Confession

Dear God, Thou are there, when I called thee, and I had sinned against thee, I had disqualified to be thy child and not able to serve Thee anymore, please bring me closer to Thee.

God, if Thou are listenning to my confession, give me new life from Jesus Christ. Bless me this moment, when I seek, please let me find Thee, when I down and near to death, guard me to read the Bible, bless me so that I can become Thy child and servant.

Dear God heavenly Father, please bring the theologians and the pastors together so that the old pastor may sleep in peace. Let all the young and old rejoice to see death of Thy saints.

Dear Lord, God the Saviour, save me from my sins and guilts, without Thy salvation, in death and sorrow I laid down and perish. Protect me from evil and harm because I am dead and hopeless, and because all power belong to Thee.

As my self examination, finding myself in want, in sorrow, in loneliness, in darkness, in hopeless, in failures, in poverty, in weakness, in sickness, in depressions, in oppressions, in persections, I failed and fellen asleep.

My Lord, if Thou are my Lord and my God, please help me, in doubts, in sins, in sadness, in faults, in mistakes, in wrongdoings, in hypocrycy, in lost, in separations, in wickedness, in sorry, in self pitiness.

My God, in doubts, cannot transform myself, had fellen into this traps and pit hole, and cannot arise anymore, please hear my prayer in sorrow. Bless me with your promise, Rejoice in Thee always, bless and forgive me. In Jesus Name. Amen.

Majority of What? When? Where?

As is usually the case with historical documents, the older something is, the fewer examples tend to survive. At the same time, older copies are generally believed to be more accurate renditions where variations exist. The thinking is that a fifth generation copy (written four hundred years after the original autograph) is likely to be far more accurate than a twelfth generation copy written fourteen hundred years after the original. TR/MT advocates would have us believe the exact opposite is true. Yet, the Dead Sea Scrolls, which are second-century copies predating the MT by hundreds of years, substantiated the accuracy of earlier non-majority text. The fact is that the MT are only a selection of Greek texts from a particular area of the world during a particular time period in only one of the many languages that the New Testament had been preserved in.

Interested? please visit:

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The Book of 2 Peter with VPP

The writer explained that the scriptures are inspired words of God in 1:21, all the Words are inspired Word of God, the Bible is inspired, inspired by the Holy Spirit. St Peter wanted the readers to grow and developing good virtues after reading the inspired Word, (1:5-8). And at the same time, he was warning against those “hurtful and harmful heresies.” (2:16). lastly he mentioned the Lord is coming soon, without the interference from the Lord, the world may had long before been destroyed. (3:8-12). It is God who had preserved the world until today.

There are some Peter called them as “wells without water,” “clouds that are carried in the mist of darkness is reserved forever,” “the pig returned to the mud again.” May God forgive some like us the unprofitable servants, God is merciful, and may God make us to be a well with water, a cloud which carries rain!

There are times in the past, God’s people had strayed from the truth, denying Christ, like Peter, 3 times he denied Christ until the crock crow, there were those who were fulfilling their lust like those Corinthian Christians, and some of them even did not believe the Lord is coming soon. Else where and there are still some who are walking in the way of “Balaam,” and these people will surely perished in fire and living in total darkness one day. (2:17-3:3-7)

Peter said “to know Christ is our glory, hope, dependence and power!” The writer was departing soon, he was at the end of his life, as he wrote in 1:14, he was living under the King Nero, and the king was persecuting the church. To Peter, King Nero is not the biggest threat to the church, there is another bigger threat, Peter point out what was that, “heresies, beware the false teachers and false prophets!”

Here are some of the descriptions about the heresies and the teachers, Peter said they did not witness the Lord Jesus who had saved them (2:1), they were not afraid of anyone and they were stubborn (2:10), they are lustful (2:13), they are adulterous, they are the fornicators and the greedy some (2:14), and then they are boastful (2:18), lastly and finally they are servants of destructions (2:19). These men were more dangerous than 10 King Nero, they endangered the spiritual growth of a church. These men were more dangerous than the Roman Empire which persecuted them. May God preserves and lead us, so that we will not become a false teacher or false prophet.

Dear God heavenly Father,have mercy on me, this weak and poor sinful man, I do not want to become one of them!

2 Peter 1:1, Knowing Christ is a blessing, a theme in Christianity, this is the medicine and remedy to defend and fight against those false teachers and their heresies.

1:2, Peter wrote 4 times “epignosis,” 3 times “gnosis,” knowing is not only knowing the mere knowledge of the world, but knowing Christ, there are blessings from God to them who know Christ, God bless us with grace, peace and even the eternal kingdom if we truly know Christ. What else we should murmur until we complaint about the inspired scriptures! What is the purpose of a perfect Bible is it not for knowing Christ?

1:3, by knowing Christ, He is called Lord, Lord over the theologians and all the pastors, and only He can fulfills all our spiritual needs. Peter said that Christ Whom he knew is a Glorious Lord, and Glorious God.

1:4, Christ promised us that we can be delivered from the bondage of lust and sin. A free man with the dwelling of the Holy Spirit, He can then enjoy and developing the virtues of God. In that man, the glory of God is shining from; he becomes the light in the world.

1:5, Peter agreed with Paul that faith must come with works, faith without works is death. Simple faith in Christ will bring along good morale in a man, by knowing God, a man may have self control, long suffering, and continue to live a devoted life, and continue in loving his brethren, and at last loving all men like loving God!

1:8, Christian must grow in these few virtues, and to be holy and perfect in faith. Freed from sins, and continue to be trained in pursuing good things until they can be called children of God.

1:9, there were some of them who said that a man can come to know God without the morale laws. So they disobey the morale laws, these morale laws are from the scriptures, even thought they said they believe the Bible totally, some of them said they believe that the Bible is the inspired Word of God, but they were liars, they choose to obey some scriptures, and choose to disobey some scriptures, strange! Peter said without the morale laws we are still in darkness!

1:10, Christians must live in and by morale laws, faith with works, spiritual life with good virtues, so that they can say they are elected, called and chosen, belong to God.

1:13-14, St. Peter exhorted us, “NOT TO be wavering,” his departing word?

1:15, traditionally people said, Mark was recording Peter’s sermon, and put in the Gospel of Mark, so Mark is closer with Peter than Paul, once Paul was angry with Mark, there was a quarrel in his missionary journey.

