WHAT ARE THE BEST BIBLE VERSIONS TO USE AS AN ADVENTIST ( Q&A SESSION - Randy Skeete Sermon
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00:00What is your view on Bible versions?
00:10My view on Bible versions, a very serious one.
00:16In Revelation 12, 9, the Bible says, listen carefully, let me pray again, Father, please
00:21direct my thinking, restrain my carnal nature, let me seek your glory, please, in Jesus name,
00:26amen.
00:27Revelation 12, 9 says, listen carefully, and the great dragon was cast out, not all serpent
00:33called the devil and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world.
00:37Now he's called the great dragon, that's a destroyer, serpent, deceiver, Satan, adversary,
00:45devil, Satan, slander, devil, adversary, I believe.
00:48Each name gives a different side of his character and the way he works.
00:52Remember Zechariah 3, verse 1, and he showed me Joshua, the high priest, standing before
00:57the angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him.
01:01He's an accuser and he's an adversary, devil, Satan, serpent, dragon.
01:07But even though all four names are given, only one quality is stressed.
01:10Listen again, and the great dragon was cast out, not all serpent called the devil and
01:15Satan, it doesn't say which destroys the whole world, which deceiveth the whole world.
01:20The devil's most effective tactic is as a deceiver, not a destroyer, or an accuser,
01:27or slanderer, a deceiver, because deception is so subtle it walks right next to truth.
01:36Now in order to deceive, you have to twist truth.
01:41Are you following me?
01:43The devil lied in heaven.
01:45Listen to God, Jesus Christ in John 8, 44, ye are of your father the devil, and the lust
01:51of your father you will do.
01:53He was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in the truth because there is no truth
01:59in him.
02:00When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own, for he's a liar and the father of it.
02:06Speaketh of his own means lying is his natural language.
02:10Lies originated with Satan, and lie is the object of truth, and God's law is truth, God's
02:15word is truth.
02:17The devil deceives by twisting the word of God.
02:21He tried it on Adam and Eve, he succeeded.
02:24He tried it on Jesus, he failed.
02:26Now, if this is the case, Satan must have his versions.
02:35I'm not here to identify them, but I'm telling you, Satan must have his versions.
02:42One of the reasons why no version is perfect, but all contain enough truth for someone to
02:50be saved, but some contain some dangerous translations.
02:55For instance, one version in the, I don't recall what chapter, where Jacob is blessing
02:59his sons, and the Bible says he leaned upon the top of his staff.
03:06He worshiped leaning on his staff.
03:09One version says he worshiped the top of his staff.
03:13That's worshiping idols.
03:16One version says of James 5.16, confess your sins one to another.
03:20James 5.16 says, in the King James Version, confess your faults.
03:24Now, the Catholics will accept confess your sins, because they're priests, are supposed
03:28to forgive sins.
03:30So the version you choose, particularly if you're not theologically, what's the word,
03:36trained, is very, very important.
03:38I was talking to a Bible scholar, and I asked him, if you could only use one version to
03:48defend the fundamental teachings of this church, which would it be?
03:53And he said, the King James Version.
03:55If you could only choose just one, and many of them are good, don't misunderstand me,
04:01but if you are restricted to one, when you read the books that are attacking the sanctuary,
04:08they almost, they seldom use the King James Version.
04:12Very seldom use the King James Version.
04:14It is my preference.
04:16I don't preach it for anybody.
04:17It is my, but I'm saying as a general statement, say, have you ever heard of the Queen James
04:24Version?
04:25There is the Queen James Version.
04:30I believe that version has changed only about eight verses, verses that deal with homosexuality
04:36have been changed to make it more palatable to those who practice that lifestyle.
04:40Now, is that a version?
04:42Yes.
04:43Is that God's version?
04:44How?
04:45Well, a version paraphrased, but people still see it as a Bible.
04:51There's a Bible where you don't have he, he, he, for God, you have she.
04:56It's a feminine.
04:57Is that the version of God?
04:58You have to decide, and show me in the Bible, or in the original Greek, where God, in Hebrew,
05:03where God is presented as she.
05:06All I'll say to you is my personal preference, I preach to no one, is the King James Version.
05:14And if I had to use one version to try to defend the fundamental teachings of this church,
05:20it would be that version.
05:22So that's just mine.
05:23I'm not trying to tell you what to do, but I will say this, Satan must have his versions.
05:31There is a why when the King James came out, the Catholic Church did not like it.
05:37Next question.
05:38Amen.
05:39Amen.