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Subject: EASTER POSTSCRIPT: The Politics of Corrupting Jesus' Words
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 06:17:44 -0400 (EDT)
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A BIBLE PUBLISHER CORRUPTED JESUS CHRIST'S WORDS:
Why Celebrity Christian Leaders Bow before Apostasy
By Charles E. Carlson (founder We Hold These Truths)
This study is not written to convince anyone what Jesus said, it only deals with what the Christian New Testament states He said. We realize this analysis is important to persons of all beliefs, faiths, and races who are trying to understand what is happening to our world, and why many of those who call themselves by Jesus Christ's name seems to be constantly in support of wars against other races. This is a re-written and abbreviated version of our more far reaching 2006 series, "The Sheep and the Goats" Parts 1 & 2. We provide it to you at Easer in response to requests that we more clearly document the essence of popular biblical distortion about what Christ said about Heaven and Hell in the book of Matthew, Chapters 24-25.
Christian Zionists at the pulpit of mega-churches have an untenable problem. It is impossible for them to tell the truth about what these New Testament Bible passages say, or to read them, without contradicting their support for wars, and for the constantly warring state of Israel. Church economics is also a factor in scriptural compromise. Evangelical teaching and preaching often directly contradict that which Jesus taught about love and peace, and more surprisingly, celebrity Christian statements often directly conflict with Jesus' statements about Heaven and Hell.
Celebrity Christian leaders bend and warp the New Testament to save the empires they have built on a wide and easy path interpretation, in contrast to what Christ called the Narrow or "Strait" gate. Simply stated, they do not fill 10,000 seat arenas by leaning too heavily on sin and repentance. Our government's public policy of wars has become many churches' policy, and evangelicals are active politically. Every politician knows it pays to be "born again." Thus an unspoken, unholy alliance has been created between financially successful false biblical teachers on one hand, and financially successful politicians and businessmen who thrive on serial wars, on the other.
Your author will examine the bloodthirsty and in fact anti-Christian heresy that has cost over a million lives. Matthew 25 contains one of the most directly written and clearly self-explained passages which is now rejected in almost every evangelical (Christian Zionist) church, not to mention a growing number of mainline churches. The famous Scofield Reference Bible, perhaps the most powerfully promoted Bible ever written, is the godfather of this distortion now emulating from many popular study bibles. Matthew, the first book in the New Testament, contains the most outrageous example of added words that directly contradicts Jesus words. A quote from the Scofield Reference Bible footnotes directly contradicts what Jesus Christ is quoted to have said, His simple words, taken from the King James Edition, describing the basis upon which Jesus told his followers He himself will someday judge every man from every tribe ("nation").
"When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then
shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: 32 And before him shall be gathered all
nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divided his sheep
from the goats: 33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on
the left. 34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of
my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: 35
For I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I
was a stranger, and ye took me in: (skip to40)---Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as
ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me."
The next five versus describe Jesus' rejection of the "goats," those who have been
less than kind to the least of "his brethren," judging them unfit for heaven by the
same measure. There can hardly be a more simple set of rules for acceptance in Jesus
eternal kingdom than this simple measurement of faith, love and service, which He
tells us in this passage is His measure for fitness for the Kingdom on Heaven.
Now, we must beg your patience to wade through a long paragraph which is a footnote
to this same passage in Matthew above, and which footnote directly conflicts with
what Jesus taught. Be patient if at first reading you should be confused. From the
Scofield (Oxford) Reference bible, Matthew 25:32: p-1036-37:
"This judgment of individual Gentiles is to be distinguished from other judgments in
Scripture, such as the judgment of Israel, and the judgment of the wicked after the
millennium. The time of this judgment is "when the Son of man shall come in his
glory," i.e. at the second coming of Christ after the tribulation. The subjects of this
judgment are ...all Gentiles then living on earth. Three classes of individuals are
mentioned: (1) sheep, saved Gentiles; (2) goats, unsaved Gentiles; and (3) brethren,
the people of Israel. The scene is on earth;...The test of this judgment is the
treatment by individual Gentiles of those whom Christ calls "my brethren," living in the
preceding tribulation period when Israel is fearfully persecuted...The sheep are
Gentiles saved on earth during the period between the rapture and Christ's second
coming to the earth..."