1:16-18, some say it is at the Mount Hermon the Lord shown His transfiguration, and Peter, James and John were up there watching with their open eyes, seeing the glory of God. Mount Hermon is a blessing for them.

Read Psalms 133:3 as the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.

But if we wanted to receive that blessing, there is a condition, read Psalms 133:1 A Song of degrees of David. Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! Psalms 133:2 it is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments.

Knowing Christ? We all know Christ? We said we know Him, what the scriptures required of us? Brethren to live in unity! Unity is more important or the theological debates? Paul and Peter also united with Mark at last, what about us? Are we cleverer than them? Are we more fundamental than Peter? Mount Hermon is still there, it brings what blessing to us today? Unity or debate? Debates only?

Christ’s transfiguration is to show the glory of God, likewise, brethren, be transformed in knowing Christ, if we can live in unity, then we can show others the glory of God in our Christian fellowship. We need that glory of God and brethren’s unity from Mount Hermon! Not debates! Only debate we want? What is the value of debate, if we lost our glory?

1:19, the Bible is a long prophecy about Christ, and a lamp onto our feet, so that we may see where we are heading!

1:20, Peter knows someone had misinterpreted the scriptures in his time, even in the first century, with the manuscripts at hands, there were people making misinterpretation. Peter said we cannot interpret the scriptures with our likings; we cannot interpret the Bible scripture out of context. Who are we to judge the mss with a few verses taken from here and there?

Psalm 12, for example, this psalm is a spiritual song, how come it had become a song of lament for many because of the teaching of VPP? How come a spiritual, awakening song, sung by the Jew, lament about human oppression, being misinterpreted to a “debate” about Holy Scriptures by some theologians? Only debate in Psalm 12, nothing else?

In the context of Psalm 12, the Psalmist laments the decrease of good men. The pride and deceit of the wicked provokes God's wrath, whose promise to avenge the cause of pious sufferers will be verified even amidst prevailing iniquity.

The scripture is inspired by God, every word is from God. God dwell with men, they wrote the scripture, men were co-labor with God, the Holy Spirit, taught by the Holy Spirit, the scripture is without errors. But Peter said there is the danger of misinterpretation! What about us, let us reduce the misinterpretations and increase the unity!

2:1, furthermore, with more and more misinterpretations of the scriptures, without delay, Peter warned us; there come the false teachers and false prophets, even the whole New Testament gives warnings about the false teachers and prophets in the church. Do not be surprised. At the end of the world, some even dare to use Christ’s name, in order they may cheat their disciples (Matthew 24:3, Act 20:29-30, Gal 1:6-9, Phil. 3:2, 1 Tim 1:3-7 and Jude 3-4)

These men with impure motives, preying for weaker believers who may be misled and taught with false teachings and false prophecies! Their characteristics are:

1. Denying Christ (2 Peter 2;1)
2. Denying the second coming of Christ (3:3-4)
3. Denying authority and disobey the authority (2:10)
4. Denying holiness in living (2:12-16)
5. Denying morale laws (2:18-22)

All heresy is harmful! The teachers are liars! The prophets are false. They will perish with their false teachings.

Matthew 13:25 But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.

Matthew 13:27 So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?

Matthew 13:30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.

2:2, Peter knew who were these men who sow the tares among the wheat, they were living in sin, disgrace Christ’s name and His truth!

2:3, their motives are to make profit from the debates, make gains from the statues, selling truths to make money!

2:4, God’s judgment is sure and perfect! Fair and just, He will judge those false teachers and prophets accordingly. Sinful and fallen angels are sending to the lake of fire! No excuse. What about us?

2:5, Peter gave an example, Noah was a prophet, preaching about righteousness, a perfect and needed truth in his time, at the end of preaching, only 8 persons, his family and him know the way to the ark! The rest perished together with the flood!

2:7, another example is Lot, he was imperfect, and he was not called to work like Noah, he also did not manage his house whole wisely, but Peter called him “a righteous man.” Lot does nothing, just laments! He lamented for the sinful world! Lament, for the end is coming soon! Sodom and Gomorrah were then perished with the brimstone and fire from the sky! Lot was saved with fears and trembling, losing his wife and properties.

2:8-9, St Peter comforted us, not to be torn down by those false teachers, false prophets, misinterpretations, debates. We are living in these ungodly generations, God know how to save those devoted single hearted men and women! Do not start to worry, and try to save ourselves! Follow Christ example, when He took His cross and walk His way to the hill.

2:10, but those who spread harmful and hurtful heresies and false teachings, they will be punished, perished like Sodom and Gomorrah.

2:11, Peter said, the angels do not rebuke! Rather, because the seriousness of the false teaching, even a donkey was provoked to rebuke Balaam.

2:12, Peter said, there were those heretics, more or less, the “Gnostic” they thought they had the mystical knowledge about the whole cosmos. But they had none of the simple truth!

2:13-14, these false teachers and false prophets had joined the feast of the agape, but they continue to tempt those weaker in faith to follow their false teaching and heresies.

2:15, Peter said, they were following “the way of Balaam,” it is a way of compromise, self seeking, even the donkey was touched with their falsehood and became angry, the donkey rebuked Balaam. Even donkey cannot tolerant these false teachings!

2:17, they were descript as “well without water,” useless.

2:18, the spiritual babes were easily fallen in prey by these heresies.

2:20-21, if a man is born again, he will not left Jesus Christ, whom he had believed, and become a reprobate! (John 10:27-30, Rom 8:28-39). Do not like Judas Iscariot, he had been following Christ, and he heard the truth, but he chooses not to obey, but he like money more than his Lord!

2:22, animal cannot change its animal instinct.

3:1, the purpose of Peter’s writing his epistle is to “remind” and “motivate us.”

3:2, Old Testament prophets and New Testament apostles were called and sent to tell people about God’s commandment, they had the higher authority, and what they taught is from the Lord Jesus Christ and Holy Spirit.

3:3-7, all those prophecies about the end time will be fulfilled, at those moment, false prophets will arise, and come to deny the coming of the Lord, they scorned that God will never intervene the history of mankind. The Bible tells us God will destroy the earth and the ungodly. He is the creator of the whole universe and He will put an end to the wickedness!

3:8, quoting from Psalm 90:4, a thousand years is like a day in God’s prospective. God is not delaying, He is mercifully forgiving and forgiving, He is giving opportunities for us to repent.

