Proverbs 22:12 ¶ The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge,
and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor.
The eyes of the Lord are everywhere searching
out every thought and deed of mankind. As the prophet, Hanani, said to King Asa
of Judah after he had made a league with Syria rather than depend on the Lord
who had delivered Judah from a million man Ethiopian invasion under King Zerah;
2Chronicles 16:9 For the eyes of the LORD run
to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of
them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly:
therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars.
Proverbs 5:21 For the ways of man are before
the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
Proverbs 15:3 The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and
the good.
God has promised that He would preserve His
words.
Psalm 12:6 The words of the LORD are pure
words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. 7 Thou
shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for
ever.
And we have been warned that from the very
beginning there were many men who tried to corrupt God’s words.
2Corinthians 2:17 For we are not as many,
which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight
of God speak we in Christ.
The Counter-Reformation, an organized attempt by
the Roman Catholic Church to overthrow the work of the Protestant churches in
the Reformation, gave us the “science” of Textual Criticism, as molded by such
Roman Catholic priests and scholars as Richard Simon and philosophers like
Thomas Hobbes and Spinoza. These men, rather than view the Bible as divinely
inspired, regarded it as just another ancient book and tried to use their own
reasoning to compare and contrast manuscripts, whether or not those manuscripts
had ever been in much use by Christians, to attempt to discern what readings
were most likely in the originals. This is a convenient trick as no one they
personally knew or that you could meet and talk to in the flesh had ever seen
the originals. So, like much of theoretical science it merely becomes an
endless disputation over what seems to one or the other as “most likely”.
These transgressors and corrupters, even today,
treat the word of God as of being no more importance than they would view a
copy of Livy’s ‘History of Rome’ or Homer’s poem ‘The Illiad’. But, God
preserved His words, as promised, in what the textual critics call the
Byzantine Text, down through the ages in certain editions of the Old Latin
Bible, the Syriac, the Gothic, and English versions right down to the one known
to us as the King James Bible or the Authorized Version. Virtually every Bible
after that was translated giving authority to manuscripts rejected by the
Christian churches throughout history.
The eyes of the Lord preserved knowledge. The
words of the transgressors were overthrown. The inconsistencies and lies of the
corrupt versions of God’s word are legion. In some versions the first verses of
Mark contain a reference to one Old Testament prophet but call it a reference
to another. In most corrupt versions the last 12 verses of Mark are labeled
illegitimate and yet those verses are found in the majority of ancient Uncial
(large block letters) manuscripts that contain the end of Mark. Verses are
deleted in versions, verses that Christians have used since the Old Latin Bible
was put together in the middle of the second century, and in one, reflecting
the Jehovah’s Witness heresy, a popular modern Bible calls Jesus a created god
in John 1:18. And yet, those who are not blind to this obvious truth have been
blessed with the words of God in a Bible that they can rely on to draw them
close to God, to change their lives fundamentally, and to comfort and exhort
them, and most of all, to save the lost and sanctify the believer.
The eyes of the Lord preserved the knowledge of
Christ. We live in a world that is operated by Satan. Even our own government
has long been under his control. He has blinded the minds of men to the truth
of the gospel.
2Corinthians 4:4 In whom the god of this
world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the
glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
Transgressors created false religions under
Satan’s influence where he is given another name just as he operated under the
name of Zeus in ancient Greece, Bel in Babylon, and Baal in Palestine, and reigns
supreme. This god, little g, commands the nominal worship, at least, of a
billion people, and is growing because it appeals to man’s carnal appetite for
control and mastery of others. The adherents of this religion, proudly proclaim
that their god has no son, and yet, a careful reading of the his book shows
that he has three daughters. And he does not love his creation. And as the
ancient Greeks commented (and I am paraphrasing), “the gods torture those that
worship them”, as they referred to their pagan representations of Satan who
most certainly did not love them, this god loves no one and promises eternal
life to none. A clear sign of a Satanic faith is one where you cannot know that
you are saved and can have no assurance of it.
Another religious tradition worships millions of
gods. Many other religions, even some claiming to be Christian, have included
the false gods of long forgotten paganism as Saints and avatars to cling to for
help and mercy. The Roman Catholic Church has even exalted the continued
worship of “the goddess”, Ishtar, Diana, Venus, and Isis, in the person of
Mary, whose Catholic form bears no resemblance to the humble Jewish maiden of
the Bible who was the vessel by which God came to earth in the form of a man.
But, the knowledge of Christ has not been lost,
for God had said;
Isaiah 55:11 So shall my word be that goeth forth
out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that
which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
The eyes of the Lord shall preserve
knowledge. God overthrows the words of the transgressor, whether they be
deceived Christians or those of other religions, and the ultimate transgressor,
Satan, himself, shall be overthrown one day, and is overthrown already.
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