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Lineage of the
Modern Corrupt Versions

Compiled by Dr. Ken Matto

(THIS is this the foundation for the King James Bible and the others (new versions) …. one foundation is solid and the other sand ….What foundation is your faith build upon? Romans 10:17)

Just as the King James Bible has a rich lineage of un-corrupted transmission through the ages, the modern versions also have a lineage. Their lineage is one of corruption, deletion, omission, addition, rejection and confusion. Modern versions are the fruit of arrogant scholarship which includes homosexuals who worked on the NIV. God never calls unbelievers to preach and neither would He call a sodomite to translate His Word.

If your pastor rejects the pure lineage of the King James Bible and accepts the corrupt translations, then he is a proponent of modern scholarship which exalts the god of education above the God of the Bible. They are seriously deceived and are a danger to spiritual growth.

THE OLD TESTAMENT

Rudolph Kittel’s Biblical Hebraica**

Dead Sea Scrolls consulted

From the Translator’s Preface in the NIV:

“Sometimes a variant Hebrew reading in the margin of the Masoretic Text was followed instead of the text itself.”

“The translators also consulted the more important early versions-the Septuagint; Aquila, Symmachus and Theodotion; the Vulgate; The Syriac Peshitta; the Targums; and for the Psalms the Juxta Hebraica of Jerome. Readings from these versions were occasionally followed where the Masoretic Text seemed doubtful and where accepted principles of textual criticism showed that one or more of these textual witnesses appeared to provide the correct reading.”

This is known as “eclectic” scholarship. In other words, if I don’t like what I read in the manuscripts, there is always another writing by an unbelieving, perverted scholar who will tell me what I want to hear.

**The modern versions use Rudolph Kittel’s Biblia Hebraica for the Old Testament. The King James uses the 1524-25 Bomberg edition of the Masoretic Text known as the Ben Chayyim text. There were two editions of Biblia Hebraica in 1906 and 1913. In the third edition, changes took place, 20,000 to be exact from the Ben Chayyim text, when the editors incorporated the readings of the Leningrad Codex (circa 1008 A.D. and believed to be written in Egypt) in his 1937 edition (completed by Albrecht Alt and Otto Esselte – Stuttgart, 1937), and it is also used in the 1977 edition of the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia. Their text was the Ben Asher text which they exchanged from the Ben Chayyim text and it contained the readings of a few minor Hebrew manuscripts.

