Preservation of Scripture, Pt. 2 (05/20/2001)

The battle over beliefs it was a battle over the manuscripts They have depraved the scriptures by their doctrines and glosses

Do you know what a gloss is if you study this manuscript evidence? You'll see the word time and again It's a place where the scribe changed what the

Bible said to fit what he wanted it to say. It's called a gloss And you can go back to Alex who traces the italic

Ancient Latin version and quotes these people who believed only in the

Bible who were obviously not Roman Catholics and They criticized the Popes and the priests who depraved the scriptures by their own doctrines and by changing the manuscripts with their glosses

I Found this in the book. I quoted earlier churches of the Piedmont by Alex It is recognized that the atala was translated from the received text

In other words the and here again, we use that word in the general sense. It's not a thing

It's a line of it's a line of manuscripts or a type of manuscript Which came from the

Syrian which of course Antioch is the capital of the Syrian world back in that day even

Hort Recognized it earlier in the quote as the message began this morning

That the Vulgate is the Italia in other words the modern Latin Vulgate is the

Italia with the readings of the received text removed and I quote that from a book called our

Bible and the ancient manuscripts by a man named Kenyon Kenyon by the way does not agree with the received

Text theory, but he still wrote that in his book that it is recognized that The Latin Vulgate is the old

Italia or the ancient Latin Bible with the things changed the Protestant verses

Changed and made to be more of a Roman Catholic Bible. So I think the history is fairly clear on these two lines of manuscripts

For Waldensian works influenced John Calvin now we come up into a time in history that we are more familiar with With what we call the modern

Protestant Reformation But what's interesting is it's not such a clear -cut as one would say it is not just simple

It's not enough to say that what we had was Martin Luther who was a Roman Catholic who tried to stay in the

Catholic movement Which he did but then who came out because he did see that it was salvation by grace

And then from Luther we had Calvin and from Calvin we had this so we got the Presbyterian Church came from it the

Lutheran Church and on and on it's not that simple because the fact is that John Calvin was influenced by the

Waldensia's Who had these beliefs long before Luther ever came out of the

Roman Catholic Church? So there is an admixture if you want to use the word

Protestantism in the general broad sense is The fact is it's just a group of people who protested against the

Pope and the Catholic traditions and even the Bible that they used and This group of people was in direct contact with John Calvin For Waldensian works influenced

John Calvin. We know that he had a Greek Dictionary We had a

Waldensian vernacular and we had a French and an Italian version of the

Bible that Luke that John Calvin read Calvin was tutored by Oliveton, which was the

French Waldensian and according to ledger Calvin recognized a

Relationship to the Calvin's of the Valley of st. Martin one of the

Waldensian valleys He was even kin to these people so as God brings this line of manuscripts up to what we would call more modern history and brings it into the hands of Calvin and Ledger and and in Oliveton over in France and the different Protestants in the different countries of the

Western world He brought this manuscript through the ancient Waldensians that they had used all the way back to the ancient

Latin version now What did the Protestant the modern

Protestants do they were also living in what age? the

Renaissance and what came with the Renaissance printing presses and So they printed

Copies of this line of manuscript in whatever language they spoke of the day

So we have a French Bible today that follows this same received text We have Martin Luther's German Bible that follows the received text

We have the King James Bible and others before the King James all of the English translations followed the received text that your

King James is based upon unquestionably the leaders of the

Reformation the Reformation German French and English were convinced that the received text was the genuine

New Testament because of its irresistible history Internal evidence and the fact that it matched the

Waldensian form of Bibles Which is traced back to almost to the times of the

Apostles two streams of descent of the received text may be followed through the

Greek Eastern Church and then the Waldensian in the West which would have been Latin they met as associates of Calvin and Beza and Oliveton and ledger and Dio Dati of Italy produced

Bibles in these different languages from this Greek text

Oliveton translated the received text into French Calvin later Translated his into English with the from Geneva and then we later had the

Geneva Bible Martin Luther into German and The Oliveton in turn becomes the basis of the

Geneva Bible, which was the leading English Bible until the King James appeared Dio Dati translated the received text into Italian Interesting point of history, sir,

