The American Wisdom Series

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Pamphlet 6057 Isaiah KC 13-2 xxx

In fact as of 2001 there were 168,000 Bibles sold PER DAY in the U.S. alone! The point is, that His Word is literally available to anyone who wishes to obtain it and study it. And you know what else? One does not need a "license" nor permission to obtain access to God's Word, nor does one need to first acquire a PhD, a ThD, a seminary degree, or any other of man's "higher learning" degrees to be able to read and understand the letter our Father wrote to each of His children individually in these last days. All one needs are some basic study tools, a little courage, and a sincere desire to seek and understand that which is written regardless of what traditions he or she may have learned growing up.

Furthermore, we should all be thankful for the availability and opportunity to study His Word in these last days. Just compare how blessed we are to the era of 1611 when our Father commissioned the man who sat on the throne of David in that day, i.e. King James, to translate and make His Word available to the common man. The fact is back in 1611 one not only had to obtain a license to have access to the scriptures, he had to first be approved by his confessor to even be deemed worthy of obtaining that license. That is because the prevailing church of that time did NOT want the people to have access to the Word of God, lest they read it and discover the truth that there is only one mediator between God and man... and it is NOT an earthly preacher or priest (1 Tim. 2:5 "For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.")

That is why we recommend to all who study the Word of God to obtain and read the letter that the translators of the 1611 KJV wrote to the English reader. Of course wouldn't you know it, that letter has been removed from the pages of most Bibles which is surely to the advantage and benefit of someone other than the common man, isn't it? Nevertheless, below is an excerpt from the Letter to the Reader.  Also, please know that it is not our intent to single out any particular church or denomination but rather to make the point that if your church is steeped in the traditions of men rather than concentrating on teaching Father's Word chapter by chapter and line by line, then you had better take heed and wake up and ask yourself how it is that we as a professing Christian nation have become so Biblically illiterate when the Word of God is so readily available? Consider again the verses we read from Matthew 7:24-27 and ask yourself where you stand! Is your faith built upon the knowledge and wisdom from His Word or the vain traditions of men taught by churchianity?

"THE UNWILLINGNESS OF OUR CHIEF ADVERSARIES, THAT THE SCRIPTURES SHOULD BE DIVULGED IN THE MOTHER TONGUE, ETC.

"Now the Church of Rome would seem at the length to bear a motherly affection towards her children, and to allow them the Scriptures in their mother tongue: but indeed it is a gift, not deserving to be called a gift, an unprofitable gift: [Sophecles] they must first get a License in writing before they may use them, and to get that, they must approve themselves to their Confessor, that is, to be such as are, if not frozen in the dregs, yet soured with the leaven of their superstition. Howbeit, it seemed too much to Clement the Eighth that there should be any License granted to have them in the vulgar tongue, and therefore he overruleth and frustrateth the grant of Pius the Fourth. [See the observation (set forth by Clemen. His authority) upon the 4. rule of Pius the 4. his making in the index, lib. prohib. pag. 15. ver. 5.] So much are they afraid of the light of the Scripture, (Lucifugae Scripturarum, as Tertulian speaketh) that they will not trust the people with it, no not as it is set forth by their own sworn men, no not with the License of their own Bishops and Inquisitors. Yea, so unwilling they are to communicate the Scriptures to the people's understanding in any sort, that they are not ashamed to confess, that we forced them to translate it into English against their wills. This seemeth to argue a bad cause, or a bad conscience, or both. Sure we are, that it is not he that hath good gold, that is afraid to bring it to the touchstone, but he that hath the counterfeit; [Tertul. de resur. carnis.] neither is it the true man that shunneth the light, but the malefactor, lest his deeds should be reproved [John 3:20]: neither is it the plain dealing Merchant that is unwilling to have the weights, or the meteyard brought in place, but he that useth deceit. But we will let them alone for this fault, and return to translation."

Let us read from the 9th chapter of Isaiah.

Isaiah 9:8
The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.

Hebrews 1:1-2
God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,

[2] Hath in these last days spoken unto us by His Son, whom He hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also He made the worlds;