Today’s Devotional – August 14th (The War on the KJV, Part 3)
By admin On February 2nd, 2021.
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Today’s Devotional – August 14th
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The War on the KJV,
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Part 3
To read Part 1, click here… August 1st (The War Against The KJV) .
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“If the foundations be destroyed,
what can the righteous do?”
Psalm 11:3
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In Part 1 (click here), it was discussed that the greatest reason for the inability of Bible students to understand the King James Version, is the lack of God’s Holy Spirit to interpret to the student’s mind.
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And then, as a desperate attempt to gain an understanding of the Bible, the student buys another, more modern version.
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ABOVE PICTURE: Holy Bible – cropped image – Wikimedia – Creative Commons Lic.
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“IF THE FOUNDATIONS BE DESTROYED, WHAT CAN THE RIGHTEOUS DO?
Psalm 11:3
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In Part 2 (click here), it was determined that the King James Version has stood the test of time for 400 years. But Satan understands that the KJV is the standard by which all other versions are measured by. And so, it has been his mission to make the King James Version as obsolete as possible, if by any means Satan can render the King James Version irrelevant.
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Thus, Satan would destroy the foundational role which the KJV has served, leaving us with a lot of poor-to-mediocre versions which say a lot of different things!
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Satan presiding at the Infernal Council – Wikipedia – US Public Domain
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“FOR A DREAM COMETH THROUGH THE MULTITUDE OF BUSINESS”
Ecclesiastes 5:3
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But this Part 3 will deal with a further solution to this great satanically-inspired dilemma: namely that Satan has kept the Church so busy with the cares and pleasures of the world, that we have greatly failed to use our time to good account!
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We have been pursuing the earthly Mammon, instead of pursuing heavenly riches!
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Multitask – Wikimedia – C.C. Share-alike License
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WE SHOULD BE TEACHERS BY NOW!
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It’s like Paul complains…
“…we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered,
seeing ye are dull of hearing.
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 5:11, 12
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Paul here, is gently scolding us because by now, many of us should have already reached teacher status.
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But Satan has diverted us into the vain pursuit of worldly riches and pleasures!
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MANY THINGS HARD TO BE UNDERSTOOD!
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The fact is, God did not write the Bible, so that it is easy to understand. No, many things in Scripture are hard to be understood, as 2nd Peter 3:16 reveals. And only the Elect will persevere in the pursuit of truth, so as to find the true meaning of those more difficult passages.
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Listen… “Thy words were found, and I did eat them;
and Thy Word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart:
for I am called by Thy name, O LORD God of hosts.”
Jeremiah 15:16.
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Yes, Jeremiah loved God’s Word, and separated himself from the apostate churchgoers of his day, so that he might fill his hungry soul with God’s life-giving Word!
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Chaplain reads Bible – Wikimedia – US Govt. Public Domain
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“Every word of God is pure… Add thou not unto His words, lest He reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.”
Proverbs 30:5
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Some of the newer versions are merely commentaries, to a certain extent.
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The reason for this is, in their attempt to be easily readable, they have decided to NOT give a word-for-word translation, especially in difficult-to-understand passages. Thus, these modern-day translators have presumptuously attempted to “try to figure out what the author had in mind” and choose language which the reader might require to “understand what the author had in mind”.
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This is pure heresy, especially since God warns…
“Every word of God is pure:
he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.
Add thou not unto his words,
lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.”
Proverbs 30:5
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“…If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book”
Revelation 22:18
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One of the most well-known violators of the sanctity of God’s Word is the New International Version, also known as the NIV Version.
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This version came right and admitted, in their introduction, that sometimes, instead of faithfully translating word-for-word, they tried to decide what the author “had in mind” on certain difficult texts. Of course, when they referred to “the author”, it was obvious that they were speaking of the humans who penned the various books of the Bible. But the true author of the Bible is God Himself! He simply used humans to write down what He, God, wanted to say.
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Thus, when Bible students use these presumptuous versions in hopes of understanding those difficult passages, they are unknowingly putting their trust in mere fallible humans, to do the “heavy lifting”, as the saying goes.
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Instead, they should get the King James Version, and use a Strong’s Concordance to look up the Greek/Hebrew for themselves, and compare Scripture-with-Scripture, and “spiritual things with spiritual”. 1st Corinthians 2:13
ABOVE PICTURE: Adding to or taking from God’s Word, the Bible
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THE BIBLE IS OUR ARMOR!