Samuel Moreland under the protection of Oliver Cromwell, which is a figure you'll remember

Received from ledger the Waldensian New Testament, which now lies in the

Cambridge University Library and this occurred after the 16 55 massacre now

When you talk about a massacre, it's real easy just to use the word And say well this happened after the 1655 massacre and then just go on and discuss the manuscript evidence and so forth

My point this morning is to show you that there is an identifiable line of Greek manuscripts that go back through the

Reformation and the Protestant era as far back as 400 AD I'm not saying there is one manuscript that you can find but I'm saying that as you match these groups of manuscripts as They diverge and differ from the

Roman Catholic manuscripts. They are alike. They are alike in the difference and people died for that difference and So as we see these massacres that take place

Let me just read to you a little bit of history from Fox's Book of Martyrs in the year 1524 at a town in France called

Melden one John Clark set up a Bill on the church door wherein he called the

Pope the Antichrist now, do we have the guts to do stuff like that today? You know

Well for this offense, he was repeatedly whipped now see we can read over that very quickly, but put yourself there and be stripped naked and tied to a post in public and whipped

Until you're almost dead He was repeatedly whipped and then branded on the forehead.

Now. This is the way the Roman Catholics dealt with people Going afterward to mince in Lorraine this same man

John Clark Demolished some images now how many of you would go after lunch today down to the

Catholic Church? Walk in the door with a sledgehammer and just destroy all their images

You have the guts to do that Well this this man did this

For which he had his right hand and nose cut off and his arms and breast torn with pinchers

He sustained these cruelties with amazing fortitude and was even sufficiently cool to sing the 115th

Psalm Which expressly forbids idolatry? After which he was thrown into the fire and burnt to ashes

Many persons of the Reformed persuasion were about this time beaten racked

Scourged and burnt to death in several parts of France, but more particularly in Paris Malta and limousine a

Native of Malta was burnt by a slow fire for saying that mass was plain

Denial of the death and passion of Christ. Do you understand what the mass is? In the mass they say the

Catholics even to today say that they are literally eating the body of Jesus and so that's that way

Christ is in them and This person in Malta was burnt by slow fire

Not just fire but slow fire for simply making the comment that the mass was plainly denying the death of Jesus Christ as sufficient for removal of sin at limousine

Another clergyman of the Reformed religion was apprehended in order to be burnt Francis Bridbard secretary to the cardinal

For speaking in favor of the Reformed had his tongue cut out and was then burnt around the year ad 1545

There was a schoolmaster or a schoolteacher who was burnt in 1545 for saying that the mass was useless and absurd and About the same time 14 men were burnt at Malta their wives being compelled to stand by and behold the execution

Now there's you know, you just need to pick this up and read this book It will change your life, but there's a thing called the

Bartholomew massacre in Paris and it had to do with this same difference between the

Protestants and the Catholics and I can't even really read this in here

Today with children here and and even with women present but it literally lays out exactly what the

Roman Catholics did to these people all because they Believed in just simply the pure Word of God.

They did not believe in the traditions. They didn't believe in the mass They believed in the

Word of God they had their own version of the Bible which differed from the Roman Catholics version version of the

Bible which made them very furious and They tried to burn it out stamp it out and they couldn't get rid of it

It lions 800 people were massacre massacred this woman's children

Were hanging on the children were hanging on to the parents and the parents affectionately embracing their children

Were pleasant food for the swords and the bloodthirsty minds of those who called themselves the

Catholic Church here 300 were slain in the bishop's house and the

Impious monks would suffer none to be buried. They just threw him out on the ground and left him there

And you can go through and read For hours and it'll break your heart But what it'll also do is it will let you know

What a strong faith these people had now I believe this

I Believe that the modern translations are also part of the sovereignty of God Second Thessalonians chapter 2 and verse 3 says let no man deceive you by any means

For that day shall not come except there come a falling away first and that man of sin be revealed the son of perdition

This word falling away is the word aposthesia Which means defection from the truth, but it comes from a

Greek root word, which means to remove to remove

There must be a removal of information in order for there to be this

Falling away. Well Amos talks about it in Amos chapter 8 in verse 9 And following where it says behold the days come say it 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 of the words of the

Lord and they shall wander from sea to sea and from north even To the east they shall run to and fro and seek the word of the

Lord and shall not find it It's really interesting to look at the Hebrew words behind those two sentences that I just read where it says

It'll be a famine of the hearing of the word the word hearing means to hear intelligently It doesn't mean that they won't hear the word preached or that they can't read the word.