What is that all about! Oxford Press introduces radical racism into its
interpolation of Jesus' words by limiting heaven to Jews and those non-Jews who are excessively
kind to Jews. And the footnotes also claim it is not even Heaven Jesus it talking
about. Instead it is an early kingdom that is yet to come...and it has (according to
Oxford) nothing to do with the world the Disciples and Jesus lived in!
Who, to Jesus, were "the least of these my Brethren?" Oxford has them to be "Jews"
living in the state of Israel at some future age. In fact, Oxford ignores Heaven
entirely and changes the place to an "earthy kingdom" at a future time after an
Armageddon event to take place after a "rapture" event followed by an "millennium" event.
Your writer thinks this complex and bizarre interruption of Jesus' simple words is
an insult to any reader's intelligence and a false witness to God himself, as we will
explain.
Who are Jesus Brethren?
When Jesus spoke of "his brethren" He was in no way talking about the 1948 created
State of Israel. Surely he was referring to his followers who he often pointedly
called brothers. And based upon His many statements about loving ones' neighbor,
associates, and even our enemies, it is more likely Jesus was thinking of any and all of
suffering mankind in "the least of these my brethren." But we do not try to decide
that for you, let the words speak for themselves.
"Goats," in Jesus simple pastoral analogy, are those who look a lot like sheep but
who have ignored the needs of their fellow men.
But to Oxford University Press, the goats are symbols of pro-Israel racism, they are
"gentiles" who fail to shelter Israelis at some future time in imagined history. In
other words, Oxford wants us to believe Jesus was not even talking to his disciples
or needy mankind at all, but instead they want us to believe He was tossing cute
futurist riddles over his followers' innocent heads. Why would he lecture them about
some future generation that his "brethren" would not even comprehend or live to see?
Jesus words were (this writer thinks) relevant to those who followed him then; if
not, how can the words be believable to those who try to follow Jesus now!?
To make sure everyone knows what Jesus was talking about, Heaven and Hell, he
provides two parables in first half of the same 25th Chapter that he labeled as explaining
the kingdom of Heaven ("the kingdom of Heaven is like"). And nowhere in the chapter
did Jesus say he was suddenly changing the subject to a "second coming" scene. Had
Jesus intended to give a future history lesson it is logical to think he would have
said so. After all, He is the son of God! But this did not deter Oxford from
changing the subject!
What is Oxford's motive?
Oxford Press treats Jesus Christ like a public school drop out who cannot express
himself. We are supposed to believe that the Scofield bible (written and rewritten by
Oxford University Press from 1921 on) is needed to interpret Jesus lack of
expression. It would have us think God is incapable of explaining his purpose on earth. How
insulting to God. Oxford Press and Pharisaic Christian leaders should tremble in
fear if they indeed believe He is God. Jesus was clearly addressing his Disciples in
the whole of Chapter 25, and he was telling them about Heaven and Hell and He
explained the earthly path to each place. Traditional Christians (as well as Muslims as we
understand them) believe Jesus was describing the "narrow path" to heaven. Jesus does
not tell us so but we tend to assume this path is also meant for us to follow.
Most dispensational pastors avoid discussing Matthew 25, they seem to wish it would
disappear. To deal with it, they have adopted what we call Scofieldism to convert
this problem into an asset. Scofieldism make no sense as interpreted in the Oxford
footnotes except to "dispensationalists" who have built cults around it. Scofieldism
is gushed from the pulpits of the celebrity Christian churches and go out on
Christian airwaves to untold millions. As a result, followers of Christ as well as moral,
but non-Christians, are confused by the simplest language of the words Jesus left for
us .
Jesus words are easy to understand, but difficult to follow toward the strait gate.