THE NEW TESTAMENT

30-95———-Original Autographs
150————-Tatian’s Diatesseron
200————-Clement’s Manuscripts
225————-Origen’s Hexapla
331————-Vaticanus (B) – Believed to be one of Constantine’s Bibles by Eusebius
331————-Sinaiticus (Aleph) – Believed to be one of Constantine’s Bible by Eusebius
400————-Jerome’s Latin Vulgate (official bible of Roman Catholic Institution for over 1,000 years)
450————-Codex Alexandrinus (circa)
450————-Codex Ephraemi (circa)
450————-Codex Bezae (circa)
1481———–Discovery of Vaticanus (B) Manuscript in Vatican Library
1582———–Douay-Rheims New Testament
1592———–Clementine Bible (By Pope Clement VIIII 1592-1605)
1610———–Douay-Rheims Complete Bible (Jesuit Bible)
1657———–Brian Walton’s Polyglot
1707———–John Mill’s Edition
1729———–The New Testament in Greek and English (Unitarian tendencies) by Daniel Mace
1745———–The Primitive New Testament – William Whiston
1750———–Holy Bible translated from the Latin Vulgate – Richard Challoner
1764———–A new and literal translation of all the books of the Old and New Testament; with notes critical and explanatory by Anthony
                       Purver – Otherwise known as the Quaker Bible
1768———–A Literal Translation of the New Testament – Edward Harwood
1774———–Griesbach’s Greek New Testament
1790———–An Exposition of the New Testament – William Gilpin
1791———–A Translation of the New Testament – Gilbert Wakefield – He was a Unitarian
1795———–A Translation of the New Testament from the Original Greek – Thomas Haweis
1796———–An Attempt toward revising our English Translation of the Greek Scriptures – William Newcome (Unitarian)
1798———–A Translation of the New Testament from the Original Greek – Nathaniel Scarlett (A Unitarian Version)
1808———–The New Testament, An improved version upon the basis of Archbishop Newcome’s new translation with a corrected text
                       and notes critical and explanatory.  A Revision of Newcome’s 1796 Unitarian version
1808———–The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Covenant based upon the Septuagint – Charles Thomson
1823———–The New Testament in Greek and English based upon the manuscript of Greisbach
1826———–The Sacred Writing of the Apostles and Evangelists of Jesus Christ, Commonly Styled The New Testament. Translated
                       from the Original Greek by Alexander Campbell
1828———–The Gospel of God’s Anointed, the Glory of Israel, and the Light of Revelation for the Gentiles by Alexander Greaves
1828———–The New Testament in the Common Version by John Gorham Palfrey
1833———–A New and Corrected Version of the New Testament by Rodolphus Dickinson
1836———–The Book of the New Covenant of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ by Granville Penn
1840———–The New Testament translated from the text of J. J. Greisbach by Samuel Sharpe
1841———–The Holy Bible, containing the Authorized Version … with twenty thousand emendations – John Conquest, Editor
1842———–Carl Lachmann’s New Testament
1844———–Discovery of Sinaiticus (Aleph) in garbage pail at St. Helens Monastery in Sinai
1850———–The Commonly Received Version of the New Testament … With Several Hundred Emendations by Spencer Cone and
                       William Wyckoff
1851———–The New Testament translated from the Syriac Peshitta – James Murdock
1856———–A Translation of the Gospels – Andrews Norton
1857———–Tregelle’s New Testament
1858———–New Testament translated from the Original Greek based on Tischendorf’s text by Leicester Ambrose Sawyer
1859———–Tischendorf’s 7th Edition New Testament
1862———–The Life and Epistles of St. Paul – W. J. Conybeare & J. S. Howson
1863———–A Literal Translation of the New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ based on the Vaticanus Manuscript by
                      Hermann Heinfitter – Real name Frederick Parker
1864———–The Emphatic Diaglott – Benjamin Wilson
1867———–The Gospels, Acts, Epistles, and Book of Revelation: Commonly called the New Testament by J. N. Darby
1867———–The Holy Scriptures, Translated and Corrected by the Spirit of Revelation, by Joseph Smith, Jr. the Seer – Mormon
1869———–Alford’s New Testament
1869———–The New Testament – George R. Noyes (Unitarian)
1872———–Tischendorf’s New Testament
1872———–Rotherham Version – Translated from Tregelles Text – Joseph Bryant Rotherham
1875———–The New Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ
1876————The Holy Bible … translated literally from the original tongues by Julia Evelina Smith Parker
1881———–The Revised Version of Hort & Westcott
1888———–The New Covenant – J. W. Hansen
1890———–The Holy Scriptures – John Nelson Darby
1899———–Douay-Rheims American Edition
1900———–Epistles of the New Testament – Henry Hayman
1901———–The American Standard Version – Phllip Schaff – Editor
1901———–Modern American Bible – Frank Schell Ballentine (Revised in 1909)
1901———–Moffatt’s Historical New Testament – James Moffatt
1901———–Way’s Epistles – Arthur Way
1901———–Young People’s Bible or the Scriptures Corrected – Harriet Jones
1902———–The Emphasized Bible – Joseph Bryant Rotherham (4 Volumes)
1902———–Translation of the New Testament from the Original Greek – W. B. Godbey (Based on Codex Sinaiticus)
1902———–Twentieth Century New Testament (Revised 1904)
1903———–The Holy Bible in Modern English – Ferrar Fenton
1903———–The New Testament in Modern Speech – Richard Weymouth
1904———–Worrell’s New Testament – A. S. Worrel (A mediocre revision of the ASV of 1901)
1904———–Century Bible (Contains both KJV text and RV of 1881)
1905———–LLoyd’s New Testament – Samuel LLoyd
1906———–Forrester Translation – Henry Forrester
1907———–Bourne’s Gospel – A. E. Bourne
1907———–Moulton’s Modern Reader’s Bible – Richard C. Moulton
1908———–Rutherford’s Epistles
1909———–Bible in Modern English
1909———–Weaver’s New Testament – S. Townsend Weaver
1910———–The Cunard’s by F. W. Cunard
