Hearing by The WORD

Over four hundred years ago God chose the English nation for a special purpose. It began with England’s defeat of The Spanish Armada in 1588. It is a year to remember in history. For in that year there was set into motion the ascendancy, and the eventual domination of the English language as the language of the end times. The English language became the universal language of the world. Four hundred years later, the inhabitants of the earth have entered into the 21st century, and the English language is still the universal language of the world.

In the book of Hebrews in chapter one we learn from God the Father that it was God the Son who "laid the foundation of the earth" and is the one "upholding all things by the word of his power." Note this “word of his power”.

In the Gospel of John in chapter one we see that Jesus Christ is the Word. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” In the book of Hebrews in chapter four we see the Scripture is “the word of God.” “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and the intents of the hearts.” You cannot divide the two. The Word, big “W”, (Jesus Christ), and the word, the little “w” are inseparably linked.

Following is a (repeated) list of the early printed Bibles. These Bibles represent instances of translation into the English tongue before the eighteenth century. Examine this list, and a peculiar thing will become evident.

The Tyndale Bible, 1534
Coverdale Bible, 1535
Matthews Bible, 1537
The Great Bible, 1539
The Geneva Bible, 1560
The Bishops’ Bible, 1568
The Authorized Version of the Bible, 1611

The Authorized Version of the Bible, 1611, is the seventh translation of the Bible into the English language! That BOOK is tried! "The word of the Lord is tried" (Ps. 18:30). It is pure! "The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times" (Ps. 12:6). Seven is the number of completion. God’s word in the English language is preserved in the Authorized Version of the Bible of 1611 (commonly called the King James Bible). The Authorized Version of the Bible, 1611, or in any of its editions: 1613, 1644 (Amsterdam), 1676 (Cambridge), 1680, 1701, 1769, (Oxford) is Gods BOOK. God has preserved his Scripture in spite of men.

“The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.”

(Ps.12: 6-7) Amen!

The Devil's Plan

The Devil: The Planter Of Doubt

"Satan has a goal. He wants to maximize as much uncertainty as possible as to just what God has said to man. “And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, …” [Genesis 3:1b]. He wants to undermine your faith by planting doubt in your heart about the Bible that is in your very hands being the perfect word of God."

The Devil: The Deceiver

"He wants to use clever stratagem in talking you out of your faith in the Book, by USING the Book, yea, even QUOTING the Book itself with the smooth logic of a FOX. In the wilderness Jesus was tempted by the Devil in a piously deceptive self-serving manner.

“And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread.” “And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it. If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.” “And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on a pinnacle of the temple, and said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down from hence: For it is written, He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee: And in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.” [Luke 4:3,6-7,9-11]

The Devil: The Liar And The Murderer

Satan is a LIAR, and a MURDERER, because Jesus Christ himself “named” him one. John 8:44 “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.”

The Devil: The Rebel

"For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the cloud: I will be like the most High." Then the LORD GOD of the Bible returns the volley with a tremendous declaration "Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit." This was the beginning of the end for the Devil. His destination is fixed!

The Devil: Has A Goal!!!

The Devil in his anger deceives, blinds and fools the mass of humanity into believing a lie. He wants mankind to go with him into the Lake of Fire prepared at the time of "the Great White Throne Judgment." In 2 Corinthians 4:3,4, the Holy Ghost reveals this satanic work in the minds of men. "But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them." He does not want you to believe this old BOOK, the AV 1611 (Authorized Version of 1611) or any revision thereof. He wants to mess with the Book. He wants to nullify it with his own subtle "corrupt" versions of the Bible. The Apostle Paul warns us in 2 Corinthians 2:17 that there are those "which corrupt the word of God". They will do anything to keep the true written revelation of God from working in the human heart. They will do anything that would dull and make murky the deity of Jesus Christ (that He is the Son of God) or sully the propounding of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The corruption of God’s BIBLE is of great interest to Satan [1 Corinthians 15:1-4]. This corruption of God's Holy Bible has been something that has been ongoing for centuries. We should be aware of this. "Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices." [2 Corinthians 2:11] This corruption of the "written word" of God has been a long battle and has been going on ever since the Devil went up to Eve to deceive her as to what God had said. "And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?" A little play on the words here and there, and a distortion can be made as to what GOD has said. The intent is to deceive ...and to lie...and to fool...in a ploy that has been repeated untold times in order to bring Satan his joy of luring men, women, and children to their tragic ends, promised to those who reject the truth of the Bible. Read Matthew 4:1-11 for the account of "the master deceiver's" attempt to even distort the Scripture of GOD in his wilderness confrontation with Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Listen friend, how many times has the penknife of Jehudi been utilized in the last several thousand years in an effort to get rid of God's words? Jeremiah 36:23,24 "And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was in the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth."

