A Bible Publisher Corrupted Jesus Christ’s Words: Why Celebrity Christian Leaders Bow to Apostasy
This study is not written to convince anyone what Jesus said, it only deals with what the Christian New Testament states He said. We realize this analysis is important to persons of all beliefs, faiths, and races who are trying to understand what is happening to our world, and why many of those who call themselves by Jesus Christ’s name seem to be constantly in support of wars against other races.
This is a re-written and abbreviated version of our more far reaching 2006 series, “The Sheep and the Goats” Parts 1 & 2. We provide it to you at Easter in response to requests that we more clearly document the essence of popular biblical distortion about what Christ said about Heaven and Hell in the book of Matthew, Chapters 24-25.
Christian Zionists at the pulpit of mega-churches have an untenable problem. It is impossible for them to tell the truth about what these New Testament Bible passages say, or to read them, without contradicting their support for wars, and for the constantly warring state of Israel. Church economics is also a factor in scriptural compromise. Evangelical teaching and preaching often directly contradict that which Jesus taught about love and peace, and more surprisingly, celebrity Christian statements often directly conflict with Jesus’ statements about Heaven and Hell.
Celebrity Christian leaders bend and warp the New Testament to save the empires they have built on a wide and easy path interpretation, in contrast to what Christ called the Narrow or “Strait” gate. Simply stated, they do not fill 10,000 seat arenas by leaning too heavily on sin and repentance. Our government’s public policy of wars has become many churches’ policy, and evangelicals are active politically. Every politician knows it pays to be “born again.” Thus an unspoken, unholy alliance has been created between financially successful false biblical teachers on one hand, and financially successful politicians and businessmen who thrive on serial wars, on the other.
Your author will examine the bloodthirsty and in fact anti-Christian heresy that has cost over a million lives. Matthew 25 contains one of the most directly written and clearly self-explained passages which is now rejected in almost every evangelical (Christian Zionist) church, not to mention a growing number of mainline churches. The famous Scofield Reference Bible, perhaps the most powerfully promoted Bible ever written, is the godfather of this distortion now emulating from many popular study bibles. Matthew, the first book in the New Testament, contains the most outrageous example of added words that directly contradicts Jesus words. A quote from the Scofield Reference Bible footnotes directly contradicts what Jesus Christ is quoted to have said, His simple words, taken from the King James Edition, describing the basis upon which Jesus told his followers He himself will someday judge every man from every tribe (“nation”). We start by reading His words, Matthew 25:31-35:
“When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: 32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divided his sheep from the goats: 33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. 34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: 35 For I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: (skip to40)—Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.”
The next five versus describe Jesus’ rejection of the “goats,” those who have been less than kind to the least of “his brethren,
