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Old Testament Survey: What God Gave "For our Learning"
The Old Testament explains how men and women managed their families and how priests, kings, and other leaders handled government affairs.
This survey focuses on what God wanted us to know about choices people made and how their decisions worked out for them, for their children, and their followers. This can save you from wrong choices:
For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope. Romans 15:4
Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee: To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things; Proverbs 2:11-12
There is no honor in recycling old mistakes, but we see Christians make the same bad choices God’s people made years ago and keep making, generation after generation.
We should always study directly from the Word of God. God’s Words are quick and powerful (Heb. 4:12), not the words of men. We’re told to hide God’s Word in our hearts (Ps. 119:11) to avoid sin and so that we can learn from others’ experiences:
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction. Proverbs 1:7
If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; 5Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God. Proverbs 2:4-5
Some people can learn by reading about what happened to other people, some by talking to others about their experiences, and some people simply must grab the electric fence for themselves. You should strive to learn the Fear of the Lord and the mind of God from the Word of God as He intended without having to repeat every mistake for yourself.
Salvation has always been by grace through faith (Rom. 4:3, Gal. 3:6, Jam. 2:23). God is a person who cares how your life works out:
Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. 6In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Proverbs 3:5-6
God loved us enough to send His Son to die to suffer the punishment for our sins. He could then forgive our sins. He also inspired the Bible writers to teach us how to conduct our lives. You can hear God’s sorrow in having to chasten His people when they won’t obey:
O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever! Deuteronomy 5:29
God gave us free will. We can choose to disobey, but He holds us accountable for the choices we make:
And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul. Psalm 106:15
Learn from reading what God wrote instead of grabbing the electric fence! You will be judged on how well you received the Word of God:
I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness. 47And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. 48He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day. John 12:46-48
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What Drove Jesus’ 11 Nobodies to Turn the World Upside-Down?: It wasn't the Resurrection
Starting with eleven fired-up nobodies (Acts 4:13), Jesus’ gospel turned the world upside-down (Acts 17:6). Over the next 300 years, half the Roman population converted to Christianity or was sympathetic.
How did this happen?
… there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. Galatians 3:28b
Christianity respects and values women far more than other faiths or cultures.
And the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom. Mark 15:3
Having opened the temple veil so ordinary people can approach Him, God receives a woman whenever she wishes. This was revolutionary, nobody imagined ordinary people approaching God without permission, especially not women. Did Christianity succeed on its merits, or was there another driving force?
Some say that Jesus’ resurrection drove His followers to risk their lives to spread His message. There would be no Christianity without His resurrection, but that wasn’t why they did it. This book explains why the resurrection didn’t get the church going and shows what drove Christians to spread the Gospel.
The Simplicity of Marriage
God made both salvation and marriage. If you try to get to Heaven your own way instead of God’s way, you go to Hell when you die. Going your own way in marriage instead of God’s way can make life Hell on earth.
By the time we were married in 1971, most of our friends were already divorced. We saw that our marriage was a precious gift from God but we could not explain it. We had nothing to say when relatives divorced and we wanted to explain what God had said to help others avoid the pain.
Chapter 2 explains God’s simple plan of marriage. The goal is to equip you to help others find the joy God offers through marriage. Jesus explained it this way:
And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. 39He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it. Matthew 10:38-39
You can’t be saved or enjoy the Fruit of the Spirit without dying to your former life and being born again into service to Christ:
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. Galatians 5:23
In the same way, a husband pours his life into nourishing, cherishing, and serving his wife and family and she dedicates herself to guiding the house and serving her family. As serving Christ brings the Fruit of the Spirit into our daily walk, serving our families brings the Fruit of the Spirit into our marriages.
There is no joy this side of Heaven for a man that compares with having a woman like belonging to him. There is no joy for a woman that compares with having a man like belonging to her and leading her through serving her and caring for her. It really is that simple. We need to share the message!
The material in this book is drawn from https://successful-marriage.blogspot.com. Feel free to use it in any way that serves His cause.
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Brazen Error in the KJV
“Right there in Deuteronomy chapter 8, verse 9, your bible has a glaring error.” So said a ‘bible school graduate’ to me. He continued, “Your version says “out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.”
Then, with a straight and stern face he admonished me to look it up….”Brass is an alloy (a combination of metals) and is not naturally occurring in hills, or valleys, or anywhere on the earth! “ He continued, “The NIV and others have it right: ‘…you can dig copper out of the hills.”’
(I realize brass is typically a blend (the result of processes) of copper and zinc; both are naturally occurring elements, and both are found on the Periodic Table. I also realize that bronze is a blend of copper and tin: harder than brass, but with a duller appearance.)
So, I asked this student if perhaps it was understood that brass was a product of processed elements dug from the mountain; and instead of listing the elements, they simply stated the product and not the processes. Furthermore, we understand that the Israelites were quite familiar with foundry processes: for we see a molten calf, tabernacle items, and even a serpent was made in their journey. “No,” he replied, “brass is not an element. The KJV is wrong.”
“Oh, then I’m sorry to tell you that your NIV is also wrong! I see olive oil: that’s the result of a harvesting and pressing process. I see bread: the result of several processes, starting with harvesting of grain, and then cleaning it, and then grinding it, and then mixing it with other elements, baking, etc. But the word Bread is used. (Even in the NIV! )”
Monosaccharides fructose and glucose; formic, lactic, malic acids; hydrocarbons, ketones, terpenes and other ’naturally occurring elements’ are components of...honey. If you say honey (as both the NIV and KJV do), we get it, we understand. It’s not a mistake! Additionally, we may also know that the main elements of brass are dug from the earth (Deut. 8:9). It would be a mistake (and the NIV is guilty), to list only copper and not list zinc, in an age where brass is used! – harken back to Numbers 21:9: it’s a brass serpent (not a copper serpent).
“Did I see the word “land” in your NIV?” Oh boy… should it say: carbons, minerals, nitrogen, hydrogen, water (H2O), etc?
There is nothing inconsistent about the KJV – when the land is described, is it a land of milk and honey? or a land of fluids including triacylglycerols, small amounts of di- and monoacylglycerols, cholesterol esters, free fatty acids, phospholipids, protein and, of course, carbohydrates; and the previously mentioned elements of honey? It’s a matter of translation: the word brass is clear to the reader; whereas the word copper (alone) isn’t as clear, isn’t as accurate. Bottom line: no error!
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Trusting our Bible and Rightly Dividing
He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD'S, and he hath set the world upon them, 1st Samuel 2:8.
I was recently contacted by a person who took some objection to my recent post titled Whence Cometh Perspective?. The comments probably also apply to its follow up post, What in the World is the World?. I appreciate the comments because they honor the text of the King James Bible. I disagree with the conclusions of the comments, but not because the commenter dishonored the word of God. Instead, I disagree with his application of the textual references used.
This is what good brethren do. They agree on a final authority and dig into what it says. A Jew once told me, "I love King James Bible believers. You are like Jews, you argue over the smallest minutia." A good Jew never doubts his text, he doubts the wisdom of the Jew standing next to him to interpret it correctly. Likewise, I have found a rich trove of fellow King James Bible believers who are willing to give up any doctrine or creed if the King James Bible disagrees with that particular doctrine or creed when examined in context and examined with the intended hearer in mind.
His Comments:
It is simple really. Bro. Asquith argues from the basis of perspective. Who’s perspective is being recorded? I agree, it is the right question.
So, from God’s perspective:
Earth is set upon pillars. (1 Samuel 2:8, Psalm 75:3)
Earth was laid upon a foundation (pillars) by God, on a foundation which is fastened. (Psalm 102:25, 104:5, Job 38:4) Foundations are set / laid / fastened. That is the nature of them.
Earth is God’s footstool. Heaven is his throne. (Isaiah 66:1, Acts 7:49) Nobody is moving God’s throne, and I highly doubt that anybody can move his footstool. One might argue that this language is “poetic.” But God’s throne is not poetic. And its position in the north (Isaiah 14:13) is not figurative. Why can’t we understand Earth to be fixed positionally in God’s creation?
I do not believe the earth to be flat, simply from the language of Psalm 103:12, "As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.” In this, written from the Psalmist’ perspective on earth, we understand that you can go east or west indefinitely, but you cannot go north (on the earth) indefinitely. Eventually you will begin going south. If our transgressions were removed as far as the north from the south (from the perspective of earth) we could then declare a “quantifiable” distance between us and our transgressions.
I do believe heaven to be directly north, in a fixed location, and I believe also the earth to be fixed within the creation.
I have no problem believing that the sun goes around the earth, while at the same time believing the planets go around the sun (though they don’t have to, it makes no difference to me).
Indeed, I agree with my interlocutor that the language involved is more than just poetic. We'll start with pillars. Pillars can be poetic or symbolic as in Galatians 2:9; And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision. Nevertheless, I would not ascribe either reference that he gives as fitting that category.
Pillars can be descriptive of elements not capable of holding anything up such as fire or smoke. And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke, Joel 2:30. And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire, Revelation 10:1. Again, I think we miss the mark as to the pillars of 1st Samuel 2:8 and especially Psalms 75:3.
How do we reconcile competing verses? Job 26:7 says; He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing; whereas 1st Samuel 2:8 says the earth has pillars. How do we reconcile our car's manual when one place tells you a specific amount of oil that is optimal for the engine, and another place tells you to drain the oil? We look at context and timing.
The earth isn't where it used to be. We can look at God's science book, the Book of Job. Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble, Job 26:7. What was it that trembled? Why is the earth hanging on nothing? Do we violate any verse in scripture to see the pillars of the earth as the internal pillars keeping hell which is in the center of a spherical earth from collapsing in on itself? If indeed that was true, then the world (that great conglomeration of men, nations and societies) on the surface of the earth would be held up by them. That would honor the exact wording of 1st Samuel 2:8.
Where was the earth prior to God moving it? It was floating on the great deep.
Psalms 24:1 The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
Psalms 24:2 For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.
It is not on the seas any more. It was moved. That fits Peter's description of the earth in 2nd Peter 3:5 and 6:
For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.
