Right on, so where you guys are in Revelation chapter 22, this is the very last chapter
of the whole Bible.
The Bible is composed of 66 books, 39 in the Old Testament and 27 in the New Testament.
From Genesis to Revelation, the Old Testament from Genesis to Malachi, and the New Testament
is Matthew to Revelation.
And the very last thought found in the book of Revelation, notice the proof text where
I want us to go to have the title of my message is found right here.
Notice what it says in verse 18,
For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, if
any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written
in this book.
And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take
away his part out of the book of life and out of the holy city and from the things which
are written in this book.
The title of this message this morning simply is, Why the King James?
Here at this ministry, here today, this morning, we believe and teach what is known as King
James only.
Now, a lot of people, this is a controversy amongst Christian circles and subjects and
it doesn't need to be or shouldn't be.
And the reason that we are King James only is because we believe in the preservation
of God's word.
We've always heard different churches and statement of faith amongst different denominations
say we believe in the inerrant, inspired word of God.
But a lot of times they won't claim in the preservation of God's word.
To preserve something means to keep it pure all the way through.
And if something is inspired of God, that just means that God has said.
Think about, you know, to be like inspired is to say God has said.
Inerrant means without error because God is perfect and preserved means that it is the
same as Jesus says yesterday, today and forever.
I am the beginning and the end.
As it says in John one, in the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the
word was God and the word became flesh and dwelled among us and we beheld his glory.
The glory is of the only begotten of the father, full of grace and truth.
Now today there are a lot of English speaking Bible, English language Bibles in our 2020
America.
Now, here's the thing.
We're going to learn why and what it is that is wrong with these modern translations.
Modern translations have a lot of problems with them and the two emphasis is that we're
going to point out as number one, they're using a different underlying Greek manuscript
and then number two, it is done by poor scholarship.
So there are two problems with these newer translations of the Bible and understand this
in our English today, we have over 5,000 different types of Bible.
Now let me ask you this, if God wants us to know what it is he said, whenever a man of
God comes behind a pulpit or preaches on the words of God and says, thus saith the Lord,
there cannot be a discrepancy, there cannot be an error, there cannot be a misunderstanding
of what those words are and in our English today, we know that the King James Bible is
the perfect preserved inerrant Bible.
It is what God has said, whether that be in Greek, whether that be in Hebrew, God can
convey his message in any language in the world and in our English, we believe that
the King James is, that's it.
There doesn't need to be a bettering of our English.
Why?
Because everything that the Bible teaches, some people will say that the King James Bible
is old English because it says thee and thou and thine and all these things, but rather
if you actually do your research, the King James Bible and the English translations leading
up to it are known as modern English.
We today speak what's known as a contemporary English which is, if you notice you go to
Europe and England and stuff like that, they have a little bit more sophisticated English
which is closer to the King's English or what's known as Elizabethan English and we kind of
laugh at their understanding of how things are phrased, but nevertheless, they're actually
closer to a more accurate English.
It's not that we're inaccurate as contemporary English speakers, it's just that these words
are not old or archaic or obsolete in any way, shape or form.
These are actually modern English terms that we and you and anyone can understand if they
believe, number one, the word of God and only by believing can we completely understand
it.
Now is there hard statements and phrases and words in the King James?
Of course.
I'm not going to sit there and sugar coat, but the thing is we are being dumbed down
as a people.
We need to gain more sophistication.
The world today is becoming less and less educated and let alone their own language,
but on the concept of scholarship and like I said, we're going to go into the reasonings
of why we believe that the King James is perfect.
Now let me ask anyone here, does anyone speak Hebrew here?
Does anyone speak Greek here?
So if anyone ever comes to you and tells you that, let me tell you what the Greek says,
you need to go back to the Hebrew to understand truly what God has meant, then you don't understand
the concept of preservation or inerrancy.
God has created our English.
God has created Hebrew.
Why is the Old Testament in Hebrew, but the New Testament is Greek?
Because the same message is being conveyed in multiple language.
We understand that God has designed, or in the story of the Tower of Babel, all the people
who have one language at that moment in time, then God decided to confound their languages
because he told them to go into the rest of the world and populate the world, but because
they tried to come together under one language and under one system, God says, this is wrong.
I'm going to create multiple languages in the Tower of Babel, and then they spread apart.
So God obviously transcends language, and this is what it means to have the word of
God, because with that being said, I too much today get, when I go soul winning or preaching
the gospel, and I have someone hit me at the door saying, well, you know, actually in the
original Greek, it says this, I just simply ask them, you know, and every time they give
you the dumbfounded look, like what?