1912———–The Improved Bible Union Version – American Baptist Publishing Society
1913———–The New Testament: A Translation in Modern Speech by James Moffatt (Revised 1917)
1914———–The Numeric New Testament – Ivan Panin (Revised 1935)
1914———–Cunnington’s New Testament – E. E. Cunnington (Based on the Western Texts in the 4th Edition Greek nestle Text)
1916———–The McFayden Psalms in Modern Speech – John McFayden
1917———–The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text – Jewish Publication Society Bible
1918———–Anderson New Testament from the Sinaiticus Manuscript – Harry Tompkins Anderson
1919———–The Messages of the Bible – Frank Sanders & Charles Kent
1921———–Common Speech by T. W. Pym
1921———–The Shorter Bible – Charles Foster Kent
1921———–A Plain Translation of the New Testament by a Student – Bird McCarron
1922———–The Plainer Bible – Chaplain Frank Valentine
1923———–The New Testament: An American Translation – Edgar Goodspeed
1923———–The Riverside New Testament – William G. Ballenteen
1923———–The Robertson Translation – A. T. Robertson
1924———–The Labor Determinative Version
1924———–Centenary Translation of the New Testament – Helen Barrett Montgomery
1925———– Askwith’s Psalms – E.H. Askwith
1925———–People’s New Covenant -Arthur E. Overbury
1925———–Children’s Bible – Charles Foster Kent and Henry A. Sherman
1926———–The Moffatt Bible: A New Translation of the Bible – James Moffatt
1926———–Concordant Version – Adolph Ernst Knoch
1927———–Kent’s Student Old Testament
1927———–Smith’s and Goodspeed’s Translation
1928———–The Christian’s Bible – George LaFever
1928———–Good News according to Matthew for use by “Christian Spiritualists” – J. W. Potter
1928———– Czarnomska Version – Elizabeth Czarnomska
1929———–The Galwyn’s Psalms
1930———–The Loux Mark Edition – Dubois Loux
1931———–The Wales Psalms – Frank Wells
1932———–The Chaplain Ballenteen Edition – Frank Shell
1932———–The Kleists Memoirs of St. Peter – James Kleist
1933———–Torrey’s Four Gospels – Chaplain Cutler Torrey
1934———–Royd’s Epistles and Gospels – Thomas Fletcher Royd
1934———–The Old Testament in Colloquial English
1934———–The Wade Translation – G. W. Wade
1935———–The Westminster Version of the Sacred Scriptures (A Roman Catholic Version) – Revised 1948 – NT Only
1937———–The Cornish Translation of St. Paul – Gerald Warre Cornish
1937———–Greber’s New Testament – Johannes Greber
1937———–Martin’s New Testament – William Wallace Martin
1937———–21 Canonical Epistles
1937———–Spencer’s New Testament – Francis Spencer
1937———–The New Testament: A Translation in the Language of the People – Charles B. Williams
1938———–The Book of Books – United Society for Christian Literature
1938———–Buttonweiser’s Psalms – Moses Buttenweiser
1938———–Clementson’s New Testament – Edgar Lewis Clementson
1939———–The Osterley Psalms – W. O. E. Oesterley
1940———–Dakes’s Gospels – John A. Dakes
1941———–St. Mark in Current English – Mary Matheson
1941———–The New Testament of our Lord and Savior (Translated from Jerome’s Latin Vulgate)
1944———–The Callan’s Psalms – Charles J. Callan
1944———- Wand’s New Testament Letters – J. W. C. Wand
1945———- Stringfellow’s New Testament – Erwin Edward Stringfellow
1946———–Lenski’s Interpretation – by R. C. H. Lenski
1946———–The Revised Standard Version of the NCC – Luther Weigle, Editor
1947———–Eerdman’s Psalms – B. D. Erdman
1947———–Swann’s New Testament – George Swann – Translated from the Greek of Hort and Westcott
1948———–The Letchworth New Testament – Thomas and Ralph Ford
1949———–The Basic Bible containing the Old and New Testament in Basic English – S. H. Hooke, Editor
1949———–The Leslie Psalms – Elmer A. Leslie
1950———–The Sacred Name New Testament – Angelo Traina
1951———–The Authentic Version – Brotherhood Authentic Bible Society
1951———–The New Testament in Modern English – Olaf Morgan Norlie (Reprinted in 1962 as the Children’s Simplified NT
1951———–Vernon’s Mark – Edward Vernon
1951———–The Sacred Writings of the Apostles and Evangelists of Jesus Christ commonly styled the New Testament by G. Campbell,
                      J. MacKnight, P. Doddridge
1952———–The Revised Standard Version update
1952———–The New Testament, a New Translation in Plain English – Charles Williams
1952———–The Penguin Bible – Emil Victor Rieu & C. H. Rieu
1952———–The Four Gospels, A new Translation from the Greek – Emil Victor Rieu
1954———–The New Testament rendered from the original Greek with Explanatory Notes by James A. Kleist and Joseph L. Lilly
1954———–Kleist and Lynam’s Psalms – James Kleist & Thomans Lynam
1954———–The Kissane’s Psalms – Monsignor Edward J. Kissane
1954———–St. Paul’s Shorter Letters – Hobart G. Hoerber
1954———–The Moore’s New Testament – George Albert Moore
1954———–The Amplified Gospel of John
1955———–The Holy Bible; A Translation from the Latin Vulgate in the Light of the Hebrew and Greek Originals by Ron Knox
1955———–The Authentic New Testament, edited and translated from the Greek for the General Reader by Hugh J. Schonfield
1956———–The Inspired Letters in Clearest English – Frank C. Laubach
1957———–The Concordant Version – Concordant Publishing Concern
1957———–The Lamsa Translation – Translated from the Peshitta – George M. Lamsa
1958———–The Amplified New Testament
1958———–The Hudson Translation – James T. Hudson
1958———–The Meissner’s Gospels – Lawrence Meissner
1958———– Tomanek New Testament – James L. Tomanek
1958———–Phillips New Testament in Modern English – J. B. Phillips
1959———–Mark – Annie Cressman
1959———–The Berkeley Version in Modern English by Gerrit Verkuyl and other translators
1959———–The Modern Language Bible
1960———–Reina-Valera Revision (Spanish)
1960———–The New American Standard Version
1960———–The Children’s King James
1961———–The New English Bible New Testament – C. H. Dodd
1961———–The New World Translation (Jehovah’s Witnesses) – Revised from the 1950 edition
