But Jesus answered them, “You are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God.
Matthew 22:29
And the Father who sent me has himself borne witness about me. His voice you have never heard, his form you have never seen, and you do not have his word abiding in you, for you do not believe the one whom he has sent. You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me, yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life.
John 5:37-40, 45-47
Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you: Moses, on whom you have set your hope. For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote of me. But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”
Recent revelations have encouraged me to rethink the bible. It started with an observation of harsh arguments regarding the ‘real’ bible as opposed to the ‘rewritten bible’ or a bible where important books have been removed and hidden. Anyone who knows anything about me knows that I love the scriptures. I quote them constantly and I have a good working knowledge of them for easy application. I operate from the premise of understanding that we are creations of a divine being much larger than we could possibly comprehend. He’s certainly big enough to preserve the knowledge He needs us to have in order to reestablish a covenant relationship with Him.
That being said, the traditional church doctrine of the bible as ‘the infallible word of God’ is a false doctrine. I know that’s provocative so please let me explain.
- There are multiple versions of the bible translated differently.
- There are versions of the bible paraphrased.
- There are inconsistencies in biblical accounts of the same event.
- Our current bible looks nothing like the first century scriptures and there are missing pieces.
A friend recently asked me: So what do we do? Throw out all the bibles?
Absolutely not! We put the scriptures back in their proper role and stop allowing the bible to become an idol. Ever think about that? Is the bible an idol to modern Christians? What is its proper function?
What did Jesus and His apostles consider scripture?
When Jesus spoke to the Pharisees about not knowing the scriptures, to what scriptures did He refer? The Old Testament, obviously. These were the Jewish teachers of the law, they had memorized the scriptures without understanding. And they also had scriptures that we are likely unfamiliar with. Some of the scriptures they would have had include Jubilees, Maccabees, Enochs, Esdras, Judith, Baruch, chapters from Daniel (Bel and the Dragon), etc. They had scriptural knowledge that today’s average pastor and evangelist do not have. In fact, most modern Christians would call these books ‘extra biblical or not scripture’. Jesus did not.
When Jesus said ‘If you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote of Me”, He was likely speaking of the scriptural text called Jubilees. This book is very similar to Genesis with a few caveats. Jubilees was written by Moses on Mt. Sinai at the instruction of the angel of the Presence (of God). Moses was born during Egyptian captivity and raised as an Egyptian Prince worshipping Egyptian gods. He would not have been taught Hebraic history. He would have held an Egyptian worldview. Once Moses left Egypt, he settled in Midian and married the daughter of Jethro, a priest. We don’t know what he was a priest of. We know that the Midianites were of Abraham’s line by Keturah, they were not the chosen portion. In fact, Keturah’s sons joined Ishmael and became the Arabs. We know that Jethro met with Moses during the Exodus and worshipped God at that time. We also know that Gideon later had to defeat the Midianites who worshipped Baal. We have no reason to believe that Moses had any knowledge of the history of Israel before God encountered him and commanded him to return to Egypt. So how could Moses have possibly written Jubilees with such accuracy as compared to Genesis?
Where did our version of Bible come from?
Many have been led to say that Moses wrote Genesis as well. There’s no evidence that this is true… only that it matches to Jubilees. In fact, Jubilees demonstrates that Genesis was a family history recorded across the generations leading up to Abraham. Abraham took those books and transcribed them from the ancient Hebrew spoken before Babel. It’s much more likely that Genesis was an ongoing family history first written by Enoch, continued by Noah, then transcribed and continued by Abram. There’s no reason to conclude that Moses had anything to do with Genesis… other than the fact that Jubilees seems to echo Genesis closely. When we take the two accounts together, it becomes obvious why Jubilees was not included in our modern canon. It speaks to Mastema being the Prince of Demons and approaching God as the accuser (the devil). It speaks to the demonic influences that remain in this realm to tempt, ensuring free will. It describes creation in greater detail, demonstrating that Adam and Eve were not the first and only two humans created. It explains that Enoch still lives and is in the Garden of Eden writing the testimony of all generations until the day of judgment. It contradicts many taught church doctrines and common understandings… what it does not contradict is the actual text of Genesis.
I want to propose a timeline… not that this is fact, but a possibility to consider:
- Circa 30 AD: Jesus of Nazareth dies, resurrects and ascends
- Circa 35- 100 AD: The Apostles establish the church- small groups of believers in major port cities spreading the gospel (not the scriptures or law) among all people.
- Circa 100 AD: Many believers have been killed, but mission accomplished- Tribulation begins (Revelation 1- 19)
- Circa 110 AD: Christ returns (Revelation 20)
- Circa 110-1110 AD: Millennial reign- beautiful architecture remains
- Circa 1110 AD: First resurrection, the deceiver (Mastema) is released
At this point, everything created during the reign of Christ is still available. Mastema sets about destroying, obscuring, and altering all understanding of the Millenial reign and of the original faith. We call this historical era “The Dark Ages”. Then the deceiver sets up a false ‘church’ with twisted doctrine based on twisted scripture and creates a history for it. This church uses Illuminati influenced structures and teachings and calls it the true faith. After a few hundred years, believers begin to question this false church (synagogue of Satan) and break away, yet Mastema uses this to further create confusion and chaos.
