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Tom Fisher - "The Words of the LORD Are Pure Words: As Silver Tried in a Furnace of Earth, Purified Seven Times."

 

Dear Pastor Jackson, 

We all experience contests of different sorts. Some are earthly. Others are spiritual between God and Satan. I will begin with an earthly contest that encouraged the hearts of Americans in tough times.

Americans really got beat up during the 1930's. In 1929 the stock market crashed putting thousands out of work and out of hope. So imagine for a moment you are living during this time of hardship. You need something or someone to give you hope.  Then along came a wonderful race horse named Seabiscuit, a horse Americans could relate to.  He was small, ridiculed, and rejected, but he kept going and soon began to win race after race to become a real champion.  

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The defining race occurred against a formidable rival named War Admiral. The match race occurred November 1, 1938 and captured the hearts of downtrodden Americans. Thousands packed the stands to see this race.  The crowd was huge. It took 17,000 gallons of lemonade, 60,000 hotdogs, and 2,000 kegs of beer to feed them all.  Seabiscuit won this race, only to later sustain a ruptured ligament in the next race that had the potential to prevent him from ever racing again. Seabiscuit miraculously recovered and went on to become the top race horse in America. This is a heart warming earthly contest; but I am really writing about an even more wonderful contest: a contest and fierce battle between God and Satan during the reformation.

So imagine for a moment you are living during this time. You go to church, but you can't understand anything because sermons and Bible readings are in a language you do not understand. Faithful pastors who preach and read the Bible in your language are brutally murdered, and even burned at stake. John Huss preached and read the Bible in your language, but was brutally burned at the stake. Later William Tyndale met a similar fate for translating the Bible into English. Satan is a most cruel tyrant. He hates God's true Word and uses murder and lies to destroy it and cast doubt on it.

 Finally enough was enough. Satan's ultimate deception and fraud was completely disqualified and rejected. God, through Erasmus of Rotterdam rejected the corrupt and deceptive Vaticanus Greek text as being completely illegitimate. This is huge!  That means God rejects the whole Vaticanus family of corrupted Greek texts (Nestle-Aland, United Bible Society) and the corrupt Bible translations (NIV, ESV, NKJV,  RSV etc.) sprouting from them!!  

Even more wonderful is God choosing the TEXTUS RECEPTUS Greek and the precise translations ( King James Bible, Luther's 1545 Bible).  These Bibles carried and established God's pure Words throughout the whole world. 

This is God fulfilling his promise to preserve his word among us forever. "The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever." Psalm 12:6,7  Let's not rush past these words. Your King James Bible is the fulfillment of these words. Wow!!!! These are pure pure words like silver purified in a furnace of earth purified seven times!!!! There cannot possibly be any errors, omissions, or corruptions of any kind here!!! These are God's pure words!! He purified them!!! He used and published them to every corner of this world!! God the Holy Ghost is the Spirit of truth! Shall we not trust him and be comforted by him! He guides us into all truth and opens our eyes and hearts to correctly understand God's Word! 

So why are you so easily pushed into doubt and unbelief by the tired lies of Satan and his minions? God holds the field of battle!! Vaticanus,  that formidable foe, is eternally rejected by God himself!! TEXTUS RECEPTUS, the pure Apostolic Greek text remains gloriously victorious!!! These are God's pure words that he promises to keep and preserve for all generations! There cannot possibly be any copying errors, or omissions here!!!! Let us join professor Niles Dahl as he asserts his faith: "The text! The text! We have the text!" (The King James Version, Gregory L Jackson PhD, pg.189 footnote) 

There is nothing dark and obscure about the certainty of the apostolic text (TEXTUS RECEPTUS)! There is also nothing dark and obscure about the certainty of the exact translations of the Apostolic text (King James Bible, Luther's 1545 Bible). Luther addressed this when he said, "With the same rashness any one may cover his own eyes, or go from the light into the dark and hide himself, and then blame the day and the sun for being obscure. Let, therefore, wretched men cease to impute, with blasphemous perverseness, the darkness and obscurity of their own heart to the all-clear Scriptures of God." (The Bondage of the Will, Martin Luther, Associated Publishers and Authors, 1971, pg. 14 ) Luther presses this even further when he said, "But what has the all-innocent Scripture done to you, that you impute the abuse of the most wicked of men to it's purity? The Scripture simply confesses the Trinity of God, the humanity of Christ, and the unpardonable sin. There is nothing here of obscurity or ambiguity. But how these things are the Scripture does not say, nor is it necessary to be known."(Bondage of the Will, Martin Luther, Associated Publishers and Authors, pg. 14)