Oxfords words are impossible to understand and as hard to remember as the other
guy's password, but the interpretations are duck soup to follow...they require almost
nothing of those who profess to be "born again."
Oxford invents a wide and easy path to heaven, where hell is only a factor for
others, where sacrificial kindness must be shown only to "Jews," and not even now...but
later, during a millennial kingdom. For now, it is quite ok to slaughter Arab
children and wage the cruelest wars on their parents. After all, it is Arabs and Muslims
who are Israel's enemies, isn't it?
Writing between the lines for others to read
Matthew 25 may also be the best example (but far from the only one) of what is
called forgery through "sub-headings," which Oxford placed between the lines. Oxford
deliberately subverted the meaning of Jesus' analogy of the sheep and goats by
italicized sub-headings. The bible forgery is as egregious as was the forged real estate
sale that landed Cyrus I Schofield, a convicted forger by profession, in jail.
Schofield also claimed Christian conversion while doing time for forgery.
Pastors who accept Oxford's deliberate abuse of Jesus words belong in the street, if
not in jail with Scofield's ghost.*
"Judgment of individual gentiles at Christ's return to earth"
Oxford press sets out to convince the reader that Jesus changed the subject from
what He said he was talking about, heaven and hell, to the "second coming" at his
"return to earth" or Armageddon scheme by adding the above line of italics between the
verses. We are to believe that Jesus was finished with heaven and hell and switched
subjects without warning, to talking about "Christ's return to earth" popularly
fictionalized as "the end times." The sub-heading was added in 1967 to support the
imaginative footnote we have already discussed. Together sub-heading and footnotes
complete the terrible forgery of God's words. Without the sub-heading there is no reason to
think Jesus changed the subject...he is still talking about his heaven in the sheep
and goats story. If He wanted to do otherwise He would have told us so himself.
Oxford helped God along with this sub-heading and notes.
Another Forgery found in Matthew 24
Another of example of willful forgery of Christ's words is found in the Oxford 1967
edition, page 1035. It is worth a minute or two to see what Jesus was talking about
that Oxford Press considered important enough to forge right in front of the world
of Bible readers.
Jesus was first asked a natural and simple question by an unnamed disciple in the
3rd verse;
3)"Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming,
and of the end of the world?"
To which Jesus replied:
34)"Verily (truly) I say unto you, this generation shall not pass, till all these
things be fulfilled."
Jesus was answering his youthful and curious followers, telling them certain events
would occur before their "generation" is gone, leaving no doubt that he means some
of them might live to see much persecution and the temple destroyed, among less
easily understood events.
One of them specifically asked about the Herod's Temple, where today the Al Aqsa
Mosque stands. It turns out the "in this generation" was absolutely right for the Roman
as well as Jewish records show the Temple was completely destroyed about 35 years
later in 70 AD under the Roman General Titus.
Now read the Oxford footnote that actually refutes Jesus words:
1(24:34, page 1035) states:
"The word 'generation' though commonly used in Scriptures of those living at one
time, could not here mean those alive at the time of Christ..."
Obviously, Oxford has a problem with Jesus words so it vetoed what Jesus said. To
do this they invented a new definition of "generation" that fit Oxford's idea of an
earthly kingdom in Jerusalem in which live Israelis, chosen of God, and owning the
entire Middle East, given to them as a direct gift from God. Oxford fixed the Bible by
making a generation as long as they wish it to be, say 3000 years or more. This of
course would make Jesus a liar to his own followers, but Oxford does not flinch at
doing this.
The amazing paradox about Scofieldism is that it is practiced by those celebrity
"Christians" who claim they believe that 100% of the Bible is literally true.
Barbara Walters interviewed Evangelical mega-church leader Ted Haggard on ABC's
20/20, on December 19th, 2005. The subject was Heaven and Hell. Haggard defined
"evangelicalism" as three principles that he said evangelicals believe: that Jesus Christ is
the son of God; that the Bible is literally true throughout; and that to go to
Heaven one must be "born again."