It means they cannot intelligently understand it And then when it says they will seek the Word of God and shall not find it

It doesn't mean that there won't be books called Bibles This word seek is the Hebrew word Balkash, which means to search out a thing

They will search out and try to find the Word of God and they can't find it There are

Bibles today right now in the English language that contain things that are not

God's Word You can trace it back to a

Greek line of manuscripts that was predominantly changed by Jerome and then others before him To fit more along the lines of what the

Roman Catholics Wanted to believe but it is prophesied by Amos that that is going to come to pass

It is told us in the New Testament there will have to be a great falling away and all of these things are

God's sovereign will and These modern scholars who are not the men of prayer that that the men used to be who did this type of scholarship

These modern scholars many of whom are in fact Roman Catholics Like Westcott and Hort are proven

Mary worshippers who have given us these modern versions. I just don't believe that's how

God Kept it. I think he kept it through the blood -bought church down through the ages

And I think if you'll do an honest study, you're gonna find some things that will surprise you

You're gonna find that a lot of the manuscripts don't match word for word But what you are gonna find is that there is a sense

To the manuscripts that come down through that line of the Protestant movement all the way from 400

AD all the way up through what? We call the Protestant movement that is in divergence from the

Catholic Bible We find this great falling away The Greek word means a removal of something.

Isn't it interesting the different things? We've looked at in this study such as in several verses where the word

Lord was Separated from the word Jesus Isn't it interesting that there are many places where the word cross is

Separated from the life of the believer such as in Mark 10 21 in these Bibles Isn't it interesting that Joseph is called the father of Jesus with no clarification in these

Catholic Bibles in Luke chapter 2 verses 33 and 43, but not in the

Protestant Bible Isn't it interesting that in Luke 4 8 where Jesus said get thee behind me

Satan? You don't find that in the do -a -version, but you do find it in the King James version Isn't it interesting where in Luke 4 41 where the demons recognize that Jesus was

Christ? You don't find that in the Catholic do -a -version or the Latin Vulgate But you do find it in the ancient bulk in the ancient

Latin Bible the Italian that has come up through the Protestant era to today Isn't it interesting where in Acts 2 30 where it says according to the flesh he raised up Christ.

You don't find that it's been removed Isn't it interesting in Acts 8 37 where it says I believe that Jesus is the

Son of God is not there It's been removed. Isn't it interesting in Acts 9 verses 5 and 6 in Paul's conversion the actual point of his conversion where he said

Lord What would you have me to do is not in the Bible of the Roman Catholics? It's not in the modern versions that we have that Westcott and Hort tricked us into thinking were

Protestant Bibles Which never were in all of history that line of manuscripts was never accepted by any of these

Protestant people the non -catholics Acts 17 26 the blood is missing first Corinthians 5 7 the

Passover sacrificed for us that phrase is not found in their

Bible in Colossians 1 14 redemption through his blood we have redemption but not through his blood in their

Bible And first Peter 4 1 he suffered for us in their Bible.

He merely suffered in our Bible. He suffered for us in First John 5 7 and 8 where the triunity of God is taught that verse is completely removed

Why is that Westcott and Hort say it's not in any of the ancient versions and yet Cyril quoted it about a hundred years before Constantine ever met and It was in a

Bible that he had in his lap Dating back that long ago to 250

AD. That's a long time ago. It was in a Bible back then But since Jerome you haven't found it in the

Catholic Bibles nor in the modern quote Protestant Bibles that come from that line

What about Revelation 1 11 where Jesus called the Alpha and the Omega by the way first John 5 7 and 8

Is probably the clearest verse in the whole Bible that mentions the triunity of God?