1961———–Noli’s Greek Orthodox New Testament – Fan Noli
1961———–One Way Bible
1961———–Simplified New Testament – Olaf M. Norlie
1961———–Wuest Expanded New Testament – Kenneth Wuest
1962———–The Children’s Version
1962———–The New Jewish Version – Jewish Publication Society
1962———–Four Gospels and the Revelation – Richard Lattimore
1963———–Beck’s New Testament – William F. Beck
1963———–Holy Name Bible – A. B. Traina
1963———–The New Testament: A New Translation in Plain English – Charles Williams
1963———–Gelineau’s Psalms – Joseph Gelineau
1964———–The Anchor Bible – William Albright & David Freedman
1964———–The Hadas Psalms – Gershon Hadas
1965———–Bruce’s Expanded Paraphrase of the Letters of Paul – Frederick Bruce, Moulton, & Scrivener
1965———–The Complete Amplified Bible – Frances Siwert
1966———–Today’s English Version (Good News for Modern Man) New Testament – Robert Bratcher
1966———–Jerusalem Bible – Alexander Jones, Editor
1966———–The Bible in Simplified English – The Liturgical Press
1966———–The Burke Translation – Carl F. Burke
1966———–The Living Scriptures – Jay Green
1967———–Dale’s New World Bible – Alan T. Dale
1967———–The Liverpool Vernacular Gospels – Dick Williams & Frank Shaw
1968———–The Cotton Patch Version – Clarence Jordan
1968———–Hanson’s Psalms in Modern Speech – Richard Hanson
1968———–Restoration of Original Name New Testament – Rotherham
1969———–Barclay’s New Testament – William Barclay
1969———–The Children’s New Testament – Gleason H. Ledyard
1969———–The New Life Testament – Gleason H. Ledyard
1969———–New Life Version
1969———– Worldwide English New Testament – Annie Cressman
1970———–King James II New Testament by Jay Green (1)
1970———–New English Bible with the Apocrypha – C. H. Dodd
1970———–New American Bible (Roman Catholic) – Louis F. Hartman and Myles M. Bourke Editors
1971———–Blackwell Exegetical Translation – Boyce Blackwelder
1971———–The Living Bible – Kenneth Taylor
1972———–J. B. Phillips Translation
1972———–The Bible in Living English – Steven Byington (Jehovah’s Witness)
1972———–The Alba House New Testament – Kevin Condon
1972———–Today’s English New Testament – Don Klingensmith
1973———–New International Version
1973———–The Common Bible – RSV plus Apocrypha
1973———–The Translator’s New Testament – W. D. McHardy
1973———–The Better Version of the New Testament by Chester Estes (Based on Greisbach’s Text)
1973———–The Psalms – Mother Maus
1973———–A Child’s Bible – Anne Edwards
1974———–Klingensmith New Testament – Don J. Klingensmith
1975———–The Word Made Fresh – Andrew Edington
1976———–Train Up A Child – Ben Nutt
1976———–The Holy Bible in the Language of Today – William F. Beck
1976———–New Life Testament – Gleason Ledyard
1976———–The Heart of Paul: A Relational Paraphrase of the New Testament – Ben Johnson
1976———–Concise Jewish Bible – Philip Birnbaum
1976———–Good News Bible – both Old & New Testament – Robert Bratcher
1976———–Renaissance New Testament – Randolph O. Yeager
1977———–The Gospels in Scouse – Dick Williams and Frank Shaw
1977———–Marrow Gospels
1977———–The Psalms – David L. Frost
1977———–Christian Counselor’s New Testament – Jay Adams
1977———–Holy Bible for Children  – Allan Hart Johnson
1978———–The New Testament for the Deaf – Deaf Missions
1978———–Holy Name Bible – Scripture Research Association
1979———–New King James Version
1979———–English Messianic Jewish Version
1979———–Ephesians – R. Paul Caudill
1979———–Lattimore’s Gospels and Revelation – Richmond Lattimore
1979———–Sasson’s Ruth – Jack Sasson
1979———–The Psalms – Bonaventure Zerr
1979———–Mitchell’s Job – Stephen Mitchell
1980———–The Four Gospels: An Exegetical Translation
1981———–The Simple English New Testament – International Bible Translators
1982———–The Messianic Edition of the Living Bible – David Bronstein
1982———–The Basic Bible
1982———–Reader’s Digest Bible
1985———–New Jerusalem Bible – Henry Wansbrough Editor
1985———–The New Testament Recovery Version
1987———–The Everyday Bible: New Century Version – Ervin Bishop
1988———–McCord’s New Testament Translation of the Everlasting Gospel by Hugo McCord
1989———–The New Revised Standard Version
1989———–The Revised English Version with Apocrypha ( A revision of the 1970 New English Bible)
1989———–Jewish New Testament – David H. Stern
1993———–The Message – Eugene Peterson
1993———–The Five Gospels: The search for the authentic words of Jesus – Robert W. Funk
1994———–The Inclusive New Testament – Craig Smith Editor
1995 ———-New American Standard Version Update
1995———–Contemporary English Version
1995———–New Testament and Psalms: An Inclusive Version – Victor Gold
1995———–God’s Word – Eugene Bunkowske
1995———–The New Testament: An Understandable Version – William Paul
1995———–Holy Bible: Contemporary English Version – Barclay M. Newman (American Bible Society)
1995———–The Five Books of Moses – Everett Fox
1996———–NIV: Inclusive Language Version – London, England
1996———–The New Testament – Richard Lattimore
1996———–New Living Translation
1996———–Bible in Worldwide English
1996———–New International Readers Version
2001———–English Standard Version  (National Council of Churches production)
2001———–New English Translation – W. Hall Harris, Editor
2002———–The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language – Eugene Peterson
2002———–Today’s New International Version
2003———–Holman Christian Standard Bible
2003———–Revolve New Testament (New Century Version)
2004———–The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary – Robert Alter
2004———–New Living Translation – Second edition – Mark Norton, Editor
2004———–Good As New: A Radical Retelling of The Scriptures – John Henson of the One Community
2005———–Today’s New International Version (Complete Bible)
2010———–Lexham English Bible
2010———–Common English Bible
2011———–2011 New International Version