3:9, so let us look at God’s will in 3 different ways:

1. God’s sovereignty (Isaiah 46:9-11, Daniel 4:17, 35; Hebrew 2:4, Rev 17:17)
2. God’s morale laws (Rom 3:20, Eph. 6:6, Heb 13:21)
3. God’s love (Ezek 33:11, Matt 23:37, 2 Pet 3:9)

There are a lot of people who are not saved in the end. (Rev 21:8) Do not blame the CUV, and NKJV Bible! They had chosen not to follow Christ, and they had chosen not to know Christ!

3:10, Christ is coming soon, it is called the day of Yahweh. (Joel 1:15) Our knowledge of His coming is limited:

1. The Lord is sure to come at another time, only God know the time. (Matt 24:36)
2. Suddenly He will appear, and cannot be expected (1 Thess 5:1-3)
3. It is the time when God judge the world (Act 17:31)

Peter said the whole world will be destroyed with a loud noise (2 Pet 3:12) What about those manuscripts, those manuscripts in goat skins, and the TR? Paper printed Bible like KJV Bibles, the text books in all the reformed bible colleges? Who is going to take care of them? Why quarrel now for the underlying texts?

There was a tree, with 7 roots it was being planted. When the tree grown up to be a tall tree, all the birds came to settle on it, happily all the birds dwell on that tree, but sadly one day, a man who watered the tree came, and he shoot all the birds away, and he said to his companion, “from this day onward, only white myna is allow to settle on my tree!” Why only white myna?

He forget to read Mark 4:32 But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.

We may not forget the 7 roots tree, but it is better for us to look for our better inheritance in heaven!

3:11-13, Peter wrote there is a new heaven and new earth, this is what the prophets in the Old Testament was hoping and looking for! The present civilization will be changed, the bright future is ahead, and God will come into human history, making history, His Story.

3:15, God is still forgiving, there is still hope for salvation until that Day, for all mankind, life and death of the world is in God’s hands.

Lastly, in this epistle, Peter called Paul as a beloved brother, they were together at last in heaven, very close in Christ, and they had quarreled once on earth, but they never quarrel all the way to heaven. They were well known for their life and works, and they were well respected in heaven, they stop quarrel on heaven or on earth?

3:16, how holy we live our life? This is an important question Peter will ask us today. The Holy Scripture is called a “Holy” scripture because it is holy, why it is holy, because it is teaching us how to live a holy life. Does your Bible in your hand teach you to live a holy life? If the Bible in your hand teaches you to live a holy life! The Bible in your hand is inspired and inerrant word of God. There were people who do not trained in the Gospel truth, lacking of the foundation of the truth, and they are those who easily misinterpret the Bible.

3:17, St Peter reminds the readers, false teachers and false prophets had come to the world, beware of them, there are those who fall way. But God is able to carry us through, until we meet with Him face to face. (Jude 24, 1 Peter 5:10)

3:18, finally Peter ended his letter, he wishes all to grow in spirit, to become a mature Christian, and he concluded, “KNOWING GOD IS OUR GLORY, DEPENDENCE AND POWER!” Only God is able to give us true life, and bring us into His kingdom.



Question:

1. Why Knowing Christ is blessing?
2. What is more dangerous than 10 king Nero?
3. NOT TO be wavering, why Peter said so?
4. What was the misinterpreted the scriptures in Peter’s time?
5. Who are false teachers and false prophets?
6. Why donkey cannot tolerant Balaam?
7. The purpose of Peter’s writing his epistle is?
8. Why KNOWING GOD IS OUR GLORY, DEPENDENCE AND POWER!

Time is near !

My Lord, the Great one of Israel, The God of Heaven and earth, all praises and all knees must bow down to you!

Our eyes had seen your great works! Thank Lord God, our Saviout, Eternal Lord Jesus Christ, The Great and Living, one who die for us on the cross!

Time is near, all night waiting to You, until You sent down your armies here, thousands and thousands had been killed, the Chineses and Indians had been killed, I called onto You, the Great Savior, please vindicted and save us! How long we had to wait? Oh Lord Jesus Christ, You are the Great One, in Your hand is judgment!

All men, wait unto the Lord, for He is merciful! Take courage, time is near that Your revenge is for those oppressed and killed! And that sudden fear will be pour down like hot oil on those killed and hurt innocent men. Four generations will be punished for them who hate the Lord, and kills and murders.

All men, wail unto the Lord, for He is merciful! Take courage, time is here, our land will be changed until they repent! Surely Great is the mercy of Our Lord, to thousand generations, He loves those who repent from killing and murdering, to them who show mercy, mercy will be shown.

Time is near that tear will be change into laughters! You who mourned will be comforted in Him eternally! Woe onto the land who kill and murder innocent men and women, their bloods are crying out from the Land.

Please help us, Great and Migthy God, please help us, Great and Mighty one of Israel!

Unkind doctors, out there!

Doctor and Medical doctors? Who are they? There is a Specialists Center, it is full with evil and greedy doctors, these doctors were graduated from top universities overseas, with MD, DO, MB, MBBS, MBChB, MDCM, etc some with master degree. If you visit their rooms, you can see many certificates on the walls, with many qualifications shown on the walls, some of these doctors were honored by the king with medals!

These rich doctors are proud and arrogant! But actually who are they? Why they are becoming scorn and thorn in the earth. Here are some stories about them. These doctors usually like money, more than a human life. When a sick man came to see them, they will try to make money from the sick man, until they are broke, at the end, the sick man is helpless, then they will tell the truth to the family, “Bring him back to your home, let him die there, no point to let him stay here,” in other words, let him wait for his death, finished! After few days under the specialist doctors, many discouraged of sickness which can be cured, but thousands of thousands of dollars were spent, money is gone, people suffer and sometimes die, the family members were cheated in this way.

Many sad and cruel stories were told among the people about these inhuman doctors! People hate these “doctor”, they are not doctors, and they are the predators! People said they do not heal; they do not steal, but kill to earn money! More and more money they earned! People were told not to send their sick there! Because these doctors will tell the patients, the sickness is helpless, “please pay your bills,” wait and die. Later they went to another hospital, other doctors tell the patients another fact about their sickness, and there their sickness is healed.