It should be no surprise if the Zionist leaning, non-Christian Oxford Press would
lie to attain a political agenda to control American Christianity. This was its
logical purpose in making, selling and promoting tens of millions of Scofield bibles into
American Seminaries and church leaders.
But evangelical celebrities, and all who knowingly go along with the forgery have
the blood of a dozen racist wars on their hands. This includes Pastors in tens of
thousands of churches. Jesus' true words require that We Hold These Truths confronts
them, as Jesus confronted the chief priests and Pharisees of his day. Project Strait
Gate is our creation to do this.
CONCLUSION
Dispensationalism is Christian-Zionism, which is racism. It requires each follower
to acknowledge the lordship of the State of Israel along side of Christ. Its view of
salvation is a glittery wide and easy way that that requires loving "Jews" more than
we love others. The immense, indescribable distortion of Jesus Christ's words clear
examples of which are found in Matthew 25, defies imagination in its brazenness and
the cruel intent of its Zionist framers. It is used every day in the USA to enable
and instigate the brutality falsely called "war" in the Middle East. -
May you be blessed on Easter by a true understanding of His words.
Other works by this author:
The Cause of Our Conflicts
Interactive audio-video presentation (no charge)
http://www.straitgateministry.net/ (Audio/Video)
FINAL APOSTASY, Dr. Gordon Ginn, Ph. D. Apostasy means "falling away" from the
fundamentals Jesus of Nazareth taught. The Final Apostasy, Ginn tells us, is of a massive
defection of Christians from their faith, the apostasy declaring Christ's work as
failed or left incomplete. This is called chiliasm or futurism, that denies
completeness of God's work in Jesus, making God a failure and Jesus a half done Messiah. Dr.
Gordon Ginn's theological insights are clear for seekers of God's truth in the New
Testament. Paperback. c. 2002. 193 pages.
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From: cecarl@straitgateministry.net Add to Address BookAdd to Address Book Add Mobile Alert
Subject: EASTER POSTSCRIPT: The Politics of Corrupting Jesus' Words
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 06:17:44 -0400 (EDT)
Reply-To: cecarl
http://www.straitgateministry.net/(republished with permission)
A BIBLE PUBLISHER CORRUPTED JESUS CHRIST'S WORDS:
Why Celebrity Christian Leaders Bow before Apostasy
By Charles E. Carlson (founder We Hold These Truths)
This study is not written to convince anyone what Jesus said, it only deals with what the Christian New Testament states He said. We realize this analysis is important to persons of all beliefs, faiths, and races who are trying to understand what is happening to our world, and why many of those who call themselves by Jesus Christ's name seems to be constantly in support of wars against other races. This is a re-written and abbreviated version of our more far reaching 2006 series, "The Sheep and the Goats" Parts 1 & 2. We provide it to you at Easer in response to requests that we more clearly document the essence of popular biblical distortion about what Christ said about Heaven and Hell in the book of Matthew, Chapters 24-25.
Christian Zionists at the pulpit of mega-churches have an untenable problem. It is impossible for them to tell the truth about what these New Testament Bible passages say, or to read them, without contradicting their support for wars, and for the constantly warring state of Israel. Church economics is also a factor in scriptural compromise. Evangelical teaching and preaching often directly contradict that which Jesus taught about love and peace, and more surprisingly, celebrity Christian statements often directly conflict with Jesus' statements about Heaven and Hell.
Celebrity Christian leaders bend and warp the New Testament to save the empires they have built on a wide and easy path interpretation, in contrast to what Christ called the Narrow or "Strait" gate. Simply stated, they do not fill 10,000 seat arenas by leaning too heavily on sin and repentance. Our government's public policy of wars has become many churches' policy, and evangelicals are active politically. Every politician knows it pays to be "born again." Thus an unspoken, unholy alliance has been created between financially successful false biblical teachers on one hand, and financially successful politicians and businessmen who thrive on serial wars, on the other.
