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Adult / Kids Sunday School Series
June 1, 2008
What's
In the Gospels "FOR" Us?
Part I
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Now all these things happened
unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon
whom the ends of the world are come. I
Corinthians 10:11
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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
Gospels are still in Old Testament
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Now that we have finished the Old Testament, and before we head into the
Gospels, which by the way, are still considered Old Testament (Hebrews
9:16,17)... we must take a quick look in between the two testaments.
Between the Testaments
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One may figure it is just 400 years of history without any 'official' record
from God, but it is certainly worth looking into.
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It will give us insight as to these days as the modern bible versions are
coming up with material that was penned during these 400 years.
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Expose the Antichrist!
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Unfortunately, this material is all being used to set up the world for
the coming of the antichrist, Revelation 6,
not the coming of the real Christ of Revelation
19.
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But FORTUNATELY, we can also use these materials to either expose the antichrist
when compared to the King James Bible!
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Or... folks can prepare to follow the false peace and flatteries of Satan
(I Peter 5:8; Daniel 11:21-22; 32-38)
and the Tribulation from God (Matthew 24,25; II
Thessalonians 2:9,12)
Two major writings claim between the Testaments
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Baloney
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The Septuagint
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The Apocrypha
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The Septuagint is an ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament.
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Tradition has it that the Septuagint was written some 250 years before
the Christian era.
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But this is not the case.
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(This is also known also as the LXX because 70 scribes were involved in
its production)
WAS THERE EVER A PRE-CHRISTIAN SEPTUAGINT?
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There was not one original old Greek version and that consequently the
manuscripts of the Septuagint (so-called) so it cannot be traced back to
one archtype...
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Peter Ruckman's arguments can be summarized as follows:
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The letter of Aristeas is mere fabrication and there is no historical evidence
that a group of scholars translated the O.T. into Greek between 250 - 150
B.C.
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Research shows that there was no pre-Christian LXX.
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No one has produced a Greek copy of the Old Testament written before 300
A.D.
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In fact, the Septuagint "quotes" from the New Testament and not vice versa.
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Written AFTER the NT. Every LXX manuscript cited in the Septuagint
Concordance was written 200 years after the completion of the New Testament.
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Brief details include:
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A- "Alexandrinus:"
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written more than 300 years after the completion of the New Testament.
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It omits Genesis 14:14-17; 15:1-6, 16-19, 16:6-10,
Leviticus 6:19-23, 1 Samuel 12:17-14:9, 1 Kings 3-6 and Psalms
69:19-79:10.
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Aleph - "Sinaiticus:"
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written more than 200 years after the completion of the New Testament.
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It omits Genesis 23:19-24:46, Numbers 5:27-7:20,
1 Chronicles 9:27-19:17, all of Exodus,
Joshua, 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 and 2 Kings, Hosea, Amos, Micah, Ezekiel, Daniel
and Judges.
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It contains New Testament Apocrypha.
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C- "Codes Ephraemi:"
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written more than 300 years after the completion of the New Testament.
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It omits Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers,
Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 and 2 Kings and
all of the major and minor prophets!
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B -"Vaticanus:"
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It contains the Apocrypha books of the Old Testament.
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It omits all of Genesis 1:1 - 46:28,
all of Psalms 105:26-137:6, and parts
of 1 Samuel, I Kings and Nehemiah.
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All written after the resurrection!
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"Those interested in further damaging evidence will observe that every
papyrus manuscript found with any part of the Old Testament in it was written
after the resurrection, with the exception of one scrap containing less
than six chapters of Deuteronomy on it.
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The "Septuagint" papyri were all written (within 60 to 500 years) after
John finished writing the Book of Revelation."
"The mythological LXX or Septuagint is the most persistent spook to
haunt orthodox Christianity since the myth that Christ was born in a cave.