(1) Jay Green’s translation is listed here because he, like the modern scholars, disputes whether Acts 8:37 & 1 John 5:7 are really in the text. 1 John 5:7-8 has been found in the Old Latin Vulgate (not Jerome’s) and early church lectionaries. Acts 8:37 is found in the Old Latin Vulgate Version, a Middle Egyptian Version and a Syriac Version.

Are There Significant Differences in the Bible Versions? | The Audacity of Defending the New Versions |

“Modern scholarship” comes out of the jesuit-corrupted seminaries and is a belly laugh. Layers and layers of lies covering its dirty tracts are stack up to “confirm” the previous lies. Most modern so-called “scholars” use Satan’s “bibles” which is all we need to know! The corrupt defend corrupted “bibles.” Any man who can use those horrible excuses for a Bible is in darkness. What’s that say for the lightweights many call “pastors” today? You have to cast away the “Spirit of truth” and the common sense God gave you to be indoctrinated by the doctors of damnation and to buy into the new “bible” version lies (John 16:13-14). SMH

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Abiding

Walking in Godly Integrity Means Paying Restitution Where Needed [podcast]

“And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.” Acts 24:16

Truth: The LORD is watching everything you think and do and will bring you into judgment for it all – all (Proverbs 15:3; 20:11; 23:7; Mark 12:41-44; Romans 14:10, etc.). What’s your judgment going to look like?

“Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not; 2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.” 2 Corinthians 4:1-2 

Jesus taught that only the “honest” will be with Him (Luke 8:15). The dishonest, “ALL … liars” will perish irrevocably in the lake of fire (Revelation 21:8). Those who’ve brought harm to others and have the opportunity to restore what they took (financially, emotionally, etc.) prove who they are by what they do or do not do. Those who take personal responsibility for the harm they brought on another, will be blessed. Those who don’t will be shut out, “cut off” from God (Romans 11:20-22).

“Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed: 4 But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,” 2 Corinthians 6:3-4

“He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.” Proverbs 28:13

Godly Integrity owns up to its personal responsibility to make amends where we have caused hurt. Restitution. A man of godly integrity never runs from his personal responsibility to repair and restore where he has brought harm – with his words, attitudes, or actions. This is exactly what happens when a man truly repents and gives his life to Christ. Zacchaeus is a great example to us of this. Like Zacchaeus, when we truly repent, there will always be good fruit, amends for our wrongdoing. Watch this closely. Watch what this man does after getting right with God:

Luke 19

1 And Jesus entered and passed through Jericho.

2 And, behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus, which was the chief among the publicans, and he was rich.

3 And he sought to see Jesus who he was; and could not for the press, because he was little of stature.

4 And he ran before, and climbed up into a sycomore tree to see him: for he was to pass that way.

5 (the call and command) And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up, and saw him, and said unto him, Zacchaeus, make haste, and come down; for to day I must abide at thy house.

6 (obedience) And he made haste, and came down, and received him joyfully.

7 And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, That he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner. (that’s exactly why Jesus came!)

8 And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold. (true repentance always brings for the fruit of restitution Matthew 3:7-10)

9 And Jesus said unto him, This day is salvation come to this house, forsomuch as he also is a son of Abraham.

10 For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.

As we see in this case with Zacchaeus when he repented, turning to Jesus the Savior, true repentance always brings for the fruit of restitution. See Matthew 3:7-10.

Zacchaeus is a great example. When, if that true repentance happens in his heart, if the sinner, the transgressor allows it, there will be a practical restitution to those he’s harmed by his sin. Soon as he repented he wanted to pay restitution to those he’d harmed.

“Verse 8 is one of the strongest in the Bible on restitution. Salvation does not relieve a person from righting the wrongs of the past. Debts contracted during one’s unconverted days are not canceled by the new birth. And if money was stolen before salvation, then a true sense of the grace of God requires that this money be repaid after a person has become a child of God.” William MacDonald, Believer’s Bible Commentary

There’s no such thing as a person who is right with God and not making restitution for those he’s hurt.

INTEGRITY: If you owe someone $1,000 and can’t pay it all at once, show integrity and send them $ every month or week till you’ve paid them off. If you don’t, you show yourself to be a man who is without integrity (Proverbs 20:7). Soon as you begin paying back, you demonstrate the earnest of your integrity.

Jesus teaches us that we are wasting our time attempting to relate to or pray to the Father in His name if we have issues that need to be clear up with another.

God will not answer the prayer of any person who does not honor and obey His Word and if a person has an outstanding offense He wants them to clear up these matters (Proverbs 28:9, 13).

“Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee; 24 Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.” Matthew 5:23-24

God is not going to bless our lives unless we are willing to sincerely admit our sins, repent and confess them, and make amends (restitution) with anyone we’ve harmed. In the divine economy, there’s no such thing as being right with God when you’ve done another person wrong, haven’t repented, and haven’t made amends for what you’ve done. Such a person will be outside of the will and blessings of God until he makes things right with God and man.

The LORD requires that His people “examine” and “judge” themselves.

“Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?   2 Corinthians 13:5

Examine and honest judge yourself and amend your ways or God will judge you.