That is not Noah's flood. It is a description of the earth floating on water with a reasonable part of it submerged as if a medicine ball floated. Job described how that earth was moved. Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth, Job 12:15. He used a tsunami to overturn that earth which is where the events of Ezekiel 28 took place. That is how we find it in Genesis 1:2; And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
It is under water in Genesis 1:2. Satan has already fallen, it is dark. Genesis 1:1 does not say, "at the beginning", it says, in the beginning. There is a difference between "in the end of the world", and "at the end of the world". For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself, Hebrews 9:26. So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just, Matthew 13:49. Likewise, there is a difference between "in the beginning" and "at the beginning". Much time has been wasted by expositors trying to fit hundreds of verses in between Genesis 1:1 and 1:3. There is no need if you believe an English Bible as written.
Genesis 1:2 finds the earth under water. God separates the waters under the firmament (oceans, lakes, rivers, dew, glaciers and rain) from the waters above the firmament, (the great deep of Psalms 148:4). Is not this dissolved earth which has lost its shape the earth of Psalms 75:3? The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah. Is not this what Jeremiah saw in Jeremiah 4:23-26?
I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.
I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.
I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger.
Is not this the pre-Adamic earth ruled by the anointed cherub? Is not this the earth that is dissolved? Does not God heal this earth in Genesis 1:1-8? Is this not that to which the Apostle Paul make reference when he compares the lost human heart being regenerated by the light of God? For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ, 2nd Corinthians 4:6.
As for the footstool, that is more delightful. One of the most oft quoted verse in the New Testament is Psalms 110:1; The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool. It is quoted seven times. Keep in mind that the temple of the Lord is also called his footstool. Then David the king stood up upon his feet, and said, Hear me, my brethren, and my people: As for me, I had in mine heart to build an house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and for the footstool of our God, and had made ready for the building, 1st Chronicles 28:2.
I, who was once the enemy of God am now a temple of the Holy Ghost. He has made his enemies his footstool. Gladly am I the footstool of God. I move. The temple was destroyed and yet it is God's footstool. That the earth should be his footstool and move is no surprise to me.
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Hap, Happen, Haply
There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity, Ecclesiastes 8:14.
Our generation has been blessed by the abundance of research done to justify each and every word in a King James Bible. Earlier generations which had the King James Bible as a bulwark of their culture, also suffered from the academic ignorance of their times in which the intelligentsia disdained the common masses for their reliance upon that bible, whilst they quietly worked to subvert young aspiring clergy through their institutions of deceit called seminaries.
That work of deceit is still active today but has far more permeated every level and class of society. It is no longer confined to seminaries. It is taught in Sunday Schools. It is taught in Christian schools. It is scattered throughout the marginal notes of bibles. It is taught on websites, blog postings, emails, YouTube, and just about every other way that disinformation can get into the hearts and minds of people. Fortunately, Sir Isaac Newton Discovered one of God's truths, it's called Newton's Law.
Newton's third law is:
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. The statement means that in every interaction, there is a pair of forces acting on the two interacting objects. The size of the forces on the first object equals the size of the force on the second object.
Our generation has uncovered many of the great truths of the English Bible. We can now put academic, scientifically researched material out there to counteract the deluge of lies that are ripping at the fabric of bible truth. I delight in the agents of this great body of research and writing. So often this is done not by scholars of the upper echelons of academia, but by herdsmen and gatherers of sycomore fruit, (Amos 7:14).
The same tools that empowered the agents of hell to cast doubt upon the words of God and to sow that doubt throughout the length and breadth of society, are available for an ever growing army of common people who have used their God-given wits and talents to counter each and every lie and misstatement offered. Never before in the history of our English Bible have so many books, articles, websites, blog postings, emails and YouTube videos been available to expose the lies created against God's word and to shore up the believer in the efficacy and truth of the King James Bible.
If evil scholars like silly Mark Ward or James White didn't exist, I think that we would need to make some up. They have been so useful in encapsulating the ignorance of academia and of the shallowness our age. If we were to create little YouTube videos to train our young in the deceptions of hell, or to write plays for young people to educate them in how the devil seeks to discredit God himself, could we come up with better villains than men such as these?
With all of that said, our King James Bible is exact. It uses words in the same manner in which Rembrandt used brush strokes. Every word has an exact purpose to convey an exact meaning. Every word and every meaning that it conveys are exactly what God the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost believe and want us to know. "Hap", "happen" and "haply" are just such words. They are used to convey the sense of a chance occurrence that quite often appears as chance to men, but is skillfully woven into the fabric of time by God himself.
And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech, Ruth 2:3. We learn from this verse and the use of the word "hap" that Ruth did not go to that field by her own design. In her mind, it was a haphazard choice that landed her in the perfect center of God's will. Can any reader of the Book of Ruth miss the agency of God's will in this?
Peter warned his readers that what appears as happenstance to them was in fact the design of God; Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you, 1st Peter 4:12. The Lord himself defied men to try to predict what will come; Let them bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them shew the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come, Isaiah 41:22.
I have been hearing and reading conspiracy theories for over 50 years. At no time have I ever heard anyone predict a time in which school children would be secretly enticed to carve out their sexual organs and to mutilate themselves chemically to confuse their sex. At no time did I ever hear anyone predict that our nation would be brought to poverty by a pandemic whether planned or unplanned. At no time did I ever hear that a dull witted corrupt dotard of a senator would be placed in the presidency so that mindless ideologues with weirdo philosophies could run powerful federal agencies with little or no oversight.
(I will no doubt receive messages from people who will cite some book or movie that incorporated some aspect of these plagues, but no one will show me a theory postulated by anyone that foresaw the method of our undoing as a people. There is a rule of thumb that for every occurrence on earth there is someone who predicted it. Like random choices in a lottery, someone eventually gets the number right. The press the exalts that person who by chance stumbled across a truth, but inevitably that same person will not get the next occurrence right.)
These are judgments from God. We may forestall their effect in an upcoming election, but the rot that inevitably entered society 150 years ago when the British Parliament authorized the Revised Version of the Bible and the witless American academics followed suit with their never ending versions of the truth, will eventually disembowel the very fabric of our respective societies. What appears as random chance and happenings to us, is in fact the design of a holy God who poured out blessings upon the English-speaking people of the world, but has now begun a series of plagues that will eventually pave the way for the anti-christ.
"Haply" is another word shows us what men see as chance, but God sees as design. And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet, Mark 11:13. Can anyone doubt that this occurrence as told by Mark was not designed by God? Yet, when he speaks of it he says, "if haply he might find any thing thereon".
Never forget that we have an exact bible. I thank God for the many men and women who have labored ceaselessly to countervail the hellish damage being wrought by the agents of hell who make their livings by undermining the integrity of God himself by teaching men that the words of a King James Bible are in error. These false teachers are from God, not in the sense that they deem themselves to be, but in the sense that God has turned our nations over to a reprobate mind and these men haply fulfill that purpose.
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“In my twenty-two years of salvation I have yet to hear anyone who changed the wording of the King James Bible because he felt compelled by the Greek. Every single change I have ever heard attempted, and I have heard many, was made because the text the preacher was reading did not as fully support the preacher’s current point or doctrine. The preacher then reached into the Greek and found a justification to exalt his point of view…Not being fluent in the Greek language, but only having access to lexicons, makes a preacher able to rationalize any correction he wants to make.” John M. Asquith, Further Thoughts on the Word of God, pp. 52-53
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Dr. John M. Asquith 11/20/21 2 min read
But of these who seemed to be somewhat, (whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no man's person:) for they who seemed to be somewhat in conference added nothing to me, Galatians 2:6.
This blog was started in February of 2017 and will be five years old in just a couple of short months. It's primary purpose was to distinguish the Cambridge Text of the King James Bible as it was edited in the early 20th century from other editions or texts of the King James Bible. We have published posts on its history, its editing process and problems with alternative texts.
We have also examined words as used in our King James Bible to highlight the excellence of its text and to educate our readers as to the excellence of the fine word smithing evident in our bible. As many of my readers know, I also write about doctrine. When I write about doctrine, I am not wedded to any theology. I am wedded to the words of God as represented by the King James Bible. I know no other authority for faith or practice.
For a doctrine to be true it most be exactly what a King James Bible says in its proper context and applied to the people and time for whom it is intended. I occasionally receive communications or writings from good men who when they argue a point, refer to Greek or Hebrew to help make their point. They might as well make reference to wind speeds on the Martian plains as recorded by our latest probes. Discourses on Greek or Hebrew renderings add absolutely nothing to me.
If a writer feels a need to resort to Greek or Hebrew, that writer needs to offer no greater proof that he has strayed from what a King James Bible says. I am always certain that the writer's ability in the ancient languages has no comparison to the excellency of the King James Translation. An earlier post Exploding the Myth of the Greek explains the futility of their Greekifying. It has never been answered and is unanswerable. The King James Bible is the word of God. That is final. It needs no other explanation than for me to clearly state that what a King James Bible says is what God says.
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This is a reprint from an Article that I wrote for Pastor Frank Townsend's excellent Old Paths Publication. It is also Chapter 2 in my Book Further Thoughts on the Word of God.
Preachers believing in the King James Bible can be roughly divided into two groups. The first is those who have seen through the absurdity of the new versions and the texts behind them. They don't necessarily see the King James Bible as infallible. They merely find it fundamentally safe to carry and preach it as a bulwark against the folly of the new versions.
The second group sees the King James Bible as the Word of God. They have varying ideas about the veracity of the actual English words. Some, like me, believe the actual English words to be given by inspiration of God. Others find it intellectually safer to believe that God was somehow involved in the translation, but they shrink from concept of the absolute, utter infallibility of a King James Bible.
The common sticking point against believing the English words of a King James Bible is a mythical concept of the Greek Bible. The purpose of this first article is to explode the myth of the Greek.
If you are reading this article the odds are very high that you do not know anyone who speaks Greek. Yet you have probably heard countless preachers allude to knowing Greek. For the most part these would be Greek scholars are like young boys on a play ground who square off with each other and claim to know karate. They parlay, get into their stances, hoot and holler, but you have to be very ignorant of karate to think they know what they are doing.
Whenever I preach to a crowd loaded with preachers I like to ask if there is anyone who speaks Spanish. There is almost always a fluent speaker of the Spanish language in attendance. I ask him from the floor if he could translate a few sentences for me. I then give a sentence similar to this "Take this twenty dollar bill upstairs and give it to grandma so that she can buy some ham downtown.
He can readily rattle that off in Spanish. He speaks Spanish. He can think in Spanish. He really knows the language. I then ask if there is any preacher in the house who knows Greek. They are strangely silent. Many of them are doubtlessly guilty of making people believe they know Greek, but in the context of the last test, they keep their mouths shut. They don't know the Greek language.