The theory is based on abstract speculation of the wildest sort without
one piece of reliable documented evidence of ANY kind that there was ever
on this earth one single copy of an OLD Testament in GREEK before the heading
up of the school at Alexandria by Origen, one hundred years after the entire
New Testament was complete, yet to this day there exists on every campus
of every fundamental school in the United States the nebulous ghost of
this non-existent spook." - PS Ruckman
For those who 'claim' the Apocrypha being in the 1611, etc. they must
realize that God promised to preserve His words, not a Bible. A Bible
is a collection of books, etc. Man has been putting 'extra's' into
the 'Bible' ever since it was put together. Concordances, table of
contents, foot notes, maps, 'How To Study the Bible,' 'Bible History,'
etc. and much of that was, is and always will be WRONG.
I encourage folks to purchase a 1611 KJB with text only - NO notes or
anything. A concordance is fine, but do remember, it is never a complete
one.
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How to study the Bible never talks about rightly dividing the word of truth.
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The maps never show the Exodus journey correctly.
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Bible history leads folks away from the Scriptural authority.
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Bible 'helps' often falsely describe 'antiquated words in the KJB,' etc.
See http://www.scatteredchristians.org/2008/ThomasPresentation2Aporcrypha.ppt
for my own powerpoint presentation on the Apocrypha that I taught here
in Touchet a few years ago.
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The Apocrypha is not inspired.
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The Greek word apocrypha means hidden or secret things, used by ecclesiastical
writers for:
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1) matters secret or mysterious.
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2) of unknown origin, forged, spurious.
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3) unrecognized, uncanonical.
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"The Council of Trent at its sitting on April 8th, 1546,
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... pronounced an anathema against anyone who ventured to differ from it
in opinion.
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This has since regulated the belief of the Roman Catholic Church!
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"A controversy on the subject was carried on between the years 1821
and 1826, which resulted in the exclusion of the Apocrypha from all Bibles
issued by the British and Foreign Bible Society."
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All reckoned the Apocrypha to be uninspired
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The Saviour,
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The Early Apostles,
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The Jewish Nation,
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And the Protestant Reformers,
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that is why it is not included in the canon of Scripture.
The main group which holds to the Apocrypha is the Roman Catholic Church...
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...but keep in mind that all the 'other' denominations and even cults have
the fingerprints of the Roman Catholic Church upon them - yes, even the
Middle East religions.
Both assist in making a different
ending to the Bible
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From the Apocrypha and Septuigent, we have a Bible coming that will totally
elliminate the Book of Revelation as we know it.
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Much of the new material will be coming from The Shepherd of Hermas
and The Epistle of Barnabas.
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We can already see some of these teachings in the modern bibles and churches
today.
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Do take 'the name' of the beast.
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Give up to the beast.
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Form a one world government
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Kill those not receiving his 'name.'
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Worship female virgins
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Receive 'another spirit.'
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Seek power.
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Believe that God is as a panthesistic, monistic Hindu god.
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Avoid marriage
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Subscribe to the New Age Root Race Theory
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Be saved by being baptized and keeping the 'twelve' mandates of the Antichrist.
According to Westcott and Lightfoot, and their specters from the past,
Clement, Origen and Eusebius, called these added books' "divinely inspired
and very useful, remarkable and theologically of the highest value."
Here are a few of the 'new' coming verses!
Arcadia
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Coming - And he took me away into Arcadia
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Arcadia is the home of Pan, the Greek god of glocks, a false shepherd.
Pan is one of the names of the devil from the New Age crowd.
Revelation 13:16,17
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Coming - Didst thou see, saith he, the six men and the glorius and mighty
man in the midst of them, him that walked about the tower... whosever shall
not receive His name shall not enter the kingdom of God.
Water baptism
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Coming - The seal then is the water; so they go down into the water
dead, and they come up alive...
Comforter vs
Helper
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Coming - Speak these words to others... Thou has them as helpers...
Revelation 15:2
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Coming - I took courage and gave myself up to the beast.
From the Epistle of Barnabas and how it matches
up with New Age and Today's Christianity: