhochangesthetruthâABOUTâGodintoalie.
3.TheyclaimthattheâloveofmoneyâisNOTâtherootofallevilâ(1Tim.6:10),butonlyâAROOTofallkindsofevil.â
4.TheybelievethatitisperfectlyallrightforanyChristiantomistakematerialgainforâgodlinessâ(1Tim.6:5)aslongashedoesnâttrytoâgetgainbybeinggodly.â(ThewholethingremindsusofJer.23:17,doesnâtit?)
5.They avowand swear (publicly andopenly) before thepagangodsofLaodiceanChristianeducationthatitisperfectlyallrightforaChristianteachertodevotehislifetocorrupting the word of God (2 Cor. 2:17) as long as he doesnât âpeddle itâ or âmakemerchandiseâoutofit.
These poor, depraved âFundamentalistsâ are not godly; they are not âseparated.âTHEYARECARNALANDWORLDLY.Theyarenotevenstudentsof theHolyBible(see Epilogue), let alone Bible âscholars.âWhatwe have here is nothing but arrogant,ignorant,two-facedequivocatorswhodesiretotearthewordsofGodoutofyourmouthanderasethewordsoftruthfromyourmemorybysidetrackingyoutoâthefundamentalsof the faith.âTheymaynotbebornofâtheir father theDevilâ (John8)as theirkinfolkwere(John8:40â44),but,toallpracticalpurposes,theseBible-perverting,Bible-warping,Bible-corruptingscampsareinleaguewiththeonewhosaidtoEve,âYEAHATHGODSAID?â
TothemthegreatfoundationtruthsoftheHolyScripturethatdealwithhonestyandintegrityarecompletelyunknown.TheseScriptureversesaretheonesthatdealwith:
1.Findingthetruth.2.Understandingthetruth.3.Believingthetruth.4.Preservingthetruth.In regards towhat theScriptures say about these four basic foundational teachings
(that deal with Biblical learning), these Conservative and Fundamentalist Hebrew and
Greekscholarsarecompletelyinthedark;theyconstitutewhatwouldproperlybecalledâTHE FUNDAMENTALIST CONGRESS FOR THE PREVENTION OF LEARNINGTHEWORDOFGOD.â
Youmaydispensewiththemwithoutblinkinganeye.
Epilogue
I have written to him the great things ofmy law, but they were counted as astrangething.(Hosea8:12)
Here isapartial listofwhat theentirebodyofâqualifiedauthoritiesâ (EvangelicalsandConservativeforemost)missedwhentheyturnedoffthe50,000wattsearchlightoftheHolyBibleandlitthebirthdaycakecandleofHebrewandGreekscholarship.Thesearethe Bible revelations they missed when they all decided to âuseâ the Bible instead ofbelieving it. This is some of the material they overlooked when they âbuilt theirministriesâsotheycouldcontrolGodâsBookandgetcontroloverthemindsofthosewhostarted to believe it. In their haste tomake a living (1Tim. 6:10) and prove theywerespiritualâgiantsâ(1Tim.6:5),theyblottedoutthelightfromheaven(Psa.119:130;2Pet.1:19) and alibied their sinfulwickedness by talking about âour need for respecting theconsidered opinions of good menwho differâ or âour need for being true to historicpositionsand not going off on a hobbyhorseâ or âgoing to the originals to find out themindofGodasHeintendedforustounderstandHisâwordâorâlovingthebrethrenwhodisagreewith us, and contending in a spirit of love to settle differences in a scholarlyfashion.â
CHEAP,TWO-BITPUNKSHAVEALWAYSFOUNDAWAYTOâPUTITOVER.âWhile they were putting out this pious party line, they covered up the following
Biblicaltruthswiththeirdirty,defiled,unbelieving,muddiedfeet.1. Angels as thirty-three year old males without wings; and all women in the
CHURCHAGEreceiving thirty-threeyearoldmalebodiesat theRapture. (StudyRom.8:29;Phil.3:21;1 John3:1â2;1Cor.15;Gen.19â20;Matt.24;Rev.21;Heb.13:1â4;Matt.20â22;Judg.13;andthefourPassoversofJohnâsGospel.)
2.FaithandworksastheplanofsalvationforTribulationsaintswithWORKSaloneintheMillennium.(StudyMatt.24â25;Rev.12,14,22;Heb.4,6,10;Zech.13;Matt.5â7.)
3.ThespiritualcircumcisionofthebelieverâsSOUL,literallycutloosefromtheinsideofhisfleshybodyatthetimeofhisnewbirth.(StudyCol.2;Rom.7;Gen.20;Lev.20,22;Num.31.)