“For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. 32 But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.” 1 Corinthians 11:31-32

More Bible Verses on Restitution

Read Exodus 22:1-31

“If a thief be found breaking up (stealing in a burglary, home invasion), and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him. 3 If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.” Exodus 22:2-3

“Speak unto the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to do a trespass against the LORD, and that person be guilty; 7 Then they shall confess their sin which they have done: and he shall recompense his trespass with the principal thereof, and add unto it the fifth part thereof, and give it unto him against whom he hath trespassed.” Numbers 5:6-7

“And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man. 6 Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.” Genesis 9:5-6

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What Church is Jesus Coming Back for? [podcast]

Are you personally, intimately familiar with the words of Holy Scripture found in Ephesians 5:25-27?

“Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. 22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. 24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. 25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; 26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, 27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.” Ephesians 5:21-27

Jesus is coming back for a church without spot or wrinkle or any such thing but one that is “holy and without blemish.” So this speaks of those who were His and yet presently have spotted garments, sin they haven’t repented of (Ephesians 5:25-27).

“Be ye holy”

“But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; 16  Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.” 1 Peter 1:15-16

“NO MAN shall see the Lord” without “holiness”

“Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:” Hebrews 12:14

Regrettably, most preachers today are so busy making excuse for sin that they refuse to disclose this preeminent, self-evident New Testament truth.

“But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. 11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, 12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?” 2 Peter 3:10-12

As this fallen world system and its inhabitants spiral unalterably downward in darkness and disarray, it becomes even more essential for the wise virgin saint to be anchored in the LORD in private prayer, praise, thanksgiving, and Bible reading. No man shall withstand the darkness of this late hour who is not seeking the LORD diligently, daily, relentlessly – demonstrating perpetually that they love the LORD supremely more than self or any other (Matthew 24:10-13, 22). Memorize 1 Chronicles 16:11; Psalms 57:7; 63:8.

IF he’s not hastening you to the holiness of God, he’s playing you for your allegiance to him, and perhaps your money! are you a gullible pawn? Read 2 Peter 2 and 3.

SO, the sinful seminarian wolf you call your “pastor” isn’t preaching the return of Christ, the cross, the necessity of personal holiness, hell, the essential of repentance, or Christ, the Messiah….. and you still sit under that darkness? Repent.

“Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.” 2 Timothy 4:2-4

SO MANY have more faith, more confidence in SIN than they do in the SAVIOR who came and died to make us free from ALL SIN! That’s a cross-less false gospel! Just as Jude foretold, these deceivers – “ungodly men” – cover their sins with a false grace message (Jude 3-4). With no exception, the saving grace of God – IFFFF you really have it – delivers you from sin and never justifies you in sin! Time to repent and be changed today! …. These grace abusing tares want to relish a false grace message that erroneously says that God is going to save them IN their sin but the Bible says Jesus came to save us “FROM” our sin – not in our sins (Matthew 1:21; John 1:29; Titus 2:11-4, etc.). SO, God’s grace isn’t sufficient to deliver you from sin? If you believe that you don’t know Him.

Some among us are so enthralled in listening to modern end times teachers as they seek to figure everything out, that they are not abiding in Christ. These are among the foolish virgins.

ARE YOU spending more time engrossed in some supposed end times scenario than you are obeying God by doing the Great Commission mandate? If so, you are not ready to meet Jesus and in big trouble. Isn’t it time to let God be God and to get about the Father’s business?

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“Thou hast been in Eden the Garden of God.” ~ Ezekiel 28:13 [podcast]


Excerpt from the book Lie of the Ages

THE INTRUDERS—THE RESTORATION

“Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God.” ~ Ezekiel 28:13

The evil one had been thrust down from Heaven to the earth for the iniquity found in him (Ezek. 28:15; Lk. 10:18). This evil foe, who had been ejected by God from Heaven’s pristine and perfect premises, was cast down to the earth and allowed in the sanctuary of the Garden of Eden, because God gives men a choice to serve—or to not serve Him. He created in mankind the gift of free will. Temptation is ultimately the test as to whom the individual will love and serve. “For the LORD your God proveth (tests) you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul” (Deut. 13:3).

The serpent slithered among the lush embellishments of the Garden of Eden. His goal was the fall of the first man and woman who were created in the image of the One who made all things. Satan obviously schemed and strategized as to what weapon to employ in order to accomplish his main objective—to cause the first man and woman to fall from grace by sinning, and consequently, be alienated from the LORD. This enemy of souls knew from personal experience that the Almighty keeps His Word and casts down those who disobey Him. To this point, Adam and Eve knew only righteousness. They did not yet realize what the evil one knew and had already been the recipient of – that is, the judgment of God for his sin. A hard lesson lay ahead of Adam and Eve, and a fallen creation would be left in the wake of their defiance of the holy LORD and His righteous command – not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Gen. 2:17).

The enemy of all souls has not changed. His temptations are “common to man” (1 Cor. 10:13). Satan’s goal was, and is, to interrupt and destroy the relationship between his enemy, God, and His special creation—man. Jesus informed us that the ultimate “thief” has come to “steal, to kill and to destroy” (Jn. 10:10). This same goal—the fall of man—is still his aim and will be until the LORD Himself puts him away for good (Rev. 20:10).

From the Garden to the modern pulpit, the enemy has lied to mankind. Satan and his false teachers are the intruders—the very enemies of the Almighty. The serpent has slithered through the garden path of history, seductively spreading his poisonous seed, causing the fall of many and now possesses the thoughts and doctrines of an army of deceived men in ministry.