So it is not necessary to know how God has kept his Words in the TEXTUS RECEPTUS and King James Bible, and Luther's Bible perfectly pure and without any copying or translating errors or omissions. All we need is His all-clear Words:

"The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever." Psalm 12:6,7

"The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever." Isaiah 40:8

"Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: but the word of the Lord endureth for ever." I Peter 1:23-25

"Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away." Matt. 24:35

"For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations." Psalm 100:5

"And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgement is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters." Rev. 14:7

"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it." Isaiah 55:8-11

There is nothing obscure or dark in these all-clear Words of Scripture!  God has preserved the apostolic text in the TEXTUS RECEPTUS without copying errors, omissions, or corruptions. God has also perfectly preserved His Word in exact translations (King James Bible, Luther's 1545 Bible) of the Apostolic text. To speak a word against the TEXTUS RECEPTUS, or the King James Bible, or Luther's Bible is to speak a word against God the Holy Ghost who preaches these Greek, English, and German  Words of God to us. For example 1 Timothy 3:16 says 'Theos' : "God was manifest in the flesh."  1 John 5:7,8 is not truncated in the Greek but shines forth in all it's fullness: "For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost.: and these three are one. And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.". Mark 16:9-20 is not omitted or bracketed, but sounds forth in all it's comfort and glory.  Time would fail me to address the 8,000 corruptions in the rejected and illegitimate Vaticanus Family of Greek texts: Nestle-Aland, United Bible Society) Dr. J. A. Moorman has detailed each of these corruptions in his scholarly book 8,000 Differences, London England, ISBN 1-56848-054-7. If you don't have it. Get it by calling Bible For Today: 856-854-4452 Also ask for The Doctored New Testament at the same number. 

Gregory L Jackson, PhD has written an invaluable and precious book: The King James Version: Apostolic Texts, Precise Translation versus Fraudulent Texts and Heretical Translations, ISBN 9798429093451 

I have spent my whole life attempting to write what I have just written. You may publish this freely. Freely I have received. Freely I give.

Tom Fisher

King Henry VIII had Tyndale killed for trying to give us the Bible in English. The Lutheran synods are killing the Bible by marketing corrupted texts and paraphrases.

Re-Elect Matt Harrison and Watch the Colleges and Congregations Shrink Faster Than an Official Portrait

This is the official photo for re-election in 2023.

Should the convention be worried about rapid weight loss and hair enhancements, or did the staff reach deep into the archives for thas photo? 

Uneasy lies the head that wears the cheese. Luther called false teachers "belly-bursters."

Only One Truth - Not Many Truths

Christian News cannot help but prevaricate when it claims to honor Walter A. Maier and his Harvard doctorate in Semitics.

Westcott believed that Jesus Christ would one day blend with all of humanity, a type of slow-mo Objective Justification. Hort worshiped Mary and invented what he considered a scholarly Greek New Testament (no footnotes). W-H is the basis for all the modern New Testaments, from the Evil Four paraphrases - RSV, NIV, ESV, NRSV - on down to the Beck Bible.

I noticed - perhaps not alone - that the era of pluralism has given way to rigid, hateful, condemnation. America the Free has become the Condemn Nation.

The nominal Lutherans have led the way into the abyss. They expend most of their energy 

• shunning people within their midst and 
• extending the Left Boot of Fellowship to them. 

Next they jump on busses and planes to attend conferences for all denominations, listening glassy-eyed and pulses-pounding to Fuller Seminary experts, searching for the most iconic gimmick for rescuing their sorry decline.

I was shocked this week when a book from some "conservatives" arrived, so I thought it meant one, true Bible. The authors insisted - the NASB! - condemning the KJV so angrily that I began to think the Bibles we give away stated "KJV-ONLY!" on the title page. The writers clearly wanted to press-gang KJV readers, to force them into the NASB beehive.

The nominal Lutherans should have adhered to this simple formula, stated by Dr. Walter Maier on a book published by Christians News, Inc.

The late Herman Otten and Cub Editor Phil Hale repudiated both truths - Bible inerrancy and Justification by Faith. Both pastors, rock-ribbed graduates of Missouri Synod seminaries

1. Fell in love with the modernist Westcott-Hort Greek New Testament errors craved by Beck;
2. Rejected the Chief Article of the Christian Faith.