I then ask the Spanish speaker if he would consider me to know Spanish if all I could do was read the alphabet, conjugate a few hundred verbs and read a few texts with the help of a lexicon. The Spanish speaker will usually grin and say no. Others in the audience begin to see the point. The self-purported Greek experts begin to shift uncomfortably.
I lived in the nation of Greece for three years. It is an incredibly superstitious nation whose idolatry is medieval. Every one of the priests of this superstitious system can read ancient Greek fluently. In fact, anyone who has graduated from high school can read ancient Greek, because in one year they study in the Modern Greek and write their lessons in ancient Greek, while in the next year they study in the ancient Greek but write in the Modern Greek.
What confounds the Western student is the pronunciation. Western schools pronounce Greek differently. John Lacsaris reintroduced Greek to the Western Church after the fall of Constantinople in 1490. John Lacsaris would have spoken Greek with the Byzantine accent. Western scholars quickly gave it a Latin pronunciation. Accordingly, a word such as eulogia with the Latin pronunciation would be pronounced as evlowgeea (the g is hard) in Greece. The word eucharisto is pronounced efcahrdistow.
Every few years I hear another story of some Western student getting off of a plane in Athens and trying to say something in Greek. What he says is absolutely incomprehensible to the Greek. The Western student will shake his head sadly and remark that they don't even know their own heritage. What the student doesn't realize is that if he had written his remark, the lowliest janitor in the airport could have read it and responded in kind.
When I first returned to the states I began to hear preachers make remarks about how knowing the Greek would clear up mysteries in the Word of God. I found that puzzling. I had lived for three years in a land where everyone could read it and think in ancient Greek, and yet they crawled up hot dusty roads to light incense for idols. The people I knew who professed salvation by grace and walked in the light of God's Word were reading an English Bible.
Even Greek professors in a typical bible college don't really speak Greek. For example, they can't interpret a preaching service for foreign visitors by doing the translation in Greek. That was a common technique with the Latin language a hundred years ago. When a professional group encountered difficulty in a given tongue a colleague would begin interpreting in Latin. Everyone was able to participate.
I doubt that any reader of this article will find anyone in any bible college able to render that service in Greek. Someone might object that it is primarily used as a written language and not spoken. Tell them to write it in Greek, or at least take notes in Greek. The King James translators could have done either. The little boys in their karate poses will not be able.
Today the brightest of students are most apt to go into the sciences or engineering. Occasionally we hear of a student who scores a perfect 1600 on his SAT test or some other remarkable achievement. Universities line up to court students of this caliber. When they graduate, the doors of industry are flung open to them.
Today those same students do not study the classics. In the 1600's young men of that caliber went to Oxford or Cambridge and studied the classical languages. The same zeal used today to reach outer space, strengthen computers, study the atom or other such research was channeled into the classical languages.
They didn't go to college to learn Greek. They had been reading, writing and speaking Greek since their earliest education. In C. S. Lewis's autobiographical work, Surprised By Joy, he gives glimpses into the typical classical education he received via private tutor. He recounts afternoons when he and his tutor would just sit around and chat in Greek. Even his light moments of relaxation were immersed in the Greek language.
Imagine their mirth if they were to encounter the average preacher today claiming to know Greek. The sad reality is that the average so-called Greek professor could not have been hired as a tutor to a high school student one hundred years ago. The average janitor at the Helenikon International Airport in Athens is more fluent in the ancient Greek tongue than most supposed experts in the Greek language practicing karate poses for their unsuspecting and adoring students.
Dr. Bill Bradley, author of Purified Seven Times: The Miracle of the English Bible, states in his lecture series that there is only one, maybe two scholars living today who would have been qualified to have sat on the King James translating committee. In 1611 two universities produced fifty-four such men.
In my twenty-two years of salvation I have yet to hear anyone who changed the wording of the King James Bible because he felt compelled by the Greek. Every single change I have ever heard attempted, and I have heard many, was made because the text the preacher was reading did not as fully support the preacher's current point or doctrine. The preacher then reached into the Greek and found a justification to exalt his point of view.
I am reminded of a statement made by my eleventh grade health teacher about rationalization. Coach Chadick wanted every boy present to know the first rule of rationalization: Anything can be rationalized if you want to do it badly enough. Being able to rationalize an action does not make it right or wrong. Not being fluent in the Greek language, but only having access to lexicons, makes a preacher able to rationalize any correction he wants to make.
If I were to give a statement to a gathering of foreign students, imagine the confusion if I were to allow them to use a dictionary and render my statement any way they saw fit as long as they could find some justification in the dictionary.
A statement such as, " Everyone move to the back and find a seat, should make sense to anyone. If that statement were to be interpreted like the average preacher interprets Greek it could have many meanings.
One student might get up and say that when 21st century Americans talked about moving they were referring to a change of address. Another enterprising linguist might suggest that the word "back" was a reference to moving back in social order. Another might say it most generally referred to the spinal area. One who really had access to more sources than the others might call attention to the American habit of calling a move from the Western United States to the Eastern portion, going back.
Take note. The students who made such a mockery out of the simple statement were not stupid. In fact, the more resources to which they had access, the more capable they were of confusing their audience. The more resources they had, the more able they were to render their interpretation to whatever best suited their needs. Imagine when they reached the word "seat".
Today's Greekifiers work similarly. When they find a clear-cut passage in the King James Bible that doesn't say what they want it to say they run to the Greek. Keep this in mind. They do not speak the language. They just look at the various words and try to find some historical or linguistic justification for making it say what they want it to say.
If Greek were such a panacea for understanding the Word of God, we could expect the top Greek faculties to agree on key issues. Once a man learned Greek he should be firm with all scholars on such issues as election, the charismatic movement, the deity of Christ, a pretribulation rapture, etc. One would think that all true Greek scholars would be in one denomination.
Every denomination has supposed experts in the Greek language. The Jehovah Witnesses do. The Mormons do. The Catholics do and so do the Baptists, Methodists, Pentecostals, Congregationalists, Presbyterians and every other denomination. The layman in his pew has a false sense of security that somewhere in the upper echelons or possibly in the pulpit is a man who can back up everything with the Greek. He is sadly mistaken.
There is no excuse for Baptists to use such hocus-pocus. The King James Bible as it is written is a Baptist book. It is the proof for Baptist doctrine. The great miracle behind that statement is that the men who translated the King James Bible despised Baptists. They were divided between Arminians and Calvinists as well as Episcopalians and Presbyterians. They all believed in a state church. In their intellectual honesty they forged a book that destroyed the bedrock tenets of their various denominations. The Presbyterians, Episcopalians and all their offshoot denominations have had to abandon the King James Bible in order to uphold their respective theologies.
Taken as it is written, keeping each context straight, the King James Bible refutes current Protestant and Catholic theology. A person cannot teach a state church without changing the last preposition in Luke 17:21. Neither shall they say, Lo here! Or, lo there! For, behold, the kingdom of God is within you. The Arminian position falls apart if 1John 3:9 is left exactly as it appears in the AV 1611. Whosoever is born of God (the inward man of I Pet 3: 4) doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. Calvinists rage against Hebrews 2:9b as it appeared in 1611. That he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
A King James Bible will always teach the Baptist position. Yet, the Baptists did not create the King James Bible, the King James Bible created the Baptists. The other denominations have been forced to constantly re-edit and rework their bibles every few years. They refuse to change their doctrine. They must, therefore change their bible. They all grope through a morass of faulty manuscripts in a language that is foreign to them. They will stay in that state until the antichrist appears to give them a common faith.
Not surprisingly, there is as much ambiguity and confusion among Greek scholars as among those who know nothing of the language. Men do not learn their doctrine from reading Greek. They learn their doctrine in English and then spend a lifetime trying to justify it with the limited Greek they know.
A true Bible believer is one who believes the words as they are written. A simple rule of thumb for determining if a preacher is in error is to see if what he says contradicts the King James Bible in any point in its proper context. Changing a passage to make it fit a theological point, even if that point is a true one in a different context, is like a person who carves a piece of a jigsaw puzzle to make it fit the picture. He may make it fit where he is, but somewhere else something will not go together right.
A King James Bible will never contradict itself in any point. Any change using the Greek will make it do so. After its holiness and power, the greatest single proof that the King James Bible is the Word of God is that by keeping each verse in context, and quoting it just as it stands, it is impossible to teach a heresy. Why would anyone tamper with such a Bible?
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Confession
Dr. John M. Asquith 10/29/21 6 min read
Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven, Matthew 10:32.
What does it mean to confess? I grew up as a Roman Catholic wherein I was taught to regularly, under the cover of a darkened closet, tell all of my sins to a priest. The priest would then mete out some minor penance such as saying the rosary a certain amount of times or some other form of formatted prayer and then pronounce that those sins that I had acknowledged to him were forgiven. We called that process the Sacrament of Confession.
Somehow this relic of medieval religion has come to define confession even in Baptist circles. To confess is to acknowledge. In other words, I could explain our opening verse Matthew 10:32 by saying, if we acknowledge Jesus Christ before men, he will acknowledge us before the Father. In fact whenever we see any of the 47 iterations of the word "confess" in our King James Bible, whether confess, confessed, confesseth or confession, the simple meaning is to acknowledge a fact or a belief whether that fact be our sins or our belief be the greatness of God.
The Lord made provision in the law for Israel to judge themselves and in so doing forestall or halt the judgment of God upon their iniquities and trespasses.
Leviticus 26:40: If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me,
Leviticus 26:41: And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:
Leviticus 26:42: Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.
That is exactly the process used when Ezra and Nehemiah made public confession of the sins of Israel and the greatness of God in Ezra Chapter 9 and Nehemiah Chapter 9. Daniel does the same thing in Daniel Chapter 9. Each of these great men judge themselves and their nation before God and find themselves and their people to have sinned against God. They find God to be righteous in his judgments.
Daniel 9:20: And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God;
Daniel 9:21 Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.
Daniel 9:22 And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to give thee skill and understanding.
Daniel 9:23 At the beginning of thy supplications the commandment came forth, and I am come to shew thee; for thou art greatly beloved: therefore understand the matter, and consider the vision.