The beginning of the ‘real bible’
A new version of the bible is written, and another, and another… then in the 1500’s The Puritans gain popularity under Queen Elizabth I as she restores England to Protestantism (1158-1603). These Puritans approach King James of England. In 1604, King James presides over a meeting of Puritan leaders and Anglican bishops at the Hampton Court Conference. Reforms to the established church are discussed. King James rejects Puritan challenges to church government, citing an observation that He had learned in Scotland: “No Bishop, no King”. He rejects changes to the Common Book of Prayer. However, he seizes an opportunity to have an Authorized (by himself) version of the bible compiled. The Anglican Bishops agree.
Over the next six years, King James approves a list of 54 translators to review the Masoretic Texts, the Septuagint, extant English translations and Jewish commentaries to guide their work. 47 of these translators participate and are organized into six groups, two working from Cambridge, two from Oxford, and two from Westminster Abbey. An elaborate set of rules is devised to ensure ‘individual proclivities’ do not influence the work. Each group is given a section of the existing bible to translate and, as they work, all translation is overseen by the Archbishop of Canterbury through a series of doctrinal conventions. This ensures ‘consistency’.
This new ‘authorized’ version of the bible is published in two editions in 1611, one being called the “He and She” version because of a variant reading in Ruth. Another edition is published in 1631 called the “Wicked Bible” because the Tan Commandments read “Thou shalt commit adultery”. Yet, in addition to printing errors in subsequent editions, the 1611 King James Version is obviously heavily influenced by doctrine, church politics, and a thirst for power. It was never about getting back to the original scriptures as is evidenced with the arrest of William Penn in 1664 for preaching a doctrine of “Friends” (Quakers).
In this series of events, the deceiver (Mastema) creates a church based on false light. He then creates a bible that has flaws and submits to doctrines of men. The Institution of Church, already established, uses this bible to reinforce its doctrines, and teaches the devout that the bible is:
- the infallible word of God,
- Complete in all its ways
- In need of interpretation by the ecclesia
- Supportive of their individual doctrines,
- What the apostles meant by scripture…
- This is all that makes it different from other religious texts
nd just like that, the Holy scriptures are beyond question and replace the Holy Spirit as a guide to Jesus Christ. The Church determines what we consider scripture. The Church and its doctrines determine our understanding of God and the spiritual. We have a major problem.
God knew exactly what would happen in this season of deception. As faith is increasingly corrupted, we find ancient manuscripts in caves. We can see where things were added to the Masoretic texts. We can see where words like gospel, baptize and Lucifer were transliterated to accommodate the doctrinal positions of the church. We can see where some ideas were completely altered (the concept of a Divine Council, the understanding of Adam and Eve, the concept of a spirit realm and how it has always interacted with humanity, the entities called Mastema and Azazel) by translating terms like sons of God to sons of Israel in places where it makes no sense at all. Today, entire denominations will come against more accurate translations as a perversion of ‘scripture’ in defence of their own doctrinal understanding.
And this is the issue… the bible is an idol. It is now used as a weapon and made to conform to a doctrine. Our doctrines should be made to conform to the scriptures… and all the scriptures. The scriptures that Jesus and Matthew, Peter and Paul, James, Jude and John would have considered scriptures. This includes nothing of the New Testament. The New Testament consists of Gospels and the Apostles’ doctrine, both of which are critical to our understanding of God and covenant relationship; and neither of which are scripture as referred to by Jesus and the biblical writers.
So no, we do not throw out our bibles! We recognize them for what they are… A guidebook given by God. We recognize the Holy Spirit as our guide into all truth. We recognize that we find God when we seek Him with all of our heart, not when we pick up an easily accessed book. We recognize that Jesus Christ is the infallible Word of God… not the stories about Him.
We search the scriptures… what Jesus meant by the scriptures… not because we think that in them we have eternal life, but because they point us to the way, the truth and the life that can only be found in Him.
Relevant verses from the accepted canon and some counterparts from Jubilees:
They will say, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.” For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God, and that by means of these the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished. But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly. But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
2 Peter 3:4-8
And at the close of the nineteenth jubilee, in the seventh week in the sixth year [930 A.M.] thereof, Adam died, and all his sons buried him in the land of his creation, and he was the first to be buried in the earth. And he lacked seventy years of one thousand years; for one thousand years are as one day in the testimony of the heavens and therefore was it written concerning the tree of knowledge: ‘On the day that ye eat thereof ye shall die.’ For this reason he did not complete the years of this day; for he died during it.
Jubilees 4: 29-30
Remember the days of old; consider the years of many generations; ask your father, and he will show you, your elders, and they will tell you. When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he divided mankind, he fixed the borders of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God. But the Lord’s portion is his people, Jacob his allotted heritage.
Deuteronomy 32:7-9
God has taken his place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods he holds judgment: “How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah I said, “You are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you; nevertheless, like men you shall die, and fall like any prince.” Arise, O God, judge the earth; for you shall inherit all the nations!
