Texe Marrs: Part I

Texe Marrs’ Attack on Alpha and Omega Ministries

And there may actually be one King James only advocate that is even wilder than Gail Ripplinger, and that's Tex Mars. Well, of course, Ruckman takes the cake all along the line, but outside of Peter Ruckman, Tex Mars.

I was directed to a video by a fellow by the name of Calcium Boy where he was, and this was just posted a few days ago, where he was repeating once again the false accusations of Tex Mars about Dr. Wilkin losing his voice on the John Ankerberg show.

And I'm going to take that video and I'm going to point out what really happened and refute the falsehoods once again. But first, just to give you an idea of this Tex Mars fellow, I had an encounter with Tex starting in 1994.

He had been on a local radio station here in Phoenix, and he had made certain statements, and so I took the information that I had already typed up concerning Gail, and I sent it to him. And he sent back a letter, and I was looking around this evening and I thought, I wonder, do I still have that original correspondence?

I had had to scan one element of it to prove a point. You'll see what it is in just a moment, but I hadn't seen these letters in years. So I decided to start looking around. We moved our offices I don't know how many times.

Well, guess what I found? Yeah, I found the original correspondence. And the first letter that he sent to me, you can see, in fact I'll show it to you here, let the camera iris down so it can see it. Here's Tex Mars, July 28, 1994, and that's his handwriting.

There's his signature right there, T-W-M. And you'll notice it's in English. It says, Don't write me again unless in sincere repentance. You are a devil plain and simple, and I understand well why Mrs. Ripling does not respond to your ridiculous assertions.

Why dignify the lying claims of a servant of Satan? P .S. Dr. Waite will make you look exactly like what you are, a sinner in need of redemption so arrogant and uninformed you do not even know that the new versions take out the alpha and omega, the very name of your fake ministry in one passage of Revelation.

Well, I wrote back to Mr. Mars and I sent the letter by fax. And what he did is a little while later I received in the mail my fax which I had sent to him. Here it is, all three pages, and you will notice how he sent it back.

You'll notice that it is, has red lettering written all over it. Maybe it's not, this doesn't look like Mr. Mars' handwriting. Could be, maybe it's his wife, I don't know. Mr. Mars does not want your evil trash.

Don't write again except in repentance. Jesus' words, you are of your father the devil, apply to you. We pray for you. Well, in this letter I had sent to Mr. Mars, I addressed his assertion about the name of my ministry, Alpha and Omega in the book of Revelation.

And I said, I can assure you, sir, that I am not in the least ignorant of the textual variation found in Revelation 111. We chose the name Alpha and Omega Ministries on the basis of Revelation 1 .8 and 22 .13, not 1 .11.

The phrase is found in that passage only in the majority A text type. It is not found in Sinaiticus A .C. 1006 .18 .41 .20 .50 .20 .29 .20 .21. The majority K text type, Latin, Syriac, and Zahidic. Hence, the Nessie-Aland, UBS -4, the majority text.

Do not place this reading in the text and rightfully so. Well, I don't get the feeling that Mr. Mars actually read my letter very carefully or that he would have known what that information really actually indicated.

But what's important is the envelope. I have, I scanned this envelope, of course, back in the 90s. The scanner I had was pretty sad. Of course, the one I've got now is about seven years old, but at least a whole lot better than it was then.

And I put this on the website. You can still see it there. But here is the envelope in which he sent that fax to me. Let it iris down there. What does that say? James White, Alpha and Omega, Revelation, you see that there?

It looks like it says Revelation 1 .1. Yeah, that's exactly, and that's in his own handwriting. Because he said, compare for yourself his handwritten letter. Look at the handwriting. That's the same hand that's writing the two.

And he wrote Revelation 1 .1. Why is that important? Well, why don't you listen to this phone call from my debate with D .A. Wade on KIXL Radio when Tex Mars called in. And I think you'll see for yourself.