Daniel 9:24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
It was in this confession for himself and for his nation that opened the doors for Daniel to receive one of the greatest prophesies in all of scripture. Did Daniel carefully go through every single transgression of the laws of God committed by himself and his nation? No, without reservation, and by faith, and in accordance with scripture he agree with God about his own and Israel's transgressions. It pleased the Lord for him to have done so. Fellowship between God and Israel was restored in Daniel Chapter 9, Ezra Chapter 9 and in Nehemiah Chapter 9.
What is the effect upon a person under the ministry and writings of the Apostle Paul when they transgress against God? Can they go to hell? No, God will kill them long before they could ever reach such a place. For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live, Romans 8:13. The Christian who lives after the flesh does not lose his or her salvation. They lose their fellowship with God. Their sin nature becomes predominant and defiles their conscience.
Romans 8:13 clearly demonstrates that even though salvation and forgiveness of our sins is complete in Christ Jesus, and even though our sins and unrighteousnesses can no longer separate us from the love of God, our behavior as saints of God can and will affect our relationship with God. This is seen at the Lord's Table.
1st Corinthians 11:27 Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.
1st Corinthians 11:28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.
1st Corinthians 11:29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.
1st Corinthians 11:30 For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
We clearly see the plight of a person secure in Christ Jesus but who walks after the flesh. He has two natures. He has the new man which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness, Ephesians 4:24. And he has his old Adamic nature which seeks to glorify self and the flesh. But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members, Romans 7:23. What can the saint of God do who finds himself at the Lord's table and realizes that he has lived after the flesh and that for him to partake of this bread and this cup would be eating and drinking damnation to himself?
He can take comfort in the mercies of God which have manifested themselves in every age of man. For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged, 1st Corinthians 11:31. What is he judging himself for if Jesus already died for all of his sins? He is judging himself because for him to acknowledge his transgressions, his carnal attitude and his disregard for God, he has the promise that God will not judge him for those things. He had better judge them as God sees them , not in some light trivial and half hearted confession. It is not we who judge such a confession, it is the Holy Ghost who has been grieved who judges.
The severest penalties other than physical death that can be inflicted upon the child of God are the withdrawal of God's fellowship, the withdrawal of his leading, the loss of reward, and the loss of some inheritance. This happens because the child of God walks after the flesh. The works of the flesh become manifest in his life. If you have ever been caught in this trap, you know that it takes grace from God to escape and to live in the new man.
That brings us to 1st John 1:9; If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. How is that different from 1st Corinthians 11:31? It is not different in any way. How can the saint of God who finds himself trapped in carnality and cannot seem to reestablish fellowship with God get out of his bind? He can judge himself. As we have seen in every usage of the word confession in a King James Bible, that means to acknowledge his sins and transgressions. That is confession of sins. What does God do if a person judges himself, acknowledges his transgressions, confesses his sins (three synonymous phrases)? God miraculously intervenes to deliver him from the power of his carnal nature. In other words, he cleanses us from all unrighteousness.
At least three or four times a week I get charts sent to me which warn me that I am under Paul's ministrations and writings, not under the other Apostles. These people study their charts so long and hard that they don't actually think about the verses they read. Giving them a King James Bible is like giving Alex Baldwin a pistol. They just blindly pull triggers. 1st John 1:9 is not a pathway to salvation. Like 1st Corinthians 11:31, it is a pathway to restoring fellowship.
A man from my ministry who is traveling from meeting to meeting called me this week to express his utter dismay at the blindness that exists out there in the fundamentalist fantasy land. I told him that I was glad that he is getting a first rate education in the degeneration of the King James Bible Churches. Their King James Bibles are a prop which function more like a gang password than a light unto their feet. He watched an auditorium full of preachers amen a man who declared that 1st John 1:9 wasn't for them.
Get rid of your little charts and fancy pants theologies. Start reading and studying your scripture. Keep in mind that it was the Apostle Paul's job to take the Gentile by the hand and to explain the rest of the bible to them. When he explained 1st John 1:9, too many of these men miss it.
Dr. John M. Asquith 10/26/21 4 min read
So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air, 1st Corinthians 14:9.
I am currently finishing up a book which I find to be both instructive and maddening. It is instructive because it is written by a master at his craft. It is written by a man who has been a pastor for over 50 years and has delivered many married couples from the bondage of misunderstanding Ephesians 5:23, which when misunderstood turns the husband into an abusive bully.
The author is a holy man of God who graduated from Tennessee Temple in the 1960s when they still produced godly graduates. They were also steeped in the error of the day thinking that the King James Bible was accurate in that it followed the majority text, but that only a knowledge of the underlying Greek could ever really get to the truth of what God is saying.
As I read his sentences I have two reactions. I marvel at his insight and wisdom of exposing the hollow cheap way in which most pastors exposit Ephesians 5:23 (the Husband is the head of the wife), and I rejoice as this author demonstrates from scripture that that is a sacrificial headship, not a dictatorial headship. Then I cringe after he uses a perfectly good verse which said exactly what he says it said, and highlights its meanings by giving Greek or Hebrew definitions. He has made the simple truths that he has so carefully culled from scripture and life experience over the years and made them a little tougher to grasp by using over-speak.
As an example he quotes 2nd Corinthians 12:1; I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. If you spoke that verse to 1000 people who had rudimentary English Skills, 999 of them would get it. There would be one overeducated lunkhead who by searching for a deeper meaning would stray into left field, but the verse says exactly what Paul wanted it to say. Paul said it in Greek, we read it in English. Our author, by training is not content. He exposits the Greek. He writes, "His choice of word for "vision" Is the Greek "optasia", referring to a visual presentation whether awake or asleep".
He compounds the over-speak with the word "revelation wherein he quotes the Touch Bible App by showing us the Greek word "apokalypsis" means "to unveil something for display, to make it known, to be manifested, to appear, to make known to all". If 999 people out of a 1000 could understand 2nd Corinthians 12:1 just fine as it is written in your King James Bible, why confuse them? Now the reader is invited to read the verse as "We will come to visual presentations given while I was awake or asleep and things to be manifested, to appear, to be made known to all". That is a perfect way to obfuscate a perfectly understandable verse.
Imagine being the leader of your country and that you are negotiating with a hostile country. You are using an interpreter. Your hostile counterpart says in his language and according to his understanding, "We would like to disengage from our current nuclear standoff. Your interpreter turns to you and begins defining variant meanings to the words used. "We, (or a collective pronoun indicating both you and him, or his country, or those in his country to whom he feels loyalty), would like, (a possible desirable outcome or preference indicating an outcome beneficial to their needs), to disengage, ( cause to cease from joining, stop a union, no longer act in tandem), from our current, ( speaking of that which is now as opposed to future or past reality) nuclear, (having to do with the nucleus of an atom, or any relationship involving a central point for joining, or dealing with radioactive materials), standoff, (inflexible counter positions, to stand askance one from another).
Your interpreter has not helped you. He has hurt you. He has made the plain light of truth dim and confusing. He has subverted your power of reasoning by overwhelming it with far too many choices. What every leader of a nation needs when negotiating with a foreign leader is an interpreter who he can trust. He needs someone who can hear in one language, understand in another language and repeat what he has heard in the tongue of his employer. We have a bible which past generations did not understand that they could trust. We have a bible translated by men who understood what God was saying and by the Holy Ghost interpreted it for us in the English Tongue.
I will finish this man's book and be grateful to the man who wrote it and to the man who sent it to me. I will overlook the foible of a man who received his education and cut his teeth in the ministry before the great body of evidence on bible preservation and translation that we have today was made public. I will learn and profit from this man. I will also beg you the reader to keep it simple. Just quote your King James Bible.
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APPLYING STUDY TO PREACHING
Dr. John M. Asquith 4 days ago (10/21/21)
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APPLYING STUDY TO PREACHING
Dr. John M. Asquith 4 days ago (10/21/21) 1 min read
Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine, 2nd Timothy 4:2.
The Apostle Paul admonished men to preach with two things, longsuffering anttd doctrine. I refer to myself as a doctrinal preacher. By that, I mean that I explain a doctrine from the pulpit, I expect the Holy Ghost to begin stirring in peoples’ hearts, and then I go wheresoever the Spirit of God leads me. I resolve to remain longsuffering because I have people who have sat in a blind stupor for many years only to awaken at some point to their peril or to their blindness.
I am putting a link to a message I preached at least 10 years ago, but which seems to illustrate the power of doctrine in preaching. At www.onesoulatatime.net you can hear many messages that may help you or someone that you love. The message is titled, The Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus. I attempt to use the law of Moses, the Gospels, and the Pauline Epistles to define that law and to make the hearer understand it.
This may help some of you who may wonder why I am stressing the study of Old Testament sacrifice.
May I highly recommend the tab on onesoulatatime.net that is labeled Leviticus. It is a series taught by Dale Morey of Liberty Behind Bars who was saved and trained here at Black Creek.
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An Introduction to:
Paul Scott
Paul Scott Dec 7, 2020 1 min read
KJV in Vietnam
I'm not much of a facebook person, but recently a young Vietnamese man sent a note via fb. This is his note:
"Hi teacher Paul, I has lived and taught in Hanoi for 1 year. And one study now are reading the KJV. Does anyone have your book in Hanoi."
He refers to English for Bible Readers, and we are trying to get him a copy. Well, this is a great blessing! Imagine, in Hanoi, the capitol of Vietnamese Communism, not only is there a Bible study, they are conducting a King James Bible study! (Many of the younger Vietnamese speak some level of English.)
"Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord" (1 Cor. 15:58).
Amen.
Pastor John Asquith, New York, USA: We live in a time when it seems everyone is trying their hand at writing about the King James Bible. Very few of these books and articles have anything new to offer. My surprise was great when I was given a copy of Paul Scott's excellent work, English For Bible Readers.
Here was a book that filled a great void in explaining the vocabulary and the rules (grammar) for the English of the King James Bible. I have long rued the absence of such a book and have seen much mischief done by those ignorant of the rules for the King's English. This book was intended for Vietnamese Christians reading the King James Bible, but in providing for their need, Brother Scott has provided for his own nation's need. To God be the glory.
I can only hope that the reader will find the same satisfaction in reading this work. I have spent thirty years studying the King James Bible, but I felt like a boy in short pants as I turned the pages of this book: I learned something from almost every page. Every Christian English program in every King James-believing school should have this book for a textbook.