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A great part of the armor of God, is be clothed with God’s Word. Thus would we be strong against the Enemy of Souls. Our “Sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God” would be long and sharp, and ready for battle! Ephesians 6:13-17
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And those “Thee’s” and “Thou’s” and “th’s” would have given us little trouble, because we spent the necessary hours each day, in prayer, in Bible study, and in contemplation of God’s Word.
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Picture – Soldiers of the cross – armor up!
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GOOD NEWS! TIME TO REPENT!
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Well, there is very Good News! Because we can begin today to ask God to clear away all the meaningless rubbish out of our lives, so that we can devote ourselves to the getting of wisdom and knowledge of Jesus Christ and begin to hide those precious promises in our hearts, so that we can begin to walk by faith and not by sight!
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Listen… “Thy word have I hid in mine heart,
that I might not sin against Thee…
O how love I Thy law! it is my meditation all the day…
Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet,
and a light unto my path.”
Psalm 119:11, 97, 105.
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Psalm 119 is teeming with such verses as these, which proclaim the Believer’s love for God’s Word!
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USMC – Prayer before Bible study – Wikimedia – public domain
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TO READ PART 4, CLICK HERE…
August 5 (The War Against The KJV, Part 4: The Dedication by KJV Translators)
KJV – King James Version Bible – First edition – 1611 – Wikipedia – US Public Domain
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TODAY’S PRAYER…
“Dear Lord, Give me a real love for studying my Bible. Let it be my greatest desire, along with prayer and faith in trials…
Prayer for USA – Wikimedia – Creative Commons Attribution 2.0
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READ MORE…
To explore deeper into this subject, please read… “November 22 – (The Greatest Jig-saw Puzzle Ever!)” or you can also read… “July 13 (A Supernatural Book!)”
Question book magnify svg – Wikimedia – GNU license
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THE END
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TODAY’S FEATURED HEAVENLY SIGN
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“SUN SHALL BE DARKENED”
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The Bible speaks of the Sun being darkened in various passages, such as this…
“Immediately after the tribulation of those days
shall THE SUN BE DARKENED,
and the Moon shall not give her light,
and the stars shall fall from heaven,
and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven:
Matthew 24:29-30.
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Here is seen a prophetic scenario to be fulfilled in these times: “the Sun shall be darkened, and the Moon shall not give her light.”
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And there are other similar passages, such as this…
“And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth,
blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
THE SUN SHALL BE TURNED INTO DARKNESS,
and the Moon into blood,
before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered:
FOR IN MOUNT ZION and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance,
as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.”
Joel 2:30-32.
But how are we to understand this? Will the Moon be turned to literal blood? Or are these things to be understood figuratively? And why is the Moon spoken of as “her”?
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Picture to right courtesy of Luc Viatour for wikipedia. GNU Free Documentation License.
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BIBLE SPEAKS REPEATEDLY OF THE SUN
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“For the LORD God is a sun and shield:” Psalm 84:11
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The Bible repeats this concept from start to finish. Such passages as this one, speak of spiritual light and darkness…
“We have also a more sure word of prophecy;
whereunto ye do well that ye take heed,
as unto a light that shines in a dark place,
until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts.”
2 Peter 1:19
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Christ here compares Himself to the “day star” (the Sun). Here is a remarkable revelation concerning the last days. That Christ will be the day-star that arises in our hearts at the great “Dawning of the Day”. And this concept should be researched and understood, in order to gain a greater understanding of just how shall the Sun be darkened.
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(For a more comprehensive study on “God comparing Himself to the Sun“, please click this link… “Signs In The Sun”. And also, for a more comprehensive study on the “Dawning of the Day”, please read… “Castor and Pollux (Part 2: The Return of Christ & The Dawning of the Day)”)
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Sunrise from Burrow Mump, Burrowbridge, Somerset – cropped image – wikimedia – share-alike license
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READ MORE…
To explore deeper into this subject, please read… ““Sun Shall Be Darkened…””
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TOMORROW:
“August 15th (God’s Love Written in the Heavens! Part 2)”
ABOVE PICTURE: Orion the Soldier and the Revelation 12 Dragon (Hyades & Pleiades, etc. – winter constellations – www.signsofheaven.org – not for commercial use
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