It is true about their greed and cruelty, one of the patients, told his story, one day, he came to see those doctors in that Specialist Center, the doctors admitted him into the wad in the specialist center, and then he was put under the care of the nurses, and day after day, the nurse fed him with many kinds of medicines, but no doctor came to attend to him in the wad room, the nurse become his only aid! He was discharged, and thousands of dollars were collected from that sick man, when the family members knew those doctors, mistreated the sick, only waiting to collect money at the end of the stay, and discharged them out of the ward, and the sick is a money making business, money! What kind of doctors are these doctors? Are they acted justly to the sick? The family members become angry, these doctors are not doctors at all!

And another sick old man, tells his story, these doctors will treat the sick without love, he was facing a serious stroke, and he was admitted into the wad at that specialist center, and there, he was laid on the bed for three days three nights, nothing had been done to him, and later he realizes something is not right, thousands dollars billed to him, he discharged from the wad, and he went to another private hospital, and there he was treated better, but it is too late to treat his stoke! He is now paralyzed.

What about those general hospitals? There are also strange doctors, in the government hospital, who just know how to prescribe, paracetamol, nothing else! When you go to see these doctors with all kinds of pains and all kinds of sickness, they will give you 10 tablets of paracetamol, and they will let you go home and do nothing; even if you had waited for the doctor that whole morning in pains and sickness! And those doctors are more interested to look at what color of your skin is, brown, black, yellow, white, grey… and by these colors, then they adjust their characters and cares, treatment is accorded to races and colors of the skin, rather than the sickness and weakness! These are discriminations the sick faced every day! You cannot complain about your skin color.

And what about those private clinics, are they any better? The doctors charged people with a reasonable sum of money for treatment, some are good doctors, but they are not expert, not all these doctors are good! And some doctors like to switch doctors, sometimes at night, they will let funny doctors, particularly psychiatrists, take over their clinic, are these doctors know every sickness, besides mental illness. These doctors will look at you like looking at their mentally ill patients! They will smiles at you and comfort you and ask you to go to another clinic at another time! Funny doctors, they treat us like a sick donkey! You have to pay for their smile. Pay your visit another time, no way! If I perish, I perish!

One day, I met a vet, an animal doctor, he told me that he is cleverer than all the ordinary doctors; I asked him why he says so? He said, “I can treat a cow and goat, and heal their sickness. And these animal do not know how to talk to me, do not know how to complain about their sickness but I know their sickness. I am cleverer! Compare to those doctors in the hospital, they treat human beings, and you know, human can talk, they can tell what sickness and pains they had, so the doctors can easily diagnose and find out the sickness, but I can heal animals which do not know how to talk, so I am cleverer than the doctor in the hospitals.” I hear with admiration and surprise, speechless like a donkey! I went back home, and I asked myself, indeed, he is speaking the truth or lies? I answer my self, human sickness is more complicated from cows and goats. A lot more people die of HIV compared with animals!

I can not understand these doctor, sometimes they are clever, sometimes not! If you are a doctor of theology, what kind of doctor do you want to be? Do you treat your students like treating sick horses? Do you ask your students to shut up, do not talk, just listen, and follow instructions, and sometimes you scold them, “do not talk too much, I am speaking God’s commandment.” How do you treat the phobia of “KJV only?”

Acts 5:34 Then stood there up one in the council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, had in reputation among all the people, and commanded to put the apostles forth a little space…..

Please pray for more and more good doctors!

The Book of 1 Peter with VPP

This is an epistle written by St Peter to the believers in Turkey. They were living under persecutions, Peter encourages them to live in lively hope and holiness. The simple plan of salvation had accomplished through the Lord Jesus Christ, so believers are to return cursing with the blessing since they had been blessing by Christ.

1:1-2, Peter was called Simon, he was an apostle who saw the coming of the Holy Spirit, like a tongue of fire at the Pentecost. Here Peter induces and reminds the believers they were cleansed by the blood of the Lamb of God.

1:3, by the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, they have the perfect salvation. They have the perfect joy from the perfect salvation. A new man living with new hope!

1:4-5, the believers are living in a warfare with the devils and demons, sometimes they were up sad, by faith they can lean on God, and God preserved them in peace.

1:6, all those suffering and persecutions were temporary.

1:7, they must face suffering like Christ, they are suffering in glorifying the Lord.

1:8-9, they must build their faith in Christ, faith build on Christ can save us, and by faith, we can unite with Him.

1:10-12, there are prophecies even after the Pentecost, and for the last 2 thousand years, the church prophecy truth of the Gospel and preach Christ, not ourselves. VPP is only being debated in the last few years! Which is more important? Debates or the truth?

1:13, the hope of eternal life motives us to live in holiness. God is holy, so Christian must lives in holiness, grow in spirit when Christ comes, He will bless us, perfecting everything.

1:14, obedient is better than sacrifices. Lust is pulling us away from faith.

1:15-16, be separated from unholy and unclean things.

1:17-19, God will judge us according to how holy we live. Christ offered His blood, like a lamb in the Old Testament.

1:20, even before the creation, Christ prepared Himself for us, this is revealed to us now.

1:22-25, Love one another, why? We are born again and our heart is born again, so we love one another. New life grows in God eternal Word, must love one another. Verse 24 is quoted from LXX, Isaiah 40:6-8. Even Peter used LXX?

2:1-3, Sin hindered man to love one another, put away sin and bitterness, by taking in the spiritual milk. Like a babe craving for simple truth, the truth is good. When we are growing we will love one another. Christ is our spiritual milk.

2:4, we are God’s temple. Christ is also the living Rock, under the Rock, there is the Living Water, whosoever thirst may come to drink freely, and live like Israelites when they have the perfect Word, but they asked for water in the wilderness. Christ is the Living Water.

2:5, we are called to be a priest, redeemed by the Great High Priest. We are to live like a living sacrifice, offering our body, money and good works to bring people to Christ.

2:7, some men are predestinated to fall away; they do not and refused to believe the prophecy. God had made election some to be saved in Christ. Content, do not quarrel with mere “words.” Why quarrel for the genealogy of English Bibles and underlying texts?

2:9-10, we are precious, separated from the world, brought into the Kingdom of God as Children of God.

2:12, so live rightly doing good works. When we are being slandered, do not be discourage and retaliate, do not return them with evil words or works. Return evil with love and profit, so that they may give glory to God in seeing our life.

2:13 respect the government and those have high authority. Even King Nero they had to obey, authority is from God, but rather obey God rather than obeying man. The end is near.

2:14, surely the evildoer will be judged one day.