Pastor John Asquith, New York, USA
"I consumed English for Bible Readers in short order and am determined to get it into the hands of other men. - Pastor Stephen Charette, Massachusetts, USA
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Before approaching English for Bible Readers, I had no idea about the deep and wonderful vocabulary as well as the style of the King James Bible. I have seen many people using the other versions, which seem easier to read and understand. However, through this book, I realized that English for Bible Readers is indeed an accurate and wonderful aid in exploring the Bible. I am amazed at the way the King James Bible expresses God's Word, and thanks to Teacher Paul Scott's work, I have explored many interesting revelations that may only exist in the King James Bible.
As you read through English for Bible Readers, you will find this book a very helpful tool to understand more clearly about the powerful Word of God. Also, you can approach a larger knowledge of history, grammar etc, and above all, you can find many answers to your very own needs in this book.
It was a great pleasure for me to be the translator of English for Bible Readers-Vietnamese version. As a translator, and also as a young Vietnamese reader, I have found my inspiration from this source. My prayer is that all readers, especially the readers in Vietnam, will enjoy this book. An amazing point of view is waiting for you to explore and meditate.
Teacher Bao Chau, Vietnam
English for Bible Readers
by Paul W. Scott
English for Bible Readers
Copyright @ 2008 Paul Scott
Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the King James Bible.
ISBN: 978-0-692-00076-2
Cover design by Grant Miller
For more information or additional copies, please contact: Paul Scott 746 Norton Street Rochester, NY 14621 pwscott61@gmail.com
Printed in the United States by Morris Publishing" 3212 East Highway 30 Kearney, NE 68847 1-800-650-788
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ...... a
Prologue .... .c
Introduction ...... l
History ..... .7
Fidelity & Focus ......... 17
Original Debate ......... 25
Vocabulary ...... 41
Personal Pronouns ....... 51
Reflexive Pronouns .... 63
Relative Pronouns ...... 71
Verbs ..... 79
Auxiliary Verbs ......... 91
Verbs: Past Tense ....... 97
Verbs: Present Tense ..... .101
Verbs: Future Tense ... .. 109
Punctuation ... .113
Conclusion .121
Common Questions ... .125
Final Exam ........... 135
Testimony ................. 139
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Further Thoughts on the Word of God: Revised and Expanded Edition
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This book will: Defend the Integrity of the 400 year editing process that gave us our modern King James Bible.
This book will dispel rumors that the King James Bible was re-translated in the mid 1700s, and also contains history that has not yet been published.
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Reconciling Contradictory Passages
Hebrews 9:3 And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all;
Hebrews 9:4 Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;
When the Apostle Paul wrote of the inner chamber of the Tabernacle and listed those things contained therein, he included the golden censer. There is a revelation here and there is a clue here. The revelation is that the High Priest's censer was made of gold. The clue tells you that the Apostle Paul is zeroing in on a particular day when he describes for us what is in the Most Holy Place.
First, let's get one thing straight. There is no "Holy of Holies" in your King James Bible. "Holy of Holies" would be a literal translation of the Hebrew into English if "Holy" was a noun in English like it is in Hebrew. It is not. When you hear a preacher say Holy of Holies, his speech bewrayeth him. You know that he learned his doctrine from the particular point on which he is speaking from commentaries not from reading a King James Bible. Our bible correctly interprets the Hebrew phrase as "the Most Holy Place".
(There are older preachers much more spiritually sound than I will ever be who consistently use unbiblical terms such as Holy of Holies. Our awareness of the majesty of the King James Bible and the profusion of excellent resources to prove its inspiration and excellence were missing in their younger days. Leave them alone. If you want to provoke my ire, run up and rebuke one of these godly men in my presence. What we need to do is train today's younger preachers ( 60 and under) to speak biblically. If the older ones feel a need after years of pleasing God to sharpen their preaching so be it.)
Why did the Apostle Paul place the golden censer in the Most Holy Place when Moses only lists the Mercy Seat for furniture in there? In Hebrews 9:4, the NIV in its never ending bid to make scripture unintelligible clearly contradicts Moses by placing the Golden Altar of Incense in the Most Holy Place; which had the golden altar of incense and the gold-covered ark of the covenant. This ark contained the gold jar of manna, Aaron’s staff that had budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant. The ESV does the same thing.
Fortunately the King James translators were not that ignorant. The truth is that the golden censer was in the Most Holy Place one day every year. Moses describes the High Priest's duty on the Day of Atonement; And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the LORD, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the vail, Leviticus 16:12. The clue that we get when reading Hebrews 9:4, is that the Apostle Paul is describing the Most Holy Place as it was on the Day of Atonement while the High Priest was present.
The golden censer is in the Most Holy Place because the High Priest was commanded to take it in with him once a year. You can be sure he also brought it back out. The Apostle Paul has given a snapshot of that day.
If you read the rest of Hebrews Chapter 9, that becomes obvious. To whom is it not obvious? It is not obvious to those who have been taught that the bible is too hard to perfectly translate and that they must always seek outside sources to understand difficult passages. The truth is not obvious to those who search through all of the other versions to get a consensus for the truth.
For those of us who by the grace of our God know that he has fulfilled his promise of a perfect bible by giving us the King James Bible, we wait when we are confused by a seeming contradiction. We approach the contradiction with a humility that says that we are but flesh and our bible is eternally holy. We bow our heads and ask the God of all comfort to comfort us with the understanding that we so clearly lack. We then trust the written words of a King James Bible to show us and we trust the Holy Ghost to enlighten us by using those words.
The King James Bible is the words of the Holy Ghost. He will not speak outside of it. There are passages in my bible in which God has revealed their sense to me in in mere minutes and there are some in which he has taken 5, 10, 15, and even 40 years to ground me in the precepts that I need to understand that given passage. What I will never do is grope in the burning garbage heaps of the new translations or search the draught pits of the lexicons to gain insight. "Trusting your King James Bible" and "trusting God" are synonymous phrases.
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Builded or Built
Paul Scott
Sep 12, 2021 4 min read
Both builded and built are past participles of build. Dictionaries, even my beloved Oxford, dismiss the difference. They declare, Builded = Built; it’s simply a poetic, and now archaic, version of built. I have never believed this, but for years wondered without understanding why the Bible translators used both, sometimes within the same sentence:
“For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.”
- Hebrews 3:4
Surely they knew what they were doing, and didn’t just randomly throw in an archaic or poetic participle. Why would they use one, and then, in a seemingly identical case, use the other?
“…and there builded an altar unto the Lord….and there he builded an altar unto the LORD….” Genesis 12:7, 8
Poetic? Hmmmm, later, the same man, doing exactly the same activity:
“…and Abraham built an altar there….” - Genesis 22:9
We’ve looked into transitive / intransitive verbs, object and subject, and other such grammatical escape hatches – but nothing was conclusive. Until, in daily reading in Nehemiah, something caught my attention. This is early in the eureka!! reaction and so with both excitement and trepidation I present my findings to the blog readers and humbly ask you to judge the value of the nugget: is it real or fool’s gold?
Wall Building
In Nehemiah, chapter 3, the Jews were repairing the wall. In 3:1, they builded. In 3:2, next to him builded. Then, and not randomly, in 3:3, “But the fish gate did the sons of Hassenaah build…” Ah, with the helping verb did, the base verb is used. Why? Why not builded? Keep reading: “…who also laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, and locks thereof, and the bars thereof.” Something included here that the sentences of builded (3:1,2) did not have: Beams, doors, locks, and bars. Everything necessary to complete this section of wall.
Moving ahead to Nehemiah chapter 3:14,15.
“He built it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof.”
He gathered together a complete set of materials and hardware: built is used. This pattern is repeated in 3:15.
Now, the opponents mocked the Jews as they began to repair the wall (4:1-3), word came to Sanballat that “we builded the wall.” (Far from complete or secure: even a fox, if he jumped on the wall, would knock it down!)
But, after the prayers and hard work of the Jews, this declaration,
“So built we the wall, and all the wall was joined together…” (4:6)
Notice the words used in context: all and together. Again, built, not builded, is used. Curious.
It’s my conclusion that Built is associated with the descriptors of the subject: all and together.
So, according to this thesis, in the opposite corner sits builded – and the descriptors associated with this supposed archaic participle are the opposites of all and together: incomplete and separated.
Let’s read on and see if this pans out. Being physically threatened, the Jews had to divide the repairmen into groups, one to affect repairs (while bearing arms) and the other stood guard. While they all were involved, not all were involved with the action of TO BUILD.
“They which builded on the wall….and so builded…” (Neh. 4:17,18)
Here, in describing the actual builders, the poetic past participle is used: builded.
To prove my case, that the KJV translators weren’t just randomly throwing in poetic words (such as builded), but were in fact revealing great details. So, we read on regarding the condition of these builded repairmen:
“The work is great and large, and we are separated upon the wall, one far from another.” - Nehemiah 4:19
Builded = separated (not together). Interesting
Is it tedious to continue with these proofs? I hope not! One more from Nehemiah: in chapter 6: 1, Nehemiah states that the enemies “…heard that I builded the wall…” Here builded is used; but, the wall had no breach left therein. It would seem the wall was completed, and therefore built, instead of builded, should be used. I wonder if the translators, led by the Holy Spirit, recognized the apparent contradiction – for the sentence continues with a parenthetical clause:
“…(though at the time I had not set up the doors upon the gates;) …”
(Neh. 6:1)
Not quite finished; the doors were not set up. Builded is used. Then, after additional intrigue and prayers, he makes a point to tell us he did get the doors set up, and he reports in this context “…the wall was built…” (7:1)
"Now it came to pass, when the wall was built, and I had set up the door…."(7:1)
Now it’s finished, including the doors. Built isused.
Altar Building
Back to Genesis 12:7, 8; 22:9. Is there anything incomplete that would require the use of builded, rather than built? Check out the text of Gen. 22:9: Abraham built an altar there; why use built here? The answer is in 22:8: “ … so they went both of them together.”
Back in the accounts of chapter 12: Isaac, the sacrifice, wasn’t with his father. Builded is used. Later, as recorded in chapter 22, Isaac is present, they are together. Built is used.
House Building
One more case:
“For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.”
Hebrews 3:4
Following our logic, we would expect to find words such as together and all connected with built; and a sense of incompleteness with builded. And, yes, this holds true here: all things follows built. Also note the actors (the builders): some man = builded; God = built. One is obviously secure, one isn’t.