And I'm gonna use that word rather than Trinity because I believe it's more accurate It's been removed

Alpha and Omega the beginning and the end in Revelation 1 11 removed The entire book of Revelations is missing from Westcott Hort's favorite text the

Vaticanus Because it's what talks about the mother of whores Interesting the

Roman Catholic Church that parts removed from that Bible Which is the one that they say is the most accurate in the most ancient

What about the phrase the darkness reserved forever and ever for the false prophets that's not found in 2nd

Peter 2 17 in that Bible What about and your body and your spirit which are

God's that's not found in 1st Corinthians 620 in that Bible What about take eat this is my body

It's interesting the part about this is my body is found. But the part about take and eat is not found in 1st

Corinthians 11 24 Heirs of God through Christ We're heirs of God in their

Bible, but not through Christ. It's been removed from Galatians 4 7 What about who created all things by Jesus Christ in Ephesians 3 9 their

Bible simply says God created all things Well, we know that But it doesn't say by Jesus Christ What about God manifest in the flesh first Timothy 3 16 there says who was manifest in the flesh?

What about he by himself purged our sins in Hebrews 1 3? Did you know that in their Bible it simply says he purged our sin, but it doesn't say by himself

You know why because they need all their tradition to be involved in it, too They need the mass to be involved in it, too

It is a Catholic line of manuscripts What about the fact nobody came up mentioned to this to me after the message which

I found was odd But I showed you in 2nd Samuel 21 19 where David did not kill

Goliath in the modern versions But they're the most accurate most ancient but your received text version

Shows very clearly who killed Goliath in 2nd Samuel 21 19 This apostasy this falling away through removing truth is found in the

Bible of origin The Alexander from Alexandria Egypt the beginning of natural scientific method of textual criticism correcting the

Bible this Apostasy and falling away through removing truth is found in Eusebius Who was with Constantine and they came up with the

Catholic Bible at that time, which is different than the Protestant Bible It is the removing is found in Westcott and Hort's Sinaticus from Egypt in their

Vaticanus from Rome is found in Jerome's Latin Vulgate Which is now the Roman Catholic modern

Bible this removal of truth is found in the Alexandrian or the Egyptian Manuscripts it is found in the do a

Roman Catholic modern version is found in Greece Bach Lachman which is what

New American Standard he funded the New American Standard Bible It's found in Greece Bach Lachman Trigellus Turchendorf down through the

Nestle Alan Book, which also returns to the modern scientific method of textual criticism

New American Standard Revised Standard NIV and some portions of the new King James Version These removal removals of truth are found but not in the line of manuscripts translations from which we get our

King James from which the Protestant people got their Bibles through the years the

Greek Vulgate which even Hort said was the Protestant Bible the early

Syrian Church Bible the fashita Which means the correct the simple the early

English and Ireland Iroh Scottish Church used The same line that's behind the received text the

Gallic French Christians from southern France that were so brutally destroyed

And killed and their children and wives destroyed in front of the husbands and just you can't even describe what happens get

Fox's Book of Martyrs and read and read about it But the Bible that they used was from the received text the

Walden sees of northern Italy Which we read about earlier was the received text the Reformers such as Luther in Germany Leger and Calvin in Geneva Olivet on in France held

BDS and deal Dottie in northern Italy All of these use the received text.

There is no scientific method by which the true word of God may be found today

Because God didn't preserve it that way he preserved it through these blood -bought people

Many of whom died for their faith, which really came from this Bible It shouldn't surprise us so much because in the 20th century

Every great revival movement that has ever existed in our history used the received text

Not these modern translations and not the Catholic version from which it stems So, what does the

Bible say of itself it is preserved Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

It is secure eternally It is settled by counsel of God it established in the best state

It is sure pure protected preserved and that is promised to each generation from the times of David It is preserved by the sovereign providence of God.

It is silver tried in a furnace of earth Purified seven times by the blood of these believers not by the

Roman Catholics in the Bibles which match their Bible The Bible states that the method is this the true apostolic

Church in First Timothy 3 15 is said to be the pillar and ground of the truth

Do you see that it's not some scholar over in Egypt like origin who's going to preserve the truth?