2:15, Christians are called to be good citizens on earth.

2:16, live in holiness, by this we are free.

2:17, furthermore we are called to respect all men, love brethren in Christ, in this we fear God, do not fear kings and terrorists. (Matt 10:28)

2:18, treat the servants justly, servants also must do good, to be an example, one day the servants will be rewarded in heaven.

2:21, following Christ, He was suffering from saving and redeeming sinners like us.

2:23-25, Christ is sinless, but He was even be nailed. He did not retaliate when He was being nailed. He died, so we live. He resurrected to take care, protect, feed and oversee us. He is the Shepherd of shepherds.

3:1-2, a wife must influence his husband by her good characters.

3:3, inner beauty is more important than mere outlook.

3:7, a husband must love and respect his wife, she is weaker physically, by this his prayer will be answered without hindrances.

3:8, St. Peter laid out the rules in true Christian’s life:

1. same heart (Rom. 15:5)
2. sympathizing (Rom 12:15)
3. love one another (Rom 12;10)
4. be merciful (Eph 4:32)
5. be humble (Eph 4:2)

3:9-12, bless those who curse and persecute us. (Luke 6:27, Rom 12:14, 1 Thess 5:15). The blessing is not enough, St. Peter said, we must pray for them!

3:13, no Christian is really hurt and killed, because Christian’s inheritance is in heaven.

3:14-16, the world will hate us, because we do not live like them, so we suffer for a little while. God is our shield and protection. (Isaiah 8:12-13)

Be prepared to give answers, defending the truth in love, gentleness, and humbleness.

3:17, better to suffer in doing good works than doing evil.

3:18, Christ endured sufferings in doing well, until He was crucified on the cross.

3:21-22, first we are called to die with Christ, and later to live with Him.

3:22, fervently serving the Lord, nothing can harm us!

4:1-6, St. Peter reminded us when we are living in suffering, beware the worldliness.

4:7-11, seeing Christ is returning soon, we must behave, be sensitive, MOST IMPORTANT IS LOVE ONE ANOTHER, in loving one another, we have to forgive and cover their sins (1 Cor 13:4-7).

4:17, God’s house is the church, and judgment begins there! God cleansed His house through the persecutions!

4:18, this verse is quoted from the LXX, Proverb 11:31, by faith and grace, the ungodly are saved by God!

4:19, God preserved our souls.

5:4, Christ is the Head of all the shepherds! He is the good Shepherd! We shall not want.

5:5, humbleness is a virtue, if we really know ourselves; we have nothing to boast about! In God’s eyes, we must be humbled. Even Christ humbly washed Peter’s feet.

5:7, quoting from LXX, Psalm 55:22, God cares, so depend on God totally.

5:8 fear not our enemy! (1 John 4:4). Brethren become our enemy?

5:9, a reminder, remember all the brethren!

5:12 do not forget God’s grace is free!

5:13, Mark is closer with Peter than to Paul?



Thought:

What are Christ’s sufferings?

How holy we live?

What are the rules in true Christian’s life?

As a church leader, like Peter, what he sees as the most important thing, Christian must do in the end time?

How to love one another?

What are the 2 great commandments taught by Christ Jesus?

Lips Service !

Matthew 15:8

This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

Mark 7:6

He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

These people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, by putting the commandments of men on a level with the divine requirements, their whole worship was rendered vain--a principle of the deep moment in the service of God. "For," it is added in Mr 7:8, "laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups; and many other such like things ye do." The driveling nature of their multitudinous observances is here pointedly exposed, in contrast with the manly observance of "the commandment of God"; and when our Lord says, "Many other such like things ye do," it is implied that He had but given a specimen of the hideous treatment which the divine law received and the grasping disposition which, under the mask of piety, was manifested by the ecclesiastics of that day.

A curse from a Bishop to a preacher

A Bishop traveled hundreds of miles down to a parish, to rebuke and curse a preacher. Psalm 109 was used by that elderly Bishop in his Sunday sermon in rebuking the preacher. Later the preacher was sacked and chased out by the Bishop from his parish.

Why, he was rebuked, cursed, sacked, and even with Psalm 109? Because the preacher did not want to obey the Bishop, to accept the teaching of “Charismatic Movement,” he did not want to accept “speaking in a tongue” as a biblical doctrine. The preacher lost his job in defending his belief. This is called Christianity.

Before that Sunday Service, few nights before, the preacher was investigated and interrogated in a public meeting, by 10 senior pastors who are following the charismatic movement, and there the preacher was rebuked publicly, and his parish was decided by them to be taken over by the Bishop himself!

That following Sunday Morning, Bishop was invited to rebuke the preacher, the Bishop preached from Psalm 109:

1 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;

2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

3 They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.

4 For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.

5 And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

6 Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.

7 When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.

8 Let his days be few, and let another take his office.

9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

10 Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.

11 Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labor.

12 Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favor his fatherless children.

13 Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

15 Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

16 Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.

17 As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.

18 As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.

19 Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.

20 Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.

21 But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.

22 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

23 I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

24 My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.

25 I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.

26 Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:

27 That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, LORD, hast done it.

28 Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.

29 Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.

30 I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.

31 For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.

The broom in BPC

One day a boy went to a church to visit a pastor, far away from the church, he saw a big cross hanging on the rooftop of the church, shining with the neon light at night. And happily, he went into the corridor, where he saw a signboard “Jesus came to seek the lost sinner.” And then the ushers lead him into the main hall of the worship center, and there he saw a big stage, a lot of pews, and there in the middle of the stage, there is the pulpit, on the pulpit, a carved wooden cross, and he was thrilled to see such a view. Ore some, and he then saw a big grand piano, tambourine, trumpet, violin, flute and guitar next to the pulpit, and he asked the people there, waiting to worship the Lord, “May I have a Bible please?” Their men surprised and show him where the Bibles are, and the boy asked is there any songbook, the man replied, “Yes, here you are, have one.” And the boy happily walked away to the front of the pew, and then he continues his walk to the stage, and there and he saw a big wooden table, solid, carved with another sentence, “In remembrance of me.” And then he asked the usher, what are the meaning of that table and the meaning of that wording? The deacon came to explain, “this is a table where we partake the Lord supper, it is like an altar, and there we remember Jesus died for all mankind, and remember Him until this day.” The boy was filled with joy and he was introduced to the elders of the church, and then they walked up the stage, and there he looked down to the pews, what a gigantic sight, a church worship hall, and then he saw a cup of plain water put on the pulpit, and he was surprised and wonder why there was a cup of water on that pulpit, so he asked the elders, the elder replied this is the cup of water to refresh the throat of the elder and pastor who was going to preach that night, and then the boy saw a row of chairs were put there near the pulpit, and the boy was curious to see those chairs, and he asked the pastor of the church, “Pastor, is this the chair for the Lord Jesus Christ?’ The pastor who is having a doctorate degree was speechless, and then he nodded and the pastor said, to the young boy, “My dear, these are not the seats for Jesus Christ; these are the seats for the elders and pastors of our church.” The boy replied, “I see.” Then he saw a broom, it was put next to the chair, and then the boy asked the pastor, why there is a broom up the stage? The pastor said, “This is the broom to chase away all those listeners who do not agree and obey our teachings and doctrines.” The boy was very sad and scary when he saw the broom, and then he asked the pastor, “Pastor, may I go home now, my grandmother may be worried about me.” The pastor and elders, deacons shake hands with the boy, and pastor then says these words, “Go in peace my boy, may God bless you.” Before he left, the boy said to the pastor, “The Gospel will be preached to the end to the world, the end will come.”