The Devil: The Employer Of Dupes

Look what happens next! Get rid of God's word and the heart of man is brazened in the boldness of unbelief and pride. "Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words." Since 1881, for a little over a hundred years, Satan has employed an army of his dupes to translate from corrupt Greek texts into the English language over 200 translations of the Bible. The effect has been to bring disaster to England and America by bringing in religious apostasy. One of the members of the Lockman Foundation translation committee, Dr. Frank Logsdon, made a confession renouncing his association with the corrupt NASV translation.

The Trojan Horse

It begins with the schools. History shows that the Bible schools end up as the Bible corruption centers after the years roll by. There is one sure thing we can learn from history … and that is, men do not seem to ever learn from history. Does anyone remember why Harvard, Yale, and Princeton were founded? They were founded as Bible schools. One peculiar thing needs to be noted. The only mention of the word school in the Bible is in Acts 19:9. “But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.” “Disputing daily” is the order of business among the conflicting authorities in the Bible schools. They have no absolute authority!

In my hands I am holding a copy of “Faith For The Family”, September, 1984. On the back of this publication it reads like this: “Don’t Play Blindman’s bluff with your education. Choose your Christian College with yours eyes open. This institution doesn’t hide the truth from you. It doesn’t fool you with public relations claims, which claims will vanish upon your arrival on campus. If hypocritical Christianity and unfulfilled promises are not for you, Bob Jones University is. We’re for real. Come and see.” “Worlds’ Most Unusual University” “Stands without apology for the “old-time religion” and absolute authority of the Bible.” I will provide you an illustration of the effect of the underground work by way of a Trojan Horse in a major Christian university’s Bible department in the 1960’s.

The following is quoted from a position paper of this university.
“Position Of The Bible Department Of Bob Jones University On The Scripture” Marshall Neal, Dean, School Of Religion, Stewart Custer, Chairman, Department Of Bible. “Because we believe in the inspiration of the original” (They are setting us up! Watch it!) “manuscripts of the Old and New Testament, it is important that we have a Greek Testament that will be as close to the readings of the original as possible. Through the carelessness of scribes who copied manuscripts, many varying readings have crept into them. But God in His providence has preserved for us the original reading through the large number of manuscripts in existence that witness to the text of the New Testament.” (The original manuscripts are gone. They are saying that no one manuscript is without error, and that therefore, we need the scholars to arbitrate among the many manuscripts to ascertain the proper text). “Today there are two Greek texts available." (This line of reasoning produces two opposing authorities. This will require a higher authority … the SCHOLARS … to determine the correct text.) “One is the Received Text, edited by a Roman Catholic scholar, Erasmus, in the sixteenth century and based on manuscripts of the late Middle Ages.” (Note; they are not honest here. Erasmus was only a nominal Roman Catholic, … and Westcott and Hort were both ardently and secretly in heart Roman Catholic.) “It is often called the Byzantine or the majority text. The other is the Greek Testament, edited by Westcott and Hort in the nineteenth century and based upon manuscripts of the fourth century usually called the Alexandrian text. The King James version was based upon the Received Text; the American Standard Version was based upon the text of Westcott and Hort. We do not believe that either of these texts are “liberal” or “conservative.” Not only Erasmus, but also Westcott and Hort were seeking to present a close copy of the original text. We are interested in which one is closer to the original text of the New Testament.” (They are clearly stating here for all to see that BJU has no Bible that is the inspired word of God. They say there is no BOOK that God has on this earth that is perfect without error.)

