A Ministers Perspective On The Disappearing Scriptures
Amos 8:11 Behold, the days come, saith 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 the words of the Lord: 8:12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the south, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it. 8:13 In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst. 8:14 They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beersheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again. (KJV)
Do you see that? God said that HE will send a famine of the Word of the Lord. What does that mean? I believe it means He’ll allow the written Word as we know it to disappear. Everyone will be looking for it and not find it.
During the dark ages, the Roman Catholic church tried it’s best to eliminate the actual scriptures by confiscation and burning real Bibles (the Latin Itala Bible and the Greek manuscripts). They would make it a crime to even read the real Word that was preserved by the faithful. They tried to replace it with their own twisted versions, and said that only their priests could read and expound on it, giving their own twisted version of the Gospel. And the devil himself was directly behind this evil.
What the Roman Catholic church tried to do in fact didn’t work, and God preserved His Word for us, even until just recently. But now something else is happening through what people are calling the Mandela Effect. Personally, I don’t use that term. Actually, the ME is being caused by Bible prophecy being fulfilled. Entire passages are being altered in the Bible. The most famous to date is the prophecy of the coming kingdom from Isaiah 11:6. Many of us who’ve been in the Word remember all too well that the Bible prophesied that in the 1000 year reign, the Lord said that the Lion shall lie down with the lamb. Yet now it reads that the wolf shall dwell with the lamb.
In the 1600’s, the King James was translated Into the English language solely from the preserved Hebrew texts, (the Hebrew Old Testament) and letters named “Textus Receptus” (Received Text or Byzantine Text). The Received Text are the diligently copied and preserved letters of the Apostles and Saints from the 1st century A.D. that have been handed down in the original Greek and Aramaic they were originally written in. No pagan middle men here! These were referenced to the oldest Waldensian / Paulican (Anabaptist / Baptist) texts called the “Old Itala Bible”. Then they were translated by the Kings scholars to bring us the King James 1611 version. The only changes then to take place with the KJV was spelling corrections (1762 and 1769) because English spelling had changed. ie; s’s for f’s, and the removal of the books in between that most certainly didn’t belong there and were put there under political pressure & so forth, to give us the King James Authorized Version which we have today.
The King James bible was a wonder in the preservation of Gods Word in English on it’s completion. But that has now changed… Not entirely however, because much of the Gospel of John, Luke, and the book of Revelation are still the same to date. That is, as far as I can tell. What does that mean? I’m not sure right now, but I know the answer will present itself sooner or later.