Psalm 82:1-2, 6-8
For all the angels of the presence and all the angels of sanctification have been so created from the day of their creation, and before the angels of the presence and the angels of sanctification He hath sanctified Israel, that they should be with Him and with His holy angels. And do thou command the children of Israel and let them observe the sign of this covenant for their generations as an eternal ordinance, and they will not be rooted out of the land. For the command is ordained for a covenant, that they should observe it for ever among all the children of Israel. For Ishmael and his sons and his brothers and Esau, the Lord did not cause to approach Him, and he chose them not because they are the children of Abraham, because He knew them, but He chose Israel to be His people. And He sanctified it, and gathered it from amongst all the children of men; for there are many nations and many peoples, and all are His, and over all hath He placed spirits in authority to lead them astray from Him. But over Israel He did not appoint any angel or spirit, for He alone is their ruler, and He will preserve them and require them at the hand of His angels and His spirits, and at the hand of all His powers in order that He may preserve them and bless them, and that they may be His and He may be theirs from henceforth for ever.
Jubilees 15: 27-32
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
1 Peter 2:9
And we returned in the seventh month, and found Sarah with child before us] and we blessed him, and we announced to him all the things which had been decreed concerning him, that he should not die till he should beget six sons more, and should see (them) before he died; but (that) in Isaac should his name and seed be called: And (that) all the seed of his sons should be Gentiles, and be reckoned with the Gentiles; but from the sons of Isaac one should become a holy seed, and should not be reckoned among the Gentiles. For he should become the portion of the Most High, and all his seed had fallen into the possession of God, that it should be unto the Lord a people for (His) possession above all nations and that it should become a kingdom and priests and a holy nation.
Jubilees 16:16-18
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous, saying, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’ Thus you witness against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets. Therefore I send you prophets and wise men and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town, so that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar. Truly, I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation.
Matthew 23:29-31, 34-36
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.
Jeremiah 29:11-13
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Hebrews 8:10
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
Psalm 51:10
For circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision. So, if a man who is uncircumcised keeps the precepts of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision? Then he who is physically uncircumcised but keeps the law will condemn you who have the written code and circumcision but break the law. For no one is a Jew who is merely one outwardly, nor is circumcision outward and physical. But a Jew is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter. His praise is not from man but from God.
Romans 2:25-29
And they will make to themselves high places and groves and graven images, and they will worship, each his own (graven image), so as to go astray, and they will sacrifice their children to demons, and to all the works of the error of their hearts. And I will send witnesses unto them, that I may witness against them, but they will not hear, and will slay the witnesses also, and they will persecute those who seek the law, and they will abrogate and change everything so as to work evil before My eyes. (1) And I will hide My face from them, and I will deliver them into the hand of the Gentiles for captivity, and for a prey, and for devouring, and I will remove them from the midst of the land, and I will scatter them amongst the Gentiles. And they will forget all My law and all My commandments and all My judgments, and will go astray as to new moons, and sabbaths, and festivals, and jubilees, and ordinances. And after this they will turn to Me from amongst the Gentiles with all their heart and with all their soul and with all their strength, and I will gather them from amongst all the Gentiles, and they will seek me, so that I shall be found of them, when they seek me with all their heart and with all their soul.(2) And I will disclose to them abounding peace with righteousness, and I will remove them the plant of uprightness, with all My heart and with all My soul, and they shall be for a blessing and not for a curse, and they shall be the head and not the tail. And I will build My sanctuary in their midst, and I will dwell with them, and I will be their God and they shall be My people in truth and righteousness.(3) And I will not forsake them nor fail them; for I am the Lord their God.’ And Moses fell on his face and prayed and said, ‘O Lord my God, do not forsake Thy people and Thy inheritance, so that they should wander in the error of their hearts, and do not deliver them into the hands of their enemies, the Gentiles, lest they should rule over them and cause them to sin against Thee. Let thy mercy, O Lord, be lifted up upon Thy people, and create in them an upright spirit,(4) and let not the spirit of Beliar rule over them to accuse them before Thee, and to ensnare them from all the paths of righteousness, so that they may perish from before Thy face. But they are Thy people and Thy inheritance, which thou hast delivered with thy great power from the hands of the Egyptians: create in them a clean heart and a holy spirit,(4) and let them not be ensnared in their sins from henceforth until eternity.’ And the Lord said unto Moses: ‘I know their contrariness and their thoughts and their stiffneckedness, and they will not be obedient till they confess their own sin and the sin of their fathers. And after this they will turn to Me in all uprightness and with all (their) heart and with all (their) soul, and I will circumcise the foreskin of their heart and the foreskin of the heart of their seed, and I will create in them a holy spirit, and I will cleanse them so that they shall not turn away from Me from that day unto eternity.(5) And their souls will cleave to Me and to all My commandments, and they will fulfil My commandments, and I will be their Father and they shall be My children. And they all shall be called children of the living God, and every angel and every spirit shall know, yea, they shall know that these are My children, and that I am their Father in uprightness and righteousness, and that I love them.
Jubilees 1: 10-24
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