Your author will examine the bloodthirsty and in fact anti-Christian heresy that has cost over a million lives. Matthew 25 contains one of the most directly written and clearly self-explained passages which is now rejected in almost every evangelical (Christian Zionist) church, not to mention a growing number of mainline churches. The famous Scofield Reference Bible, perhaps the most powerfully promoted Bible ever written, is the godfather of this distortion now emulating from many popular study bibles. Matthew, the first book in the New Testament, contains the most outrageous example of added words that directly contradicts Jesus words. A quote from the Scofield Reference Bible footnotes directly contradicts what Jesus Christ is quoted to have said, His simple words, taken from the King James Edition, describing the basis upon which Jesus told his followers He himself will someday judge every man from every tribe ("nation").
"When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then
shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: 32 And before him shall be gathered all
nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divided his sheep
from the goats: 33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on
the left. 34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of
my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: 35
For I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I
was a stranger, and ye took me in: (skip to40)---Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as
ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me."
The next five versus describe Jesus' rejection of the "goats," those who have been
less than kind to the least of "his brethren," judging them unfit for heaven by the
same measure. There can hardly be a more simple set of rules for acceptance in Jesus
eternal kingdom than this simple measurement of faith, love and service, which He
tells us in this passage is His measure for fitness for the Kingdom on Heaven.
Now, we must beg your patience to wade through a long paragraph which is a footnote
to this same passage in Matthew above, and which footnote directly conflicts with
what Jesus taught. Be patient if at first reading you should be confused. From the
Scofield (Oxford) Reference bible, Matthew 25:32: p-1036-37:
"This judgment of individual Gentiles is to be distinguished from other judgments in
Scripture, such as the judgment of Israel, and the judgment of the wicked after the
millennium. The time of this judgment is "when the Son of man shall come in his
glory," i.e. at the second coming of Christ after the tribulation. The subjects of this
judgment are ...all Gentiles then living on earth. Three classes of individuals are
mentioned: (1) sheep, saved Gentiles; (2) goats, unsaved Gentiles; and (3) brethren,
the people of Israel. The scene is on earth;...The test of this judgment is the
treatment by individual Gentiles of those whom Christ calls "my brethren," living in the
preceding tribulation period when Israel is fearfully persecuted...The sheep are
Gentiles saved on earth during the period between the rapture and Christ's second
coming to the earth..."
What is that all about! Oxford Press introduces radical racism into its
interpolation of Jesus' words by limiting heaven to Jews and those non-Jews who are excessively
kind to Jews. And the footnotes also claim it is not even Heaven Jesus it talking
about. Instead it is an early kingdom that is yet to come...and it has (according to
Oxford) nothing to do with the world the Disciples and Jesus lived in!
Who, to Jesus, were "the least of these my Brethren?" Oxford has them to be "Jews"
living in the state of Israel at some future age. In fact, Oxford ignores Heaven
entirely and changes the place to an "earthy kingdom" at a future time after an
Armageddon event to take place after a "rapture" event followed by an "millennium" event.
Your writer thinks this complex and bizarre interruption of Jesus' simple words is
an insult to any reader's intelligence and a false witness to God himself, as we will
explain.
Who are Jesus Brethren?
When Jesus spoke of "his brethren" He was in no way talking about the 1948 created
State of Israel. Surely he was referring to his followers who he often pointedly
called brothers. And based upon His many statements about loving ones' neighbor,
associates, and even our enemies, it is more likely Jesus was thinking of any and all of
suffering mankind in "the least of these my brethren." But we do not try to decide
that for you, let the words speak for themselves.
"Goats," in Jesus simple pastoral analogy, are those who look a lot like sheep but
who have ignored the needs of their fellow men.
But to Oxford University Press, the goats are symbols of pro-Israel racism, they are
"gentiles" who fail to shelter Israelis at some future time in imagined history. In
other words, Oxford wants us to believe Jesus was not even talking to his disciples
or needy mankind at all, but instead they want us to believe He was tossing cute
futurist riddles over his followers' innocent heads. Why would he lecture them about
some future generation that his "brethren" would not even comprehend or live to see?