And yet again, this is consistent with the theme of Hebrews. The First (O.T. system), represented by Moses and the Law, and revealed as some man, was incomplete; unable to complete the job of our salvation. Builded.
The Second (N.T. faith), presented by Christ, revealed as God, is better than the First in every way. It’s complete, it’s all. Built.
And, again, from Nehemiah:
“Now the city was large and great: but the people were few therein, and the houses were not builded” (Neh. 7:4).
Clearly the focus has been on building the wall, not their houses. Their houses were not completed; this is confirmed by the participle builded.
Dictionaries and “experts” have their place, but they often take the east route to explain differences between words like built and builded. Give the translators and the Holy Spirit the benefit of the doubt and thereby find real nuggets along the way. What an excellent communication tool we have in the Early Modern English of the Authorized Version (KJV).
Nugget or fool’s gold?
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A Simple Bible Study
But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him, 1st John 2:27.
Perhaps one of the greatest stumbling blocks to really understanding the bible is the lie that you need some man to teach you. This statement may seem hypocritical coming from a man who teaches the bible. I think that everyone can agree that the simple basics of the bible should be taught to everyone in their youth or sometime after they first become acquainted with the bible. Such teaching is for beginners or for those who have strayed through carnality. For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat, Hebrews 5:12.
At the Black Creek Baptist Church as I am sure many churches do, we use Sunday School to augment the bible instruction for young people who do not get it at home. There we hope to give the students the general body of Christian knowledge concerning the bible itself and important bible stories and principles. We are blessed to have teachers who truly love their students and truly care that they learn the precepts of God.
Where we differ from many churches is our encouragement to the people to study their bibles for themselves. Evangelist Timothy McVey has pointed out that in most revival meetings the emphasis of altar calls is to call the people to greater service. An evangelist gets up and preaches one of his 20 or so stock messages. When he is done, he gets the piano player to play some hymn while he softly asks all of the people who have heads bowed and eyes closed if they are doing enough for God. He then invites them up to the altar to get that right with God.
The result in most of our Fundamental Baptist Churches is a body of members who are worn out as the church shrinks year by year. We have not had to emphasize service here in Black Creek. God has blessed us with a few who are happy to serve. What we emphasize is for them to know God better. They won't do that by hours of prayer. If you think that hours of prayer will help you know God better, go join a cloistered monastery or convent. Prayer is when you talk to God. I'm all for that, but you don't learn about a person by talking to them. You learn about a person by listening to them.
The King James Bible is how to listen to God. The better you know your bible, the more you will know about God. I am not denying that there are times when the Holy Ghost impresses certain thoughts or ideas onto someone's consciousness. I just know that all cults, false teachers, mystics, bible correcters and just about everyone else claims to get special prodding or insight from God. The only way to discern whether or not that prodding is holy and from God is to be in harmony with a King James Bible. To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them, Isaiah 8:20. The way false teachers get around that is to search through various versions until they find one that agrees with their inner thoughts. A King James Bible is security against that.
One study that I give my people is the study of the Tabernacle. Once it finally occurs to you that there is no revelation on this earth about the Tabernacle that is not contained in the words of a King James Bible, you can research the Tabernacle for yourself without teaching aides. Get a piece of paper and draw a simple outline of the Tabernacle walls. Make an inch to be a cubit or use some other ratio, but draw an outline of the walls by just using the text of your bible.
Once you have that basic outline, begin to make simple drawings of each piece of the Tabernacle. Keep in mind that everything that God told Moses is written for us in English. We may not know what a horn looked like, or how Bezaleel formed the crown of certain objects, but we can know the exact dimensions of each object. Draw them with what ever skill level you have. I have almost no skill in drawing but with a ruler for a straight edge and with a King James Bible, I was able to draw each piece.
The next step is to locate the place of each piece in the simple drawing you have of the Tabernacle itself. Even these simple things that I have instructed you to do can be vexing. If you wrestle them out and not cheat by looking up other drawings of the Tabernacle, you can eventually get it. There are few greater satisfactions in bible study than to be stymied by something that you just can't seem to see, pray to God to help you find it, and then eventually find the key to that puzzle written in some other place in the bible than where you had been looking.
It is this kind of study that will turn you into a doctrinal bible believer. The King James Bible movement is a big tent. There are many in its ranks who can expound the historical accuracy of our King James Bible and then ignore what it says doctrinally. I teach my people that there are historical bible believers and there are doctrinal bible believers.
It is the King James Bible and the King James Bible alone which will make you into a doctrinal bible believer. I see my role as a pastor and a teacher not as a quarterback calling the plays, but as a blocker in a running play. I give my people the ball and try to use my preaching to block all of the pitfalls that will slow them down or tackle them. It is my joy to see my people run with the word of God and slowly be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God, Ephesians 3:18,19. Learning the breadth, and length, an depth, and height is joy to a bible believer. Start with the Tabernacle.
Trust your King James Bible.
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Dr. John M. Asquith 10/17/21
4 min read
Reconciling Contradictory Passages
Hebrews 9:3 And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all;
Hebrews 9:4 Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;
When the Apostle Paul wrote of the inner chamber of the Tabernacle and listed those things contained therein, he included the golden censer. There is a revelation here and there is a clue here. The revelation is that the High Priest's censer was made of gold. The clue tells you that the Apostle Paul is zeroing in on a particular day when he describes for us what is in the Most Holy Place.
First, let's get one thing straight. There is no "Holy of Holies" in your King James Bible. "Holy of Holies" would be a literal translation of the Hebrew into English if "Holy" was a noun in English like it is in Hebrew. It is not. When you hear a preacher say Holy of Holies, his speech bewrayeth him. You know that he learned his doctrine from the particular point on which he is speaking from commentaries not from reading a King James Bible. Our bible correctly interprets the Hebrew phrase as "the Most Holy Place".
(There are older preachers much more spiritually sound than I will ever be who consistently use unbiblical terms such as Holy of Holies. Our awareness of the majesty of the King James Bible and the profusion of excellent resources to prove its inspiration and excellence were missing in their younger days. Leave them alone. If you want to provoke my ire, run up and rebuke one of these godly men in my presence. What we need to do is train today's younger preachers ( 60 and under) to speak biblically. If the older ones feel a need after years of pleasing God to sharpen their preaching so be it.)
Why did the Apostle Paul place the golden censer in the Most Holy Place when Moses only lists the Mercy Seat for furniture in there? In Hebrews 9:4, the NIV in its never ending bid to make scripture unintelligible clearly contradicts Moses by placing the Golden Altar of Incense in the Most Holy Place; which had the golden altar of incense and the gold-covered ark of the covenant. This ark contained the gold jar of manna, Aaron’s staff that had budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant. The ESV does the same thing.
Fortunately the King James translators were not that ignorant. The truth is that the golden censer was in the Most Holy Place one day every year. Moses describes the High Priest's duty on the Day of Atonement; And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the LORD, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the vail, Leviticus 16:12. The clue that we get when reading Hebrews 9:4, is that the Apostle Paul is describing the Most Holy Place as it was on the Day of Atonement while the High Priest was present.
The golden censer is in the Most Holy Place because the High Priest was commanded to take it in with him once a year. You can be sure he also brought it back out. The Apostle Paul has given a snapshot of that day.
If you read the rest of Hebrews Chapter 9, that becomes obvious. To whom is it not obvious? It is not obvious to those who have been taught that the bible is too hard to perfectly translate and that they must always seek outside sources to understand difficult passages. The truth is not obvious to those who search through all of the other versions to get a consensus for the truth.
For those of us who by the grace of our God know that he has fulfilled his promise of a perfect bible by giving us the King James Bible, we wait when we are confused by a seeming contradiction. We approach the contradiction with a humility that says that we are but flesh and our bible is eternally holy. We bow our heads and ask the God of all comfort to comfort us with the understanding that we so clearly lack. We then trust the written words of a King James Bible to show us and we trust the Holy Ghost to enlighten us by using those words.
The King James Bible is the words of the Holy Ghost. He will not speak outside of it. There are passages in my bible in which God has revealed their sense to me in in mere minutes and there are some in which he has taken 5, 10, 15, and even 40 years to ground me in the precepts that I need to understand that given passage. What I will never do is grope in the burning garbage heaps of the new translations or search the draught pits of the lexicons to gain insight. "Trusting your King James Bible" and "trusting God" are synonymous phrases.
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Understanding
Dr. John M. Asquith
Oct 7, 2021 3 min read
Understandest thou what thou readest?, Acts 8:30.
There are still places in a King James Bible that I have no idea why they say what they say. For over 40 years, when I have read such a passages I have wondered. The last things that I ever intend to do about those passages is to consult a commentary or to consult a lexicon in an attempt to decipher the meaning by borrowing some alternative meaning for a Greek or Hebrew word.
In that period of time, I have had many passages come alive for me. Passages that for 25 to 30 years had seemed incomprehensible to me suddenly made sense as I read them. Over the many years when those passages had seemed dark to me, I slowly built my knowledge and understanding in other passages. Like tumblers in a combination lock, as I slowly learned and understood more about supporting passages to a particular place, the passage that had so vexed me unlocked its meanings for me.
There is simply no substitute for understanding the word of God other than to allow precept to be added to precept and line to be added to line.
Isaiah 28:10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
Isaiah 28:11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.
We have the word of God in this other tongue and through it God speaks to us. What is all too often lacking is understanding. The devil has wrought havoc in the churches by this lack of understanding. Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way, Psalm 119:104.
There is a three pronged approach to understanding the bible.
1. There must be a perfect bible that the reader can trust. Recently, Brother Paul Scott published a post titled Builded or Built. Some time ago, he had contacted me and noted that the King James Bible used both forms of the word "build". When he saw that both words were in use and even were used in the same verse (Hebrews 3:4) he realized that each word had a slightly different meaning. How did he know that? He knew that they had different meaning because he believed the text in front of him. He knew that it was never arbitrary or haphazard for any particular word to be used. There is always a reason and it is to God's pleasure to reveal that reason. Trusting that the bible in front of us is always the first step.
By believing what he saw written, Brother Scott was able to resist the dictionaries that said that the words were synonymous. Clearly they were not synonymous in a King James Bible. He then was able to look at each word as it was used in context and God showed him the difference.