And all I simply ask is, do you speak Greek?
The most simplest phrase that can be taught in any language, if I were to go up to someone
and say, that's the same exact statement, what if I said, all I'm saying is, do you
speak that language?
So when you go up to someone who tries to claim that Greek is how we are to understand
clearly, ask them simply, do you speak Greek?
And 99% of the times, they're all going to give you that dumbfounded look of, wait, what?
What'd you just say?
Because they don't know Greek.
And not only do they not know Greek, do you, let me just get into the rest of the subject.
I'll show you what I mean.
So number one, we got to understand that there has been an attack on the word of God all
the way from the beginning.
The very first time we see Satan revealed in Genesis chapter three, what is the first
words out of the snake's, the serpent's mouth to Eve?
It simply is, yea, hath God said.
Did God say, fill in the blank, you should not eat of the trees of the knowledge of good
and evil?
And then she went, he caused doubt in the heart of Eve.
Did God say this?
So obviously there's always been an attack on the word of God.
The Bible teaches that he extols his word above his name.
Tell that to the Jehovah's witness that he's trying to extol his name above his word, because
in the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God.
God says, if you take from my word, I will take your part out of the book of life.
If you add to my word, I will add to you the plagues that are written in this book.
And I don't know if you've read Revelation, but there are some crazy plagues that will
be on the unsaved scorpions, stinging them, stars flying from heaven, angels killing a
third of the planet, blood being dispersed through all the water sources.
There's a lot of horrible, wicked things.
And if you tamper with God's word, he said, I will add to you the plagues that are written
in this book.
There are three unpardonable sins that the Bible teaches or sins that will never be forgiven.
One of which is known as the blasphemy of the Holy Ghost.
Jesus says all manner of blasphemy will be forgiven of men.
If I were to stub my toe and yell, OMG, I'm mad at God because I stubbed my toe.
That's blasphemy.
If you're not speaking to God or about God, his name should not be in your mouth, period.
But here's the thing.
There are three members within the Trinity, the Father, the Word of the Son, and the Holy
Ghost.
Holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
So the member of the Trinity, the Holy Ghost, is the member that helps holy men of God speak
the words of God.
These words are pure.
These words that I preach unto you, they are spirit and they are life.
Jesus Christ was that Word made flesh.
The first unpardonable sin is the blasphemy of the Holy Ghost.
Someone blasphemes the Son Jesus Christ, that is horrible and you better watch your tongue.
So much if I at work or other places amongst customers and even loved ones and families
will drop OMG bombs, the Lord Jesus Christ's name under no circumstance where it needs
to be.
But nevertheless, when they do so, you need to rebuke them and say, hey, watch your mouth.
You know, it's not like someone stubs their tongue and is like, oh, Buddha, you know,
that would be messed up as well.
But nevertheless, Buddha is a false deity.
That's a false religion.
That's another thing.
But the second unpardonable sin that the Bible teaches is receiving the mark of the beast.
In Revelation, it talks about that in one time in history, in the future to come, there
will be a one world system, there will be a one world religion, there will be a one
world currency, and that is through the mark of the beast.
You have to worship the beast or who's known as the antichrist, the person in place of
Christ.
And if you worship him, you'll receive a mark and you will be done.
You are no longer savable.
You are unpardonable.
Well, I've seen the Holy Ghost, receive the mark of the beast.
And the last one is if you tamper with God's word, if you take from his word or add it
to his word, he says, I, God himself, will personally make sure you can never be saved,
period.
Now, that's why I want us to first understand the severity of why we need to believe and
understand that we do have an all word perfect Bible.
Now, I don't know how much you guys understand about history leading up to our English King
James or anything like that.
And I do have to point out some historical facts and some things like that, but I don't
want to emphasize too much on the history because we believe by faith the worlds were
created of old.
It is impossible to please him without believing that he is.
No matter what, before we move into the proofs of history, the proofs of scholarship, the
proofs of whatever the subject is, we first believe that God has said he will preserve
his word.
As he said, Jesus says, heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words, not the thoughts,
not the ideas, my words will not pass away.
It is more likely that this earth will be blown up and destroyed than that these words
will change according to Jesus Christ.
He says man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the
mouth of God.
Jesus said there is not one shot or one tittle that shall in any wise be taken from the law
to all be fulfilled.
So with that being said, understand this, Satan is the one who has attacked the preservation
of God's word.
Yea, did God say that?
Is this what he said?
But not only that, we believe that the word of God is our weapon to fight the spiritual
battles.
