WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.000 But we're going to go ahead and turn the rest of the time over here to Brother Sorenson here tonight. 00:00:04.320 --> 00:00:07.560 And just thankful for him coming and sharing this with us. 00:00:07.740 --> 00:00:11.019 Well, amen. It's good to be back here again at Plains Baptist Church tonight. 00:00:11.580 --> 00:00:13.359 And it's been a wonderful time this week. 00:00:13.439 --> 00:00:19.519 I want to, and I don't know the names, but a gentleman let me use his car these last several days. 00:00:19.620 --> 00:00:22.480 Thank you. Several of you ladies brought meals over. 00:00:22.600 --> 00:00:23.379 Thank you so much. 00:00:23.920 --> 00:00:26.539 The pastor and his wife have been so gracious in their hospitality. 00:00:26.539 --> 00:00:29.920 Thank you, brother. And it has been good to be here. 00:00:30.359 --> 00:00:33.939 Tonight, what we're going to be going through is contained in this book. 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:37.560 In fact, there's considerably more detail in this book than we're going to say tonight. 00:00:37.939 --> 00:00:41.100 And I would hate to carry all this weight back with me on the airplane. 00:00:41.280 --> 00:00:41.980 Got one left. 00:00:44.019 --> 00:00:48.060 And there's a couple others that are just two or three other books left back there. 00:00:48.260 --> 00:00:53.679 If you'd like to order one, make sure that you see Pam and she can do the paperwork for you there tonight. 00:00:53.679 --> 00:01:02.280 Well, last night, as you recall, we dealt with the lineage of the critical text. 00:01:03.640 --> 00:01:05.859 The origins of it. 00:01:06.620 --> 00:01:11.859 The editors and those who refined it in recent decades. 00:01:11.859 --> 00:01:21.060 And it was a litany, a who's who of apostasy and liberalism and unbelief and even the occult and finally even agnosticism. 00:01:21.819 --> 00:01:26.280 Tonight, we're going to see a totally different lineage of people who love the Lord, 00:01:26.420 --> 00:01:30.060 people who were soul winners, people who were martyrs. 00:01:30.060 --> 00:01:32.460 And let's follow tonight. 00:01:32.640 --> 00:01:38.040 First of all, the traditional text, the traditional received text. 00:01:38.560 --> 00:01:42.640 And then we'll get into more recent history as we get closer in history. 00:01:42.640 --> 00:01:50.140 But there is evidence of the received text, the traditional text going back to the earliest days of Christianity. 00:01:50.140 --> 00:01:55.719 Of course, these folks say that they're based on the oldest and best manuscripts, 00:01:55.939 --> 00:01:58.359 which really is not true, as we saw the other day. 00:01:58.960 --> 00:02:05.099 But after World War II, a man was in Egypt exploring, 00:02:05.799 --> 00:02:13.340 and he came across a manuscript, a portion, a fragment of a manuscript that was called papyri. 00:02:13.439 --> 00:02:17.379 Now, I'm sure you don't use that word very often, but it refers to papyrus, 00:02:17.379 --> 00:02:24.299 which was a type of plant that was woven into a very crude type of paper back in biblical times. 00:02:25.199 --> 00:02:29.079 And because it was basically a paper-type product, it did not last. 00:02:29.159 --> 00:02:34.919 But in the dry, hot sands of Egypt, several of these old manuscripts were preserved. 00:02:35.419 --> 00:02:41.199 One was called the Bodmer papyri, and it contains portions of the Gospel of John 00:02:41.199 --> 00:02:44.039 that are distinctive to the traditional text. 00:02:44.039 --> 00:02:48.359 And that papyri, or that document, dated to the year 125. 00:02:50.639 --> 00:02:53.979 That's not far after the death of the Apostle John. 00:02:55.199 --> 00:03:03.539 Similarly, another ancient papyri was found after World War II, which dated to the year 150 A.D. 00:03:03.959 --> 00:03:08.699 Again, reflecting the distinctives of the traditional text. 00:03:08.780 --> 00:03:10.159 We saw some of the issues the other day. 00:03:10.500 --> 00:03:12.959 Verses left out, verses that are there. 00:03:12.960 --> 00:03:19.700 Early church leaders quoted various verses distinctive to the traditional text, 00:03:20.420 --> 00:03:28.420 such as Irenaeus, Tertullian, Cyprian, Ignatius, Hippolytus, and others in the second century. 00:03:28.500 --> 00:03:32.300 Now, the second century is the century that began with the year 100. 00:03:33.319 --> 00:03:38.740 They were quoting texts that are distinctive to the traditional text, 00:03:38.900 --> 00:03:40.960 and of course that is where the King James Bible is based. 00:03:40.960 --> 00:03:50.100 And so there is substantial historical evidence going back to the earliest days of Christianity. 00:03:50.920 --> 00:03:57.080 And we touched just briefly, I think Sunday, maybe Monday, I forget which day. 00:03:57.560 --> 00:04:00.280 But touched just briefly on some of the early translations. 00:04:01.100 --> 00:04:06.280 God saw to it that his word was translated into the common languages, 00:04:06.280 --> 00:04:10.599 the vernacular languages that most people spoke down through the ages. 00:04:10.939 --> 00:04:16.240 And the first translation that we are aware of, of the New Testament, 00:04:16.740 --> 00:04:18.800 was called the Peshitta translation. 00:04:19.120 --> 00:04:20.439 That is a Syrian word. 00:04:21.000 --> 00:04:25.339 The Peshitta translation was sponsored by the church at Antioch. 00:04:25.879 --> 00:04:29.620 You'll recall that the church at Antioch was the ascending church, 00:04:29.620 --> 00:04:32.840 the home church of the Apostle Paul when he went out on his missionary journeys. 00:04:33.379 --> 00:04:38.800 Early and very early in New Testament history, the church at Jerusalem had come under great persecution. 00:04:38.959 --> 00:04:40.620 We read about that in Acts chapter 11. 00:04:40.620 --> 00:04:50.500 And also because of a great economic depression, many of the believers fled from Jerusalem up to Antioch. 00:04:50.579 --> 00:04:59.139 And it became the central church, the leadership church in the second century, 00:04:59.240 --> 00:05:01.019 the end of the first and end of the second century. 00:05:01.019 --> 00:05:09.939 Anyway, in the year 150, the Syrian churches led by the church at Antioch produced a translation, 00:05:10.159 --> 00:05:13.379 sometimes called the Syriac translation, which means in Syrian. 00:05:13.899 --> 00:05:18.740 But its title was Peshitta, which in Syrian means just the basic translation. 00:05:20.319 --> 00:05:29.379 And the Syrian church leaders today say that the Peshitta can be traced back to the beginning of Christianity. 00:05:29.379 --> 00:05:34.579 We have more conservative scholars will say it was produced in the year 150. 00:05:35.139 --> 00:05:36.279 But that's very, very early. 00:05:36.339 --> 00:05:42.120 But what's distinctive about the Peshitta translation is that it follows the traditional text. 00:05:42.579 --> 00:05:46.319 And as I said the other day, folks, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out 00:05:46.319 --> 00:05:52.360 that if a translation follows the traditional text, it was translated from the traditional text. 00:05:52.860 --> 00:05:53.719 It existed. 00:05:54.259 --> 00:05:55.759 That was the New Testament. 00:05:55.759 --> 00:05:58.480 That was the word of God in that era. 00:05:59.379 --> 00:06:05.860 Well, coming just about seven years later, in northern Italy, a group of churches known as the Italic churches, 00:06:06.579 --> 00:06:09.300 they had nothing to do with the Roman church. 00:06:10.439 --> 00:06:14.540 And as I mentioned the other day, the Catholic church hadn't even been invented yet, as it were. 00:06:14.939 --> 00:06:18.060 That didn't really develop until into the fourth century. 00:06:18.420 --> 00:06:19.779 So the Catholics would dispute that. 00:06:19.779 --> 00:06:25.839 I got into a discussion, a very good discussion the other night with a gentleman here about the birth of the Catholic church. 00:06:26.199 --> 00:06:27.199 He wasn't arguing about it. 00:06:27.199 --> 00:06:28.479 He just had questions about it. 00:06:28.759 --> 00:06:30.519 But they will tell you, it goes back to Peter. 00:06:30.599 --> 00:06:32.139 I don't want to get off on that, Brother Smith. 00:06:32.979 --> 00:06:40.619 But anyway, the Italic churches in the year 157 produced a translation in Old Latin. 00:06:40.620 --> 00:06:47.759 And it was based, and it follows the traditional text of the New Testament, the received text. 00:06:48.639 --> 00:06:50.280 It was the working text. 00:06:50.399 --> 00:06:56.740 I mean, this is powerful, powerful evidence of which text is correct, the traditional text or the critical text. 00:06:56.740 --> 00:07:06.480 In the year 350, a missionary in southeastern Europe by the name of Uphilus. 00:07:06.560 --> 00:07:07.920 How do you like to have that for a last name? 00:07:09.420 --> 00:07:12.060 And you go to kindergarten and say, spell your last name. 00:07:12.980 --> 00:07:21.439 But anyway, a man by the name of Uphilus on the field in southwestern Germany produced a translation of the New Testament 00:07:21.439 --> 00:07:27.240 in the Gothic language, which was the language of much of Eastern Europe at that time. 00:07:27.759 --> 00:07:29.800 It follows the traditional text. 00:07:29.879 --> 00:07:38.639 And incidentally, there is still a copy of the Gothic translation at the University of Uppsala, Sweden, 00:07:38.759 --> 00:07:41.680 one of the city's universities there in the nation of Sweden. 00:07:42.319 --> 00:07:45.220 It also follows the traditional text. 00:07:45.220 --> 00:07:51.000 A missionary on the field without access to libraries and things you might find in the big cities, 00:07:51.439 --> 00:07:52.259 the big churches. 00:07:52.399 --> 00:07:56.480 But he translates, and it's clear he's working from the traditional received text. 00:07:56.719 --> 00:08:03.259 Again, this is powerful, powerful evidence of the validity and the integrity of the traditional text. 00:08:03.339 --> 00:08:05.839 And there are other ancient translations as well. 00:08:06.300 --> 00:08:10.899 But moving a little bit forward into history, in the year 1453, 00:08:12.279 --> 00:08:16.680 Constantinople, which was the headquarters of the Eastern Empire, the Greek Empire, 00:08:16.680 --> 00:08:24.060 of the Roman Empire, I should say, in 1453, Constantinople fell to the Muslims. 00:08:24.819 --> 00:08:27.759 And they overran that region of the world. 00:08:28.500 --> 00:08:32.620 And as you know, the Muslims usually were not kindly disposed to Christianity. 00:08:32.620 --> 00:08:42.399 And so many Greek spiritual leaders fled from Greece up into Central Europe, 00:08:42.399 --> 00:08:47.720 and they took with them many manuscripts of the New Testament. 00:08:48.659 --> 00:08:54.080 These were largely produced at a place called Mount Athos, which is just south of Thessalonica, 00:08:54.700 --> 00:08:58.379 where there, to this day, are numerous scriptoriums where they copy the scriptures. 00:08:58.379 --> 00:09:01.600 They sometimes are called the Byzantine text. 00:09:02.059 --> 00:09:04.259 It's another synonym for the received text. 00:09:05.480 --> 00:09:10.799 But anyway, so now the Greek New Testament manuscripts are in Central Europe. 00:09:11.679 --> 00:09:17.740 In the year 1440, a German goldsmith by the name of Gutenberg 00:09:17.740 --> 00:09:22.340 invented the movable type printing press and revolutionized it, 00:09:22.399 --> 00:09:26.240 and really brought on not only the Reformation, but the Renaissance. 00:09:26.240 --> 00:09:33.440 And so in the year, the early 1500s, which would be the early 16th century, 00:09:34.180 --> 00:09:40.279 a Catholic scholar by the name of Erasmus, there had not been any Reformation yet. 00:09:40.360 --> 00:09:42.139 There were not any Protestants yet. 00:09:42.919 --> 00:09:49.620 But a scholar in Europe by the name of Erasmus began studying the Greek New Testament. 00:09:49.620 --> 00:09:58.039 And little by little, his first name was Desiderius, Erasmus was converted. 00:09:58.480 --> 00:09:59.740 He became a born-again Christian. 00:10:00.740 --> 00:10:04.179 And he became intrigued with publishing the New Testament. 00:10:04.899 --> 00:10:10.080 And so now with the advent of printing, in the year 1516, 00:10:10.600 --> 00:10:15.680 Erasmus, as I mentioned the other day, did something that had never been done before in human history. 00:10:15.679 --> 00:10:19.319 And that is that he put the New Testament into print. 00:10:19.899 --> 00:10:23.419 Now this is a recent edition of it, but this is basically Erasmus' text. 00:10:24.179 --> 00:10:28.359 He took the New Testament in Greek and printed it. 00:10:30.279 --> 00:10:34.539 The first one to publish the Word of God in printed form. 00:10:35.059 --> 00:10:38.459 And it began to go all over Europe. 