Bible Study

What attitude Christian should have toward Satan: 信徒对撒但该有的态度：

1. To know its devices (2 Cor 2:11) 识破诡计 (林后二11, 2 Cor 2:11)

2. Neither gives place to the devil (Eph 4:27) 不留地步 (弗四27)

3. Be sober, be vigilant, resist it, (1 Pet 5:8-9, James 4:7) 坚固信心抵挡 (彼前五8~9，雅四7)

4. Put on the whole armour of God (Eph 6:11-19) 运用全备兵器 (弗六11~19)


Satan making damages on the Christian: 撒但对信徒的破坏：

1. Lying to the Holy Spirit (Acts 5:3) 欺哄圣灵 (徒五3)

2. Confusing the Christian with false brethren (Matt 13:39). 混乱真假信徒(太十三39)

3. Teaching heresy in life and truth (Matt 13:33) 异端渗入生命真理中 (太十三33)

4. Tempting the believers (1 Thess 3:5) 诱惑信徒 (帖前三5)

5. The disturbance from the false apostles (2 Cor 11:13-15, Gal 1:7) 假使徒的搅扰 (林后十一13~15；加一7)

6. Preaching the false gospel (2 Cor 11:3-4, Gal 1:6) 传假福音 (林后十一3~4；加一6)

7. Spreading the depths of Satan (Rev 2:24, 1 Tim 4:1) 传撒但深奥之理 (启二24；提前四1)

8. Disobey the Lord, worldliness (Col 2) 不持定元首，随从世智 (西二章)

9. False godliness (2 Tim 3:5) 假虔诚 (提后三5)

10. Killing true Christians (John 16:2) 杀害真信徒 (约十六2)

11. May devour Christians (1 Pet 5:8) 吞吃信徒 (彼前五8)

12. Persecute the Christians (Rev 2:10) 苦害信徒 (启二10)

13. Sift Christians as wheat (Luke 22:31). 筛信徒(路廿二31)

14. Attacking Christians (2 Cor 12:7, 2:11; Eph 6:11) 攻击信徒 (林后十二7，二11；弗六11)

15. Accusing Christians (Rev 12:10) 控告信徒 (启十二10)

16. Destruction of the flesh (1 Cor 5:5, 1 Tim 1:20). 败坏肉体(生病)(林前五5；提前一20)

17. Reproach and the snare of the devil (1 Tim 3:7). 网罗陷害圣徒(提前三7)

18. Satan hindered Paul (1 Thess 2:18) 阻挡工人 (帖前二18)

19. Loving this present world (2 Tim 4:10) 贪爱世界 (提后四10)

20. Lukewarm (Rev 3:15-17) 不冷不热 (启三15~17)

21. Contentions among you (1 Cor 1:11-12) 宗派分门别类 (林前一11~12，三3~4)

22. Carried about with every wind of doctrine (Eph 4:14, 15) 真道上动摇 (弗四14~15)

23. turned away from Apostles’ teachings (2 Tim 1:15; 4:16) 离弃使徒的教训 (提后一15；四16)

24. Be teachers, having itching ears (2 Tim 4:3, 4). 耳朵发痒，多人作师傅(提后四3~4)

25. Gain is godliness (2 Tim 2:17-18, 1 Tim 6:3-5). 敬虔为得利的门路(提后二17~18；提前六3~5)

26. Become antichrist (1 John 2:19-22, 4:3-6, 3 John 7-10) 越过基督的教训，成为敌基督 (约壹二19~22，四3~6；约贰7~10)

27. Like grievous wolves enter in among Christians (Acts 20:29-30) 如豺狼进入教会 (徒廿29~30)

28. Commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols (Rev 2:20-25) 淫乱进入教会 (启二20~25)

29. Covetous practices? For a reward? (2 Pet 2:13-15, Jude 11, 13, Rev 2:14) 为利施教 (彼后二13~15；犹11~13；启二14)

30. The doctrine of the Nicolaitans (Rev 2; 15) 居间阶级 (启二15)

31. Ecumenical movement with the world (Rev 2:12-13) 与世界联合而变质 (启二12~13)

32. To devour victorious Christians (Rev 12:3-17). 吞吃得胜者(启十二3~17)。

"Luke 10:19 Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.”

Show that the glorious power of faith to "overcome the world" and "quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one," by the communication and maintenance of which to His people He makes them innocuous, is what is meant (1Jo 5:4; Eph 6:16). Christ is able to give his ministers all the aid which they need for the discharge of their duties. In his name and strength they may commence their work, and go on from conquering to conquer, till every knee shall bow and every tongue confesses that he is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. The meaning of this verse is, that Jesus would preserve them from the power of Satan and all his emissaries--from all wicked and crafty men; and this shows that he had divine power. He that can control Satan and his hosts--that can be present to guard against all their machinations, see all their plans, and destroy all their designs, must be clothed with no less than almighty power. Matthew 26:41 Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

ICcC

Ecumenical Movement is not new, in Moses’ time, the Israelites united to worship the Golden Calf under the Mount Sinai. At that moment Moses was seeing the face of the Lord on the Mount Sinai, and there he received the ten commandment, God is angry of that ecumenical movement. In addition, God punished them in false unity.

