Skyfall 2024: The History of the Bible (Part 2) with Pastor Dean Odle

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   well we're going to get into this this morning I feel very strongly that uh you need to know this information so this is going to be uh more like a college class again this morning but uh for some people you're going to know this I know some people studied this for years I I've actually studied a lot of this going all the way back to the the 80s when I first came back to the Lord but uh the Lord's taken me deeper in this study and I'm finding out things that I did not know um but you need to know this and it's so very important but um let's pray real quick and then we'll get into this thank you Father father in Heaven we come before you today and Lord I ask you to give us all the hearts to understand and to hear your word and the history of what's happened to your people and where God many sacrificed their lives to translate the Bible for us and to keep giving it to the Next Generation and to the Next Generation and many paid a terrible price were tortured and killed and watched their children killed in front of them and to make sure that we got the Bible in our own language we thank you for that Lord and we ask you Lord to uh let us take this seriously because uh Lord your word is precious and we thank you that we have the written Testament Lord it is a contract it is a covenant and that's why it's written and Lord we thank you for that new testament that New Covenant the contract that we have with you Lord Jesus and that you paid for Through Your Precious Blood your pain and suffering we love you and we thank you for it I pray that you will just give everybody the ability to take this in and be able to understand it and share it with others and we pray it in Jesus name amen and amen so if you uh missed the first service on Friday here at the conference I started with the early church fathers and talking about the Bible being inspired and I I'll just share this I think there may be a picture of this book in there but this is a great book I'm going to tell you you ought to have this in your library it's called ancient Church fathers what the Disciples of the Apostles taught Ken Johnson uh author it's a great book and actually he has a lot of great stuff um and I'm probably going to read something out of here in a minute but um there's just a lot of study I'm going to tell you right now that I didn't take a lot of this from the internet I actually dug into books written in the 1800s and the 1700s and uh even downloaded a lot of them you can find at uh an what is it called the internet archive I think something like that but you can download for free because they're they're there are no copyrights on them now cuz they

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   they're so old so um a lot of stuff you can find out there but um you know we've been talking about how the Roman Catholic church has really been at war with the true Bible the true word of God and true Christians and that war has not stopped um as we going to see in a minute of course we're going to get into the point where the Jesuits come into play and in the 1500s right after the Reformation starts and the founding of the Jesuits um there's not a more devious evil um how do I put it crafty wiy individuals than the Jesuits they make MI6 the Massad CIA look like little children uh they have been spies infiltrators assassins uh forgers um they have murdered Kings and presidents pastors and in fact you know Charles Spurgeon what they called The Prince of preachers back in the 1800s he knew that the actually the Inquisition the murdering of Bible believing Christians by the Roman Catholic Church was still going on in his day they uh and actually when Napoleon went in and overthrew Rome for a season and threw the pope out they found the torture Dungeons and people locked in them and that was in the 1800s um their mission has never stopped and you're going to see that today but this is just some of the things that they did leading up to the Reformation this is where I stopped the other day uh the pope issued the sonat of too forbidding the reading or owning of the voois Bible remember we talked about the vodis they were the ones where Barnabas went to Milan to that area and he brought the word of God and they translated it into Latin and created What's called the old Latin or the itala and these people had the Bible in Latin for for that whole world it went all the way into uh into England and Spain and everywhere and it was uh it was powerful and it was long before they they translated actually the vodis they translated the Bible uh that that Barnabas brought them from the apostles they translated that Bible in 157 ad the Roman Catholic Church did not start until 313 ad and really didn't get their own Bible until 405 the Latin Vulgate that's from corrupted text and so it's important to know that and then of course the Roman Catholic Church declared war on these people um the Council of terragona no Bible permitted

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   in one's native language all of them must be burned the Sade of Oxford 1408 heresy to have an unauthorized preserved English Bible 1559 Council of Trent preserved bibles are on the index of prohibited Bibles so if Rome approves of a Bible I can assure you it's because they had a hand in it if they forbid it or hate it you can be assured it is God's word all right now let's see we came up to it and one of the most important individuals that you need to know about if you may have never heard about is this guy right here and I can't remember how to pronounce his first name I think it's the the citus or Deus I don't know but arasmus of Rotterdam um he is the one that was in the school it's in uh Paris with a guy that came from the Byzantine Empire the uh teacher there in sborn um what was his name uh harmonous yeah and he actually harmonous was translating the Bible the New Testament in the school and arasmus was one of his students and arasmus he became a Catholic priest because he had no choice as a child he he was orphaned and he was forced to be in the Catholic church he didn't like it at all uh he was very independent of all all that and he but he I think God just called him God just put the anointing on him and the desire in his heart to search for manuscripts all over the world he went everywhere and his collection of manuscripts Bible manuscripts ancient ones were uh they were so vast and so many that he had that even the government one time uh took them from him when he was on a trip and seized them cuz they wanted to them for themselves cuz they were so valuable and uh but he he managed to uh get them back um he was such a uh scholar in Latin and Hebrew and Greek and um it's just amazing some of these guys back here why I mean you're going to find out one of the King James translators of the 47 that translated the King James A lot of people think King James translated the Bible it's so funny he had no part in it uh he he just ordered the top scholar in England and France and the whole area of there area just he he said come form a committee and there was no one person that decided what was going on they they had committees that checked and rechecked and you're going to see that in a minute King James did not write the King James Bible let's just get that down pat okay all right uh the top and and and the scholars that wrote The King James or that that translated it from the Greek to English and the the the original Hebrew they were the most

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   learned men they were Oxford Cambridge Westminster they were phds in Rel in languages Linguistics these guys some of them learned uh there was one guy 15 languages he was fluent in and I I I Marvel when I see these little uh Tik Tok videos King James wrote the Bible King James was evil I mean it's just ridiculous right uh but this guy right here was so important because the uh all the the Bibles that were translated in English from Tindale and all of them it came down from this guy's translation in Greek and actually he was in a rush a lot of people criticize him because his first Greek translation was a little sloppy but he was in a rush because there was another guy trying to give a translation in Greek that was trying to get it approved by the pope and he was trying and he basically it was he he did so fast and he said he wrote a letter in front praising the pope so the pope would approve his not knowing that it was the original and so then he had to go back and he had to make several revisions but but his third revision um he made five of them but his third one was pretty much really good and it was uh it was what Martin Luther used to translate the Bible into German to take to his country and so uh this guy right here is very important and this just shows you right here it just talks about his scholarship I I can't I'm not going to read all this stuff but the Protestant Reformation it says down at the bottom certainly would have been different if even if it it might not have even occurred if it were not for rasmus's translation of the Greek New Testament this is how important this guy is now get this a lot of present day pastors Scholars Bible they tried to actually just make up lies about this guy and say oh he was a sloppy he didn't know what he was doing he didn't have any manuscripts he only had a few manuscripts all that stuff is all those things are lies about him um probably put out the propaganda put out by the Roman Catholic Church that's kind of what they do if you uh don't do things the way they like but let's just read a few things about arasmus here he was surrounded with Bible manuscripts from his childhood in the 1460s until the public publication of his Greek text in 1516 this is over 40 years he worked for a dozen years on the text he said the preparation to do his translation took years uh as early as 1505 arasmus wrote to a friend I shall sit down to the Holy scripture with my whole heart and devote the rest of my life to it all the these three years I have been working entirely at Greek and have not been playing with it I like that he said I am been playing with this um he did his translation was it was revolutionary at the time because

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