00:10:38.460 --> 00:10:48.160 Now, over a span of 20 years, Erasmus not only became a Christian, a true Christian, a born-again Christian, 00:10:48.480 --> 00:10:52.600 but toward the end of his career, as he continued to study the New Testament, 00:10:53.220 --> 00:10:57.920 the man became very closely aligned with the Anabaptists in Central Europe. 00:10:58.680 --> 00:11:01.460 Now the Anabaptists are our historical forerunner. 00:11:01.460 --> 00:11:03.139 The word Anabaptists means re- 00:11:03.139 --> 00:11:09.180 And then tacked down to the preface, Anna, to the word Baptist, it means re-baptizers. 00:11:10.259 --> 00:11:12.700 And, by the way, it was a pejorative term. 00:11:13.420 --> 00:11:17.200 People who had been sprinkled as a Catholic, and then they got saved, 00:11:17.280 --> 00:11:19.580 and then they went down to the local river and were immersed, 00:11:19.960 --> 00:11:21.940 they called them re-baptizers. 00:11:23.240 --> 00:11:24.460 It was not a compliment. 00:11:24.460 --> 00:11:30.379 But, Erasmus came to a Baptist position in his writings. 00:11:30.519 --> 00:11:36.080 He talked about, after a person is saved, then he follows the Lord in the water of baptism 00:11:36.080 --> 00:11:38.180 by immersion as a public testimony. 00:11:38.300 --> 00:11:39.460 Folks, that's Baptist doctrine. 00:11:40.420 --> 00:11:45.420 And there was communication between him and Balthasar Hubmeyer, 00:11:45.500 --> 00:11:47.540 who was one of the leaders of the Anabaptist movement. 00:11:47.539 --> 00:11:54.740 And Erasmus did not officially join the Anabaptists, but doctrinally he became a Baptist. 00:11:55.799 --> 00:11:56.740 And that's significant. 00:11:57.339 --> 00:12:03.039 Here is a man who's working with a text, and he gets saved, and he basically becomes a Baptist. 00:12:03.799 --> 00:12:07.779 But anyway, Erasmus, over the course of the final years of his career, 00:12:08.259 --> 00:12:11.219 produced a total of five editions of the New Testament. 00:12:11.360 --> 00:12:13.059 Now, last night we talked about editions, 00:12:13.059 --> 00:12:18.199 how in modern printing and publishing, an edition means something's been changed. 00:12:18.579 --> 00:12:21.059 Back then, an edition meant just a reprint, 00:12:21.599 --> 00:12:24.339 because of the nature of letterpress printing, 00:12:24.419 --> 00:12:26.859 which was very primitive and by modern standards. 00:12:26.939 --> 00:12:30.000 But nevertheless, when we talk about these editions then, 00:12:30.399 --> 00:12:33.459 they basically are just reprints of the earlier, 00:12:34.259 --> 00:12:36.019 today with computers and so forth. 00:12:36.819 --> 00:12:40.939 In fact, I was dealing with one of my books today with a printing company, 00:12:40.940 --> 00:12:43.320 and they have the PDF files on archive there, 00:12:43.540 --> 00:12:46.140 and you can reprint easily anywhere. 00:12:46.760 --> 00:12:51.100 But back then, every page had to be reset manually with letters, 00:12:51.160 --> 00:12:52.080 and we'll get into that here tonight. 00:12:52.560 --> 00:12:57.080 But anyway, Erasmus printed five editions of his New Testament. 00:12:57.180 --> 00:12:57.640 He died. 00:12:59.420 --> 00:13:04.200 And sometime not long thereafter, in Central Europe, 00:13:04.360 --> 00:13:06.440 another man by the name of Robert Stevens, 00:13:06.620 --> 00:13:08.140 in French it would be Robert Esteens, 00:13:08.139 --> 00:13:11.819 in Latin it's Robert Stephanus, all referring to the same guy. 00:13:13.519 --> 00:13:17.139 He was a printer by trade and by profession, 00:13:17.759 --> 00:13:20.460 and he specialized in printing religious books. 00:13:21.360 --> 00:13:26.039 And he began to study these Greek manuscripts, 00:13:26.460 --> 00:13:29.759 or rather, I should say, Erasmus printed Greek text, 00:13:29.840 --> 00:13:31.600 and he began to print Erasmus text. 00:13:31.600 --> 00:13:36.080 And as a result, in his studying of the Greek text, 00:13:36.500 --> 00:13:39.100 Robert Stephanus became a born-again Christian, 00:13:40.600 --> 00:13:43.820 and was publishing the New Testament in Paris. 00:13:43.940 --> 00:13:46.560 Well, Paris was a Catholic, or France was a Catholic country. 00:13:47.220 --> 00:13:51.000 And the Catholics took a very dim view of the publication of the scripture. 00:13:51.139 --> 00:13:52.580 They did not want people to read it. 00:13:53.259 --> 00:13:54.600 And he faced the French Inquisition, 00:13:54.600 --> 00:13:58.920 which forced him to flee Paris to Geneva, Switzerland, 00:13:59.480 --> 00:14:01.960 which was a Protestant enclave. 00:14:02.080 --> 00:14:04.220 Incidentally, getting back to Erasmus, 00:14:04.279 --> 00:14:08.279 the Catholics said about Erasmus that Erasmus laid the eggs, 00:14:08.820 --> 00:14:10.120 and Luther hatched them. 00:14:10.200 --> 00:14:13.139 In other words, that Erasmus was the forerunner of the Reformation, 00:14:13.759 --> 00:14:17.240 because Luther read Erasmus' New Testament, 00:14:17.240 --> 00:14:20.980 and in due course, left the Catholic Church. 00:14:21.560 --> 00:14:22.940 Well, that's another story for another day. 00:14:23.580 --> 00:14:26.639 And so Erasmus was followed by Stephanus. 00:14:27.759 --> 00:14:31.720 And Stephanus did something that no one else had done in biblical history. 00:14:32.200 --> 00:14:35.060 And that, in his third edition, in his third reprint, 00:14:36.019 --> 00:14:43.740 he put in what we consider today to be the standard chapter and verse divisions. 00:14:44.279 --> 00:14:46.620 Prior to that time, there was just biblical books, 00:14:46.620 --> 00:14:48.799 but there were no chapters and verses. 00:14:49.519 --> 00:14:53.159 You'd have to fish into the book of John to find what we call John 3.16 today. 00:14:54.060 --> 00:14:58.519 But Stephanus is the one who developed the chapter and verse divisions, 00:14:58.740 --> 00:15:00.419 which continue to this day. 00:15:00.840 --> 00:15:01.759 Well, he died. 00:15:03.659 --> 00:15:06.000 And back in Paris, 00:15:06.759 --> 00:15:10.740 again, another printer who specialized in religious books 00:15:10.740 --> 00:15:14.779 began to print the New Testament that Erasmus had originally printed, 00:15:14.779 --> 00:15:16.139 and Stephanus was printing, 00:15:16.139 --> 00:15:18.240 his name was Theodore Beza. 00:15:19.139 --> 00:15:26.000 He likewise got saved from studying the Word of God. 00:15:27.059 --> 00:15:28.519 And he was forced to flee. 00:15:28.620 --> 00:15:30.960 He had to pack up his printing business in the middle of the night 00:15:30.960 --> 00:15:33.580 and flee to Geneva, Switzerland, 00:15:33.580 --> 00:15:37.240 because of the persecution he was facing there. 00:15:37.620 --> 00:15:39.700 But he went on in the course of his career 00:15:39.700 --> 00:15:43.200 to publish ten editions, or ten reprints, if you will, 00:15:43.780 --> 00:15:44.879 of the New Testament. 00:15:45.180 --> 00:15:47.860 What is significant about Theodore Beza 00:15:47.860 --> 00:15:50.660 is that when the King James translators 00:15:50.660 --> 00:15:52.800 sat down to begin their work in the year 1604, 00:15:52.940 --> 00:15:54.240 and you have a list of the translators there, 00:15:54.280 --> 00:15:55.320 we'll get to that here in a few minutes, 00:15:55.320 --> 00:15:57.200 but when they began their work, 00:15:57.480 --> 00:16:01.140 they worked primarily from Theodore Beza's fifth reprint, 00:16:01.200 --> 00:16:01.860 or fifth edition. 00:16:04.180 --> 00:16:04.600 And so, 00:16:05.100 --> 00:16:06.200 here are men 00:16:06.200 --> 00:16:08.180 who 00:16:08.180 --> 00:16:10.020 came to Christ, 00:16:10.420 --> 00:16:12.840 faced persecution, 00:16:13.440 --> 00:16:14.460 pled for their lives, 00:16:14.980 --> 00:16:17.260 or printing the New Testament, 00:16:17.680 --> 00:16:18.560 in this case, 00:16:18.980 --> 00:16:19.940 in Greek. 00:16:19.940 --> 00:16:22.040 Well, 00:16:22.140 --> 00:16:23.440 we moved to England, 00:16:24.120 --> 00:16:27.240 and in the early 1500s, 00:16:27.700 --> 00:16:29.020 another English Catholic, 00:16:30.220 --> 00:16:32.580 a man by the name of William Tyndale, 00:16:33.320 --> 00:16:36.780 got a hold of one of Erasmus' printed New Testaments. 00:16:38.000 --> 00:16:39.660 And in studying it, 00:16:40.520 --> 00:16:41.080 guess what? 00:16:42.400 --> 00:16:44.500 William Tyndale came to Christ. 00:16:45.940 --> 00:16:47.640 William Tyndale got saved. 00:16:47.639 --> 00:16:50.340 He was a scholar. 00:16:51.039 --> 00:16:52.279 He was a linguist. 00:16:52.460 --> 00:16:53.659 He was a brilliant man. 00:16:54.399 --> 00:16:55.919 And he got a burden 00:16:55.919 --> 00:16:59.019 to place the Word of God 00:16:59.019 --> 00:17:00.039 into the English language. 00:17:00.179 --> 00:17:00.299 Now, 00:17:00.600 --> 00:17:01.980 back in 1382, 00:17:02.759 --> 00:17:03.960 Jonathan Wycliffe 00:17:03.960 --> 00:17:06.099 had translated the New Testament 00:17:06.099 --> 00:17:08.680 from the Latin Vulgate, 00:17:09.379 --> 00:17:10.319 the Catholic Bible, 00:17:11.200 --> 00:17:13.259 into Middle English. 00:17:14.000 --> 00:17:14.299 Now, 00:17:14.440 --> 00:17:16.440 that is the forerunner of modern English, 00:17:16.440 --> 00:17:18.080 and we would have much difficulty 00:17:18.080 --> 00:17:19.100 understanding it. 00:17:19.519 --> 00:17:20.580 It's almost like a different language. 00:17:20.580 --> 00:17:20.860 But, 00:17:21.360 --> 00:17:23.360 Wycliffe had put the New Testament 00:17:23.360 --> 00:17:26.140 into Middle English. 00:17:26.660 --> 00:17:27.740 This was before the advent 00:17:27.740 --> 00:17:28.519 of the printing press, 00:17:28.620 --> 00:17:30.460 and every copy of Wycliffe's Bible 00:17:30.460 --> 00:17:32.259 were hand-copied. 00:17:33.440 --> 00:17:35.840 But it produced a revival in England. 00:17:36.400 --> 00:17:37.440 And it was expensive. 00:17:37.620 --> 00:17:37.740 I mean, 00:17:37.920 --> 00:17:39.519 somebody had to pay the people 00:17:39.519 --> 00:17:41.019 who were copying these page after page. 00:17:41.019 --> 00:17:43.299 And a common workman in England 00:17:43.299 --> 00:17:46.299 might have to spend a week's wage 00:17:46.299 --> 00:17:47.299 to get one page 00:17:47.299 --> 00:17:49.220 of the New Testament. 00:17:51.019 --> 00:17:51.299 But, 00:17:51.579 --> 00:17:54.039 by the end of the 1300s, 00:17:54.119 --> 00:17:56.819 and these who followed Wycliffe 00:17:56.819 --> 00:17:58.639 and became born-again Christians 00:17:58.639 --> 00:17:59.799 were called the Lollards. 00:18:00.819 --> 00:18:02.400 And it was named after 00:18:02.400 --> 00:18:03.319 a Waldensian leader 00:18:03.319 --> 00:18:04.639 that they picked up that name. 00:18:04.640 --> 00:18:06.480 But, 00:18:06.620 --> 00:18:07.860 by the end of the 1300s, 00:18:07.860 --> 00:18:08.980 the end of the 14th century, 00:18:09.340 --> 00:18:10.080 it was said that 00:18:10.080 --> 00:18:11.600 one out of every two people 00:18:11.600 --> 00:18:12.580 you'd meet on the street 00:18:12.580 --> 00:18:14.320 in London 00:18:14.320 --> 00:18:15.259 was a Lollard. 00:18:17.220 --> 00:18:18.400 And they basically 00:18:18.400 --> 00:18:19.000 were born again, 00:18:19.200 --> 00:18:20.000 were Baptists, 00:18:20.080 --> 00:18:20.880 Independent Baptists, 00:18:21.460 --> 00:18:22.220 in their doctrine. 00:18:23.640 --> 00:18:24.160 Pardon me, 00:18:24.400 --> 00:18:24.900 more medicine. 00:18:25.240 --> 00:18:25.380 But, 00:18:25.440 --> 00:18:26.140 William Tyndale, 00:18:26.240 --> 00:18:26.640 in the 1500s, 00:18:27.640 --> 00:18:30.820 put the New Testament 00:18:30.820 --> 00:18:32.520 into English 00:18:32.519 --> 00:18:33.920 and published it. 00:18:34.759 --> 00:18:34.960 Now, 00:18:35.220 --> 00:18:37.019 the Catholic authorities 00:18:37.019 --> 00:18:37.900 in England 00:18:37.900 --> 00:18:38.759 would not allow it, 00:18:38.779 --> 00:18:39.839 so he went to the continent 00:18:39.839 --> 00:18:42.180 and did his work, 00:18:43.039 --> 00:18:43.839 some in Belgium, 00:18:44.339 --> 00:18:44.960 some in Holland, 00:18:45.160 --> 00:18:46.079 some in Germany, 00:18:46.180 --> 00:18:47.220 wherever he could keep 00:18:47.220 --> 00:18:48.539 one step ahead of the Catholics, 00:18:49.480 --> 00:18:50.180 published it 00:18:50.180 --> 00:18:51.160 and smuggled it back 00:18:51.160 --> 00:18:51.619 into England. 00:18:51.759 --> 00:18:52.960 They'd take Wycliffe's 00:18:52.960 --> 00:18:53.539 New Testament, 00:18:54.220 --> 00:18:55.200 and he published also 00:18:55.200 --> 00:18:56.379 a portion of the Old Testament, 00:18:56.779 --> 00:18:57.700 and placed them 00:18:57.700 --> 00:18:59.059 in barrels of flour 00:18:59.059 --> 00:19:01.119 to smuggle them 00:19:01.119 --> 00:19:01.639 into England. 00:19:02.519 --> 00:19:03.720 Well, 00:19:03.779 --> 00:19:04.279 the Catholics 00:19:04.279 --> 00:19:05.519 caught on to that, 00:19:05.680 --> 00:19:06.960 and they rounded up 00:19:06.960 --> 00:19:07.900 as many of Wycliffe's 00:19:07.900 --> 00:19:08.759 Bibles as they could 00:19:08.759 --> 00:19:09.480 and burned them 00:19:09.480 --> 00:19:10.420 in great bonfires. 