Jesus words were (this writer thinks) relevant to those who followed him then; if
not, how can the words be believable to those who try to follow Jesus now!?
To make sure everyone knows what Jesus was talking about, Heaven and Hell, he
provides two parables in first half of the same 25th Chapter that he labeled as explaining
the kingdom of Heaven ("the kingdom of Heaven is like"). And nowhere in the chapter
did Jesus say he was suddenly changing the subject to a "second coming" scene. Had
Jesus intended to give a future history lesson it is logical to think he would have
said so. After all, He is the son of God! But this did not deter Oxford from
changing the subject!
What is Oxford's motive?
Oxford Press treats Jesus Christ like a public school drop out who cannot express
himself. We are supposed to believe that the Scofield bible (written and rewritten by
Oxford University Press from 1921 on) is needed to interpret Jesus lack of
expression. It would have us think God is incapable of explaining his purpose on earth. How
insulting to God. Oxford Press and Pharisaic Christian leaders should tremble in
fear if they indeed believe He is God. Jesus was clearly addressing his Disciples in
the whole of Chapter 25, and he was telling them about Heaven and Hell and He
explained the earthly path to each place. Traditional Christians (as well as Muslims as we
understand them) believe Jesus was describing the "narrow path" to heaven. Jesus does
not tell us so but we tend to assume this path is also meant for us to follow.
Most dispensational pastors avoid discussing Matthew 25, they seem to wish it would
disappear. To deal with it, they have adopted what we call Scofieldism to convert
this problem into an asset. Scofieldism make no sense as interpreted in the Oxford
footnotes except to "dispensationalists" who have built cults around it. Scofieldism
is gushed from the pulpits of the celebrity Christian churches and go out on
Christian airwaves to untold millions. As a result, followers of Christ as well as moral,
but non-Christians, are confused by the simplest language of the words Jesus left for
us .
Jesus words are easy to understand, but difficult to follow toward the strait gate.
Oxfords words are impossible to understand and as hard to remember as the other
guy's password, but the interpretations are duck soup to follow...they require almost
nothing of those who profess to be "born again."
Oxford invents a wide and easy path to heaven, where hell is only a factor for
others, where sacrificial kindness must be shown only to "Jews," and not even now...but
later, during a millennial kingdom. For now, it is quite ok to slaughter Arab
children and wage the cruelest wars on their parents. After all, it is Arabs and Muslims
who are Israel's enemies, isn't it?
Writing between the lines for others to read
Matthew 25 may also be the best example (but far from the only one) of what is
called forgery through "sub-headings," which Oxford placed between the lines. Oxford
deliberately subverted the meaning of Jesus' analogy of the sheep and goats by
italicized sub-headings. The bible forgery is as egregious as was the forged real estate
sale that landed Cyrus I Schofield, a convicted forger by profession, in jail.
Schofield also claimed Christian conversion while doing time for forgery.
Pastors who accept Oxford's deliberate abuse of Jesus words belong in the street, if
not in jail with Scofield's ghost.*
"Judgment of individual gentiles at Christ's return to earth"
Oxford press sets out to convince the reader that Jesus changed the subject from
what He said he was talking about, heaven and hell, to the "second coming" at his
"return to earth" or Armageddon scheme by adding the above line of italics between the
verses. We are to believe that Jesus was finished with heaven and hell and switched
subjects without warning, to talking about "Christ's return to earth" popularly
fictionalized as "the end times." The sub-heading was added in 1967 to support the
imaginative footnote we have already discussed. Together sub-heading and footnotes
complete the terrible forgery of God's words. Without the sub-heading there is no reason to
think Jesus changed the subject...he is still talking about his heaven in the sheep
and goats story. If He wanted to do otherwise He would have told us so himself.
Oxford helped God along with this sub-heading and notes.