4.Demonsaswingedcreaturesranginginsizefromthoseoffliesandmosquitoestoeaglesandvultures.(StudyLev.11;Gen.8;Mark3;Matt.13;Ecc.10;Isa.34;Rev.18;Matt.12.)
5.TherouteoftheSecondAdventofJesusChristBEFOREHelandsontheMountofOlivesorevengetstoit.(StudyZech.14;Hab.3;Deut.33;Judg.5;Amos1â4;Joel2;Num.19â21.)
6.Theshapeoftheuniverseanditsthreecompartments.(StudyHeb.8â11;Gen.1,6;Heb.12;Rev.14;Job26,38;Psa.33;Isa.14;Eph.3.)
7.ThemissingCherubandwhyhisnumberisFIVE.(StudyEzek.1,10;Rev.4;Ezek.28;Gen.6â8;Gen.3.)
8.Cannibalismandbestialityas part of Christian âworshipâ during the Tribulation.(StudyPsa. 16;Deut.32; Isa. 6;Rev. 2â3, 6, 20;Lev. 20â22;Rev. 9;Gen. 6; 1Chron.18:4.)
9.The coming to Jerusalem, the retreat, and the returnof theAntichrist during theTribulation. (Study Saulâs tactics after David, Sennacheribâs tactics on Jerusalem, andNebuchadnezzarâstacticsonJerusalemandDan.11.)
10. The identification of themark of the Beastwith the disease of the Tribulation,whichwill beLEPROSY. (See Jude,2Pet. 2;Eph.5; 1Pet. 1;Lev.13â14;Rev.13;2Kings4;Jer.13,17;andDeut.32.)
11.ThetwowitnessesintheTribulation.(See2Kings2;Num.15â17;1Kings17â18;Exod.33,34;Deut.32â34;Zech.4;andExod.4â10.)
12.TheBiblicalteachingonwhatconstitutestheessenceofamarriageinGodâssight.(SeeJohn2;Matt.22;Eph.5;1Cor.6;Matt.19;Deut.24;Rom.7;John4;andGen.2.)
13.Thefinalshapeof thesoul foranunsavedman. (SeeJohn3;Num.21;Psa.22;Job25;Mark9;2Cor.5;Col.2.)
14.ThesixquestionsthatwillbeaskedattheJudgmentSeatofChrist.(SeeJob26;Matt.12:37;Mark8:38;Prov.18:21;etc.)
In all of these Biblical matters âRuckmanismâ was never a factor and âRuckmanâneverenteredtheequationonetime.Theleadingapostatesofthiscentury(menwhowerenotapostateswhenthecenturybegan)whoinventedthesetwoterms(whichhavenothingto do with one Biblical issue on the face of this earth) did it to keep their students,followers and church members in ignorance of the word of God. They couldnâtunderstand theBibleso theycalled the truthâheresy.âTheycouldnâtcontrol thosewhofoundoutthetruthandbelieveditsotheycalledthemaâcult.âThesemenandmenlikethem (TrumanDollar, JohnR.Rice,WendellMullen,RodneyBell,Bob Jones Jr.,TomWallace,FredAfman,DaytonHobbs,HaroldWillmington,ArlinHorton,BobJonesIII,Hindson,Dobson, JamesPrice, Farstad, StewartCuster,TomMalone,DonaldWaite, etal.)aregenuineapostates,fortheymeeteveryqualificationforthattitle:
1.Theyusewhattheydonotreallybelieve(theAVHolyBible).2.Theycondemnthosewhobelieveitbecausetheycannotcontrolthem.3.Theycallany teaching from theBible that theydonotunderstand a âHERESY.â
(BobJonesJr.,wassostupid thatheclaimedthat itwasheresyto teachany translationwasinspired,forgettingthattheNewTestamentcontainsmorethanfiftyTRANSLATIONSofOldTestamentHebrewpassages!)
4.TheyattacktheBiblebelieverswhomtheycannotcontrol.5.Andfinally,theyprofesstobelieveinsomething(regardingFINALAUTHORITY)
whichtheydoNOTbelieve.The apostates in the NCC (unsaved Liberals) and the apostates among the Neo-
Evangelicals(backsliddenChristians)werealreadyâapostateâbefore1920(theNCC)and1940(theNeo-Evangelicals).TheseapostateFundamentalistsareLEADERSbothtothepresent wave of apostasy (1970â1990) and also to the next wave of apostasy that willfinishAmericaoff.
May theyrest inpeace;Biblical truthwillnotwait for themoranyone like themtorepentorrecoverthemselvesfromtheirself-inflictedignoranceoftheâUnknownBible.â
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