00:19:11.400 --> 00:19:13.099 And an arrest warrant 00:19:13.099 --> 00:19:13.700 went out 00:19:13.700 --> 00:19:14.579 from the King of England, 00:19:14.700 --> 00:19:15.539 who at that point 00:19:15.539 --> 00:19:16.559 was still a Catholic, 00:19:16.920 --> 00:19:17.579 Henry VIII, 00:19:17.660 --> 00:19:18.660 he would soon change, 00:19:18.759 --> 00:19:19.940 but still a Catholic, 00:19:20.059 --> 00:19:20.680 and he issued 00:19:20.680 --> 00:19:21.579 an arrest warrant 00:19:21.579 --> 00:19:23.220 to whoever 00:19:23.220 --> 00:19:23.900 and wherever. 00:19:24.579 --> 00:19:25.379 And an Englishman 00:19:25.379 --> 00:19:26.740 went to Belgium, 00:19:26.960 --> 00:19:27.660 where Wycliffe 00:19:27.660 --> 00:19:28.379 was now living, 00:19:28.859 --> 00:19:29.720 and was like 00:19:29.720 --> 00:19:30.700 a Judas Iscariot. 00:19:30.700 --> 00:19:33.460 he portrayed himself 00:19:33.460 --> 00:19:35.340 as one loyal 00:19:35.340 --> 00:19:36.240 to Wycliffe 00:19:36.240 --> 00:19:38.559 and one who was a friend 00:19:38.559 --> 00:19:39.580 and he'd come to help him 00:19:39.580 --> 00:19:40.580 when in fact 00:19:40.580 --> 00:19:41.840 he was plotting 00:19:41.840 --> 00:19:43.259 to turn him over 00:19:43.259 --> 00:19:43.819 to the authorities, 00:19:43.900 --> 00:19:44.400 which he did. 00:19:45.460 --> 00:19:46.819 And he reported 00:19:46.819 --> 00:19:47.940 to the Catholic authorities 00:19:47.940 --> 00:19:49.000 where Wycliffe lived, 00:19:49.160 --> 00:19:49.600 I'm sorry, 00:19:49.700 --> 00:19:50.319 Tyndale lived, 00:19:50.960 --> 00:19:52.220 and as the Catholics 00:19:52.220 --> 00:19:52.799 were coming in 00:19:52.799 --> 00:19:53.400 the front door, 00:19:53.920 --> 00:19:56.779 they arrested Tyndale, 00:19:56.900 --> 00:19:58.160 though his associate, 00:19:58.319 --> 00:19:58.660 Coverdale, 00:19:58.660 --> 00:19:59.680 was going out the back door 00:19:59.680 --> 00:20:00.680 with some of his materials. 00:20:01.920 --> 00:20:04.900 But Tyndale suffered 00:20:04.900 --> 00:20:05.800 for I think 00:20:05.800 --> 00:20:06.580 about eight months 00:20:06.580 --> 00:20:08.820 in a most dismal dungeon 00:20:08.820 --> 00:20:10.519 there in Belgium, 00:20:11.519 --> 00:20:13.460 and in 1536, 00:20:14.000 --> 00:20:15.380 he was led to the stake, 00:20:15.540 --> 00:20:16.980 and before he died, 00:20:17.060 --> 00:20:17.300 he said, 00:20:17.380 --> 00:20:18.600 Lord, open the eyes 00:20:18.600 --> 00:20:19.440 of the king of England. 00:20:21.300 --> 00:20:22.940 He was chained to the stake, 00:20:22.940 --> 00:20:26.000 he was strangled to death, 00:20:26.779 --> 00:20:29.320 and then the fire materials 00:20:29.320 --> 00:20:30.039 underneath him 00:20:30.039 --> 00:20:30.600 were ignited, 00:20:31.059 --> 00:20:32.240 and he was burned. 00:20:32.440 --> 00:20:33.380 This book is a picture, 00:20:33.500 --> 00:20:34.600 at least an artist's 00:20:34.600 --> 00:20:35.820 depictation of Tyndale 00:20:35.820 --> 00:20:37.539 being burned and saved. 00:20:38.539 --> 00:20:39.200 He became a martyr 00:20:39.200 --> 00:20:40.140 of Jesus Christ. 00:20:40.980 --> 00:20:41.220 Well, 00:20:42.039 --> 00:20:44.140 after his death, 00:20:45.100 --> 00:20:45.980 his associate, 00:20:46.140 --> 00:20:46.940 Miles Coverdale, 00:20:47.460 --> 00:20:48.940 continued his work. 00:20:48.940 --> 00:20:50.559 In the meantime, 00:20:50.960 --> 00:20:51.320 Henry, 00:20:52.320 --> 00:20:53.200 King Henry VIII, 00:20:53.580 --> 00:20:54.240 had become, 00:20:54.580 --> 00:20:54.779 quote-unquote, 00:20:54.880 --> 00:20:55.320 a Protestant. 00:20:55.480 --> 00:20:56.380 He left the Catholic Church, 00:20:56.500 --> 00:20:57.420 and some of you know that history, 00:20:57.500 --> 00:20:58.180 I won't go into that much 00:20:58.180 --> 00:20:58.559 here tonight. 00:21:00.160 --> 00:21:00.840 And now, 00:21:00.920 --> 00:21:02.299 it was no longer illegal 00:21:02.299 --> 00:21:03.799 to print Bibles 00:21:03.799 --> 00:21:04.559 in England. 00:21:06.160 --> 00:21:06.519 And so, 00:21:06.600 --> 00:21:07.920 Coverdale completed 00:21:07.920 --> 00:21:08.960 the Old Testament, 00:21:09.220 --> 00:21:10.700 which Tyndale had not done 00:21:10.700 --> 00:21:11.660 before he was martyred, 00:21:12.400 --> 00:21:13.640 though Coverdale 00:21:13.640 --> 00:21:14.640 had to work from 00:21:14.640 --> 00:21:15.440 the German and Latin 00:21:15.440 --> 00:21:16.039 because he didn't know 00:21:16.039 --> 00:21:16.740 Hebrew well enough 00:21:16.740 --> 00:21:17.539 to translate it. 00:21:17.539 --> 00:21:18.259 But nevertheless, 00:21:18.920 --> 00:21:20.079 in 1535, 00:21:20.339 --> 00:21:20.799 he produced 00:21:20.799 --> 00:21:22.339 the Coverdale Bible. 00:21:24.759 --> 00:21:25.559 And then, 00:21:25.659 --> 00:21:26.680 several years later, 00:21:27.119 --> 00:21:27.980 Henry VIII 00:21:27.980 --> 00:21:28.879 determined that 00:21:28.879 --> 00:21:29.619 we need to have 00:21:29.619 --> 00:21:30.980 a Bible for every church 00:21:30.980 --> 00:21:31.579 in England 00:21:31.579 --> 00:21:32.639 to put on the pulpit. 00:21:33.180 --> 00:21:34.359 And it was a large 00:21:34.359 --> 00:21:35.759 pulpit Bible, 00:21:35.879 --> 00:21:37.039 family Bible type thing. 00:21:37.119 --> 00:21:37.359 I forget, 00:21:37.460 --> 00:21:38.299 it was about this big. 00:21:38.960 --> 00:21:39.899 And they called it 00:21:39.899 --> 00:21:40.720 the Great Bible. 00:21:41.539 --> 00:21:42.279 But again, 00:21:42.339 --> 00:21:43.420 it was Tyndale's 00:21:43.420 --> 00:21:44.039 New Testament 00:21:44.039 --> 00:21:45.240 and Coverdale's 00:21:45.240 --> 00:21:45.940 Old Testament 00:21:45.940 --> 00:21:47.279 because Tyndale 00:21:47.279 --> 00:21:47.900 had been accused 00:21:47.900 --> 00:21:48.580 of being a heretic. 00:21:48.740 --> 00:21:49.539 He didn't put the name 00:21:49.539 --> 00:21:50.420 of Tyndale on it. 00:21:50.820 --> 00:21:51.279 But nevertheless, 00:21:52.700 --> 00:21:53.460 Henry died, 00:21:54.140 --> 00:21:55.799 and in the year 1553, 00:21:56.240 --> 00:21:57.500 and there was a short reign 00:21:57.500 --> 00:21:58.240 of his son Edward 00:21:58.240 --> 00:21:59.100 for six years, 00:21:59.740 --> 00:22:00.980 who was a godly young king 00:22:00.980 --> 00:22:02.160 from nine years old 00:22:02.160 --> 00:22:03.140 to 15 years old. 00:22:03.980 --> 00:22:04.720 But then, 00:22:04.820 --> 00:22:05.980 when little Edward died, 00:22:06.500 --> 00:22:06.980 Mary's, 00:22:07.160 --> 00:22:07.620 I'm sorry, 00:22:07.779 --> 00:22:09.200 Henry's daughter, 00:22:09.500 --> 00:22:10.900 Mary I of England, 00:22:11.580 --> 00:22:12.380 ascended the throne. 00:22:12.380 --> 00:22:13.320 Ascended the throne. 00:22:13.740 --> 00:22:15.360 She was a staunch 00:22:15.360 --> 00:22:16.040 Roman Catholic, 00:22:16.440 --> 00:22:17.380 a virulent, 00:22:17.500 --> 00:22:18.800 a vehement Roman Catholic. 00:22:19.360 --> 00:22:20.680 And she soon 00:22:20.680 --> 00:22:22.920 received the nickname 00:22:22.920 --> 00:22:24.100 of Bloody Mary 00:22:24.100 --> 00:22:26.440 because she sought out 00:22:26.440 --> 00:22:28.380 to find all these people 00:22:28.380 --> 00:22:29.300 who were printing Bibles 00:22:29.300 --> 00:22:30.640 or using Bibles, 00:22:31.000 --> 00:22:31.580 those who were 00:22:31.580 --> 00:22:33.340 the Puritans 00:22:33.340 --> 00:22:34.320 or the developing 00:22:34.320 --> 00:22:35.100 Puritan movement, 00:22:35.460 --> 00:22:36.320 and over the course 00:22:36.320 --> 00:22:37.440 of Mary's five-year reign, 00:22:37.500 --> 00:22:38.540 she put 300 of them 00:22:38.540 --> 00:22:39.200 to the stake, 00:22:39.600 --> 00:22:40.360 earned them to death. 00:22:41.320 --> 00:22:42.100 Bloody Mary. 00:22:42.380 --> 00:22:43.060 Well, 00:22:43.300 --> 00:22:44.100 Miles Coverdale 00:22:44.100 --> 00:22:45.880 escaped by the skin 00:22:45.880 --> 00:22:46.440 of his teeth 00:22:46.440 --> 00:22:48.660 because his brother-in-law 00:22:48.660 --> 00:22:50.300 was the British ambassador 00:22:50.300 --> 00:22:50.860 to Denmark 00:22:50.860 --> 00:22:52.100 and he prevailed 00:22:52.100 --> 00:22:53.400 upon Queen Mary 00:22:53.400 --> 00:22:55.400 to release his brother-in-law 00:22:55.400 --> 00:22:56.440 and so he went to Denmark 00:22:56.440 --> 00:22:57.600 and then eventually 00:22:57.600 --> 00:22:58.700 down to Geneva. 00:22:59.580 --> 00:23:00.100 Meanwhile, 00:23:01.780 --> 00:23:03.540 a Catholic priest 00:23:03.540 --> 00:23:04.300 in England 00:23:04.300 --> 00:23:05.820 had pastored 00:23:05.820 --> 00:23:07.560 a small Catholic parish 00:23:07.560 --> 00:23:08.060 in London 00:23:08.060 --> 00:23:09.940 and I guess thought 00:23:09.940 --> 00:23:11.480 it was too small 00:23:11.480 --> 00:23:11.900 or whatever, 00:23:12.000 --> 00:23:12.940 but he went to Belgium 00:23:12.940 --> 00:23:14.299 and went to work 00:23:14.299 --> 00:23:15.460 for a British shipping company 00:23:15.460 --> 00:23:16.759 and was the company's 00:23:16.759 --> 00:23:17.900 chaplain, 00:23:18.059 --> 00:23:18.700 paid chaplain. 00:23:19.160 --> 00:23:20.240 But while there in Belgium 00:23:20.240 --> 00:23:21.240 he ran into 00:23:21.240 --> 00:23:22.420 William Tyndale 00:23:22.420 --> 00:23:23.599 and Tyndale 00:23:23.599 --> 00:23:24.440 led him to Christ. 00:23:24.579 --> 00:23:25.579 Tyndale was not only 00:23:25.579 --> 00:23:26.240 a translator 00:23:26.240 --> 00:23:27.140 and a publisher, folks, 00:23:27.200 --> 00:23:27.900 he was a soul winner. 00:23:28.880 --> 00:23:29.779 And he led 00:23:29.779 --> 00:23:31.380 John Rogers to Christ. 00:23:31.839 --> 00:23:33.019 And John Rogers 00:23:33.019 --> 00:23:35.759 went back to England 00:23:35.759 --> 00:23:38.079 and translated 00:23:38.079 --> 00:23:39.140 or produced 00:23:39.140 --> 00:23:39.779 another run, 00:23:39.920 --> 00:23:40.660 another reprint 00:23:40.660 --> 00:23:42.140 of the Tyndale Bible. 00:23:42.640 --> 00:23:43.119 It was called 00:23:43.119 --> 00:23:44.019 the Matthew Bible 00:23:44.019 --> 00:23:44.559 because 00:23:44.559 --> 00:23:45.480 A, 00:23:45.680 --> 00:23:47.220 he was not the translator. 00:23:47.379 --> 00:23:47.640 B, 00:23:48.140 --> 00:23:49.299 Tyndale had been declared 00:23:49.299 --> 00:23:50.259 a heretic earlier. 00:23:50.859 --> 00:23:51.420 And C, 00:23:51.579 --> 00:23:52.500 I think he hoped 00:23:52.500 --> 00:23:53.460 by using a pseudonym 00:23:53.460 --> 00:23:54.160 he would escape 00:23:54.160 --> 00:23:55.480 the wrath of Queen Mary. 00:23:55.480 --> 00:23:56.420 He did not. 00:23:56.619 --> 00:23:57.359 He was arrested. 00:23:57.700 --> 00:23:58.480 He was burned 00:23:58.480 --> 00:23:59.119 at the stake 00:23:59.119 --> 00:24:00.379 for printing 00:24:00.379 --> 00:24:01.740 the Matthew Bible. 00:24:01.740 --> 00:24:03.859 And so, 00:24:04.000 --> 00:24:05.059 because of the persecution 00:24:05.059 --> 00:24:08.440 of Bloody Mary, 00:24:09.579 --> 00:24:10.140 scores, 00:24:10.299 --> 00:24:10.579 in fact, 00:24:10.700 --> 00:24:11.240 hundreds 00:24:11.240 --> 00:24:13.460 of Puritan Englishmen. 00:24:13.599 --> 00:24:14.279 Puritans were 00:24:14.279 --> 00:24:15.920 basically the fundamentalists 00:24:15.920 --> 00:24:16.460 of their day. 00:24:17.279 --> 00:24:18.019 They were not 00:24:18.019 --> 00:24:18.900 exactly Baptist. 00:24:19.079 --> 00:24:19.680 They'd be more 00:24:19.680 --> 00:24:21.400 of a Presbyterian flavor. 00:24:21.599 --> 00:24:22.039 But nevertheless, 00:24:22.720 --> 00:24:23.759 they were Bible believers 00:24:23.759 --> 00:24:24.400 and many of them 00:24:24.400 --> 00:24:25.240 were born-again men. 00:24:25.859 --> 00:24:27.579 And about 800 families 00:24:27.579 --> 00:24:28.440 fled to Geneva, 00:24:28.599 --> 00:24:28.960 Switzerland 00:24:28.960 --> 00:24:30.059 to escape the wrath 00:24:30.059 --> 00:24:31.220 and the terror 00:24:31.220 --> 00:24:32.180 and the inquisition 00:24:32.180 --> 00:24:33.100 of Bloody Mary. 00:24:33.480 --> 00:24:33.960 She died, 00:24:34.079 --> 00:24:34.420 incidentally, 00:24:34.460 --> 00:24:35.279 in 1558. 00:24:36.100 --> 00:24:37.299 But while there 00:24:37.299 --> 00:24:38.819 in Geneva, 00:24:39.559 --> 00:24:41.180 several of those scholars, 00:24:41.279 --> 00:24:41.880 English scholars, 00:24:42.000 --> 00:24:42.860 produced a translation 00:24:42.860 --> 00:24:43.420 to the Bible 00:24:43.420 --> 00:24:44.539 called the Geneva Bible. 00:24:45.880 --> 00:24:46.860 And it was sent 00:24:46.860 --> 00:24:47.600 back to England 00:24:47.600 --> 00:24:48.779 and it became widely 00:24:48.779 --> 00:24:50.279 accepted by the common people 00:24:50.279 --> 00:24:51.819 and many, 00:24:51.940 --> 00:24:53.019 many thousands 00:24:53.019 --> 00:24:54.000 of the Geneva Bible 00:24:54.000 --> 00:24:54.440 were printed. 00:24:54.600 --> 00:24:54.880 In fact, 00:24:55.100 --> 00:24:56.259 it's still in print today. 00:24:57.920 --> 00:24:58.440 However, 00:24:58.680 --> 00:24:59.799 the Geneva Bible 00:24:59.799 --> 00:25:00.539 had several 00:25:00.539 --> 00:25:01.659 distinctives. 