Ever since the Garden, the lie of the ages dwells among men, especially in the sanctuary where the LORD is supposed to be reigning—the Church world. As in the Garden of creation, so the enemy specifically concentrates on the sanctuary of his enemy’s people. He seeks to molest purity, beguiling those who are unlearned. Many times, he uses the body of Christ’s own leaders.

Today, the pulpits and platforms of modern media are the places that most people simply do not suspect to be the mediums where falsehoods thrive, reside, and flow. They do not see the serpent lurking among the trees in the garden of modern “Christian” pulpits, organizations, and media. Most are not aware of the wolves in sheep’s clothing who, like the lurking serpent in the garden, “lie in wait to deceive” (Eph. 4:14).

As foretold by the prophet Amos, the enemy of souls seeks to alter and remove the Word of God from the hearing of God’s people (Amos 8:11). This is what he did in the Garden of Eden (Gen. 2:17; 3:4). Today this same enemy uses the most subtle messengers—the ones many people look to for truth. The Holy Spirit forewarned us that in these last of days men would not remain in the truth but rather that “some shall depart from the faith” and that “many” would “corrupt the word of God” (1 Tim. 4:1; 2 Cor. 2:17): “Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils.”

It simply doesn’t matter if a leader realizes he is teaching heresy or not. If he is teaching anything other than the Word, he is a detractor from the glory of God and leading others astray. Men of God are to “preach the word” and speak only “as the oracles (words) of God” (2 Tim. 4:2; 1 Pet. 4:11). This is a non-negotiable command to all who would accurately represent the LORD. No matter the reasoning, one will be found a deceiver on Judgment Day if he preaches any other message than the Word of God (Isa. 8:20). One can be sincere and sincerely wrong at the same time (Prov. 14:12). “Let God be true, but every man a liar” (Rom. 3:4).

The holy and almighty God told us that He is going to judge all men according to His Word (Jn. 12:48; Rom. 2:16; Rev. 20:11-15).

From the very beginning (Garden of Creation), the beguiler’s target has been God’s people. Nothing has changed. His message to men is simple— “You don’t have to worry about obedience, it’s optional, you can live the way you choose and still remain in the grace of God.”

Through those men he uses today, the enemy mixes in some truth with this deadly lie of lasciviousness and poisons the whole pond, leading many astray into a false gospel and false security. Perhaps it has been wisely stated that “Satan will give you a million pounds of truth to blind you with that one ounce of a deadly lie which will kill you.” In order to bring in a lie among God’s people, the enemy likes to lead with truth as his smokescreen in order to bring in that deadly distortion behind the cover of truth. See Matthew 16:6-12 and 1 Corinthians 5:6. “A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump” (Gal. 5:9).

Why should we be surprised that this ultimate enemy still uses the most “subtle” and unsuspected methods and personalities to communicate his deadly message to God’s people? After all, his message still works to cause unsuspecting men to fall out of fellowship with God. Why should we wonder why the evil one still utilizes the same lie that claimed the first man and woman? Has this message not captured untold scores of souls since then? Are we so blindly naïve as to believe that there is no evil or devil? Why should we be surprised to realize that this same evil enemy of souls is ceaselessly in the midst of our garden today, telling this same lie by adding to the Word of the Maker?

God said “Thou shalt surely die,” and Satan countered with “Ye shall not surely die.”

Are pulpits more sacred than the very Garden of Eden? Obviously not. There was no sin in the Garden until Satan introduced the lie of the ages, and the man and woman bought it. In the very cradle of creation, the enemy of God initiated and launched the lie that would fatally wound mankind, claiming the souls of millions throughout the centuries. This exact same deadly lie was picked up, incorporated, and perpetuated by early century church fathers, so-called theologians, whose heresy-laced writings and commentaries regrettably hold great prominence among many evangelicals today—even though they have no reconciliation with the Counsel of God, which will be demonstrated throughout this book.

The Bible enlightens us to the reality that Satan is a strategist and has schemes of which believers are instructed not to be ignorant (2 Cor. 2:11; 1 Pet. 5:8). We are in a war, and like any good war general and his staff, we are to study and know the nature, weapons, and ways of our enemy.

The apostle Paul informed us that Satan’s methods are the same today as they were from the start—in the Garden.

“There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.” ~ 1 Corinthians 10:13

In this same text, the LORD told us that He makes a way to escape the re-used lies of the enemy and his temptations.

As can be clearly seen in Genesis, “once saved always saved” is not a new doctrine, and it’s also not the LORD’s doctrine. “Once saved always saved is clearly the lie that caused the fall of man. This is the doctrine of the arch enemy of the Almighty. As in the very beginning, the unholy serpent himself is still creeping into the homes and gathering places of believers today and utilizing the same lie to mislead people and cause their fall from grace. The chief wolf who has come “to steal, and to kill, and to destroy” seeks to devour souls for his kingdom and from the Chief Shepherd, who is “come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly” (Jn. 10:10; Heb. 13:20). Beware! “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour” (1 Pet. 5:8).

The first lie led to the fall of the first man and woman and is leading to the fall of masses of people today. Millions in our day are being taught that they are unconditionally eternally secure—in the absence of the truth about the holiness of the God they will stand before in judgment, and His demand that we be made holy as He is holy (1 Pet. 1:16).