When we go out and try to preach against false doctrine, false ideology, you know, get people
saved, we put on the armor of God, the breastplate of righteousness, our shoes shod with the
preparation of the gospel, the helmet of salvation, the shield of faith that protects us through
everything.
But then we have our only offensive weapon, the sword, the word of God, which is sharper
than any two-edged sword, piercing even through the dividing asunder of soul and spirit and
is the discerner of the thoughts and the intents of men.
This is the weapon in which we are to bring it to people.
There is a spiritual battle going on, make no bones about it, and Satan wants to take
your weapon from you.
Too much in the times of history, we can just look in secular history and see that when
evil men want to destroy a people, what do they do?
First, disarm everyone.
They don't want to disarm you so they can protect you.
They want to disarm you so you cannot defend yourself because the word of God is our instrument
in which we are to fight the Lord's battle.
So when an evil dictator in history has ever decided to take over a group of people, first
he comes in and says, take all their weapons, then we'll do what we're going to do.
Satan wants nothing more than to take away the two-edged sword of the word of God and
give you a spoon called the NIV, a butter knife called the New King James, a spork called
the NLT.
In the translational doctrinal perversion of the Bible, and make no bones, they're not
just different on sequential, non-important subjects.
I'm going to teach and show you right now that the changes made in these modern translations
are strategic changes, not just to change doctrine, but to cause doubt in the heart
of believers to understand whether, yea, hath God said.
No more today has the word of God been under attack than ever in history.
His word has always been under attack and we needed to start there.
Now let's go into some historical facts, but first I just wanted you to understand, before
you listen to me, before you listen to a scholar, before you listen to a theologian, historian,
or anyone that has these human secular facts, first you need to believe the words that are
found and written in the King James because I can only appeal to these words.
It is the final authority for all faith and practice.
So if I ever come and say, thus saith the Lord, I better be confident that that is what
God has said.
Because the Bible talks about false prophets when it says, if a prophet says something
that I have not said, that man is a false prophet and he deserves to die.
He is saying, thus saith the Lord, and it's not.
So there's a lot that is riding on this.
The Bible throughout clearly emphasizes the importance of His word.
Now let's go into some simple, quick historical facts and concepts that we can help understand
to whenever we have gainsayers or people try to attack us and why we believe in a perfect
word Bible that we can point to in just history that will help us to understand the simplicity
of the preservation of God's word.
So to catch you up to speed, you've got to understand this.
When the early church started their ministry, there was no writings of the New Testament.
They were being created.
The authors were writing them in the midst of it.
But then after the first, second, and then around the third century, we obviously had
Greek manuscripts.
Man, you don't think about mano, hand.
Script is like a writing.
Handwritten documents, epistles, gospels that were hand down from person to person.
We believe that the Greek manuscripts that are what we have are those that have been
preserved.
We believe in what's known as the TR or the Texas Receptus, the received text of the past.
That there has always been a text that someone gave someone and then that person gave it
to someone and they copied and copied and copied and copied and so on and so forth.
But in around 300 A.D., there is a pivotal event that happened in history.
Does anyone know what happened in 325, Constantinople, Constantine the Great, the Council of Nicaea?
Obviously in this time period of history, there has always been a group of Christian
people who have always followed the traditions of the church.
But you've got to understand there is this man named Constantine who was a singular Roman
emperor who was trying to divide and conquer the whole Roman Empire and was actually the
first emperor to take over the whole entire Roman Empire.
And through doing this, as we see our politicians today doing, he needed to grab the Democrats
and the Republicans and stick them together and say, he's going to tell the Democrat what
he wants to hear, he's going to tell the Republican what he wants to hear, but nevertheless he
doesn't care about either, he cares about himself and lifting himself up.
So he went to the pagans and said, here's what you want to hear, he goes to the Christians
and says, here's what you want to hear, but we need you two to stop fighting and we're
going to put you together.
Comes the birth of what is known as the United Church of Rome.
Let's translate that for you in Latin, the Roman Catholic Church.
The word Catholic just simply means united.
The pagans of Rome and the Christians that have been around for the last 200 years needed
to come together so that Emperor Constantine could have his reign because he can't be divided
amongst his people, so he created this group called the Roman Catholic Church.
And the Roman Catholic Church has been and always will be an attack on the true church
of God.
We don't believe in the universal church.
The Bible teaches that there is a bride of Christ made up of all believers, but there
are individual local assemblies of churches.
I'm not united with someone in California right now, because the Bible says, forsake
not the assembling of yourselves together as the manner of some is, and so much the
more as we see the day of Christ approaching.
Those who are assembled in California, in Africa, in Jamaica, or wherever the place
is, they are the local assembly of the word church just means congregation, the coming
together of people.