2. God must give a person understanding. Apart from receiving the Holy Ghost in John 20:22, and utterly separated from the Day of Pentecost, Jesus Christ opened the understanding of his disciples. Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures, Luke 24:45. Understanding does not come naturally to men. The Apostle Paul spoke of the natural state of man when he said; There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God, Romans 3:11.
No man ever sought God until God enabled him to seek. Just as a palsied man could not stretch forth his hand until he heard Jesus Christ command him to do so, a sinner is unable to seek God until he hears the command to seek God through the preaching of the word of God. So is the man who would seek to understand the things of God. Let him ask the Lord to open his understanding. That was some of the best advice that I ever got as a young man.
3. A man or woman who seeks to understand must pay a price. Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth, 1st Timothy 2:15. Solomon said; much study is a weariness of the flesh, Ecclesiastes 12:12. There is a occasional joy to bible study, but there is more often than not a weariness to the flesh. Reading the bible and studying the bible are two distinctly different things. a person who seeks to understand and know God must do both.
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Does Gender Matter?
Dr. John M. Asquith
Sep 22, 2021 3 min read
That every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, being an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free; that none should serve himself of them, to wit, of a Jew his brother, Jeremiah 34:9.
The Prophet Jeremiah was very specific when he recorded the liberty that King Zedekiah proclaimed for the people. Every man was to release his manservants, and every man was to release his maidservants. Whether the person was an Hebrew (male) or a Hebrewess (female) mattered to God. Our King James Bible preserves that gender specific language. The new bibles gloss over such old fashioned gender specific terms as Hebrewess by just saying, "whether they be male or female". Does that matter?
It matters if you want a perfect bible without error. A Moabite was not allowed into the Congregation of Israel even unto the 10th generation. An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the LORD for ever, Deuteronomy 23:3. If a Moabite could not enter into the Congregation of the Lord forever, how did Ruth enter in? Why was David made King if a Moabite could not enter in even to the tenth generation?
The answer is simple. Ruth was not a Moabite. The NIV calls her a Moabite as in Ruth 1:22: So Naomi returned from Moab accompanied by Ruth the Moabite. The ESV calls her a Moabite in the same place as well as every other place that it can: So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabite her daughter-in-law with her. The word of God does not call her a Moabite; So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter in law, with her, which returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest, Ruth 1:22.
We have an exact bible. Even though there are distinct different words for a male and a female Moabite or Moabitess, God did not ban a Moabitess from entering the congregation. He banned the Moabite. God made provision for bringing enemy females into the congregation.
Deuteronomy 21:10: When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the LORD thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive,
Deuteronomy 21:11: And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife;
Deuteronomy 21:12: Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;
Deuteronomy 21:13: And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife.
The problem with the new versions is that no one expects minute accuracy. God intended that we have a bible that is correct in every jot and tittle. It is impossible for a King James Bible to contradict itself in any passage as long as the reader keeps in mind the context with which he is dealing. No other version can say that. Surprise, surprise, gender matters in the word of God! You probably have friends who are angry over the modern gender confusion going on in our culture and then proudly carry a new version which coyly goes along with the confusion. Stick to your King James Bible. There are no errors in it.
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Dr. John M. Asquith Sep 9, 2021 5 min read
Principles of Interpretation II
But they could not shew the interpretation of the thing, Daniel 5:15.
Why couldn't the wise men of Babylon show the interpretation?, because they did not have the word of God. The first and foremost principle of interpretation is that without the word of God there can be no certainty. I am not saying that all King James Bible believers have identical interpretations of all major passages of the bible. What we have in harmony is that we know that the truth is contained within the pages of our King James Bible. The truth is in the actual text itself, and that any person with average intelligence who can read English, and has a relationship with the Holy Ghost can be given an understanding as good as any person who ever read the original manuscripts.
In fact, we have an advantage over any person with the original manuscripts. The people at Thessalonica who received Paul's two letters had those and copies of some other letters as well as access to the Old Testament. In our King James Bible we have the complete infallible scriptures in a readable and accessible format, all in one language. What follows will be three principles of interpretation that can guide the bible believer.
How do we know when a psalm is messianic? In other words, just as the Ethiopian Eunuch asked Phillip, of whom speaketh the prophet this? of himself, or of some other man?, Acts 8:34. How do we know when we read a psalm whether the writer is speaking of himself or he is speaking of the coming Messiah? We follow Peter's lead in Acts 2.
When Peter addressed the crowd who gathered on the Day of Pentecost, he had their attention, but the crowd came out of curiosity not out of a sense that he had apostolic insight. When he quoted Psalm 16 he stated that David was speaking of Jesus Christ. Today we accept that because we know that he spoke as given understanding from God. The crowd before him needed to be convinced.
Acts 2:25: For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved:
Acts 2:26: Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope:
Acts 2:27: Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
Acts 2:28: Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.
What Peter did was to reason with them.
Acts 2:29: Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day.
Acts 2:30: Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;
Act 2:31 He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.
What he reasoned was that Psalm 16 could not possibly apply to David the author of the psalm because the psalm stated, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. It was obvious to all who listened to Peter that day that King David did see corruption. He was in a tomb in Jerusalem. Peter left them no choice. If a psalm says something in the first person such as saying "I" or "me", and it was not possible for that psalm to be speaking of the author himself, the psalm is a messianic psalm. It speaks of Jesus Christ.
Using that reasoning, look at Psalm 22: 16, they pierced my hands and my feet. Ask yourself the question, in all of the passages describing the life of David, is there a time when his hands and feet were pierced? No, there was not. Therefore the Messiah will have his hands and his feet pierced. It really is that simple. As you go through the psalms, there will be places where the psalms disrupt certain theologies when that rule is applied, but either Peter's reasoning was right or it was wrong. If a psalm states something as if it is happening to the author, and yet it cannot be the author, then the psalm is messianic.
Having an exact bible means that you can trust whether a word is plural or singular. That may seem like a very small matter but the Apostle Paul found meaning in passages such as Genesis 22:17 wherein Moses wrote, and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies. Earlier, when Moses wrote of Abraham's seed he made it plural. Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, Genesis 15:13.
Even though the Book of Genesis was written 1400 years earlier, the apostle trusted whether a word was plural or singular. He didn't say, " By revelation I know that Christ is the seed of Abraham". He merely trusted that those who read his letter would trust a 1400 year old text. He didn't need any divine revelation beyond the word of God itself as it sat in front of him after 1400 years.
The next thing that the Bible believer can use to properly interpret a passage is to look at the tense of a verb. When the Sadducees tempted Jesus Christ about the doctrine of the resurrection from the dead, they made up a scenario in which after a man had died without his wife ever giving birth, the man's brother married him. In turn, that brother died only to be replaced by another brother. Then the Sadducees played their trump card; Therefore in the resurrection whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all had her, Matthew 22:28.
Jesus Christ quoted Moses to answer them and in doing so he trusted the tense of the verb in a verse that on the surface had nothing to do with the resurrection.
Mat 22:31: But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying,
Mat 22:32: I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
God did not say "I was the God of Abraham", he said, I am the God of Abraham. As the Lord spoke to Moses, it was understood that Abraham was with God at that moment. Their relationship was not ended by his death. The absolute only thing that God used to prove that was the tense of the verb from a 1400 year old text.
When you are reading the words of a King James Bible, there is no need to run to commentaries, lexicons or other devices to understand what a passage is saying. Trust it as it is. One of the truly great things that I learned from Dr. Peter Ruckman was that if a man changes any word in a text, it is because what he is teaching is not what the text actually says. Look at what the text says. If you can not understand it, bow your head and pray.
I have had passages allude me for decades only to come to life at a far distant time when I was better prepared to understand. I am so glad that I did not run to some man's writings to get the understanding. By trusting the verse just as they were written, and by patiently waiting, the Lord was eventually able to give me an understanding such as I never would have had if I had had a man teach me.
The first rule of bible interpretation is to trust the word of God as it is written. That is a King James Bible.
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Dr. John M. Asquith Sep 1, 2021 4 min read
Principles of Interpretation: Part I
Do not interpretations belong to God? Genesis 40:8.
Most people do not get their bible interpretations from the bible itself. They subscribe to a particular theology or understanding of certain bible doctrines based on their denomination, peer group, or commentaries. The idea that the average person of average intelligence and average education can pick up a bible and understand it to the point of settling major theological questions is simply absurd to the world at large.
One barrier in the world's thinking is that they don't believe that they have the complete and accurate word of God. To them, reading a bible is a religious exercise, not a means of gaining infallible truth. When they see a King James Bible believer exposit a doctrine or defend a position based on the words of the King James Bible and only on the words of a King James Bible, they assume the King James Bible believer is trapped in some legalistic web wherein he is afraid to peek at other versions.
The best mathematicians in the world could not solve an algebraic inscription on an ancient wall if some of the numbers were missing or their veracity was in doubt. Different mathematicians would get differing answers if the scholars who fed them data gave them differing numbers based on their hunches as to what the original equation said. Likewise, any puzzle involving logic can not be solved with any accuracy if any of the facts are in doubt or missing.
The bible works no differently. Granted, we have an advantage over the mathematician seeking to solve an ancient inscription or the logician who seeks to solve an ancient logistical puzzle. We have the spirit of the author of the bible living within us. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God, 1st Corinthians 2:12. Nevertheless, God communicates to us in words. His spirit is there to give us an understanding of those words, but without those words the spirit does not communicate anything above the level of feelings. God promised us something better.
As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever, Isaiah 59:21. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away, Mark 13:31. Could anything be more clear than those two verses? The first principle that needs to be understood in being able to interpret the bible is that the words of God have been miraculously preserved on this earth and that they are accessible to the common man.
Where could a person find such words? Hint! Hint! The Apostle Paul told you where to look:
Romans 3:1: What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?
Romans 3:2: Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.
When the Apostle Paul spoke of the Jews in the Book of Romans, he was not talking about converted Jews who had embraced the cross of Jesus Christ. He went so far as to tell us that; As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes, Romans 11:28. God has not stopped his love for the Jews, but they have rejected the gospel of Jesus Christ. It is to these same people that God committed the oracles of God. It was to them that the promise of Isaiah 59:21 was made. They are the people carrying about a perfect Old Testament in Hebrew.
It is telling that the modern versions uniformly reject the text carried by those same Jews. The translators and compilers of the new bibles do not believe that there is a book anywhere on this earth that is 100% the words of God. The Old Testament in the King James Bible is the interpretation of those Hebrew words carried by those Jews and commended by the Apostle Paul into a classical form of English writing that preserves the nuances and accuracy of the Hebrew Language.