It's not some Roman Catholic scholar like Westcott and Hort that's going to give us the true word of God The Bible itself said it is the

Church of the Living God Which is the pillar and ground of the truth? So if you will just simply trace the born -again believers back from here all the way back to the cross

And you find out what type of Bible they read You'll see that your

King James Bible though. It's not a perfect translation It has some translational errors of a minor sort

The Greek text from which it came can be traced back As far back as you can go and you'll find that it'll be the ones getting killed by the

Catholics It won't be the Catholics that used it So the true Apostolic Church was the pillar and ground of the

Bible and was Used by God to preserve it and to recopy it and recopy it and recopy it and that's one reason it's called a received text because the huge preponderance of Manuscripts that we have match this text

Just as the Word of God was preserved by the priestly scribes in the New Testament. It was preserved by the believer priests the trail of blood

Not Egypt the world not Roman Catholicism the whore But those which started in Antioch from Syria where they were first called

Christians This is where this trail began the majority of the original autographs were believed by at least three different scholars to have ended up in that part of the world and Then we go to the early

Greek Church the early Syrian Church the early English Ireland Scottish Church, Southern France, Northern Italy To the

Reformers to John Calvin to Martin Luther in Germany To the

Geneva Bible in English to the King James Bible of today the modern revivals of Wesley Whitfield Moody Torrey Billy Sunday, we're all blessed because this

Manuscript is the line of manuscripts that were used The modern missionary movement of William Carey Brainerd Taylor all use the received text

That's the text that they used to translate into the different languages when they went on the mission field all the great

Protestant denominations and the Baptists have always used this line of manuscripts up until the

Battle of Burgeon and Westcott and Hort and then everything changed so my assessment after looking at all of this vast amount of information as I look at what the

Bible says God's method will be for preserving it. It doesn't match the modern textual criticism

Doesn't match that method because he said it would be the church It would be the pillar of the truth and it is not difficult to trace the line of manuscripts that the church used and really

Only in modern days have the Protestants changed and look how their theology has changed

Why don't you parallel? The modern theology with the use of the modern

Bibles have you ever thought to do that? It matches it correlates perfectly and some of these very changes where we take away the

Lordship from the Jesus or What had brought about the modern Christianity that we see all around us today?

So don't think for a minute that which version of the Bible you use is not important don't think for a minute that there aren't clear and provable differences and Don't think for a minute that history won't bear out which line matches the blood -bought

Believers and those who died for the faith. That's the line. I want to use I mean you can debate all the rest of your life if you want to about the modern critical methods

But I want to use the Bible that my brothers and sisters died with in their hands And if you don't choose to I'm not mad at you.

I don't it's your own choice It's my job as your pastor to lead you in the area that I think will keep you the safest

And that's what I've attempted to do and you take it from there, but it's not a thing. We'll debate in this church a good friend of mine that discipled me when

I first got saved Confronted a King James only person once who had just told a brand -new convert that that wasn't a

Bible because he had an NIV in his hand and My disciple named Gary looked at me and said

David that person is such a fool for telling that new convert that he said I'd rather him read The NIV than to not read the

King James You got to use some common sense But I think as you study you'll find that more and more your heart will go with the fact that these doctrines of the faith that we believe for so many thousands of years are born up much better in the received text than they are in the modern manuscripts and in the

Latin Roman Catholic Bibles So thus we end the study on the preservation of the

Word of God and we'll move into a new area Starting next week. Let's stand and have prayer together

Father we thank you for The history that did come through the burnings of the

Roman Catholic we know many of the books and Bibles of the Waldenses were actually destroyed by fire, but a couple of manuscripts made it through So that we have some of the history preserved that we can read about we ask you to Bless the

Bible verses that we read in this message about how you preserved your word How you said you did it by the church to help us to be?

Have more understanding of how the Bible came to us today and father we pray that you'll give us a peace in our hearts

That as we read the scriptures If we do have a particular version and we come across a passage

It just doesn't seem right to the ear that we'll have the freedom by the Holy Spirit to realize that That that's probably not the right line of scripture

And so just guard us and protect us and keep us from that Laodicean Lukewarmness that is in this age keep us from the falling away the removing of the truth keep all of the truth that you have for us in this church until the

Lord Jesus comes back for us and Father bless our fellowship together in our meal and we ask it in Jesus name.