We are here assembled, but I will say this just to emphasize, as of right now, we are
not considered a church, because I am not considered a pastor, I am not an evangelist,
I am a preacher, as John the Baptist was a preacher, but nevertheless, a church as we
said earlier, needs to be done with things decently and in order, and there needs to
be an under shepherd under Christ that helps, or a bishop that instructs the people of God.
So this event was created to basically create an empire, to take over the known world at
that time.
Fast forward a couple of years, we have then been, that church, the Catholic church, there's
been what's known as the Greek schism amongst the Orthodox church, the Greek Orthodox, and
the Roman Catholic church, because Greek Orthodox people looked at the Greek manuscripts and
said, uh, you're not saying what this says, baptismo does not mean sprinkle them, baptismo
means to be immersed under water, so the great schism was an event where Greek people looked
at the manuscripts and said, you're translating this wrong, your Latin Vulgate, or your Latin
translation of the Greek words have tampered with the doctrine of baptism in others, and
there was a second great awakening of the church and other things like that, but nevertheless,
we're going to fast forward a lot through time.
About 300 up to this very moment, there's been a lot of attack on the words of God,
but in around 1516 is when we have a man named Erasmus come into the scene.
Now understand this, Erasmus was a Catholic monk, and Erasmus took the church, the Roman
Catholic church's Latin manuscripts, took the original Greek Texas Receptus, put them
together and created the TR.
He gave the comparison to the reader, he says, this is what the Latin says that translated
from these Greek words, you the reader decide whether these are same or different, and this
single-handedly was the bullet that destroyed the Roman Catholic church because once Erasmus
of Rotterdale came out in 1516 with his translation of the Greek or his understanding of the differences
between them, it showed the common people that the Roman Catholic church had been tampering
with God's word, because all up to this point, there's been a lot of persecution between
Catholics or Christians and Catholics, so he just wanted to point the evidence out there
and to show people what the difference was.
Now we're going to go a little bit further, we're going to go into what's known as the
Tyndale Bible, raise your hand if you've heard of the Tyndale Bible.
This was done in 1526, a lot of people think that our King James Bible is the first English
translation of the Bible, it's wrong, it's not the first English translation of the Bible,
it is the perfect translation, but it's not the first translation of English.
The Tyndale Bible done in 1526 was done by William Tyndale, who is the inventor of our
modern English.
William Tyndale was a scholar who basically, remember, the common people around that time
are speaking a Middle English.
He then creates a modern English, which is our understanding of general conversation,
because royalty and the normal people weren't speaking tentatively at the same time.
Think about the Roman Catholic church, what is the main translation they preached to people
on their Sundays?
They preached a Latin version of their translation.
How many, Latin is known as a dead language, it's not spoken as a common language, but
it is a common language, Spanish.
That's a common group of people that can all, today, right now, we can all speak Spanish.
The Latin is known as a scholar language, as Koine Greek is known as a scholar language,
yet we have a modern Greek today, like I just showed you guys earlier, that these people
who are claiming that ancient Greek is different than modern Greek, can't even understand the
difference between the two, just like if we were to look at the Beowulf poems and our
English today, there is a difference, but not amongst Middle or Modern English.
Tyndale created our Modern English, you know, words like, you know, just to be able to simply
convey a thought, and he thought, he was the one who composed this literary understanding,
which is known as, it's called Early English Prose, or something like that, and that word
just simply means straightforward, straightforward thought of what anyone's trying to say.
So number one, we have Erasmus in 1516 coming out, showing that the Greek manuscripts are
contradicting the Latin Vulgate.
Number two, then we have a man named William Tyndale in 1526, who created the first English
New Testament.
He couldn't finish his whole draft of the whole Bible, he was in the process of translating
the Hebrew into English, but they didn't like what he was doing.
Why?
Because he's trying to give the common person the word of God, and the Roman Catholic Church
didn't want the common person knowing what the word said, so they persecuted him, imprisoned
him, and killed him.
And when they killed him, you've got to understand, there is documented his very last statement
on the stake, being burnt alive and strangled.
This man who's trying to give you and me and everyone the word of God and our common understanding
of the words, in doing this, they thought that that was an attack on the established
Roman Church.
They're like, you're trying to teach people God's word.
Yes, the Bible teaches that we need not that any man teach us.
The same anointing that is in me is in you.
So I don't need that a pope or a father or an elder explain to me on these words.
You don't need me to tell you what these words say.
The Bible teaches in the book of Acts that the Bereans, when the apostles preached, accept
the word, took it home, and then searched the scriptures daily whether those things
were so.