“Position Of The Bible Department Of Bob Jones University On The Scripture” (continued)
“Because (1) the Alexandrian manuscripts are much older and closer to the time the originals were written, (2) a careful comparison of these manuscripts with those of the Middle Ages has convinced us that a more accurate and careful job of copying was done by the Alexandrian scribes,” (The Alexandrian manuscripts, and their scribes, are the source of the greatest perversions and corruptions to the extant manuscripts.)“and (3) Erasmus had to work in haste and with limited resources,” (He had in fact, access to the same manuscript representatives as Westcott and Hort, but chose to not use them.) “it is our conviction that these Alexandrian manuscripts, which were not known to Erasmus, are as a rule the more accurate manuscripts to follow.” (They are the most error filled.) “Therefore, along with the great majority of conservative scholars, we believe that the text of Westcott and Hort, based upon these Alexandrian manuscripts, is as a whole superior to the text based upon manuscripts of the Middle Ages.” "(It is, however, the systematic depravitation of the underlying Greek which does so grievously offend me: for this nothing else but a poisoning of the River of Life at its sacred source." The Revision Revised, John Burgon, 1883, page vi)

“The portion of the New Testament which has any substantial variation between the various manuscripts is only about one word in a thousand.” (Note the word “substantial variation”, this is the talk of a humanist). “These variations in no way change the teaching of the New Testament on any doctrine.” (These variations attack the deity of Christ!) “Therefore, we consider this not an issue of modernism versus conservatism but a matter of individual judgment on the part of fundamental Christians.” (Someone has rolled a TROJAN HORSE in here. Someone wants to take your faith in the Bible away from you. Some one wants to murder you … and just sap all the spiritual strength out of you!) “Christians should be free to choose and use either of these texts and still work together in harmony to teach and preach the Word of God to those who are without it."

Thus ends the statement of Bob Jones University on the Bible. This is a Trojan Horse! The huge, hollow, wooden horse was fabricated to have this appearance of being a logical scholarly statement of the position of “Worlds’ Most Unusual University”, that “Stands without apology for the “old-time religion” and “absolute authority of the Bible.” What appears on the outside … is totally different than what is on the inside. A seemingly innocent gift of an education that is built on maximizing uncertainty in what God said is bent on destroying your childlike faith in the old black BOOK and leaving you spiritually “withered.” This is the undercover action from your enemy ... The Devil himself. It is done by stratagem (or deception), and it works so well in the schools because it plays on the bigness of man’s pride. The Educators will leave behind this Trojan Horse, and they will proceed to just sail away. The student is deceived into believing it was a gift from the scholars, and will roll it into his heart. Little does he know. For after night fall … and in just a little span of time … from within the TROJAN HORSE, the ENEMIES troops will kill his faith in the BOOK of GOD, and open his mind’s heart to the ENEMY of UNBELIEF. “But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness? And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.” (Hebrews 3:17-19) “For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.” (Hebrews 4:2)

The Necessity Of Faith!

“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.” (Hebrews 11:1,6)

With these declarations from the OLD BLACK BOOK, then it is for us to BELIEVE God at his word. We need to … accept as little children … that God has inspired not only some missing original autographs but that he has MAINTAINED his inspired word down through the centuries of time in spite of sinful men who sit in the high places as the scholars and as the educators. With over 200 translations of Bible having been made since 1881, The Devil sure has caused a lot of confusion, nevertheless, THE BIBLE still remains for us to trust and obey. The Apostle Paul had cause to be thankful over the Thessalonian believers.

“For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.” (I Thessalonians 2:13)

“So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” (Romans 10:17)

THOU STANDEST BY FAITH IN THE WORD OF GOD!

“Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.” (John 17:17)

“And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (John 8:32)

This BOOK … The AV1611 Bible … in any of its editions … is the word of God!

“The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.”

(Ps.12: 6-7)
Amen!