Mountains sing at Christ's return--literally

(new article this evening. in the meantime . . .)

The reason a violinist can make crystal glass break is because the instrument is able to duplicate the frequency the crystal vibrates at with an intensity that shatters it.

“That’s a physical phenomenon, but when the Bible refers to the mountains singing at Christ’s return, in Ezekiel 36 for an example, I’m not so sure that’s all just figurative talk,” says Richard Jordan. “And when He comes back, all of creation’s going to ‘sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice before him.’ (Psalm 68:4)

“Notice it didn’t say sing praises about Him. You can’t talk to God if you don’t know Him. Lost people can’t sing praises to God until they’ve called upon His name—until they’ve gotten saved.”

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When Doubting Thomas had the opportunity to see the prints in Christ’s hands and the scar in His side, he bowed down and said something that no new bible version has yet to take out of the Bible—“My Lord and my God.”

“Of course, Jesus Christ doesn’t respond, ‘Wait, wait, wait! I’m not that; you shouldn’t attribute things to me that belong to God'; He accepted the title and the (corrupt re-translators) don’t notice that it’s there,” says Jordan. “It’s exactly correct even in a Jehovah Witness bible.

“The Lord’s that way with the Word of God—you find doctrine scattered out in Scripture where, when you’re looking to find it and eliminate it, there’s enough of it scattered that you can’t get to it all.

“There’s a great comparison made to this in a book by a Bible teacher who earlier in his career was involved in military communication and producing anti-jamming devices. A jamming device is where you put a broadcast out and a signal jams it and you can’t receive your signal.

“Well, in the military when you’re trying to send commands to your troops—

or nowadays to satellites and missiles—if you’ve got the ability to jam the communication, it can’t go where you want it to go.

“And so, in order to eliminate the ability of an opponent to jam your communication, what they do is communicate on dozens of different frequencies. The idea is if you can jam a third of the frequencies, the receiver can still figure out from the other two-thirds what it needs. He said that’s the way the Bible is!

“The Bible is a book that demonstrates itself to have been written by someone who was outside of time. Whoever wrote Genesis understood something that couldn’t have been known for another couple of thousand years. So, whoever wrote Genesis was not bound by time. They knew something that was going to be revealed in the future that nobody could know except God Himself.

“Years ago, I used to think, ‘Why is it that you have to search all through the Bible to find these things? Why did God just scatter it all over everywhere, seemingly willy-nilly like?’ Well, it turns out it’s not willy-nilly; it’s all PLANNED!

“If God had it all written out for us in simplified jargon, we’d read it maybe 345 times, enough to memorize it, and then we’d get bored with it and quit reading it.

“But the way it is, you never get bored with it because you never quit finding stuff; you just keep discovering and putting links together.

“Probably a better reason than that, though, is what this guy was saying—it allows it not to be jammed as it comes through history. You can’t destroy it; you can’t get rid of it. There’s no way to destroy the supernatural evidence, or the evidence of the supernatural nature of the Word of God, because of all that. That’s such a fascinating thing about the Scriptures and what makes it so fascinating to read and study.”

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Handel’s Messiah is considered the greatest piece of music composition ever put together and yet it’s nothing more than the King James Bible quoted and put to music.

“Notice it’s not the NIV, or the ASV, or the RV, or the Geneva bible—it’s the KJV put into music form,” says Jordan.

One of the events that led Gail Riplinger to write her explosive 1994 book, New Age Bible Versions, which thoroughly exposes the corrupt nature of the modern bible versions, was a campus bible study in which Riplinger, a college teacher at the time, had a young Christian woman approach her seeking words of solace after a romantic break-up.

Upon instructing the student to open her bible to Luke 4:18 to read Jesus’ words, “[He] hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted,” Riplinger found out the entire sentence had been removed from the woman’s NASB version.

Riplinger later found the same verse missing from the NIV, Good News for Modern Man and all Catholic bibles.

As she relates in her book, “The omission is impossible since Jesus was in the synagogue reading from Isaiah 61:1:2, which contains the sentence in question. Its removal is censorship of the strangest kind since the sentence appears in The Greek New Testament According to the Majority Text.

“Its critical apparatus indicates the sigla of the German M, which according to Dallas Theological Seminary professor Zane C. Hodge, indicates the sentence is ‘one that is supported overwhelmingly.’ In this case ‘overwhelmingly’ is a modest estimation since all Greek manuscripts except two, Aleph and B, have it. Even Alexandrinus, an ancient uncial, has it.

“Tsk . . . Tsk to Nestle and his resurrected Westcott and Hort ‘New’ Greek text for leaving it out. NIV committeeman Ronald Youngblood admits his committee disregarded the majority text here.”

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Another huge corruption Riplinger learned of in trying to comfort the heartbroken student was that the reference to Christ as “the Comforter,” found in four different verses in John, had been replaced with “the Helper,” something true of not only the NASB but the NKJV and New World Jehovah Witness Version. He is called “the Counselor” in the NIV and the “Advocate” or “Paraclete” in Catholic versions!

Riplinger explains, “There is no semantic basis for this revision. The NASB translates the same kind of Greek word as ‘comfort’ eighteen times elsewhere (e.g. Matthew 2:18 ‘she refused to be comforted’).

“The NIV’s ‘Counselor’, bouleutes, sumboulos, is not in any Greek manuscripts. The NKJV’s word ‘helper’, or help, boethos, antilepsis, epikouria, is no where in the verse either, nor are words such as antilambano, cheir, epilambano, antecho, propempo, huperetes, or prosantis, all of which the new bibles translate as ‘help’ often.

“Cults like the Jehovah Witnesses use ‘helper’ since they deny the Trinity and the personhood of the Holy Spirit. The Plain Truth magazine explains why they too avoid the KJV and its ‘Comforter’: ‘[T]he Holy Spirit is not a person but the power God uses—much as man uses electricity.’

“The New King James Version and the New American Standard Version are in poor company rallying with, not only these two cults, but the New Age. Author of Dark Secrets of the New Age observes, ‘New Agers who communicate with Satan’s demons see these spirit entities as their ‘helpers.’

“Vera Alder, for example, when referring to these entities, uses the NASB and NKJV term. (New versions are ‘helping’ to build the ‘semantic bridge’ which Vera Alder and other New Agers said must be built between the New World Religion and existing sectarianism.)

“The NIV removes ‘the comfort’ of the Holy Ghost in Acts 9:31. . . The bride of Christ is no longer comforted with the salutation ‘Beloved,’ but met with ‘Dear Friend’ in III John 2 (NIV). Ephesians 3:9 speaks of the intimacy of our fellowship with God. New Versions join the Jehovah Witnesses in replacing ‘fellowship with the groom’ with the coming ‘new age administration’.”