You need to judge whether what I'm saying is true.
Don't trust me only.
The final authority is the word of God.
These are where we derive all.
All scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for reproof, for correction
and righteousness that the man of God may be perfectly furnished unto good works.
Don't just take me as a final authority.
Don't take a pope as a final authority.
Don't take William Tyndale.
Use the words of God to tell you what it is.
Obviously, we have preachers and teachers for the perfecting of the saints, but nevertheless,
a pastor, a preacher, could be wrong about a doctrine, and you need to go with what the
Bible says above what a man says.
We ought to obey God rather than men, as the Bible says.
Let's fast forward.
After William Tyndale's first English translation of the New Testament and partial of the Old
Testament, someone needed to complete his work, and that was a guy named Miles Coverdale
in 1535.
Now, these are about 10 years from each other, right?
He was the first one to compound the whole entire English Bible, the whole thing.
I'm not going to go into the rest of the other English Bibles in depth, because those are
the major ones you need to know is Erasmus' TR, or Greek, the Texas Receptus, William
Tyndale, the inventor of our English, Coverdale finished his work, then we have the Matthew
Bible, then we have the Great Bible, and then we have the Geneva Bible, come out in 1560.
This is the first family or study Bible, because this was a Bible that came across
the New World.
You've got to think about it.
Everyone's in Europe and in Rome, and then the Mayflower, and people start coming to
the Americas.
This is the Bible that comes over to the Americas and settles Jamestown.
This is the Bible that they were using to preach to Native American people and other
types of people to get the word of God across.
The Geneva Bible being the first study Bible is one of those Bibles that we can look to
was the first one that had verses, because everything before this, it was just chapter
divisions.
John 3, 16, you know where that came from?
The Geneva Bible, because before that it was just John 3, and before that it was just the
Gospel of John.
The Gospel of John turned into John 1 through, then it turned into John 1, 2, 3, verse 16.
Geneva Bible, the first study Bible that people can cross reference other passages and things
like that.
And then after the Geneva Bible, we had what's known as the Bishop's Bible, because with
the Bishop's Bible, you had elders, bishops, translating and making sure that they can
kind of cross the T's and dot the I's and make sure everything's right, but there was
a problem because most of the people were using the Geneva, and then the churches are
using the bishops because it's authoritative, and the pastor has translated, and bishops
have went through this, and there was, you know, this isn't wrong Bibles being corrected.
This is a good translation going from good to better to best.
This is why we say the King James is the perfect translation.
If you had a Geneva Bible today, guess what, you can get someone saved, because that's
the word of God in our English.
If you had the furthest removed English translation of the Bible, William Tyndale's New Testament,
I just, within the week I've been studying the William Tyndale Greek, or the English
New Testament, and I was comparing the verses, there is no difference.
Now spelling and punctuation and capitalizations have changed, but remember, he didn't say
my capitalization will stay, he says my words will always stay.
Now it is important to know capitalization, punctuation, and spellings of words, but he
says that he will preserve his words, not how the word is spelled, but what is the meaning
behind the word.
And when it comes to translation, you know, let me just finish my last thought and then
I'll go into translational differences.
But then after the Geneva Bible and the Bishop's Bible, then we have King James of Scotland
becoming king in England, and when he became king, obviously he's wanting to make sure
that people, I mean, amongst the Protestants, you know, you have Puritans and other Protestant
groups and they're all arguing with each other amongst the things about the Bible, and he
wants to just make sure that everyone understands the simplicity of, let's do this right, there's
some problems with the Geneva, not necessarily a problem in doctrine, but a problem in spelling,
a problem in maybe a punctuation.
There may be a problem with, let's just tighten this up, hone this in, and get it right.
Because you gotta understand, when you convey a message in another language, there is what's
known as dynamic equivalences, or synonyms, and things like that.
So then we have the translators of the King James Bible hit the scene.
54 brilliant scholars, who, one of which, this guy, his name was Lancelant Andrews,
he spoke Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Chaldean, Syriac, Arabic, and 15 other languages.
This is one guy.
Of the 54 translators, for the course of seven years, translated this Bible.
So they had a group of 54 individuals, these 54 guys, who were the smartest scholars in
the land.
King James himself saying, I'm gonna give you every possible utensil we can give you
to get this done, get it done right, sit there, take all the time in the world you need, there's
no time limit, just go to town on it.
And then they came out with the perfect English translation of the Bible, the King James Version.
And like I said, if you took this King James and compared it to the Tyndale, there is no
word meaning difference.
There is no, it's just, it's spelt different, we're gonna capitalize this, we're gonna change
a punctuation here.