The pulpits of America have been hi-jacked by men who have “crept in unawares” who are teaching a doctrine originated by the enemy of all souls and calling it “Christian.” This is paramount to using the name of the LORD in vain, by attaching His holy name to a teaching of his arch enemy.

Tracing the Lie

The adversary attacked God through His own creation—the Garden, the fruit, the serpent, the woman, and the man.

Does it intrigue you to uncover the very first lie told by the one Christ warned us of who is the father of all lies? Of Satan, Jesus said: “for he is a liar, and the father of it” (Jn. 8:44).

One three-letter word— “not”—changed the course of history! Satan told the woman “Ye shall not surely die,” after their Maker had told them that they would “surely die” in the day they disobeyed Him (Gen. 2:17; 3:4).

“And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall NOT surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.” ~ Genesis 3:4-5

This first and poisonous falsehood, the lie of the ages, is still today the same deadly venom being injected by the evil one in the battle that rages for the eternal souls of men. The serpent infused the first man and woman with this venomous and paralyzing deception, robbing from their hearts the fear of the LORD, which led to their fall from grace. Consequently, a separation was incurred between a holy Maker and His creation with a catastrophic curse which fell.

This unconditional eternal security—without condition to the recipient—is the very FIRST LIE the devil ever told to mankind. “Once saved always saved” (OSAS) is one of the modern labels of the renamed, or repackaged, lie of the ages. In this deception in the Garden, as well as in our day, Satan craftily convinces people that they have irrevocable “security” and “assurance,” no matter what their actions against the clear command/Word of God.

The message of eternal security without condition to the recipient is that once one has been born again, he has no responsibility to continue to faithfully obey the Almighty—the One who saved him. Those who sit under this teaching are told that once they have been brought into fellowship with Him in His garden of salvation through Christ, they can never “die” or be separated from Him again, even if they blatantly rebel. This lie teaches that the person who Christ has saved can then choose to live as he wishes with no fear of consequence or righteous retribution from the One who is “Holy, holy, holy” (Isa. 6:3; Rev. 4:8). This is the very lie that Satan gave Adam and Eve which led to their fall into sin and separation from the LORD.

Can you see why it is a big score for the enemy of souls when people are told by their misled leaders that they are “once saved always saved”—no matter what they choose to do, including revolt completely against the Most High and go back to the life of sin?

In the sanctity of the Garden, where there was no suspicion, Satan intruded. Today, in the sanctuary of the pulpits and various Christian media, his emissaries are intruding where few suspect. He prospers because so many believe that their leaders are guiding them correctly, and yet do not know and obey the Word of God for themselves. Only those who learn the way of the LORD through His Word can know and see the enemy’s work. Those who do not have a life in the Word will fall prey to deception and ultimately be destroyed (Hos. 4:6; Matt. 22:29). Discernment comes from being personally exercised in the Word of God (Heb. 5:11-14).

The New Garden—Restored Holy Bliss

“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.” ~ Isaiah 9:6-7

The Genesis account of creation and the relationship between the LORD and the first man and woman, is an ongoing saga to continue until the hour of Christ’s return, and the establishment of His eternal kingdom. We are given this record (the Bible) in order to know the LORD and how He deals with men, and who He blesses and who He curses.

From the Garden to the Holy City—Genesis to Revelation, the war over the souls of men rages. The enemy seeks to reclaim those redeemed by the blood of the One who is the seed of woman (Gen. 3:15). What better way to undertake such an evil mission than to use those shepherds at the very helm of the visible church?

God’s account of man’s creation and fall is not left without a solution from the only One who can remedy his alienation. Holy Writ opens with the creation and fall of mankind and the promised prophetic restoration through the Messiah of all who will come to Him, as He justly prescribed (Gen. 3:15). The book of all Books ends with a warning to all of us concerning making the very same error Adam and Eve made when they bought into the distortion of His holy words, and thereby fell, joining forces with His archenemy.

“And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie. I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star. And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely. For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book. He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.” ~ Revelation 22:12-21

In these final words of Holy Scripture, Jesus Christ tells us that He is coming quickly to reward all according to each person’s works. He says to us that those who keep and do His Word will receive blessings and “have right to the tree of life” in the restored “holy city” of God. Outside this blessedness will be all who have lived in and justified their sins—no matter what their previous relationship with Him might have been. Then, in the very final words of Holy Writ, there is the warning of adding to or taking from His words. This adding to or removing of truth is done first internally, in the hearts of those who do not genuinely love the LORD with all their heart, soul, mind and strength. Those who love darkness rather than His holy light do not wish to come clean under the light of divine truth (Jn. 3:18-21; 2 Tim. 4:3-4).

This war for the souls of men spans from Genesis to Revelation, and the words of God are pivotal in this most crucial and consequential of battles. Those who play into the enemy’s scheme to “add unto” or “take away” from God’s words of instruction will be removed from the book of life, cut out of the holy city, and from all eternal blessings. The lake of fire waits.

PRAYER: LORD Jesus, please purify my heart and remove all dissimulation and mixture from me. Rid my life of all secret faults and presumptuous sins! Father, please grant me the blessing of knowing You in truth and living in Your holy light and will. Jesus, please preserve my eternal soul until the day of Your soon return. Amen.

Excerpt from the book Lie of the Ages

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