Another Forgery found in Matthew 24
Another of example of willful forgery of Christ's words is found in the Oxford 1967
edition, page 1035. It is worth a minute or two to see what Jesus was talking about
that Oxford Press considered important enough to forge right in front of the world
of Bible readers.
Jesus was first asked a natural and simple question by an unnamed disciple in the
3rd verse;
3)"Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming,
and of the end of the world?"
To which Jesus replied:
34)"Verily (truly) I say unto you, this generation shall not pass, till all these
things be fulfilled."
Jesus was answering his youthful and curious followers, telling them certain events
would occur before their "generation" is gone, leaving no doubt that he means some
of them might live to see much persecution and the temple destroyed, among less
easily understood events.
One of them specifically asked about the Herod's Temple, where today the Al Aqsa
Mosque stands. It turns out the "in this generation" was absolutely right for the Roman
as well as Jewish records show the Temple was completely destroyed about 35 years
later in 70 AD under the Roman General Titus.
Now read the Oxford footnote that actually refutes Jesus words:
1(24:34, page 1035) states:
"The word 'generation' though commonly used in Scriptures of those living at one
time, could not here mean those alive at the time of Christ..."
Obviously, Oxford has a problem with Jesus words so it vetoed what Jesus said. To
do this they invented a new definition of "generation" that fit Oxford's idea of an
earthly kingdom in Jerusalem in which live Israelis, chosen of God, and owning the
entire Middle East, given to them as a direct gift from God. Oxford fixed the Bible by
making a generation as long as they wish it to be, say 3000 years or more. This of
course would make Jesus a liar to his own followers, but Oxford does not flinch at
doing this.
The amazing paradox about Scofieldism is that it is practiced by those celebrity
"Christians" who claim they believe that 100% of the Bible is literally true.
Barbara Walters interviewed Evangelical mega-church leader Ted Haggard on ABC's
20/20, on December 19th, 2005. The subject was Heaven and Hell. Haggard defined
"evangelicalism" as three principles that he said evangelicals believe: that Jesus Christ is
the son of God; that the Bible is literally true throughout; and that to go to
Heaven one must be "born again."
It should be no surprise if the Zionist leaning, non-Christian Oxford Press would
lie to attain a political agenda to control American Christianity. This was its
logical purpose in making, selling and promoting tens of millions of Scofield bibles into
American Seminaries and church leaders.
But evangelical celebrities, and all who knowingly go along with the forgery have
the blood of a dozen racist wars on their hands. This includes Pastors in tens of
thousands of churches. Jesus' true words require that We Hold These Truths confronts
them, as Jesus confronted the chief priests and Pharisees of his day. Project Strait
Gate is our creation to do this.
CONCLUSION
Dispensationalism is Christian-Zionism, which is racism. It requires each follower
to acknowledge the lordship of the State of Israel along side of Christ. Its view of
salvation is a glittery wide and easy way that that requires loving "Jews" more than
we love others. The immense, indescribable distortion of Jesus Christ's words clear
examples of which are found in Matthew 25, defies imagination in its brazenness and
the cruel intent of its Zionist framers. It is used every day in the USA to enable
and instigate the brutality falsely called "war" in the Middle East. -
May you be blessed on Easter by a true understanding of His words.
Other works by this author:
The Cause of Our Conflicts
Interactive audio-video presentation (no charge)
http://www.straitgateministry.net/ (Audio/Video)
FINAL APOSTASY, Dr. Gordon Ginn, Ph. D. Apostasy means "falling away" from the
fundamentals Jesus of Nazareth taught. The Final Apostasy, Ginn tells us, is of a massive
defection of Christians from their faith, the apostasy declaring Christ's work as
failed or left incomplete. This is called chiliasm or futurism, that denies
completeness of God's work in Jesus, making God a failure and Jesus a half done Messiah. Dr.
Gordon Ginn's theological insights are clear for seekers of God's truth in the New
Testament. Paperback. c. 2002. 193 pages.
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