Not because that punctuation was incorrect, but in our understanding of English, it needs
to be brought in a little different.
So then we got the King James Version of the Bible.
And understand this, the King James Version of the Bible today has been the number one,
most influential, best selling, number one book of all time.
To this day, you go on to like online book buys and things that are to be, like sales
for books, and they stopped putting the King James as number one, after I think the 1970s,
because it kept being the number one most used, read, sold book in the world.
To this day, for the last 400 years, the King James Bible has been the number one book.
People who don't believe in the Bible, people who don't believe in God, look at this book
and say, this is an amazing book.
We don't know what is up with this, why is it so amazing, but this is amazing.
We don't know what happened.
Now, we believe that God is the one who created his perfect word, but the rest of the world
looks at this and they're like, wow, this is an amazing literature piece.
I don't know why it's so amazing, but it's great, they'll at least admit that.
They'll look at the Iliads of Homer's Greek things, they'll look at Shakespeare's poems
and all these other things, but no one will question the authenticity of the King James
version of the Bible.
To this day, people are trying to use this as the standard for our English.
Why?
Because this is modern English.
This is not ancient English, this isn't old English, this isn't middle English.
The words that are found in this book are today, right now, pulpits across all America
being preached from and expounded on.
We understand the general history of where we got our English King James version of the
Bible, but what about these new translations?
Why is it that they say something different?
Where did they come from?
Well, understand this, there are two, like I said, major differences of these modern
translations than the King James and every other English leading up to it, and it's through
the discovery of modern manuscripts or modern-day archeology that within the 18 or so hundreds,
they have been digging up manuscripts that appear to be older than the Texas Receptives.
Not that they are older, they appear to be older.
Some speculate they're not older, but some theorize they are.
Nevertheless, let me ask you this, does older mean better and more accurate?
Older doesn't necessarily always mean better and more accurate.
Why?
Because think of it like this, let's say there's a monumental history, a historical event,
right?
The moon landing.
I don't know the exact time and date, but let's say the moon landing was in like 1964,
March, right?
And you found, because there are 5,900 manuscripts of the Greek New Testament, let's say I found
5,000 nudist articles of the moon landing, and 5,000 of them say the moon landing was
in 1960, August 4th.
But a handful of them say it was in 1959, August 4th.
Which one do you think would be the corruption, or which one do you think would be the one
in which did not preserve the test of time?
Obviously people can, as you see in the book of 2 Corinthians, Paul says that there's attack
of the word of God in his time.
We know that he attacked the word of God in the Garden of Eden.
Paul says that there are people who are trying to corrupt and change the word of God.
And in the early 1st, 2nd, 3rd century, you don't think that people, today we know there
are people like the New World Translation, Jehovah's Witnesses, that corrupt Greek manuscripts
this very moment today to change God's word.
But they didn't do it before?
Of course people have always been trying to pervert and attack God's word.
And I'm going to show you and explain to you the three major manuscript bases of where
these new translations come from.
The first one is known as Sinaiticus, or Codex Sinaiticus, which is found in the Sinai Peninsula,
hence the name Sinaiticus.
And it was found in, I think the exact date was 1859, that's pretty recent in history.
This is the 1900s.
1859, that's less than 200 years ago.
They found those manuscripts.
And then they also found in 1889 Codex Vaticanus, which was found in the Vatican Library.
And then the final one is what's known as the Papyrus, or the Papyri, which was found
in Alexander, Egypt.
Now understand this, a Greek manuscript found in Egypt is already immediately suspect because
the Bible talks about Egypt being a horrible, wicked place.
A place in which refers to worldliness, ungodliness, wickedness, sinfulness.
Whenever the Bible wants to paint out a people group that are horrible, it says like the
Egyptians.
And it says that actually in Revelation, it says that city that crucified our Lord, which
is spiritually called Egypt and Sodom in reference to Jerusalem.
So obviously, Egypt being that it's found there is already immediately suspect.
The second one was found in the Vatican Library, immediately suspect.
And number two was the Codex Sinaiticus, which was found in St. Catherine's monastery in
a trash pile being burnt in a fire.
I wonder why it was in a trash pile, maybe because it was trash.
And some scholar in the past was like, this is corruption, throw it away and burn it.
But then some guy, forget his name, something Tischendorf, goes into this monastery and
says, oh, what are these things you're throwing?
Whoa, they're Greek manuscripts.
They appear to be older.
I'm going to take these back with me to England and show people that there's an older manuscript.
And like I said, I can't get too deep into the history and the understanding, but just
understand this.