Let us pause for a moment and observe how destructive the Otten-Hale hypocrisy has been. 

The Beck Bible is a joke, no different from the RSV, NIV, ESV, or NRSV - the Evil Four. In contrast, the precise King James Version is the most accurate and also the unifying Bible for all English denominations. But lo, the denominations have divided up the Bible market so they can make some ready cash - just like Otten and Hale - while emphasizing their particular translation fetishes.

The typical Luther Bible study group now has five different dynamic equivalence Bibles sprinkled among them. (I am a total immersionist.) The average groups differ here and there, emphasizing either "There is no truth" or "All truths are God's truth."

Likewise, the WELS-ELCA-LCMS-ELS-CLC Enthusiasts disdain and belittle Justification by Faith. On that Satanic basis, they love each other, work and purr together, and share the Thrivent loot as one. The LCMS-WELS-ELS got together and found! to their delight! that they agreed about Objective Faithless Justification. They were equally dishonest at the almost deserted Emmaus Conference. No professors showed up for that smooch-fest. "Oh Jon-Boy! Oh Jay!"

Jesus taught that we cannot have two masters. 

KJV Matthew 6: 24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

We cannot mix together a bunch of apostate Biblical paraphrases and sniff that the KJV c-a-a-a-n be accepted as good...maybe. Can we read even the worst of the paraphrases and say?:

1. The Scriptures do not teach its efficacy, the Word and the Holy Spirit always at work together.
2. The Word, Holy Baptism, and Holy Communion are not the Means (Instruments) of God's grace.
3. Justification by Faith is nowhere to be found in those National Council of Marxist Churches Bibles.

As an eye-witness, I can prove something that would stun Liz Eaton, Mirthless Mark Schroeder, and Matt the Fatt Harrison. At a non-Lutheran private Christian college, where none of the students were Lutheran, I asked how anyone could accept the New NIV about Romans 3. 

NIV Romans 3:24 and all are justified freely by his grace

They responded - take note - "Yes, it does add all, as if everyone in the world is forgiven, but Justification by Faith is still there! You cannot deny that!"

They were right. The New NIV, loved by all nominal Lutherans, is genius level work, revealing two opposing views from the Apostle Paul in the same chapter. The battle has already been won by the synodicals' Father Below. The bad expels the good, because there are not many truths, but One Truth.

Us? Extend the Left Boot of Fellowship?

Daily Luther Sermon Quote - And Ye Now Have Sorrow

 

Link to Luther's Jubilate Sermon

"And ye now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you."

27. All this David has described in a Psalm in a most masterly and beautiful manner, when he says in Psalm 30: 1-8: "I will extol thee, 0 Jehovah, for thou hast raised me up, and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me. 0 Jehovah, my God: I cried unto thee and thou hast healed me. 0 Jehovah, thou hast brought up my soul from Sheol, thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit. Sing praise unto Jehovah, 0 ye saints of his, and give thanks to his holy memorial name for his anger is but for a moment; his favor is for a lifetime; weeping may tarry for the night, but joy cometh in the morning. As for me, I said in my prosperity, I shall never be moved. Thou, Jehovah, of thy favor hadst made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face; I was troubled. I cried to Thee, 0 Jehovah; and unto Jehovah I made supplication." Where is now the man who just said: "I shall never be moved?" Well, he replies, when thou, Jehovah, of thy favor didst make my mountains to stand strong, then I spoke thus. "But when thou didst hide thy face, I was troubled," I fell. If Christ were continually with us, I really believe we would never be afraid; but since he occasionally departs from us we must therefore at times be afraid.

28. In this Psalm is beautifully portrayed to us how to recognize and experience a good conscience, for here David considers the whole world as a drop, and is not the least afraid of it, even though it should storm and rage against him, for he has the Lord with him. He has made his mountain to stand strong, but when he fell and the Lord hid his face from him, then he was afraid. Then were heart, courage, and mountain gone. Then was he afraid of a driven leaf, who before was not afraid of the whole world, as he also says in another Psalm unto the Lord: "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me." Psalm 23:4. Likewise in Psalm 3:6 he says: "I will not be afraid of ten thousands of the people that have set themselves against me round about." Passages like these can be multiplied in the Psalms, all of which show how an upright good conscience stands, namely; when God is with it, it is courageous and brave, but when God has departed, it is fearful and terrified.