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Bible Basics: Part 6 Session with Michael Pearl from the Big Texas Shindig

By Michael Pearl

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Michael Pearl:  So these, the words themselves, are inspired. Every word of God is pure. He is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. Listen to this: "Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar." I am today officially calling a great number of ministers, preachers, and Greek and Hebrew students and scholars liars. Unknowingly in most cases. Innocently in most cases. Not viciously. With a good heart. But they've fallen prey to a modern deception, and they have become liars. "Add thou not unto his words lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.”

“Ye shall not add unto the words which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it: that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you." Don't add. Don't diminish. Deuteronomy 4:2.

The Jews took this so seriously that when they copied the scriptures like the Massoras, what they would do is they would have three people sitting there with pen and quill and papyri or vellum, animal skin. The original would be read word by word, and the men would write it down word by word. The Hebrew would go from right to left, and it would be a certain number of letters on the first line, and a certain number of letters underneath it on the second line, the third line. They didn't have breaks like we do between our words.

When they got through, you could go diagonally and have the same words. You could go from the bottom up. You could go across this way, you could go straight down and you'd have the exact same letters everywhere. Do you understand what I'm saying? Like a crossword puzzle, a whole page. When they would do that, they would come back; the first copyist would read the text back to the original reader and the two copiers. If they came across an error, they would stop and correct it in the two copies, and in the third one as well. When he got through, then the second copyist would also read back to the original, and then the third copyist would read back to them. If all four of them proved to be exactly identical, then that page was acceptable and they went on to the next one. If they found more than three errors on a page, they threw it away and started over again.

So they preserved every single word of God and every single letter, right down to the time of Christ, so that he declared that the scriptures he read from were the inspired words of God. If he was reading Greek, then he was saying a translation was the inspired word of God into a different language, having been so preserved.

"Ye shall not add unto the words which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it. What things soever I command you should observe to do it, for thou shall not add to nor diminish. Every word of God is pure, a shield unto them that put their trust into him. Add thou not unto his words." We saw that one. The words themselves were inspired.

“For I testify unto every man that heareth the words.” This is a critical passage here. Talking to John, the last chapter, the last book in the Bible, God's closing and departing statements to the Church for the next two thousand years; very important. The last thing he gets to say. "I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book. If any man add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book. If any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the Book of Life, out of the Holy City, and from the things which are written in this book."

Now think about it. God said, "If you add a word or take away a word from this book, I'll take away your part out of the Book of Life." Wow. Calvin is turning over in his grave.

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One comment on “Bible Basics: Part 6 Session with Michael Pearl from the Big Texas Shindig”

  1. I wonder how much of the Old Testament commands we are to follow....I'm glad you used the book of the Revelation to say about not adding or taking away from His Word.
    I've heard Mr. Obama ridicule the Scriptures by saying...which command should we follow...stone your children,etc. It's a puzzle to me..just which ones we should abide by...

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