This is the one thought I want you to get before I go into my last point.
We believe in the preservation of God's word, the inerrant, preserved, inspired word of
God.
God never hid his word in a cave, in a monastery, in a jungle, anywhere for any period of time.
Because he tells Isaiah, these words that I preach unto you, your will preach it, your
sons will preach it, your son's sons will preach it from now and forever.
That's what he told Isaiah.
And that's what's known as the Masoretic text, the text of the Old Testament.
So therefore, what that means is that if ever there was a time in history where we did not
have the real Bible or the real manuscripts, that means that was never preserved.
But we just found them.
So for 600 years, we didn't have the real word of God?
No, we had the Bible all the way through.
The received text is what we have trusted in.
Because if you were alive in 1510, what would be your final authority?
Remember Erasmus didn't translate the TR or have the TR built till 1516.
But what if you're in 1510?
Are you going to go to the Latin Vulge or are you going to go to the Greek manuscript
that was received unto you?
That is where the word of God is.
That's why the Greek Orthodox Church said, you guys are wrong because we know Greek and
we speak Greek and what you're saying is not what these manuscripts are saying.
So that's just the simple understanding of why we believe that the King James is the
final preserved word of God.
This is a subnote.
And I don't want to get too crazy and dogmatic about this point, but it is interesting because
you've heard of numerology, has anyone heard of numerology?
I'm not a fan of numerology.
I don't believe in numerology, though I will say that my God is a creator of the universe
and obviously created math and numbers.
And there is some amazing mathematical equations we can look at that would only show us a creator.
And some of the Bible emphasizes certain numbers of like three in reference to the Trinity.
He was dead for three days and three nights.
But another number that's interesting is the number seven because it shows the completion.
You know, the Lord created the earth in six days and rested on the seventh.
But notice what it says, and you don't need to turn there in Psalms 12, six, it says the
word of the Lord are pure words as silver tried in the furnace of earth, purified seven
times.
How many English Bibles were there for the King James?
We have the Tyndale, the Coverdale, the Matthew, the Great, the Geneva, the Bishops, and then
the King James version of the Bible.
As fire is tried in the furnace of fire, purified seven times.
It took them seven years to translate.
So like I said, I don't get too dogmatic about it, but it just seems pretty coincidental
that it took exactly this number of completion to get things perfect for us.
Now let's go into a comparison and contrast.
If you have a King James in your hand or whatever Bible you have, use it because I want to show
you what's more important than this history, what's more important than me explaining these
things.
What's the final thing I want you to get is Jesus Christ said of his ministry, my sheep
hear my voice and a stranger they will not follow.
We believe that the Bible is the perfect word of God and if we are sheep, we will follow
the shepherd.
Jesus Christ is known as the good shepherd and his words are the final authority.
Now I want to show you the final product, not the history leading up to, not the translational
understandings of why they translated this one and why they translated this one.
Finished copies, King James version of the Bible, new modern translations of the Bible.
I'm going to show you some proof texts that show the strategic attack on specific doctrines
that tamper with salvation, who God is, and all these other essential doctrines.
Because if you have a book that has contradictions in itself, you don't necessarily care too
much about doctrine.
You care more about juking and jiving and gyrating for Jesus rather than fine combing
every word of God and really knowing what does God mean and say with this.
They say to Paul that he's going mad because he was studying his Bible.
They're like, Paul, you're going crazy.
Almost persuade us thou me to be a Christian and he's just like, look, I have zeal and
as Gideon says, follow, you know, see my zeal for the Lord because we care as David
after a man, a man after God's own heart wants to know what God has said.
So we're going to find out what he said.
So here are the comparisons with the final products and I'm not going to go into every
English translation.
You know why?
Because there are 500 of them.
I'm going to use the top three most used modern translation, which is NIV, the ESV, and the
NLT.
There are other ones.
There are lots of other ones, but these three are the most used ones of modern translations
and I'm going to show you even the most used ones are corrupted in multiple places.
So turn to your Bibles if you would to first, 1st John 5-7.
Now before I go into the rest of this, understand this, before, remember what the Bible said
in Revelation 22, if any man adds to my word or takes away from my word, the NIV in modern
translations take out 16 complete verses out of the New Testament.
Before we even go into differences, before we even go into why they changed this year,
why they changed this year, they've taken already out 16 complete verses.
Why?
Because they don't think it was in the original.
So they've already taken from God's word and one of those is 1st John 5-7.
What it says in 1st John 5-7 in the King James Bible, it says, for there are three that bear
record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost, and these three are one.
This is the doctrine of the Trinity, who God is.