00:25:01.779 --> 00:25:02.960 It was interesting 00:25:02.960 --> 00:25:03.619 in that it was 00:25:03.619 --> 00:25:04.279 the first Bible 00:25:04.279 --> 00:25:06.200 to have marginal notes, 00:25:06.659 --> 00:25:07.259 the first Bible 00:25:07.259 --> 00:25:08.420 to have introductory notes, 00:25:08.539 --> 00:25:09.119 the first Bible 00:25:09.119 --> 00:25:10.420 to have maps 00:25:10.420 --> 00:25:10.859 at the back, 00:25:10.940 --> 00:25:11.279 sort of like 00:25:11.279 --> 00:25:12.119 a Schofield Bible. 00:25:13.279 --> 00:25:14.019 Study Bibles 00:25:14.019 --> 00:25:15.440 we recognize today. 00:25:16.839 --> 00:25:18.039 But it was, 00:25:18.659 --> 00:25:20.519 had this characteristic. 00:25:21.099 --> 00:25:22.240 It was highly critical 00:25:22.240 --> 00:25:23.299 of the hierarchy 00:25:23.299 --> 00:25:24.460 of the Church of England 00:25:24.460 --> 00:25:27.480 and all the pomp 00:25:27.480 --> 00:25:28.079 and ceremony 00:25:28.079 --> 00:25:30.059 of the Anglican Church. 00:25:31.319 --> 00:25:32.660 It also was critical 00:25:32.660 --> 00:25:33.920 of the divine right 00:25:33.920 --> 00:25:34.720 of kings to rule. 00:25:34.840 --> 00:25:35.640 And so that would later 00:25:35.640 --> 00:25:37.180 irritate King James 00:25:37.180 --> 00:25:38.240 when he came on the scene. 00:25:39.519 --> 00:25:40.000 And so, 00:25:40.299 --> 00:25:41.940 because the Geneva Bible 00:25:41.940 --> 00:25:42.700 was popular 00:25:42.700 --> 00:25:43.340 with the people 00:25:43.340 --> 00:25:44.120 yet critical 00:25:44.120 --> 00:25:44.720 of the Church 00:25:44.720 --> 00:25:45.779 of the Church leadership, 00:25:46.480 --> 00:25:47.940 the Church of England 00:25:47.940 --> 00:25:50.019 sponsored their own Bible. 00:25:50.019 --> 00:25:51.799 in the year 1568 00:25:51.799 --> 00:25:52.460 they called it 00:25:52.460 --> 00:25:53.539 the Bishop's Bible 00:25:53.539 --> 00:25:55.160 produced by the 00:25:55.160 --> 00:25:56.339 bishops of the Church 00:25:56.339 --> 00:25:56.740 of England. 00:25:58.319 --> 00:25:59.259 And basically 00:25:59.259 --> 00:26:00.339 it just went 00:26:00.339 --> 00:26:01.900 to each parish church 00:26:01.900 --> 00:26:02.680 there in England. 00:26:03.339 --> 00:26:04.539 It was not read 00:26:04.539 --> 00:26:05.200 by many people 00:26:05.200 --> 00:26:06.400 and those who did read it 00:26:06.400 --> 00:26:08.220 did not like it. 00:26:08.279 --> 00:26:09.759 It was a poor translation. 00:26:09.980 --> 00:26:10.119 It was, 00:26:10.119 --> 00:26:12.480 it did not flow smoothly. 00:26:12.619 --> 00:26:14.119 It was not well translated. 00:26:14.440 --> 00:26:15.639 And so it basically 00:26:15.639 --> 00:26:17.700 was just the pulpit Bible 00:26:17.700 --> 00:26:18.920 in the Anglican churches. 00:26:20.100 --> 00:26:21.460 And as we touched there 00:26:21.460 --> 00:26:22.759 I think on Monday night 00:26:22.759 --> 00:26:23.559 we've gone through 00:26:23.559 --> 00:26:25.720 six translations 00:26:25.720 --> 00:26:27.279 in a relatively brief 00:26:27.279 --> 00:26:28.140 period of time 00:26:28.140 --> 00:26:29.360 in the English language. 00:26:30.460 --> 00:26:30.900 Also, 00:26:31.039 --> 00:26:31.500 I might add 00:26:31.500 --> 00:26:32.480 that the Geneva Bible 00:26:32.480 --> 00:26:35.380 was the first Bible 00:26:35.380 --> 00:26:36.900 to be completely translated 00:26:36.900 --> 00:26:37.480 from Greek 00:26:37.480 --> 00:26:38.259 in the New Testament 00:26:38.259 --> 00:26:39.319 and particularly 00:26:39.319 --> 00:26:39.880 the Old Testament 00:26:39.880 --> 00:26:40.660 completely in Hebrew. 00:26:41.059 --> 00:26:41.500 And likewise 00:26:41.500 --> 00:26:42.460 was the Bishop Bible. 00:26:42.600 --> 00:26:43.120 They all, 00:26:43.279 --> 00:26:43.740 incidentally, 00:26:44.180 --> 00:26:44.880 were translated 00:26:44.880 --> 00:26:45.960 from the traditional 00:26:45.960 --> 00:26:46.700 received text. 00:26:47.160 --> 00:26:47.420 Well, 00:26:47.420 --> 00:26:48.640 let's move to Scotland. 00:26:49.140 --> 00:26:50.960 In the year 1566 00:26:50.960 --> 00:26:52.960 a baby boy 00:26:52.960 --> 00:26:54.000 was born to 00:26:54.000 --> 00:26:55.940 Mary Queen of Scots 00:26:55.940 --> 00:26:57.800 and was named 00:26:57.800 --> 00:26:59.360 James Stewart. 00:26:59.519 --> 00:27:00.820 His father's name was 00:27:00.820 --> 00:27:01.320 I think 00:27:01.320 --> 00:27:02.060 William Stewart. 00:27:02.500 --> 00:27:03.019 Maybe wrong 00:27:03.019 --> 00:27:03.500 in the first name 00:27:03.500 --> 00:27:04.019 but his last name 00:27:04.019 --> 00:27:04.420 was Stewart. 00:27:04.940 --> 00:27:05.720 And so we're talking 00:27:05.720 --> 00:27:06.720 now about a little boy 00:27:06.720 --> 00:27:07.300 by the name of 00:27:07.300 --> 00:27:08.539 James Stewart. 00:27:09.840 --> 00:27:10.680 His mother 00:27:10.680 --> 00:27:12.039 Mary Queen of Scots 00:27:12.039 --> 00:27:12.740 not the same 00:27:12.740 --> 00:27:13.600 Mary Bloody Mary 00:27:13.600 --> 00:27:14.740 different person 00:27:14.740 --> 00:27:15.580 but she was called 00:27:15.580 --> 00:27:16.460 Mary Queen of Scots. 00:27:16.460 --> 00:27:18.059 She was a Catholic 00:27:18.059 --> 00:27:21.340 and the leadership 00:27:21.340 --> 00:27:23.259 in Scotland 00:27:23.259 --> 00:27:24.000 by this time 00:27:24.000 --> 00:27:24.480 had become 00:27:24.480 --> 00:27:26.000 largely Protestant. 00:27:26.680 --> 00:27:27.660 They were not happy 00:27:27.660 --> 00:27:28.559 with having a Catholic 00:27:28.559 --> 00:27:28.940 Queen 00:27:28.940 --> 00:27:30.480 and long story short 00:27:30.480 --> 00:27:31.779 and it did involve 00:27:31.779 --> 00:27:33.680 a short civil war 00:27:33.680 --> 00:27:35.600 but Mary was 00:27:35.600 --> 00:27:36.559 thrown off the throne 00:27:36.559 --> 00:27:38.079 and she was forced 00:27:38.079 --> 00:27:38.680 to flee 00:27:38.680 --> 00:27:40.079 to England 00:27:40.079 --> 00:27:41.220 in exile. 00:27:41.220 --> 00:27:41.920 Meanwhile 00:27:41.920 --> 00:27:42.640 her husband 00:27:42.640 --> 00:27:43.539 had died 00:27:43.539 --> 00:27:43.960 in fact 00:27:43.960 --> 00:27:45.400 all indications 00:27:45.400 --> 00:27:46.279 were he was murdered. 00:27:46.900 --> 00:27:47.200 The woman 00:27:47.200 --> 00:27:47.759 the man 00:27:47.759 --> 00:27:48.680 that Mary Queen of Scots 00:27:48.680 --> 00:27:49.420 was probably 00:27:49.420 --> 00:27:50.339 having an affair with 00:27:50.339 --> 00:27:51.539 blew up his house 00:27:51.539 --> 00:27:52.259 and he died 00:27:52.259 --> 00:27:53.019 in the explosion. 00:27:53.860 --> 00:27:54.039 I mean 00:27:54.039 --> 00:27:54.380 these are 00:27:54.380 --> 00:27:55.980 not good people. 00:27:57.799 --> 00:27:58.120 But anyway 00:27:58.120 --> 00:27:59.279 so Elizabeth 00:27:59.279 --> 00:28:00.120 I'm sorry 00:28:00.120 --> 00:28:01.100 Mary Queen of Scots 00:28:01.100 --> 00:28:02.480 is now in exile 00:28:02.480 --> 00:28:04.519 and Elizabeth 00:28:04.519 --> 00:28:05.400 by now 00:28:05.400 --> 00:28:05.860 was the new 00:28:05.860 --> 00:28:06.460 queen in England 00:28:06.460 --> 00:28:08.220 Queen Elizabeth I. 00:28:08.220 --> 00:28:08.319 first. 00:28:09.000 --> 00:28:09.980 She was well aware 00:28:09.980 --> 00:28:11.319 that Mary Queen of Scots 00:28:11.319 --> 00:28:11.900 was a Catholic 00:28:11.900 --> 00:28:13.000 and Mary thought 00:28:13.000 --> 00:28:14.339 she was entitled 00:28:14.339 --> 00:28:15.259 to the throne of England. 00:28:15.640 --> 00:28:16.519 Elizabeth was aware 00:28:16.519 --> 00:28:16.759 of that 00:28:16.759 --> 00:28:17.279 and she put her 00:28:17.279 --> 00:28:18.160 under house arrest. 00:28:19.140 --> 00:28:19.360 And 00:28:19.360 --> 00:28:22.000 in due season 00:28:22.000 --> 00:28:23.480 a plot was uncovered 00:28:23.480 --> 00:28:25.279 to overthrow Elizabeth 00:28:25.279 --> 00:28:26.160 by the Catholics 00:28:26.160 --> 00:28:27.059 and by the way 00:28:27.059 --> 00:28:27.759 when England 00:28:27.759 --> 00:28:28.339 went from being 00:28:28.339 --> 00:28:29.140 a Catholic nation 00:28:29.140 --> 00:28:30.720 to a Protestant nation 00:28:30.720 --> 00:28:31.500 folks it did not 00:28:31.500 --> 00:28:32.100 go smoothly. 00:28:32.440 --> 00:28:32.620 I mean 00:28:32.620 --> 00:28:33.400 we're going to see 00:28:33.400 --> 00:28:33.980 some other incidents 00:28:33.980 --> 00:28:34.620 here in a moment. 00:28:35.600 --> 00:28:35.620 But 00:28:35.620 --> 00:28:37.620 so Mary Queen of Scots 00:28:37.619 --> 00:28:40.339 was involved 00:28:40.339 --> 00:28:42.339 in an insurrection 00:28:42.339 --> 00:28:44.159 and as a result 00:28:44.159 --> 00:28:44.859 she was sent 00:28:44.859 --> 00:28:45.399 to the Tower 00:28:45.399 --> 00:28:46.239 of London 00:28:46.239 --> 00:28:48.039 and off came her head. 00:28:48.179 --> 00:28:49.059 She lost her mind. 00:28:49.939 --> 00:28:50.539 They beheaded her. 00:28:52.279 --> 00:28:52.500 Now 00:28:52.500 --> 00:28:53.799 back up in Scotland 00:28:53.799 --> 00:28:54.939 little James 00:28:54.939 --> 00:28:56.419 who by the way 00:28:56.419 --> 00:28:57.899 was a royal James 00:28:57.899 --> 00:28:58.979 at the age 00:28:58.979 --> 00:29:00.559 of 13 months 00:29:00.559 --> 00:29:03.099 became King James 00:29:03.099 --> 00:29:03.879 the 6th 00:29:03.879 --> 00:29:04.679 of Scotland. 00:29:06.459 --> 00:29:06.939 I like to hear 00:29:06.940 --> 00:29:07.940 King being 13 months 00:29:07.940 --> 00:29:08.220 old. 00:29:09.580 --> 00:29:10.420 Well obviously 00:29:10.420 --> 00:29:11.519 he did not 00:29:11.519 --> 00:29:12.240 actually sit 00:29:12.240 --> 00:29:12.660 on the throne 00:29:12.660 --> 00:29:13.380 then but he was 00:29:13.380 --> 00:29:14.380 in the direct 00:29:14.380 --> 00:29:15.140 lineage of that 00:29:15.140 --> 00:29:16.420 and he was 00:29:16.420 --> 00:29:16.820 tutored 00:29:16.820 --> 00:29:18.180 and raised 00:29:18.180 --> 00:29:19.120 by what were 00:29:19.120 --> 00:29:20.100 called regents 00:29:20.100 --> 00:29:21.500 and the 00:29:21.500 --> 00:29:22.759 principal regent 00:29:22.759 --> 00:29:23.920 who tutored 00:29:23.920 --> 00:29:24.480 little James 00:29:24.480 --> 00:29:24.940 from the time 00:29:24.940 --> 00:29:25.660 he was 4 years old 00:29:25.660 --> 00:29:26.059 to the time 00:29:26.059 --> 00:29:27.140 he was 17 years old 00:29:27.140 --> 00:29:28.160 was a man 00:29:28.160 --> 00:29:28.660 by the name 00:29:28.660 --> 00:29:30.160 of George Buchanan 00:29:30.160 --> 00:29:33.420 and that is 00:29:33.420 --> 00:29:34.100 significant. 00:29:35.140 --> 00:29:35.960 George Buchanan 00:29:35.960 --> 00:29:37.240 was considered 00:29:37.240 --> 00:29:37.860 not only one of 00:29:37.860 --> 00:29:38.440 the best scholars 00:29:38.440 --> 00:29:38.980 in Scotland 00:29:38.980 --> 00:29:40.440 but he also 00:29:40.440 --> 00:29:41.380 was a born again 00:29:41.380 --> 00:29:41.820 Christian 00:29:41.820 --> 00:29:43.519 who loved the Lord 00:29:43.519 --> 00:29:46.460 and knew the 00:29:46.460 --> 00:29:47.460 scriptures very well. 00:29:48.100 --> 00:29:48.800 He basically 00:29:48.800 --> 00:29:49.940 homeschooled 00:29:49.940 --> 00:29:50.980 little James 00:29:50.980 --> 00:29:52.120 for 13 years 00:29:52.120 --> 00:29:54.400 even paddled him 00:29:54.400 --> 00:29:54.740 you know 00:29:54.740 --> 00:29:55.540 corporal punishment 00:29:55.539 --> 00:29:56.920 imagine spanking 00:29:56.920 --> 00:29:57.379 the king 00:29:57.379 --> 00:30:00.460 but he taught 00:30:00.460 --> 00:30:01.180 and trained 00:30:01.180 --> 00:30:01.839 little James 00:30:01.839 --> 00:30:02.759 in the basic 00:30:02.759 --> 00:30:04.259 classical studies 00:30:04.259 --> 00:30:04.839 of reading 00:30:04.839 --> 00:30:05.639 and math 00:30:05.639 --> 00:30:06.180 and history 00:30:06.180 --> 00:30:06.799 and science 00:30:06.799 --> 00:30:08.119 but he also 00:30:08.119 --> 00:30:09.240 thoroughly trained 00:30:09.240 --> 00:30:09.859 little James 00:30:09.859 --> 00:30:10.639 in Bible 00:30:10.639 --> 00:30:13.339 and in theology 00:30:13.339 --> 00:30:15.299 in biblical Hebrew 00:30:15.299 --> 00:30:17.119 and biblical Greek 00:30:17.119 --> 00:30:18.779 this was King James 00:30:18.779 --> 00:30:19.960 the 6th of Scotland 00:30:19.960 --> 00:30:21.899 and by the time 00:30:21.899 --> 00:30:22.579 he ascended 00:30:22.579 --> 00:30:23.019 the throne 00:30:23.019 --> 00:30:23.980 at the age 00:30:23.980 --> 00:30:25.119 of 17 years old 00:30:25.119 --> 00:30:26.859 he was probably 00:30:26.859 --> 00:30:28.099 better trained 00:30:28.099 --> 00:30:29.199 theologically 00:30:29.199 --> 00:30:30.979 than most pastors 00:30:30.979 --> 00:30:32.399 were of that day 00:30:32.399 --> 00:30:33.319 and even today 00:30:33.319 --> 00:30:35.119 he was very 00:30:35.119 --> 00:30:36.239 very well trained 00:30:36.239 --> 00:30:37.119 in Bible 00:30:37.119 --> 00:30:40.539 James was said 00:30:40.539 --> 00:30:41.199 to know 00:30:41.199 --> 00:30:43.779 the entire Bible 00:30:43.779 --> 00:30:45.299 by heart 00:30:45.299 --> 00:30:46.279 well I think 00:30:46.279 --> 00:30:47.319 that's an exaggeration 00:30:47.319 --> 00:30:48.659 but he obviously 00:30:48.659 --> 00:30:50.000 knew large amounts 00:30:50.000 --> 00:30:50.419 of scripture 00:30:50.419 --> 00:30:51.179 he'd memorized 00:30:51.179 --> 00:30:53.779 James would attend 00:30:53.779 --> 00:30:54.659 church services 00:30:54.660 --> 00:30:55.500 on Sunday 00:30:55.500 --> 00:30:56.120 every Sunday 00:30:56.120 --> 00:30:57.660 and Sunday afternoon 00:30:57.660 --> 00:30:58.340 faithfully 00:30:58.340 --> 00:31:00.100 they did not have 00:31:00.100 --> 00:31:00.960 midweek services 00:31:00.960 --> 00:31:01.720 but what James 00:31:01.720 --> 00:31:02.240 did 00:31:02.240 --> 00:31:03.900 is direct 00:31:03.900 --> 00:31:05.400 local preachers 00:31:05.400 --> 00:31:07.160 Bible preachers 00:31:07.160 --> 00:31:08.600 were basically 00:31:08.600 --> 00:31:09.340 Presbyterians 00:31:09.340 --> 00:31:10.680 but the Presbyterians 00:31:10.680 --> 00:31:11.220 back then 00:31:11.220 --> 00:31:12.060 although we would 00:31:12.060 --> 00:31:12.640 disagree with them 00:31:12.640 --> 00:31:13.220 on baptism 00:31:13.220 --> 00:31:14.360 and a few other things 00:31:14.360 --> 00:31:15.519 but they basically 00:31:15.519 --> 00:31:16.360 were born again 00:31:16.360 --> 00:31:17.259 Bible preachers 00:31:17.259 --> 00:31:18.420 and he brought them 00:31:18.420 --> 00:31:21.380 in to his palace 00:31:21.380 --> 00:31:22.320 his castle 00:31:22.320 --> 00:31:24.820 several times a week 00:31:24.820 --> 00:31:26.580 for a chapel service 00:31:26.580 --> 00:31:29.100 and required his courtiers 00:31:29.100 --> 00:31:31.300 to attend those chapel services 00:31:31.300 --> 00:31:31.980 and they heard 00:31:31.980 --> 00:31:32.600 Bible preaching 00:31:32.600 --> 00:31:33.680 he wrote a book 00:31:33.680 --> 00:31:35.440 for his son 00:31:35.440 --> 00:31:36.480 his first son 00:31:36.480 --> 00:31:37.000 was Henry 00:31:37.000 --> 00:31:38.380 who he assumed 00:31:38.380 --> 00:31:40.480 would ascend the throne 00:31:40.480 --> 00:31:41.120 but Henry died 00:31:41.120 --> 00:31:41.700 and so later 00:31:41.700 --> 00:31:42.360 it was Charles 00:31:42.360 --> 00:31:43.980 who would succeed him 00:31:43.980 --> 00:31:44.720 but he wrote a book 00:31:44.720 --> 00:31:45.519 entitled 00:31:45.519 --> 00:31:46.200 I don't remember 00:31:46.200 --> 00:31:46.740 the name of it 00:31:46.740 --> 00:31:47.240 but anyway 00:31:47.240 --> 00:31:47.779 it was a book 00:31:47.779 --> 00:31:48.420 describing 00:31:48.420 --> 00:31:50.500 how a godly king 00:31:50.500 --> 00:31:51.139 should rule 00:31:51.139 --> 00:31:52.119 how to seek 00:31:52.119 --> 00:31:53.359 the Lord's guidance 00:31:53.359 --> 00:31:54.639 and how to live 00:31:54.639 --> 00:31:56.539 a godly life 00:31:56.539 --> 00:31:57.200 he even 00:31:57.200 --> 00:31:58.960 translated scriptures 00:31:58.960 --> 00:32:00.180 not anything to do 00:32:00.180 --> 00:32:01.059 with the King James Bible 00:32:01.059 --> 00:32:02.519 but just for his own 00:32:02.519 --> 00:32:03.079 personal 00:32:03.079 --> 00:32:04.220 enjoyment 00:32:04.220 --> 00:32:05.700 and 00:32:05.700 --> 00:32:06.299 in his 00:32:06.299 --> 00:32:07.619 earlier years 00:32:07.619 --> 00:32:09.359 I believe 00:32:09.359 --> 00:32:10.339 that King James 00:32:10.339 --> 00:32:11.400 the sixth 00:32:11.400 --> 00:32:12.019 of Scotland 00:32:12.019 --> 00:32:13.220 and would soon 00:32:13.220 --> 00:32:13.980 become King James 00:32:13.980 --> 00:32:14.859 the first of England 00:32:14.859 --> 00:32:16.119 that in his 00:32:16.119 --> 00:32:17.179 the first part 00:32:17.179 --> 00:32:17.759 of his life 00:32:17.759 --> 00:32:18.740 there probably 00:32:18.740 --> 00:32:19.339 was not a more 00:32:19.339 --> 00:32:20.259 godly king 00:32:20.259 --> 00:32:21.139 since the time 00:32:21.139 --> 00:32:21.740 of Josiah 00:32:21.740 --> 00:32:23.519 that is saying 00:32:23.519 --> 00:32:24.199 quite a lot 00:32:24.199 --> 00:32:26.959 later in life 00:32:26.959 --> 00:32:27.839 as some of the 00:32:27.839 --> 00:32:28.740 kings of Judah did 00:32:28.740 --> 00:32:29.299 as he became 00:32:29.299 --> 00:32:30.159 wealthy and powerful 00:32:30.159 --> 00:32:30.719 and famous 00:32:30.719 --> 00:32:31.899 he backslid 00:32:31.899 --> 00:32:32.459 and there were 00:32:32.459 --> 00:32:33.139 problems in his 00:32:33.139 --> 00:32:33.879 life later on 00:32:33.879 --> 00:32:34.500 but in these 00:32:34.500 --> 00:32:35.439 formative years 00:32:35.439 --> 00:32:37.459 he was a godly man 00:32:37.459 --> 00:32:38.740 and God 00:32:38.740 --> 00:32:39.199 I believe 00:32:39.199 --> 00:32:40.159 was preparing him 00:32:40.159 --> 00:32:41.159 for a special task 00:32:41.159 --> 00:32:42.659 which would take place 00:32:42.659 --> 00:32:43.839 not long 00:32:43.839 --> 00:32:44.479 thereafter 00:32:44.480 --> 00:32:46.900 well 00:32:46.900 --> 00:32:47.980 in the meantime 00:32:47.980 --> 00:32:48.880 Queen Elizabeth 00:32:48.880 --> 00:32:50.160 who had been 00:32:50.160 --> 00:32:50.519 the 00:32:50.519 --> 00:32:50.660 the 00:32:50.660 --> 00:32:51.059 the 00:32:51.059 --> 00:32:51.360 the 00:32:51.360 --> 00:32:51.940 queen of England 00:32:51.940 --> 00:32:52.440 now for 00:32:52.440 --> 00:32:53.319 for decades 00:32:53.319 --> 00:32:55.920 was in poor health 00:32:55.920 --> 00:32:56.660 down in London 00:32:56.660 --> 00:32:58.819 and she knew 00:32:58.819 --> 00:32:59.400 and her 00:32:59.400 --> 00:33:00.440 those close to her 00:33:00.440 --> 00:33:01.299 knew that her days 00:33:01.299 --> 00:33:01.759 were numbered 00:33:01.759 --> 00:33:03.259 and 00:33:03.259 --> 00:33:04.539 she was not married 00:33:04.539 --> 00:33:05.339 and she did not 00:33:05.339 --> 00:33:06.079 have any children 00:33:06.079 --> 00:33:07.420 and 00:33:07.420 --> 00:33:08.160 I'm not exactly 00:33:08.160 --> 00:33:08.799 sure of all the 00:33:08.799 --> 00:33:09.700 protocol of British 00:33:09.700 --> 00:33:11.900 progression 00:33:11.900 --> 00:33:12.299 of who 00:33:12.299 --> 00:33:13.400 succeeds the throne 00:33:13.400 --> 00:33:14.400 but she had 00:33:14.400 --> 00:33:14.980 the prerogative 00:33:14.980 --> 00:33:15.700 to choose her 00:33:15.700 --> 00:33:16.200 successor 00:33:16.200 --> 00:33:18.380 and she chose 00:33:18.380 --> 00:33:19.080 her cousin 00:33:19.080 --> 00:33:20.800 King James 00:33:20.800 --> 00:33:21.740 the sixth 00:33:21.740 --> 00:33:22.480 of Scotland 00:33:22.480 --> 00:33:24.560 and he soon 00:33:24.560 --> 00:33:24.980 would become 00:33:24.980 --> 00:33:25.540 King James 00:33:25.540 --> 00:33:25.940 the first 00:33:25.940 --> 00:33:26.400 of England 00:33:26.400 --> 00:33:28.300 well 00:33:28.299 --> 00:33:30.839 as I said 00:33:30.839 --> 00:33:31.119 a moment 00:33:31.119 --> 00:33:31.480 ago 00:33:31.480 --> 00:33:32.339 the 00:33:32.339 --> 00:33:33.740 the transition 00:33:33.740 --> 00:33:34.279 in England 00:33:34.279 --> 00:33:34.919 from Catholic 00:33:34.919 --> 00:33:35.480 to Protestant 00:33:35.480 --> 00:33:36.139 did not go 00:33:36.139 --> 00:33:36.519 smoothly 00:33:36.519 --> 00:33:37.419 and there 00:33:37.419 --> 00:33:38.039 still were 00:33:38.039 --> 00:33:39.399 large pockets 00:33:39.399 --> 00:33:40.200 of Catholics 00:33:40.200 --> 00:33:40.700 in England 00:33:40.700 --> 00:33:41.639 and they 00:33:41.639 --> 00:33:42.079 from time 00:33:42.079 --> 00:33:42.480 to time 00:33:42.480 --> 00:33:43.859 openly plotted 00:33:43.859 --> 00:33:44.460 to overthrow 00:33:44.460 --> 00:33:45.639 the throne 00:33:45.639 --> 00:33:46.599 and put 00:33:46.599 --> 00:33:47.460 Catholics back 00:33:47.460 --> 00:33:48.139 in leadership 00:33:48.139 --> 00:33:49.279 I'm going to tell 00:33:49.279 --> 00:33:49.659 you a story 00:33:49.659 --> 00:33:50.000 about what 00:33:50.000 --> 00:33:50.539 happened just 00:33:50.539 --> 00:33:51.599 two years 00:33:51.599 --> 00:33:52.279 after James 00:33:52.279 --> 00:33:52.960 ascended the throne 00:33:52.960 --> 00:33:53.500 but it was true 00:33:53.500 --> 00:33:54.079 even before 00:33:54.079 --> 00:33:55.119 in the year 00:33:55.119 --> 00:33:55.879 1605 00:33:55.879 --> 00:33:56.859 a Catholic 00:33:56.859 --> 00:33:57.379 Jesuit 00:33:57.379 --> 00:33:58.019 by the name 00:33:58.019 --> 00:33:59.339 of Guy 00:33:59.339 --> 00:34:00.079 Fawkes 00:34:00.079 --> 00:34:01.619 F-A-W-K-E-S 00:34:01.619 --> 00:34:03.000 along with 00:34:03.000 --> 00:34:03.919 numbers of 00:34:03.919 --> 00:34:04.579 other Catholics 00:34:04.579 --> 00:34:05.139 there in 00:34:05.139 --> 00:34:05.899 England 00:34:05.899 --> 00:34:09.039 conspired 00:34:09.039 --> 00:34:10.099 to get rid 00:34:10.099 --> 00:34:10.759 of King James 00:34:10.759 --> 00:34:11.619 and the Protestant 00:34:11.619 --> 00:34:12.360 Parliament 00:34:12.360 --> 00:34:13.360 here's what they 00:34:13.360 --> 00:34:13.639 did 00:34:13.639 --> 00:34:15.319 they rented 00:34:15.319 --> 00:34:16.199 the building 00:34:16.199 --> 00:34:17.000 next door 00:34:17.000 --> 00:34:17.659 to the Parliament 00:34:17.659 --> 00:34:19.860 and at night 00:34:19.860 --> 00:34:21.159 they would dig 00:34:21.159 --> 00:34:21.759 through the 00:34:21.759 --> 00:34:22.619 basement walls 00:34:22.619 --> 00:34:23.639 and eventually 00:34:23.639 --> 00:34:24.359 dug their way 00:34:24.359 --> 00:34:25.219 into the basement 00:34:25.219 --> 00:34:25.759 of the Parliament 00:34:25.759 --> 00:34:27.799 and then 00:34:27.799 --> 00:34:28.579 by night 00:34:28.579 --> 00:34:29.339 they brought in 00:34:29.339 --> 00:34:31.099 36 barrels 00:34:31.099 --> 00:34:31.960 of gunpowder 00:34:31.960 --> 00:34:34.500 and in due course 00:34:34.500 --> 00:34:35.719 put them in the 00:34:35.719 --> 00:34:36.099 basement 00:34:36.099 --> 00:34:36.880 under the Parliament 00:34:36.880 --> 00:34:38.900 and the King 00:34:38.900 --> 00:34:40.759 and the Parliament 00:34:40.759 --> 00:34:41.759 were to meet 00:34:41.759 --> 00:34:43.179 on November 5th 00:34:43.179 --> 00:34:44.099 1605 00:34:44.099 --> 00:34:45.139 and commence 00:34:45.139 --> 00:34:46.099 the government 00:34:46.099 --> 00:34:47.319 activities 00:34:47.319 --> 00:34:49.099 well 00:34:49.099 --> 00:34:50.219 Guy Fawkes 00:34:50.219 --> 00:34:51.219 had made the mistake 00:34:51.219 --> 00:34:51.719 I guess 00:34:51.719 --> 00:34:53.399 of putting this 00:34:53.399 --> 00:34:53.959 into writing 00:34:53.959 --> 00:34:54.679 and there were 00:34:54.679 --> 00:34:55.579 quite a few Catholics 00:34:55.579 --> 00:34:56.299 involved in this 00:34:56.299 --> 00:34:57.259 it just wasn't him alone 00:34:57.259 --> 00:34:58.159 he was the point man 00:34:58.159 --> 00:34:58.519 on it 00:34:58.519 --> 00:35:00.339 and the written 00:35:00.339 --> 00:35:01.439 plans of this plot 00:35:01.439 --> 00:35:02.239 fell into the hands 00:35:02.239 --> 00:35:02.899 of the authorities 00:35:02.899 --> 00:35:04.319 on the night 00:35:04.319 --> 00:35:05.239 of November 5th 00:35:05.239 --> 00:35:05.659 or the night 00:35:05.659 --> 00:35:07.459 before November 4th 00:35:07.459 --> 00:35:09.699 the authorities 00:35:09.699 --> 00:35:10.819 raided the basement 00:35:10.819 --> 00:35:11.639 of Parliament 00:35:11.639 --> 00:35:12.679 and caught Guy Fawkes 00:35:12.679 --> 00:35:13.219 there in the basement 00:35:13.219 --> 00:35:13.719 with matches 00:35:13.719 --> 00:35:14.739 ready to light the fuses 00:35:14.739 --> 00:35:15.619 and his plan was 00:35:15.619 --> 00:35:16.879 after lighting the fuse 00:35:16.879 --> 00:35:17.659 he'd run out the door 00:35:17.659 --> 00:35:18.239 jump on a boat 00:35:18.239 --> 00:35:18.739 and rode across 00:35:18.739 --> 00:35:19.359 the Tams River 00:35:19.360 --> 00:35:19.860 and blew 00:35:19.860 --> 00:35:20.980 boom him 00:35:20.980 --> 00:35:21.480 blew him 00:35:21.480 --> 00:35:21.780 whatever 00:35:21.780 --> 00:35:23.320 would up go the Parliament 00:35:23.320 --> 00:35:23.740 King 00:35:23.740 --> 00:35:24.700 kill the King 00:35:24.700 --> 00:35:26.900 and all the Parliament 00:35:26.900 --> 00:35:29.260 it was called 00:35:29.260 --> 00:35:30.380 the gunpowder plot 00:35:30.380 --> 00:35:33.440 and what's interesting 00:35:33.440 --> 00:35:34.579 is in England 00:35:34.579 --> 00:35:35.620 to this day 00:35:35.620 --> 00:35:37.280 on November 5th 00:35:37.280 --> 00:35:38.260 they celebrate 00:35:38.260 --> 00:35:39.500 the gunpowder plot 00:35:39.500 --> 00:35:40.880 by shooting off fireworks 00:35:40.880 --> 00:35:43.340 that still happens 00:35:43.340 --> 00:35:43.900 every year 00:35:43.900 --> 00:35:46.099 but I tell you 00:35:46.099 --> 00:35:46.680 that story 00:35:46.680 --> 00:35:48.220 to illustrate 00:35:48.220 --> 00:35:49.619 the atmosphere 00:35:49.619 --> 00:35:51.500 and the political climate 00:35:51.500 --> 00:35:52.079 in England 00:35:52.079 --> 00:35:52.760 of that day 00:35:52.760 --> 00:35:53.579 because it will have 00:35:53.579 --> 00:35:54.059 a bearing here 