The new versions are a hodge-podge of guesses by various scholars as to what they think the text should be based on many sources other than the text the Apostle Paul endorsed. The very premisses of those versions are that you, the average person on the street are not smart enough to think in the carefully crafted words of the King James Bible even though all of your forefathers who did not speak King James English could. And, they believe that the promises of Isaiah 59:21 and Mark 13:31 misfired.
If your King James Bible is practically the only English version that believes the Hebrew Text as the good apostle told us to trust it, you can have great confidence that it has the New Testament straight also. The history of how that text came to us is long and meanders through many people and places, but is available in books written by many different authors. A person does not have to tie up part of his or her intellect to believe that they have a perfect scripture. There is a perfectly accessible road map from the present day back to the apostles' time which documents the accuracy of the King James Bible for those who care to look.
To interpret the bible properly, you must have the proper words.
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INTRODUCTION TO THE NEW SERIES ...
LONG OVER DUE! (9/28/21)
GOOD INTRODUCTION
INCLUDING MOST RECENT POSTS!
One of the most important responsibilities
Christians have is to study the
Scriptures for themselves.
IF WE STUDY AND LEARN THE TRUTH … THEN THE LIES WILL STICK OUT LIKE A ‘SORE THUMB” … IF YOU ARE A BORN-AGAIN BELIEVER IN CHRIST INDWELLED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT AND HAVE DISCERNMENT! … I Corinthians 2:14
This is true of any subject in life! Any subject! The Bible is a benchmark for the TRUTH! Any TRUTH! If you study and learn the truth about the Historical Baptist Distinctives you will readily see the falsehoods that (most) of all the (other) ‘religions and cults’ that are not based on Baptistic Theology and Distinctives have. If you use modern versions and not the King James Bible and listen to false teachers (Jude 3) you will become very confused!
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ANNOUNCING THE NEW SERIES ...
LONG OVER DUE! September 24, 2021
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD: Amos 8:11.
There has been a 50 year push in most Evangelical or Fundamental churches to tell as many people as possible about Jesus Christ. At the end of that 50 year push, far fewer people know or understand Jesus Christ than ever before. Regardless of anyone else's theology, I have found that explaining to people that God's word is here on this earth, that it is perfect and that they can know it has done more to awaken people to righteousness than anything else.
Booker T. Washington once said that he wearied of young ex-slaves who had been sent off to Europe for a fancy education by wealthy do-gooders. He said they could dress fancy and discourse for hours on the various interest rates of European bonds and stocks but couldn't understand why their fathers lost a dollar on every bale of cotton they sold. Our bible colleges and local church institutes have spewed forth their modern equivalent in the ministry.
We have young men who dress right, preach well, and have very fundamental theologies. They cannot get a neighborhood to change. They can't get a family to change and they can't get an individual to change. They are utterly impotent. Their idea of soul winning is the Baptist Sacrament wherein they get people to pray their little prayer and pretend that these people truly believed.
What do tadpoles become? If you said, "frogs" you are about .001% right. Most tadpoles become fish food. Very few ever become frogs. What do these hapless victims of the Baptist Sacrament become? If you said, "saints of God" you are less accurate than your first answer. Our towns and cities all over America are filled with people who have been run through the mill of easy believism only to blend back into the sin laden lifestyles wherein the preacher found them.
The Black Creek Baptist Church is in Allegany County New York which lost 5% of its population in the last census and is down to 46,456 people. Most industry has moved out. Our township which is quite large has 700 people. A good portion of them are Amish who would never come to one of our services. In 14 years we have gone from an average attendance of 15 to 25 to an average of 60 to 80. We have drawn many people from broken drug sotted homes who had fallen through every safety net. Many of their lives are irrevocably changed. Doctors have noticed, social workers have noticed and the men who stock beer in the convenience stores have noticed.
My emphasis to the broken victims of New York State's overworked welfare system and the broken families and discouraged population is that there is a bible. It is the King James Bible. God speaks to us. We have the absolute, 100% true words of the living God. I teach them to read it. I teach them to apply it to their lives. As their lives improve, they begin to realize that the bible they are reading is indeed true. At some point they begin to tremble over the sin in their lives and become soundly converted by Jesus Christ.
I am no longer interested in debating the "theologically pure" who are quite sure that my ways are wrong. I just intend to teach a lost a dying world that the King James Bible is the word of God and that it is infallible and that they themselves can know what it says. The people who have received that teaching can't get enough church. They come for Sunday School, two services on Sunday, Wednesday Night, and they come to Thursday Night Bible Study. I hear complaints that we don't have enough meetings. My church is filled with actual converts as well as some who have drifted from other churches.
With all of that said, I am developing a bible institute degree to teach the King James Bible itself. I want them to know its vocabulary, its history, the history of England and of the English Language. I want them to be familiar with the various arguments for and against it. I want them to be sound in presenting the word of God, defending the word of God and then, and only then, preaching the word of God. If a man does that, Jesus Christ will be glorified and lives will change.
Here is a representative course that we are offering. If you want to take the course on your own, please feel free to do so. For this course we are using Will Kinney's website which he has graciously made available to the world at large. He is not associated with us, but we are indebted to him.
Brand Plucked Web: The Essential Will Kinney
Course Description:
This course will familiarize the student with the writings and research of Will Kinney. His website, Brandplucked.webs.com is probably the largest and most comprehensive compilation of defenses and explanations for the integrity of the King James Bible. As long as the internet continues in its current form, most challenges to the King James Bible whether they be historical, doctrinal, or linguistic can be successfully researched on Mr. Kinney’s site. The goal of this course is to make the student able use this site when researching difficult questions concerning our King James Bible.
Requirements:
1. Watch the first video under the heading; KJB Videos titled, Did God preserve His Inerrant words and are they found in the. King James Bible.
A. What are the four positions outlined by Will Kinney as the only four possible positions concerning the preservation of the word of God? List them and give a brief explanation of each position.
B. Considering position #4, explain in detail how Mr. Kinney helped you understand the position of an inerrant King James Bible.
C. Take one of the other 3 positions and refute it in more detail using your own words as if you were defending the King James Bible from a person who held that position.
2. Read the Article, Reasons why the King James Bible is the absolute Standard- God’s Historic Witness to the Truth.
A. Write a 500 words or more essay summarizing Mr. Kinney’s reasoning.
3. Read the Article, The Old Fashioned language of the King James Bible, subtitled, The “Old Fashioned Language” of the King James Bible “Archaic and Inerrant” beats “Modernized and Wrong Any Day of the Week.
A. Read the link on the 40 concrete examples of falsehoods taught by these fake bible versions. Choose 5 of them and explain why they are so dangerous.
4. Under the Heading KJB Videos, select 25 of the videos. Watch each of the 25 and summarize each video.
5. Using Google, type in a verse from scripture and then write Brandplucked after it. Briefly write what you found.
6. Write a final paper on how Will Kinney has helped you to appreciate the King James Bible. In that paper explain how his refutation of false versions helped as well as his explanations about the truth of the King James Bible. Minimum 1000 words.
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THE FOLLOWING ARE PREVIOUSLY
PUBLISHED POSTS FOR YOUR EDIFICATION
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Matthew 7:13-14 KJV By Bill Brinkworth
Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: 14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.” Matthew 7:13-14 KJV
There are many that claim to be Christian, but are not! They are heathen. Heathen are the unsaved, and those bound for Hell. Calling themselves Christians will not make them saved. Examine what the Bible says about heathen cloaked under the name “Christian”:
- Heathens are sometimes called Christians or God’s people.
- “… That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, saith the LORD that doeth this.” Amos 9:11-12
- This verse is speaking of a time not yet come, but the principle applies to these latter days. Not all that claim to be children of God are children of God
- Heathens pray.
- “… But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.” Matthew 6:6-7
- It is ironic that the outline for prayer (Matthew 6:9-13) that follows these verses is what many so-called “Christian” faiths vainly (without thought or meaning, empty of feeling) pray over and over.
- Heathens have religion also!
- “… This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.” Matthew 15:7-9
- There have always been those that believe themselves to be children of God, but were not. It was the religious that had killed Jesus and persecuted His followers.
- Heathens can think God is using them. (However, many times Satan, the deceiver, is blinding them, and deceiving them with false miracles from “God”.)
- “Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. Not every one that saith unto me , Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.” Matthew 7:20-23
- Heathens can go through religious routines and rituals.
- “Then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets. But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth … and you thrust out.” Luke 13:26-28
- They went to the house of God, but that didn’t make them His.
Many are religious, but lost. People may think they are Christians, but may not be. There is only one way to be a child of God — God’s way.
“… Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” John 3:3.
Are you “born again”? Are you going to Heaven by God’s narrow way of trusting Christ’s payment for your sins with His blood? Or are you a heathen bound for Hell?
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“Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time. ” Colossians 4:5 KJV
God said we are to walk in wisdom concerning the lost. Did you ever stop to think about it? That man, unsaved out there, is related to us about using our time. That is what God said, “…toward them that are without, … ” in order to reach them. Did you ever stop to think that a man out there puts a higher value on Christian living than he does about Christian doctrine? He never thinks much or wonders, “What do those people do over there at that Baptist church? But he thinks an awful lot about, “I wonder how those people at that Baptist church live?” This is uncanny about how unsaved people think of saved people.
The salvation of a man’s soul depends greatly upon what he thinks of you. You mark it down, not so much what he thinks of the Bible, or what he thinks of Jesus, or what he thinks of preaching. But the salvation of many a lost person depends on what he thinks of you and I as a Christian.
Our own estimation of your spiritual self, will determine what you do in the matter of time and witnessing to somebody else. I believe with all my heart, that a lot of people never witness or use their time to get someone saved, because of a poor estimation of their own spiritual life. God says, “Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time. ”
God has made us managers of time. — T.M.
Prepared by Roger Fulk, from the “Baptist Bread” August, 25, 2021 devotional by author Dr. Tom Malone (Deceased), Pontiac, MI. With permission from Tim Green, editor Baptist Bread.
One of the most important responsibilities Christians have is to study the Scriptures for themselves. Church is important, and one can learn quite a lot from the man of God in the pulpit, but it is up to us to study and understand what the Word of God says.
“Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.” II Tim. 2:15
II Timothy 2:15 teaches us five things about studying the Word of God:
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