There's one God made up of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
There is no misunderstanding this doctrine.
There is no misunderstanding this principle.
One God, three people, Father, Word, and Holy Ghost.
We understand that because of the simple understanding of 1st John 5-7.
You know what they say in the New Translation?
It says, for there are three that testify.
Doesn't mention the Father, doesn't mention the Son, doesn't mention the Holy Ghost, doesn't
mention that these three are one, it just says for there are three that testify.
Three what that testify what?
Well, there are three that testify.
So obviously, it already tampered with the doctrine of the Trinity.
But now if you would, turn to your Bibles to 1 Timothy 3-16, a very famous passage in
the Bible.
1 Timothy 3-16, it says in the King James, without controversy, great is the mystery
of godliness, God was manifested in the flesh, proving that Jesus, 1 Timothy 3-16, very popular
passage in the Bible.
And it says, without controversy, great is the mystery of godliness, God was manifested
in the flesh.
There is no misunderstanding who came into the world.
Jesus Christ was in the world, he was God.
So the first thing they talked about was the Trinity.
Now they're trying to say, is Jesus Christ God?
But what does it say in modern translations?
It just simply says, without question, this is the great mystery of our faith, Christ
was revealed in the human body.
No one's questioning whether or not Jesus craved in the flesh, what we're wondering
is Jesus Christ God?
How many faiths out there do you know that have denied Jesus Christ to be God in the
form of a man?
Every faith that's not Christian.
The Muslims don't believe he was the son of God, but that he was a prophet.
Mormons believe he was a created being of God, and that he was not the son of God.
Other denominations, Jehovah's Witnesses don't believe he was the son of God, they believe
he was Michael the Archangel.
And they can go to these modern versions and show that they say, see, it doesn't say God
was manifested in the flesh, it says he was manifested in the flesh.
But here's a word, that Greek underlying word, 1 Timothy 3-16, 1 Timothy 3-16, that word
in Greek is theos.
You guys know of a word named theology, right?
Which is just a belief in God.
But they're trying to say it's hass, which is the word for he.
And theos and hass are very similar, but nevertheless, the word that the Bible translated this as
was God was manifested in the flesh.
Can't be misunderstood, obviously, this shows that Jesus Christ is God, period.
But not only that, it also says in Hebrews 1a, you don't need to turn there, but it says
in Hebrews 1a, this is Jehovah speaking to the son, or about the son, or unto the son,
he says, but unto the son he saith, thy throne, O God, is forever a scepter of thy righteousness
and a scepter of thy kingdom.
So the Bible's saying that Jesus Christ, the Father, calls Jesus God.
The modern translations tamper with that.
Not only that, turn to your Bibles, if you would, to Luke chapter 2.
Luke chapter 2, number one, they already tampered with the Trinity.
They already tampered with he was God in the flesh.
They've already tampered with Jesus is God.
But not only that, these modern translations also tamper who his Father was.
The Bible teaches in Luke 2, in the King James Version and every other English leading up
to it, and the Greek leading up to it, that Joseph was not Jesus Christ's father.
He was the stepdad, you can give him that, but he was not the father of Jesus Christ.
In Luke 2, the Bible reads, or what these perversions of the Bible read, basically,
I'm going to have to step in for a second so I don't get this all destroyed.
It says, and his father and mother marveled at these things that were said about him.
So these different translations call Joseph Jesus's father.
Is Joseph Jesus's father, yes or no?
Of course not.
But not only that, if you go to the ending of this chapter, if you take a look, you'll
see that basically, Jesus corrects his mother Mary and says, because when Jesus gets lost,
right, they go to Jerusalem, and they go on a day's journey, and Jesus hangs back and
is with people in the temple.
He goes, Joseph and Mary go and find Jesus in the temple and they say, hey, son, why
has thou thus dealt with us?
And he basically tells them, your father and I have sought thee sorrowing.
And Jesus says, which she not, that I must be about my father's business, because he
was in the temple preaching the words of God.
And because of weather permitting times, we're going to have to cut this off short.
But basically, if ever you guys have ever questioned or doubt the concept of why we
believe in the preservation of God's word, it's simply because we do not accept new discoveries.
What if tomorrow they come out with a new Greek manuscript?
What if tomorrow someone digs up a manuscript and it appears to be straight from the apostle's
hand?
They are like, we think this is from Saint John himself, or the apostle John, then it
was not preserved.
We believe in the preservation of God's word through the version of the King James Bible.
And you know, like I said, because of weather, we're going to have to call it short, but
that's why in the future hopefully we have a better place to do this.
But let's just close it there and we'll get inside.