00:35:54.059 --> 00:35:54.559 in just a moment 00:35:54.559 --> 00:35:55.300 and so 00:35:55.300 --> 00:35:57.579 in March of 1603 00:35:57.579 --> 00:35:58.440 Elizabeth died 00:35:58.440 --> 00:35:59.820 word was sent up 00:35:59.820 --> 00:36:00.200 to Edinburgh 00:36:00.200 --> 00:36:00.760 Scotland 00:36:00.760 --> 00:36:02.139 informing James 00:36:02.139 --> 00:36:03.440 that he was now 00:36:03.440 --> 00:36:04.220 to come and be 00:36:04.220 --> 00:36:05.180 the new king of England 00:36:05.180 --> 00:36:05.920 of the entire 00:36:05.920 --> 00:36:06.800 British Isles 00:36:06.800 --> 00:36:08.440 and so he packed 00:36:08.440 --> 00:36:09.119 up his family 00:36:09.119 --> 00:36:11.099 his wife 00:36:11.099 --> 00:36:11.680 and his children 00:36:11.679 --> 00:36:13.000 and they began 00:36:13.000 --> 00:36:14.279 the 400 mile journey 00:36:14.279 --> 00:36:15.339 from Edinburgh 00:36:15.339 --> 00:36:15.879 Scotland 00:36:15.879 --> 00:36:16.679 down to London 00:36:16.679 --> 00:36:18.480 now folks 00:36:18.480 --> 00:36:19.079 you can imagine 00:36:19.079 --> 00:36:20.299 the roads of those days 00:36:20.299 --> 00:36:22.419 and imagine 00:36:22.419 --> 00:36:23.440 the carriages 00:36:23.440 --> 00:36:24.339 of those days 00:36:24.339 --> 00:36:25.139 and they bounced 00:36:25.139 --> 00:36:25.659 and jounced 00:36:25.659 --> 00:36:26.259 down the road 00:36:26.259 --> 00:36:27.019 and James got tired 00:36:27.019 --> 00:36:27.199 of it 00:36:27.199 --> 00:36:27.500 and got out 00:36:27.500 --> 00:36:28.399 and rode on horseback 00:36:28.399 --> 00:36:29.279 his poor wife 00:36:29.279 --> 00:36:29.619 and children 00:36:29.619 --> 00:36:30.059 had to ride 00:36:30.059 --> 00:36:30.659 in the carriage 00:36:30.659 --> 00:36:32.619 but as they 00:36:32.619 --> 00:36:34.019 neared London 00:36:34.019 --> 00:36:35.019 something happened 00:36:35.019 --> 00:36:36.739 suddenly 00:36:36.739 --> 00:36:38.759 a band of horsemen 00:36:38.759 --> 00:36:39.899 interdicted 00:36:39.899 --> 00:36:41.059 the king's 00:36:41.679 --> 00:36:42.500 carriage 00:36:42.500 --> 00:36:44.699 he had 00:36:44.699 --> 00:36:45.659 just a handful 00:36:45.659 --> 00:36:46.139 of guards 00:36:46.139 --> 00:36:47.059 and they sprung 00:36:47.059 --> 00:36:48.079 to a defensive position 00:36:48.079 --> 00:36:49.319 but the leader 00:36:49.319 --> 00:36:50.000 of the horsemen 00:36:50.000 --> 00:36:50.639 put his hand up 00:36:50.639 --> 00:36:50.879 and said 00:36:50.879 --> 00:36:51.980 sire we come in peace 00:36:51.980 --> 00:36:55.000 the name of that man 00:36:55.000 --> 00:36:56.059 was John Reynolds 00:36:56.059 --> 00:36:57.899 John Reynolds 00:36:57.899 --> 00:36:59.639 was the leader 00:36:59.639 --> 00:37:01.000 of the Puritan movement 00:37:01.000 --> 00:37:01.500 in England 00:37:01.500 --> 00:37:05.239 and he had a petition 00:37:05.239 --> 00:37:06.639 in his hand 00:37:06.639 --> 00:37:08.059 signed by 00:37:08.059 --> 00:37:11.179 1,000 Puritan preachers 00:37:11.179 --> 00:37:13.079 petitioning the king 00:37:13.079 --> 00:37:13.759 to make changes 00:37:13.759 --> 00:37:14.199 in the church 00:37:14.199 --> 00:37:14.519 of England 00:37:14.519 --> 00:37:15.239 they knew 00:37:15.239 --> 00:37:15.639 if they tried 00:37:15.639 --> 00:37:15.960 to go up 00:37:15.960 --> 00:37:16.500 through the channels 00:37:16.500 --> 00:37:17.359 of the hierarchy 00:37:17.359 --> 00:37:17.799 of the church 00:37:17.799 --> 00:37:18.399 it would go nowhere 00:37:18.399 --> 00:37:20.039 and so they went 00:37:20.039 --> 00:37:20.539 over the head 00:37:20.539 --> 00:37:21.039 of the hierarchy 00:37:21.039 --> 00:37:21.719 and went directly 00:37:21.719 --> 00:37:22.239 to the new king 00:37:22.239 --> 00:37:22.799 you see the king 00:37:22.799 --> 00:37:24.059 then and even now 00:37:24.059 --> 00:37:24.919 today believe it or not 00:37:24.919 --> 00:37:26.699 is still the titular head 00:37:26.699 --> 00:37:27.480 or the official head 00:37:27.480 --> 00:37:28.279 of the church of England 00:37:28.279 --> 00:37:31.239 James took their petition 00:37:31.239 --> 00:37:31.579 it's called 00:37:31.579 --> 00:37:32.480 the millinery petition 00:37:32.480 --> 00:37:34.000 took the petition 00:37:34.000 --> 00:37:34.559 and said yes 00:37:34.559 --> 00:37:35.299 I will consider it 00:37:35.299 --> 00:37:36.799 and we'll have a conference 00:37:36.800 --> 00:37:37.580 to deal with this 00:37:37.580 --> 00:37:40.100 and so that was in 00:37:40.100 --> 00:37:43.200 April of 1603 00:37:43.200 --> 00:37:45.840 toward the end of the year 00:37:45.840 --> 00:37:46.900 I mean James got there 00:37:46.900 --> 00:37:47.940 and had just barely 00:37:47.940 --> 00:37:48.840 been coronated 00:37:48.840 --> 00:37:53.660 and then the black plague 00:37:53.660 --> 00:37:54.039 set in 00:37:54.039 --> 00:37:54.700 kind of like COVID 00:37:54.700 --> 00:37:55.380 and it just shut 00:37:55.380 --> 00:37:56.060 the country down 00:37:56.060 --> 00:37:58.500 and it wasn't until 00:37:58.500 --> 00:38:00.000 January of 1604 00:38:00.000 --> 00:38:01.180 that James called 00:38:01.180 --> 00:38:01.680 the conference 00:38:01.680 --> 00:38:02.300 he'd promised 00:38:02.300 --> 00:38:03.760 the Puritans 00:38:03.760 --> 00:38:04.360 which he would do 00:38:04.360 --> 00:38:05.099 it was held 00:38:05.099 --> 00:38:05.840 at Hampton Court 00:38:05.840 --> 00:38:07.740 which is a substantial palace 00:38:07.740 --> 00:38:08.860 on the north side of England 00:38:08.860 --> 00:38:10.059 the north side of London 00:38:10.059 --> 00:38:10.680 I should say 00:38:10.680 --> 00:38:12.660 and there at the 00:38:12.660 --> 00:38:13.700 Hampton Court conference 00:38:13.700 --> 00:38:15.280 was the head of the bishops 00:38:15.280 --> 00:38:16.360 of the Church of England 00:38:16.360 --> 00:38:17.380 Richard Bancroft 00:38:17.380 --> 00:38:18.660 and on the other side 00:38:18.660 --> 00:38:20.079 was John Reynolds 00:38:20.079 --> 00:38:21.599 the bishops by the way 00:38:21.599 --> 00:38:22.160 were not happy 00:38:22.160 --> 00:38:24.099 about these redneck Puritans 00:38:24.099 --> 00:38:24.740 trying to change 00:38:24.740 --> 00:38:25.620 their church 00:38:25.620 --> 00:38:27.660 that's in the Greek 00:38:27.660 --> 00:38:28.120 by the way 00:38:28.120 --> 00:38:28.900 the redneck part 00:38:28.900 --> 00:38:30.160 but he held the conference 00:38:30.160 --> 00:38:32.000 and John Reynolds 00:38:32.000 --> 00:38:34.019 presented their petitions 00:38:34.019 --> 00:38:35.179 that they would change 00:38:35.179 --> 00:38:36.759 various things in the church 00:38:36.759 --> 00:38:37.300 doing away 00:38:37.300 --> 00:38:37.960 some of the pomp 00:38:37.960 --> 00:38:38.539 and ceremony 00:38:38.539 --> 00:38:40.619 of the Anglican church 00:38:40.619 --> 00:38:42.280 and James did not agree 00:38:42.280 --> 00:38:42.659 to that 00:38:42.659 --> 00:38:43.840 but John Reynolds 00:38:43.840 --> 00:38:44.619 said and finally 00:38:44.619 --> 00:38:44.980 sire 00:38:44.980 --> 00:38:46.099 we would petition 00:38:46.099 --> 00:38:48.719 that you authorize 00:38:48.719 --> 00:38:49.840 a new translation 00:38:49.840 --> 00:38:50.440 of the Bible 00:38:50.440 --> 00:38:52.780 this was in January 00:38:52.780 --> 00:38:53.559 of 1604 00:38:53.559 --> 00:38:55.019 James said yes 00:38:55.019 --> 00:38:57.820 and he knew 00:38:57.820 --> 00:38:58.860 the Geneva Bible 00:38:58.860 --> 00:38:59.559 was popular 00:38:59.559 --> 00:39:01.079 but he didn't like it 00:39:01.079 --> 00:39:03.119 because it criticized 00:39:03.119 --> 00:39:03.779 the divine right 00:39:03.779 --> 00:39:04.519 of kings to rule 00:39:04.519 --> 00:39:06.219 he knew the bishop's Bible 00:39:06.219 --> 00:39:07.219 was the official Bible 00:39:07.219 --> 00:39:08.380 but nobody liked it 00:39:08.380 --> 00:39:10.159 and so he said 00:39:10.159 --> 00:39:10.880 we'll come up 00:39:10.880 --> 00:39:11.679 with a new translation 00:39:11.679 --> 00:39:13.179 authorize the new translation 00:39:13.179 --> 00:39:14.039 well guess what 00:39:14.039 --> 00:39:15.299 that translation was 00:39:15.299 --> 00:39:17.440 came to be known 00:39:17.440 --> 00:39:18.079 as the King James 00:39:18.079 --> 00:39:18.819 translation 00:39:18.819 --> 00:39:20.219 King James Version 00:39:20.219 --> 00:39:21.719 and so 00:39:21.719 --> 00:39:24.419 52 00:39:24.419 --> 00:39:26.299 translators 00:39:26.299 --> 00:39:27.539 were appointed 00:39:27.539 --> 00:39:30.299 of the 52 00:39:30.299 --> 00:39:31.419 only 47 00:39:31.419 --> 00:39:32.359 actually worked 00:39:32.359 --> 00:39:33.359 some had health problems 00:39:33.359 --> 00:39:34.039 and some died 00:39:34.039 --> 00:39:34.459 by the time 00:39:34.459 --> 00:39:35.159 they got to work 00:39:35.159 --> 00:39:36.819 but there were 47 00:39:36.819 --> 00:39:37.419 translators 00:39:37.419 --> 00:39:38.359 they were divided up 00:39:38.359 --> 00:39:39.219 into six companies 00:39:39.219 --> 00:39:40.480 or we today 00:39:40.480 --> 00:39:41.319 call them committees 00:39:41.319 --> 00:39:43.619 two companies 00:39:43.619 --> 00:39:44.299 or two committees 00:39:44.299 --> 00:39:45.719 met at Westminster Abbey 00:39:45.719 --> 00:39:47.719 two met at Oxford University 00:39:47.719 --> 00:39:48.859 and two at Cambridge University 00:39:48.860 --> 00:39:50.220 in the sheets that were passed out to you 00:39:50.220 --> 00:39:50.680 you'll see 00:39:50.680 --> 00:39:52.620 those six companies 00:39:52.620 --> 00:39:53.099 or committees 00:39:53.099 --> 00:39:54.280 and the portions of the Bible 00:39:54.280 --> 00:39:55.019 that they were assigned 00:39:55.019 --> 00:39:56.820 each of those companies 00:39:56.820 --> 00:39:57.340 or committees 00:39:57.340 --> 00:39:57.940 were assigned 00:39:57.940 --> 00:39:59.140 about one sixth 00:39:59.140 --> 00:39:59.720 of the Bible 00:39:59.720 --> 00:40:02.140 and they began 00:40:02.140 --> 00:40:03.480 their translating work 00:40:03.480 --> 00:40:05.599 and what they would do 00:40:05.599 --> 00:40:06.140 and then 00:40:06.140 --> 00:40:07.579 in each committee 00:40:07.579 --> 00:40:08.760 were six, seven, eight men 00:40:08.760 --> 00:40:09.720 depending on each committee 00:40:09.720 --> 00:40:10.900 and each of them 00:40:10.900 --> 00:40:11.840 would be given a slice 00:40:11.840 --> 00:40:12.900 of that sixth of the Bible 00:40:12.900 --> 00:40:13.340 they had 00:40:13.340 --> 00:40:14.640 and they would translate 00:40:14.640 --> 00:40:16.160 they worked carefully 00:40:16.160 --> 00:40:17.000 from Tyndale 00:40:17.000 --> 00:40:19.420 consulting the Reino Valera 00:40:19.420 --> 00:40:20.639 which was already in print 00:40:20.639 --> 00:40:21.559 Luther's Bible 00:40:21.559 --> 00:40:22.320 already in print 00:40:22.320 --> 00:40:23.960 and then they would 00:40:23.960 --> 00:40:25.039 switch 00:40:25.039 --> 00:40:26.900 with other people 00:40:26.900 --> 00:40:27.320 on the committee 00:40:27.320 --> 00:40:27.900 and they'd go over 00:40:27.900 --> 00:40:28.579 each other's work 00:40:28.579 --> 00:40:29.679 and finally 00:40:29.679 --> 00:40:30.500 after each committee 00:40:30.500 --> 00:40:31.500 was satisfied 00:40:31.500 --> 00:40:32.579 of their own work 00:40:32.579 --> 00:40:33.679 it was transferred 00:40:33.679 --> 00:40:34.639 to another committee 00:40:34.639 --> 00:40:35.599 who swapped 00:40:35.599 --> 00:40:36.219 with them 00:40:36.219 --> 00:40:38.360 this went on 00:40:38.360 --> 00:40:39.239 for five years 00:40:39.239 --> 00:40:41.199 now 00:40:41.199 --> 00:40:43.440 let's pause 00:40:43.440 --> 00:40:44.300 and consider 00:40:44.300 --> 00:40:45.239 these translators 00:40:45.239 --> 00:40:46.919 I hear people 00:40:46.919 --> 00:40:47.659 today say 00:40:47.659 --> 00:40:48.199 well you know 00:40:48.199 --> 00:40:48.679 the King James 00:40:48.679 --> 00:40:49.219 translators 00:40:49.219 --> 00:40:50.099 they didn't know 00:40:50.099 --> 00:40:50.459 what they were doing 00:40:50.459 --> 00:40:51.239 they didn't get it right 00:40:51.239 --> 00:40:52.059 folks they were 00:40:52.059 --> 00:40:52.559 some of the most 00:40:52.559 --> 00:40:53.579 erudite linguists 00:40:53.579 --> 00:40:54.799 in English history 00:40:54.799 --> 00:40:57.079 some of these men 00:40:57.079 --> 00:40:58.899 knew ten languages 00:40:58.899 --> 00:41:00.439 some of these men 00:41:00.439 --> 00:41:01.359 could read 00:41:01.359 --> 00:41:02.599 and write Hebrew 00:41:02.599 --> 00:41:03.099 when they were 00:41:03.099 --> 00:41:04.459 five and six years old 00:41:04.459 --> 00:41:07.359 they were erudite 00:41:07.359 --> 00:41:09.079 they knew 00:41:09.079 --> 00:41:10.179 the classical languages 00:41:10.179 --> 00:41:10.739 they knew 00:41:10.739 --> 00:41:11.759 the biblical languages 00:41:11.759 --> 00:41:13.500 they knew 00:41:13.500 --> 00:41:14.859 other European languages 00:41:14.860 --> 00:41:15.860 they could consult 00:41:15.860 --> 00:41:16.539 to see how 00:41:16.539 --> 00:41:17.320 for example 