Now there are churches standing against the Ecumenical Movement, some say that the Ecumenical movement is uniting all religions together, if this is the case, we should not join this ecumenical movement, in this one world church, one world religion, one modern new area, new world, this is false religion.

We should not join with the modernist, if the modernist does not believe the Word of God, the Bible is the inspired and inerrant Word of God, and we should not join with erroneous charismatic movement, if they continue to teach that speaking in tongue is a sign of genuine faith in Christ. If they continue to teach that tongue, speaking is a vital and most important doctrine in Christianity, if this is case, they continue to pray in tongue and continue to mislead the flock, and then we should not join them in WCC either! We should not join WCC! If WCC is a fall away from the truth, and if they are the apostate in the end time, we must come out of them!

Even the time of darkest moment in Romans Catholics, God raises up among the Romans catholic, men, like Martin Luther, to be the light and salt on earth. God does preserve his people from prolonged false and wrong.

Not to forget the health and wealth gospels, if they are preaching another gospel, rather than Christ dies for the atonement of sin, then we should not join them together. There are some practices healing and performing miracles, attracting more and more followers now a day, even the devil can perform miracles, so we must be watchful at the end time.

Surely, you want God to bless you with true ecumenical movement between the fundamentalist and orthodox! All the fundamentalists will join in hands together, united as one. Surely, you want God to bless you so that you will not become a modernist to doubt the Word of God! Surely, you want God to bless you when you pray in all kinds of tongue! Chinese, English, and Indian, not only mumbling in ecstasy sounds. Surely, you want God to bless you with health and wealth, in obeying God’s will. In addition, continue to be a channel of blessing to other. Surely, you are resurrected and wash by the blood of Jesus Christ, and renewed by the Holy Spirit, you are then to be purified by fire, and we have joys in trials and tribulations,

You had known from the bible that the Gospel is to be preached until to the end of the world. You had knew that we should not live in sin, God is holy so we must be holy, not by gold or silver, you are predestinated to be saved, you are chosen by God, God’s truth is forever, so take away the bitterness from us!

Surely, you are not ashamed of the gospel, you are holy and people of God. Now you are forgiven, but you know you are only a traveler, you must be a good traveler. Not forget to praise the Lord, to obey the government. You are free, to be a servant, devotedly serving the God, obey the government, to preserve in doing good, silently walk the narrow way, Jesus Christ is your Great priest and shepherd. You are called to love your wife, and same heart, mercy, do well, and bless, do not talk bad but bless. Unite together with those have same faith in doing well, live as a righteous man, hear and fear the Lord. Prepared to answer those who condemn you, even Noah has 120 year to prepare the ark, we must prepare our heart, Christ was suffering us, we should not be idol worshipper any longer, God will judge everyone according to their work, and the end is near, love one another, be a good servant, as preacher preaching Christ.

If there is fire of trials coming to test you, be happy. When you are suffering for the Name of the Lord, give thanks to the Lord, let us begin to be an example, exhort and feed the flock under you, but not for money, be humble, under the power of God, do not worry, be alert, resist the devils, stand and be strong in the Lord, greet one another with love.

You are not member of World Council of Churches, if this is that right path; you should stand and do not shaken by the waves of strange doctrines!

However, you can still learn something good from the Methodist in their practice, especially in the earlier stage; Wesley and Charles his brother are good men and devoted believers. We learn the good things from them. All of them had begun well, but some time later their follower fall away! Like Judas fall away among the 12 disciples under the mentorship and leadership of the Lord.

As you know, few years ago, some Methodist not all, as if an Ex-Bishop from Singapore, is openly supporting Homosexual. He said that homo sex is like devoice, well accepted by the church now day! In this, the Methodist went wrong!

Some of the Anglican synods are promoting homosexual in USA. They promoting this false teaching until they ordained a gay, a man married a man, to be a Bishop! So there are some Anglican churches from Africa stand firmly against this homosexual acts. There are some brethren in Methodist and Anglican churches fallen in confusion and tempted to fall away! Nevertheless, there are still some good men and women in Methodist and Anglican, and even Roman Catholic, there are genuine and saved one worshipping in them.

You can still learn something good from the Lutheran, in the simple belief in “justified by faith” Even though some of them are going back to Roman Catholic. You knew they are having dialogue with the Roman Catholic, hoping the RC also may accept this crucial truth, “justified by faith.” Because this is, the doctrine that made Luther wrote the 95 thesis and began the 16th Century Reformation.

Moreover, you believe only Christ saves, no other religions saved, for the case of Charismatic, for example, an elder from a charismatic church, he is a leader of a house church, he openly without shame told every one he knew he is a postmodernist, and he is running an emergent church. He believes every religion can save; he opens his mind for every religion and every belief! He believes in a one-world religion, and he runs a Christian Book Store, can you believe this! The Bookstore sells all kinds of Christian Books! He believes at the end all churches and all religions can be united! He is happy with New World Order, one world religion! He believes there is truth in every religion, a confused elder, but he is well respect by WCC and it members. Every service, he will lay hand on the heads of men and women, and they fell down, they said the spirit slew them, and you knew what spirit is working behind him in laying his hands! He said that revival must come through them, and not the fundamentalist, not another denomination, they had this confident in them, and people support them, look highly on them.

Focus on you, what about VPP? Claiming that only one Bible Text is perfect and other is corrupted, this need guts and proof.

For the example of LXX, Jesus Christ and his disciples did not call the Septuagint LXX as corrupted, but why you say that the LXX is corrupted. In addition, John Calvin did not say the Septuagint LXX is corrupted, but you said it is corrupted. Who is right and who is wrong? Judging the LXX as a corrupted text Jerome and Luther did not say LXX is corrupted, but you said it is corrupted. LXX is one example of Alexandrian Text. The early church fathers used Alexandrian text to defend the truth of Trinity, and the Alexandrian MSS are earlier than other MSS. However, you said the Alexandrian Texts are corrupted!

You surely must pray for unity among yourself and continue to uphold the good teachings of God’s Word, and then sound your trumpet when there is danger of fall away, let the people see the truth, and then they will follow you. If not, they will come out from you, and separate from you; you will be alone in ICCC.