00:41:17.320 --> 00:41:18.180 Raina and Valera 00:41:18.180 --> 00:41:18.940 had translated 00:41:18.940 --> 00:41:20.000 or how Luther 00:41:20.000 --> 00:41:20.700 had translated 00:41:20.700 --> 00:41:21.880 they also were 00:41:21.880 --> 00:41:22.620 godly men 00:41:22.620 --> 00:41:24.519 I read a book 00:41:24.519 --> 00:41:25.019 years ago 00:41:25.019 --> 00:41:25.320 that said 00:41:25.320 --> 00:41:25.800 well they were 00:41:25.800 --> 00:41:26.320 bawdy men 00:41:26.320 --> 00:41:26.700 they were 00:41:26.700 --> 00:41:27.519 a bunch of drunks 00:41:27.519 --> 00:41:29.559 and that's not true 00:41:29.559 --> 00:41:30.860 many of the men 00:41:30.860 --> 00:41:31.480 had been converted 00:41:31.480 --> 00:41:32.019 out of the Roman 00:41:32.019 --> 00:41:32.640 Catholic Church 00:41:32.640 --> 00:41:33.180 and they had the 00:41:33.180 --> 00:41:34.240 zeal of new converts 00:41:34.240 --> 00:41:36.460 they were preachers 00:41:36.460 --> 00:41:38.180 they were missionaries 00:41:38.180 --> 00:41:39.400 they were evangelists 00:41:39.400 --> 00:41:40.099 some of them 00:41:40.099 --> 00:41:40.820 were Bible college 00:41:40.820 --> 00:41:41.340 professors 00:41:41.340 --> 00:41:43.660 and these men 00:41:43.660 --> 00:41:46.320 spent five years 00:41:46.320 --> 00:41:47.440 translating and 00:41:47.440 --> 00:41:49.260 comparing each other's 00:41:49.260 --> 00:41:49.440 work 00:41:49.440 --> 00:41:50.340 now were they 00:41:50.340 --> 00:41:50.900 inspired 00:41:50.900 --> 00:41:51.660 I do not believe 00:41:51.660 --> 00:41:51.840 so 00:41:51.840 --> 00:41:53.340 the only inspiration 00:41:53.340 --> 00:41:54.140 was when God 00:41:54.140 --> 00:41:55.539 gave us the originals 00:41:55.539 --> 00:41:56.480 he spoke through 00:41:56.480 --> 00:41:58.400 Moses and Elijah 00:41:58.400 --> 00:41:59.140 or not Elijah 00:41:59.140 --> 00:42:00.220 but Isaiah and Jeremiah 00:42:00.220 --> 00:42:01.000 and Matthew Mark 00:42:01.000 --> 00:42:01.720 and Luke and so forth 00:42:01.720 --> 00:42:03.360 but I believe God 00:42:03.360 --> 00:42:04.800 providentially helped them 00:42:04.800 --> 00:42:07.100 God knew in advance 00:42:07.099 --> 00:42:08.519 that their work 00:42:08.519 --> 00:42:09.000 would become 00:42:09.000 --> 00:42:10.880 the most dominant 00:42:10.880 --> 00:42:12.599 translation 00:42:12.599 --> 00:42:13.699 of the word of God 00:42:13.699 --> 00:42:15.059 in human history 00:42:15.059 --> 00:42:17.519 and I have no doubt 00:42:17.519 --> 00:42:17.920 on my mind 00:42:17.920 --> 00:42:18.779 that God helped them 00:42:18.779 --> 00:42:19.659 I think I said 00:42:19.659 --> 00:42:20.039 the other day 00:42:20.039 --> 00:42:20.480 some folks 00:42:20.480 --> 00:42:21.059 said there were mistakes 00:42:21.059 --> 00:42:21.860 in the King James Bible 00:42:21.860 --> 00:42:22.659 to which I say 00:42:22.659 --> 00:42:23.779 show me one 00:42:23.779 --> 00:42:26.219 that's another subject 00:42:26.219 --> 00:42:26.719 I have a book 00:42:26.719 --> 00:42:27.239 in my library 00:42:27.239 --> 00:42:27.960 that somebody wrote 00:42:27.960 --> 00:42:28.299 years ago 00:42:28.299 --> 00:42:28.860 about all those 00:42:28.860 --> 00:42:29.739 pesky mistakes 00:42:29.739 --> 00:42:31.139 but anyway 00:42:31.139 --> 00:42:33.679 and so they worked 00:42:33.679 --> 00:42:34.579 for five years 00:42:34.579 --> 00:42:37.619 in the sixth year 00:42:37.619 --> 00:42:39.179 they presented 00:42:39.179 --> 00:42:39.559 their work 00:42:39.559 --> 00:42:40.219 to the executive 00:42:40.219 --> 00:42:40.719 committee 00:42:40.719 --> 00:42:42.299 the executive editor 00:42:42.299 --> 00:42:43.500 who reviewed 00:42:43.500 --> 00:42:44.119 the work 00:42:44.119 --> 00:42:45.279 their work 00:42:45.279 --> 00:42:46.679 and then it was 00:42:46.679 --> 00:42:47.199 submitted 00:42:47.199 --> 00:42:49.960 to the printer 00:42:49.960 --> 00:42:51.000 a man in England 00:42:51.000 --> 00:42:51.619 a printer 00:42:51.619 --> 00:42:52.079 by the name 00:42:52.079 --> 00:42:52.960 of Robert Barker 00:42:52.960 --> 00:42:55.179 and the job 00:42:55.179 --> 00:42:55.819 was so large 00:42:55.819 --> 00:42:56.719 James ordered 00:42:56.719 --> 00:42:57.799 10,000 copies 00:42:57.799 --> 00:42:59.259 that he had 00:42:59.259 --> 00:43:00.119 to subcontract 00:43:00.119 --> 00:43:00.880 to several other 00:43:00.880 --> 00:43:02.219 printers in England 00:43:02.219 --> 00:43:03.400 but he was given 00:43:03.400 --> 00:43:03.920 the patent 00:43:03.920 --> 00:43:04.380 that means 00:43:04.380 --> 00:43:05.039 the copyright 00:43:05.039 --> 00:43:07.880 to the King James Bible 00:43:07.880 --> 00:43:08.519 somebody came to me 00:43:08.519 --> 00:43:09.300 last night 00:43:09.300 --> 00:43:10.800 and showed me 00:43:10.800 --> 00:43:11.700 his study Bible 00:43:11.700 --> 00:43:13.099 and on the front page 00:43:13.099 --> 00:43:13.960 it said copyrighted 00:43:13.960 --> 00:43:17.099 well it's the study notes 00:43:17.099 --> 00:43:18.200 like in the Schofield Bible 00:43:18.200 --> 00:43:19.180 Schofield's notes 00:43:19.180 --> 00:43:19.960 are copyrighted 00:43:19.960 --> 00:43:21.579 in the Rye Revival 00:43:21.579 --> 00:43:21.920 the notes 00:43:21.920 --> 00:43:23.320 his notes are copyrighted 00:43:23.320 --> 00:43:24.579 but the text is not 00:43:24.579 --> 00:43:26.019 in America 00:43:26.019 --> 00:43:27.139 there is no copyright 00:43:27.139 --> 00:43:28.159 on the text 00:43:28.159 --> 00:43:29.180 of the King James Bible 00:43:29.180 --> 00:43:31.340 and so 00:43:31.340 --> 00:43:33.900 on May 2nd 00:43:33.920 --> 00:43:34.920 1611 00:43:34.920 --> 00:43:37.480 the King James Bible 00:43:37.480 --> 00:43:38.720 officially came off 00:43:38.720 --> 00:43:39.119 the press 00:43:39.119 --> 00:43:39.720 and was presented 00:43:39.720 --> 00:43:40.340 to the public 00:43:40.340 --> 00:43:42.380 it was not 00:43:42.380 --> 00:43:43.780 immediately well received 00:43:43.780 --> 00:43:44.680 but within a few years 00:43:44.680 --> 00:43:45.880 it became the dominant Bible 00:43:45.880 --> 00:43:46.780 and as we've talked about 00:43:46.780 --> 00:43:47.780 over the next 400 years 00:43:47.780 --> 00:43:48.940 over 6 billion 00:43:48.940 --> 00:43:50.780 copies have been produced 00:43:50.780 --> 00:43:51.700 but 00:43:51.700 --> 00:43:52.920 in the fact 00:43:52.920 --> 00:43:53.820 there were several 00:43:53.820 --> 00:43:54.700 printers involved 00:43:54.700 --> 00:43:56.300 and because of the nature 00:43:56.300 --> 00:43:57.260 of letterpress printing 00:43:57.260 --> 00:43:58.680 there were typos 00:43:58.680 --> 00:43:59.800 in the several 00:43:59.800 --> 00:44:01.159 sub-editions 00:44:01.159 --> 00:44:04.500 and the translators 00:44:04.500 --> 00:44:05.420 English was not 00:44:05.420 --> 00:44:06.659 fully standardized yet 00:44:06.659 --> 00:44:08.039 the translators 00:44:08.039 --> 00:44:08.899 some spelled a word 00:44:08.899 --> 00:44:09.299 one way 00:44:09.299 --> 00:44:09.980 and some spelled it 00:44:09.980 --> 00:44:10.420 another way 00:44:10.420 --> 00:44:11.239 and some punctuated 00:44:11.239 --> 00:44:11.679 one way 00:44:11.679 --> 00:44:12.039 and another 00:44:12.039 --> 00:44:12.559 another way 00:44:12.559 --> 00:44:13.980 and so in the year 00:44:13.980 --> 00:44:15.279 1760 00:44:15.279 --> 00:44:17.899 Cambridge University 00:44:17.899 --> 00:44:18.899 under the leadership 00:44:18.899 --> 00:44:19.819 of the Church of England 00:44:19.819 --> 00:44:21.079 authorized a man 00:44:21.079 --> 00:44:21.519 by the name of 00:44:21.519 --> 00:44:21.759 Robert 00:44:21.759 --> 00:44:23.359 I'm sorry 00:44:23.359 --> 00:44:24.719 Francis Paris 00:44:24.719 --> 00:44:26.920 to standardize 00:44:26.920 --> 00:44:27.399 the spelling 00:44:27.400 --> 00:44:28.940 and standardize 00:44:28.940 --> 00:44:29.740 the punctuation 00:44:29.740 --> 00:44:31.200 he died before 00:44:31.200 --> 00:44:32.119 he was finished 00:44:32.119 --> 00:44:33.460 and in 1760 00:44:33.460 --> 00:44:34.280 another man 00:44:34.280 --> 00:44:35.039 continued the work 00:44:35.039 --> 00:44:36.280 and which was released 00:44:36.280 --> 00:44:37.400 in 1769 00:44:37.400 --> 00:44:38.519 by the name of 00:44:38.519 --> 00:44:39.280 Benjamin Blaney 00:44:39.280 --> 00:44:41.039 now 00:44:41.039 --> 00:44:43.300 the King James Bible 00:44:43.300 --> 00:44:46.680 you hold in your hand 00:44:46.680 --> 00:44:47.079 tonight 00:44:47.079 --> 00:44:48.019 is in fact 00:44:48.019 --> 00:44:49.440 a 1769 edition 00:44:49.440 --> 00:44:50.820 you could hardly read 00:44:50.820 --> 00:44:51.840 the 1611 00:44:51.840 --> 00:44:53.720 in the Gothic type 00:44:53.720 --> 00:44:54.019 phrase 00:44:54.019 --> 00:44:55.300 and 00:44:55.300 --> 00:44:57.759 the words 00:44:57.759 --> 00:44:58.159 are spelled 00:44:58.159 --> 00:44:58.900 somewhat differently 00:44:58.900 --> 00:45:00.159 but the 00:45:00.159 --> 00:45:01.059 standard 00:45:01.059 --> 00:45:02.300 King James Bible 00:45:02.300 --> 00:45:02.739 today 00:45:02.739 --> 00:45:03.780 is the 00:45:03.780 --> 00:45:05.820 1769 00:45:05.820 --> 00:45:06.759 pardon me 00:45:06.759 --> 00:45:07.599 my voice is cracking 00:45:07.599 --> 00:45:10.059 it's become 00:45:10.059 --> 00:45:10.719 the dominant 00:45:10.719 --> 00:45:11.340 copy 00:45:11.340 --> 00:45:12.300 of the word of God 00:45:12.300 --> 00:45:14.699 in all history 00:45:14.699 --> 00:45:17.039 someone penned 00:45:17.039 --> 00:45:17.699 these words 00:45:17.699 --> 00:45:20.280 this holy book 00:45:20.280 --> 00:45:21.320 I'd rather own 00:45:21.320 --> 00:45:22.199 than all the 00:45:22.199 --> 00:45:22.900 golden gems 00:45:22.900 --> 00:45:24.680 that air 00:45:24.680 --> 00:45:25.519 in monarch's 00:45:25.519 --> 00:45:25.900 coffers 00:45:25.900 --> 00:45:26.280 shone 00:45:26.280 --> 00:45:28.059 than all 00:45:28.059 --> 00:45:28.960 their diadems 00:45:28.960 --> 00:45:29.660 nay 00:45:29.660 --> 00:45:30.340 were the sea 00:45:30.340 --> 00:45:31.260 one chrysolite 00:45:31.260 --> 00:45:31.780 the earth 00:45:31.780 --> 00:45:32.700 one golden ball 00:45:32.700 --> 00:45:33.800 and diamonds 00:45:33.800 --> 00:45:34.559 all the stars 00:45:34.559 --> 00:45:35.019 of night 00:45:35.019 --> 00:45:35.960 this book 00:45:35.960 --> 00:45:36.680 outweighs 00:45:36.680 --> 00:45:37.280 them all 00:45:37.280 --> 00:45:38.340 know the soul 00:45:38.340 --> 00:45:38.960 ne'er found 00:45:38.960 --> 00:45:39.460 relief 00:45:39.460 --> 00:45:40.200 in glittering 00:45:40.200 --> 00:45:40.579 hordes 00:45:40.579 --> 00:45:41.019 of wealth 00:45:41.019 --> 00:45:42.420 gems dazzle 00:45:42.420 --> 00:45:43.119 not the eye 00:45:43.119 --> 00:45:43.539 of grief 00:45:43.539 --> 00:45:44.420 gold cannot 00:45:44.420 --> 00:45:45.200 purchase health 00:45:45.200 --> 00:45:46.579 but here 00:45:46.579 --> 00:45:47.380 a blessed balm 00:45:47.380 --> 00:45:47.860 appears 00:45:47.860 --> 00:45:48.539 to heal 00:45:48.539 --> 00:45:48.960 the deepest 00:45:48.960 --> 00:45:49.340 woe 00:45:49.340 --> 00:45:50.559 and those 00:45:50.559 --> 00:45:51.019 who read 00:45:51.019 --> 00:45:51.440 this book 00:45:51.440 --> 00:45:52.039 in tears 00:45:52.039 --> 00:45:53.420 their tears 00:45:53.420 --> 00:45:54.059 shall cease 00:45:54.059 --> 00:45:54.599 to flow 00:45:54.599 --> 00:45:56.059 thou truest 00:45:56.059 --> 00:45:56.480 friend 00:45:56.480 --> 00:45:57.039 man ever 00:45:57.039 --> 00:45:57.400 knew 00:45:57.400 --> 00:45:58.239 thy 00:45:58.239 --> 00:45:58.880 constantly 00:45:58.880 --> 00:45:59.639 I've tried 00:45:59.639 --> 00:46:00.779 when all 00:46:00.779 --> 00:46:01.360 were false 00:46:01.360 --> 00:46:01.900 I found 00:46:01.900 --> 00:46:02.400 thee true 00:46:02.400 --> 00:46:03.840 my counselor 00:46:03.840 --> 00:46:04.599 and guide 00:46:04.599 --> 00:46:05.900 the minds 00:46:05.900 --> 00:46:06.759 of earth 00:46:06.759 --> 00:46:07.519 no treasures 00:46:07.519 --> 00:46:07.900 give 00:46:07.900 --> 00:46:10.079 that can 00:46:10.079 --> 00:46:10.759 this volume 00:46:10.759 --> 00:46:11.159 buy 00:46:11.159 --> 00:46:12.320 in teaching 00:46:12.320 --> 00:46:12.900 me the way 00:46:12.900 --> 00:46:13.300 to live 00:46:13.300 --> 00:46:14.279 it has taught 00:46:14.279 --> 00:46:14.559 me 00:46:14.559 --> 00:46:15.579 how to die 00:46:15.579 --> 00:46:17.340 and all 00:46:17.340 --> 00:46:17.840 God's people 00:46:17.840 --> 00:46:18.179 said 00:46:18.179 --> 00:46:19.460 amen 00:46:19.460 --> 00:46:20.019 the most 00:46:20.019 --> 00:46:21.159 powerful 00:46:21.159 --> 00:46:22.240 translation 00:46:22.240 --> 00:46:22.639 of the word 00:46:22.639 --> 00:46:22.920 of God 00:46:22.920 --> 00:46:23.400 in history 00:46:23.400 --> 00:46:23.860 it is the 00:46:23.860 --> 00:46:24.440 preserved word 00:46:24.440 --> 00:46:24.800 of God 00:46:24.800 --> 00:46:25.480 in the English 00:46:25.480 --> 00:46:26.059 language 00:46:26.059 --> 00:46:27.539 for us 00:46:27.539 --> 00:46:27.940 today 00:46:27.940 --> 00:46:29.420 now you all 00:46:29.420 --> 00:46:29.900 know that 00:46:29.900 --> 00:46:30.559 little old song 00:46:30.559 --> 00:46:31.079 give me that 00:46:31.079 --> 00:46:32.079 that old time 00:46:32.079 --> 00:46:32.460 religion 00:46:32.460 --> 00:46:33.119 give me that 00:46:33.119 --> 00:46:33.880 old time 00:46:33.880 --> 00:46:34.320 religion 00:46:34.320 --> 00:46:35.039 give me that 00:46:35.039 --> 00:46:35.519 old time 00:46:35.519 --> 00:46:35.880 religion 00:46:35.880 --> 00:46:37.099 well let me 00:46:37.099 --> 00:46:38.400 change the words 00:46:38.400 --> 00:46:39.019 here a little bit 00:46:39.019 --> 00:46:40.539 give me that 00:46:40.539 --> 00:46:41.519 King James 00:46:41.519 --> 00:46:42.039 Bible 00:46:42.039 --> 00:46:42.679 give me that 00:46:42.679 --> 00:46:43.720 King James 00:46:43.720 --> 00:46:44.139 Bible 00:46:44.139 --> 00:46:45.139 give me that 00:46:45.139 --> 00:46:46.000 King James 00:46:46.000 --> 00:46:46.480 Bible 00:46:46.480 --> 00:46:59.320 it's good 00:46:59.320 --> 00:46:59.699 enough 00:46:59.699 --> 00:47:01.099 for me 00:47:01.099 --> 00:47:05.139 give me that 00:47:05.139 --> 00:47:05.340 King James 00:47:05.340 --> 00:47:05.400 Bible 00:47:05.400 --> 00:47:05.920 join me 00:47:05.920 --> 00:47:06.440 give me that 00:47:06.440 --> 00:47:07.460 King James 00:47:07.460 --> 00:47:07.960 Bible 00:47:07.960 --> 00:47:08.599 give me that 00:47:08.599 --> 00:47:09.599 King James 00:47:09.599 --> 00:47:10.119 Bible 00:47:10.119 --> 00:47:11.119 it's good 00:47:11.119 --> 00:47:11.500 enough 00:47:11.500 --> 00:47:12.240 for me 00:47:12.240 --> 00:47:13.260 from the 00:47:13.260 --> 00:47:14.260 Antiochan 00:47:14.260 --> 00:47:14.740 Christians 00:47:14.740 --> 00:47:15.219 to the 00:47:15.219 --> 00:47:15.719 Valdan 00:47:15.719 --> 00:47:22.619 and Walden sees. I love all its verbs and tenses, and it's good enough for me. It was compiled by 00:47:22.619 --> 00:47:28.379 Erasmus. It was named Texas Receptus, and its words have never left us, and it's good enough 00:47:28.379 --> 00:47:35.839 for me. Oh, the years to translate seven, finish 16 and 11. God's preserved his word from heaven, 00:47:35.839 --> 00:47:42.559 and it's good enough for me. Give me that King James Bible. Give me that King James Bible. Give 00:47:42.559 --> 00:47:49.519 me that King James Bible. It's good enough for me. It's been scoffed at by the liberals. It's been 00:47:49.519 --> 00:47:56.639 hated by the devil, but its truth is on the level, and it's good enough for me. You may say it is 00:47:56.639 --> 00:48:02.719 outdated. You may hate how it's translated, but it's God's word plainly stated, and it's good enough 00:48:02.719 --> 00:48:09.900 for me. Give me the King James Bible. Give me the King James Bible. Give me the King James Bible. 00:48:09.900 --> 00:48:20.160 it's good enough for me. Well, amen. Okay, questions? Yes, ma'am. 00:48:22.740 --> 00:48:28.220 So your main focus is the translation from the King James Version and also the King James Version 00:48:28.220 --> 00:48:35.180 itself. You also mentioned the modern critical text. Where does the Koran and the Latter-day Saints 00:48:35.179 --> 00:48:42.839 Bible come into play? Where does the Latter-day Saints Bible? Latter-day Saints and the Koran. 00:48:42.839 --> 00:48:49.659 Where do they fit into all of this? Well, the Koran has nothing to do with the Bible. It's totally 00:48:49.659 --> 00:48:57.339 on a different universe. I think the Mormons originally used the King James Bible. I'm not 00:48:57.339 --> 00:49:01.259 sure what they're using today. Jehovah Witnesses used to use the King James Bible, but they've come up 00:49:01.260 --> 00:49:05.320 with a new translation now. It's called the New World Translation, and they've changed it to alter it 00:49:05.320 --> 00:49:13.040 to fit their doctrine. So did I answer your question? Maybe. Thanks. Okay. 00:49:13.380 --> 00:49:19.800 Yeah, when you were reading, you talk about, you said the King James functions came into being on April 2nd. 00:49:20.000 --> 00:49:23.580 Why did they get you the last year? I'm sorry, slow down. I don't understand you. 00:49:23.579 --> 00:49:29.559 I'm saying, based on your information, you said when the King James functions were public, that means it was 00:49:29.559 --> 00:49:35.960 sent on the market to be published, to be published. Did you understand what I'm trying to say? 00:49:36.159 --> 00:49:42.940 No, sir. Okay. I'm saying when you was reading, you talk about April 2nd. You said the King James 00:49:42.940 --> 00:49:48.000 functions came into being. I mean, it was public. I mean, for people to be reading it, or the Christian 00:49:48.000 --> 00:49:52.980 to be reading. But they didn't get a year that it came into being. You said, 00:49:52.980 --> 00:49:54.619 I always seem April 2nd. 00:49:56.199 --> 00:49:57.099 What year did it become? 00:49:57.240 --> 00:49:58.420 Oh, very good. 00:49:58.639 --> 00:50:00.340 Oh, when did it become very public? 00:50:00.400 --> 00:50:00.780 The year. 00:50:01.360 --> 00:50:02.219 Well, 1611. 00:50:04.440 --> 00:50:07.400 1611, by within a decade of it became very popular. 00:50:08.280 --> 00:50:08.480 Yes. 00:50:10.320 --> 00:50:13.480 About 1620. But I mean, it was officially released in 1611. 00:50:15.219 --> 00:50:19.880 And the Geneva Bible had been the popular Bible, but it slowly faded out, and the King James Bible 00:50:19.880 --> 00:50:21.300 became the dominant Bible. 00:50:21.300 --> 00:50:23.240 Okay. I'm sorry. Thank you. 00:50:23.940 --> 00:50:25.880 Yes, sir. Over here. 00:50:26.019 --> 00:50:26.620 Over here, TJ. 00:50:27.180 --> 00:50:27.640 All right. 00:50:27.860 --> 00:50:31.840 On the Geneva Bible, you said it was critical of the hierarchy and the Kings. Does that mean 00:50:31.840 --> 00:50:35.380 that the, because you said it had footnotes and everything else, was that the footnotes 00:50:35.380 --> 00:50:38.300 that were critical, or was that the actual text that was changed to be critical? 00:50:38.400 --> 00:50:39.320 No, it was the footnotes. 00:50:39.640 --> 00:50:39.780 Okay. 00:50:39.940 --> 00:50:40.740 The marginal notes. 00:50:40.940 --> 00:50:44.600 All right. The text was from the received text. 00:50:44.599 --> 00:50:48.279 I know a number of you hit me back to the table with questions, and they're all good. 00:50:48.759 --> 00:50:50.079 I think I see one more somewhere. 00:50:50.079 --> 00:50:56.340 So, I have my own 1611 King James Bible, mostly just for fun, because it is impossible to 00:50:56.340 --> 00:51:01.559 read. You can barely, just the spellings and everything. But in the middle, in the 1611 00:51:01.559 --> 00:51:03.239 King James Bible, they had the Apocrypha. 00:51:03.500 --> 00:51:03.779 Okay. 00:51:03.780 --> 00:51:05.260 Why was that taken out? 00:51:05.700 --> 00:51:13.220 All right. The Apocrypha was considered to be an historic supplement. I think there were 00:51:13.220 --> 00:51:18.040 13 books of the Apocrypha. The Catholics still have it woven through their Bible, and they 00:51:18.040 --> 00:51:24.860 consider it part of Scripture. But the leaders of the church back then determined it was confusing 00:51:24.860 --> 00:51:29.820 people, thinking it was Scripture, and it is not, so they took it out. It was never considered 00:51:29.820 --> 00:51:32.019 to be Scripture. It was just considered to be a historical supplement. 00:51:33.780 --> 00:51:38.040 And some of the history was not very good at that. But it went away. 00:51:38.260 --> 00:51:38.840 Anybody else? 00:51:39.080 --> 00:51:40.280 Okay. One there. 00:51:41.360 --> 00:51:45.680 So, all these Bibles that you talked about are all English Bibles. 00:51:45.960 --> 00:51:46.240 Yes. 00:51:46.600 --> 00:51:51.620 All our missionaries that have Bibles that have been translated into their language, Ethiopian, 00:51:51.620 --> 00:51:57.840 Spanish, whatever, are those translated from primarily one of those two texts? 00:51:57.840 --> 00:52:06.760 Well, pardon me, the Reina Valera, for example, which is a Spanish Bible, was translated in 00:52:06.760 --> 00:52:13.740 1569, and then, again, I think they revised it in 1602. It was based on the traditional 00:52:13.740 --> 00:52:21.579 text, the received text. But by 1960, there was influence of the critical text in the Reina 00:52:21.579 --> 00:52:27.400 Valera. And in the Spanish world today, I mean, the controversy there is even greater 00:52:27.400 --> 00:52:32.819 than it is in the English world about which Bible, fighting over the reign of Valera in 00:52:32.819 --> 00:52:39.980 1960. But, and there was the Olivetan Bible in French, based on the traditional text. And 00:52:39.980 --> 00:52:47.139 many, as we said the other day, Bibles that missionaries have used were actually translated 00:52:47.139 --> 00:52:51.579 from the King James. They didn't know Greek or Hebrew well enough, if at all, but they 00:52:51.579 --> 00:52:57.279 did know English, so they translated from the King James into the receptor language. 00:52:58.299 --> 00:53:05.179 And sadly today, for example, Wycliffe Translators, which is a major translating operation, they 00:53:05.179 --> 00:53:12.960 work exclusively from the critical text, which is unfortunate. But there are several, in a 00:53:12.960 --> 00:53:19.199 Pinnabaptist translation ministries, a bearing precious seed, and they only translate from 00:53:19.199 --> 00:53:27.480 the traditional text. I'm trying to think of another. I can't think of it right now, but, 00:53:27.579 --> 00:53:33.480 but, you know, we try to work from and encourage missionaries to work from the traditional text 00:53:33.480 --> 00:53:40.360 if they can. And in the Spanish Bible today, the most recent edition is called the Reina Valera 00:53:40.360 --> 00:53:48.480 Gomez, a Baptist missionary in Mexico by the name of Humberto Gomez, translated the New Testament 00:53:48.480 --> 00:53:55.440 again completely from the received text, whereas the 1960 had infringements of the critical text in it. 00:53:55.860 --> 00:54:00.460 But yeah, it's a problem on the mission field. In some places, I mean, it's either to use a poor 00:54:00.460 --> 00:54:05.980 Bible or no Bible. And so it's something where missionaries have to tread very lightly. And it's not easy. 00:54:05.980 --> 00:54:13.159 All right. I know a lot of Baptists have the Schofield Bible, and how close to Scripture is Schofield's notes? 00:54:13.760 --> 00:54:20.300 Okay, the Schofield text is the New Testament. I mean, it's the Word of God. It's the King James Bible. 00:54:21.420 --> 00:54:29.199 Schofield's notes are another story. And Schofield was of that conventional wisdom of the oldest and best 00:54:29.199 --> 00:54:33.539 stuff. And you'll find that in his notes. He said, you know, the oldest and best manuscripts 00:54:33.539 --> 00:54:40.500 don't have this verse or whatever, like in Acts 8.37 or Mark 9.44 and so forth. 00:54:41.099 --> 00:54:45.460 So what the virtue of Schofield is that he was a dispensational 00:54:45.460 --> 00:54:51.960 theology. And I'm a dispensationalist. I don't think in all the years that I was in the pulpit 00:54:51.960 --> 00:54:54.800 as a pastor, I got up and said, folks, we are dispensationalists. 00:54:55.320 --> 00:54:56.099 But we are. 00:54:56.099 --> 00:55:01.599 And the pastors probably ought to say it more. But that's why so many fundamental Baptists have 00:55:01.599 --> 00:55:05.819 used the Schofield Bible, because of the dispensational notes, which translates practically 00:55:05.819 --> 00:55:12.460 into a pre-tribulation rapture, as opposed to a reformed theology kind of thinking, which 00:55:12.460 --> 00:55:13.480 believes in no rapture. 00:55:13.759 --> 00:55:14.880 Okay, anyone else? 00:55:16.059 --> 00:55:19.960 Well, thank you so much. It's been great to be here. And by the way, I'll just mention, 00:55:20.059 --> 00:55:24.559 I was telling the pastor this, that I belong to an organization called the King James Bible 00:55:24.559 --> 00:55:28.039 Research Council. Let me say that again. You might want to write it down. 00:55:28.500 --> 00:55:37.619 King James Bible Research Council, KJBRC. And it's a group of scholars and pastors who 00:55:37.619 --> 00:55:41.880 uphold the King James Bible. You can go online and find some wonderful resources. 00:55:42.699 --> 00:55:51.239 Many, many YouTube videos. Many. Some, unfortunately, including myself. But it's a good resource if 00:55:51.239 --> 00:55:56.819 you're looking for more further detail. Okay. Thank you so much. Shall we close in prayer, 00:55:56.919 --> 00:56:02.059 brother? All right. Father, thank you for the privilege and the opportunity of being here 00:56:02.059 --> 00:56:05.639 at Plains Baptist Church. Thank you for the stand they take. Thank you for its good pastor 00:56:05.639 --> 00:56:11.019 and the interests of these people. Bless them as they continue to serve you in this place. 00:56:11.019 --> 00:56:13.480 And I ask it in Jesus' name. Amen.