Do you think with a perfect underlying text, a perfect TR, and with the VPP, the ICCC will become better equipped then ever. Did you see that the ICCC more strengthen and united by this VPP? Do you see is that path we must take, before the coming of the LORD? Do you think WCC will change its doctrines because ICCC has the perfect Bible, and they listen to ICCC? Do you think the one world church; one world religion will stop because of this VPP? Do you think that the VPP is the most important doctrine to fight all those false teachings?

Do you not care that the scheme of the devil, when the members of ICCC fight among themselves? They devil has the foothold to attack the ICCC!

The Church History and VPP

The Earliest Manuscripts

The Alexandrian text-type, (also called Minority Text), 2nd-4th century CE, This family constitutes a group of early and well-regarded texts, including Codex Vaticanus and Codex Sinaiticus. Most of this tradition appears to come from around Alexandria, Egypt. It contains readings that are often terse, shorter, somewhat rough, less harmonized, and generally more difficult. The family was once thought to be a very carefully edited third century recension but now is believed to be merely the result of a carefully controlled and supervised process of copying and transmission. It underlies most modern translations of the New Testament. Bible version : NIV, TNIV, NASB, RSV, ESV, EBR, NWT, LB, ASV, NC, GNB

The Western text-type, 3rd-9th century CE, This is also very early and comes from a wide geographical area stretching from North Africa to Italy from Gaul to Syria. It much less controlled than the Alexandrian family and its witnesses are seen to be more prone to paraphrase and other corruptions. Bible version : Vetus Latina.

The Apologists and the Church Fathers

Who used these two types of earliest Manuscripts, the apologists and the church fathers used them.

Flavius Justinus, AD 100-165, he wrote the “Dialogue and Apology”

Irenaeus, AD 115-202, he wrote “Adversus Haereses, Against Heresies”

Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus, AD 150-225, he said that the believer’s blood is the seed of the church. He was the theologian of the church.

Origenes Adamantius, AD 185-254, he done the (Hexapla) ，Hexapla is an important proof that the early church was using LXX. This Hexapla is collections of few different translations put together in one book; Hexapla has Hebrew Old Testament, Septuagint LXX, and few other Greek translations.

He interpreted the scriptures into three types of meanings, body, soul, and spirit: somatic, psychic, pneumatic. Every word has a meaning of the word itself, then the morale value, and the spiritual meaning; the spiritual meaning is the Christian belief. This is the way Alexandrian interpreted their Bible. Origen was the church scholar.

Thascius Caecillius Cyprianus, AD 200-258, he was the Bishop of Carthage.
Constantine, AD 272-337, the first Christian Roman King, when he was young he conquered the Roman solders, Egypt, Persian, one day hw saw a sign of the cross in the sky, with that sign, “hoc Vince” he won three wars with the Rome. In the year 325, Constantine called the Council of Nicaea or Nice. The purpose of the council is to prove “Christ is God.”

Athanasius, AD 293-373, he was bon in Alexandria, Egypt. There was a saying about him, “Athanasius contra the whole world, the whole world contra Athanasius.” (Athanasius Contra Mundum, et Mundus Contra Athanasius).

That moment, Alexandria is the center of Christianity of the whole world; he was leading the Egyptian Church. He was called the “the father of fundamentalist,” his faith and belief is pure, Athanasius, said the belief of the church was send down by the Lord Jesus, preached by the Apostles, kept by the Church fathers.

After the Holy Spirit came down on the Pentecost, they started to spread the seed of the gospel. At the end of Apostle Area, the church had already been well established in Palestine (Jerusalem and Samaria), Rome, and Africa (Alexandria and Carthage).

Traditionally, it was Mark who preached the gospel to Africa, there in Alexandria, a business and cultural center, a famous city like Rome. It has a well-known library, contents a lot of books, a place where the Jew lived.

It was here in Alexandria, the Old Testament was translated into Greek, called the “Septuagint LXX,” and the earliest Latin version of the Bible, called “Itala.” They were not translated in Rome. Even the theology of the church was started to study at Carthage, especially the trinity.

St. Ambrosius, August Wilhelm, AD 339-397, he was raised up in Rome.

When you are reading the Bible, did you find that, the Lord and the Apostles, when they quoting the verses from Old Testament, their wordings are a bit different with our Old Testament wording? The meanings are the same, why it is so.

Do not misunderstand those are new revelations, nor another kind of translation, simply speaking is, at Jesus’ time, the Old Testament was written in Hebrew, but the Apostles was written the New Testament in Greek, they did not any other translations, so they used the well accepted Greek Septuagint, the LXX. That is why the Hebrew Old Testament was translated a bit different in New Testament!

Traditionally, at BC 3rd century, those Jew who lived in Egypt and Greek world, had called six men each from 12 tribes, in 70 days, they translated the Hebrew Old testament in Greek, and Septuagint means 70 in Latin, short form as LXX.

Some one said the work of translation is very important in preaching the Gospel, in another word; it is the leading of the Holy Spirit.

St. Jerome, Sophronius Eusebius Hieronymus, AD 342-420, he studied Latin and Greek in Rome. Jerome was the man who translated Old Testament and New Testament, from the Septuagint into Latin Vulgate Bible, and then the Romans Catholic accepted the Vulgate as the Authorized Version for the next 1000 years!

Before the Latin Vulgate, 100 years ago, in the north Africa, Alexandria, the first Latin Bible was already translated named “Itala,” Jerome was referring to “Itala” when he was translating the Vulgate.

Aurelius Augustine, AD 354-430, he was an African, born on November 13, at Tagaste, he went to study in Garthage. In AD 384, he went to Milan. There he heard a voice from a child, “Take up and read, take up and read.” (Tolle, lege; tolle, lege!), he went under a tree, and there he find a mss, and he opened it, and he look to Romans 13:13 “Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.” He knew that verse spoke about him, the light and peace came into his heart. When he was a monk, he said, in the world, we could not find any man better than those in the Monastery cannot and in the Monastery, we can find the worse human being in the world.

1000 years later after the death Augustine, Augustine’s writing and teachings was deep influenced the church, there was a monk, called Martin Luther, a Christian Reformer, and another great Reformer, John Calvin both of them were inspired and influenced by Augustine, the church was under the teaching of Augustine generation after generations.

Conclusion:
The Alexandrian text-type, also called Minority Text, was well accepted by the Apologists and the Church Fathers in the first 4 century! None of them teach VPP!
1000 years later, the Alexandrian writings and teachings were still very much influencing the Reformers in 16th century reformation, how can you say that the Alexandrian texts are corrupted!