Herbert Armstrong stated, "Now in Romans 5 and about verse 5,
you will read that by the blood of Christ we are reconciled to God.
Now the gospel was suppressed and, as I say, they turned to a gospel ABOUT Christ,
but they have not talked of His message.

And His message talked about God as being the supreme ruler, and His message had to do with
the government of God and God is the lawgiver, and when you sin, the sin is the transgression of the law,
and that has cut you off from God, the Father. And what was restored?
The world had lost the gospel, they didn't know what the gospel was.

That the gospel is the Kingdom of God, that is the gospel Jesus preached, that's the gospel Paul preached to the Gentiles,
that's the gospel that Peter and John preached.
You'll find when Jesus sent them out and sent out 70,
He said preach the Kingdom of God. That is the only gospel, is the gospel OF Jesus Christ.
The world preached and has a gospel ABOUT Christ. Now the first thing to be restored to the Church is the true gospel.
The world has lost the purpose of God.
They have lost all knowledge of the gospel of Christ, which is the Kingdom of God.

He immediately continued with, "And the second thing to be restored is the PURPOSE of God.
And the gospel has to do with that. That God IS reproducing us and that MAN CAN BECOME God!
No other Church on earth believes that, brethren. And now let me tell you,
I'm going to reveal to you, now, things that have been restored...,
God's purpose is that He's reproducing Himself and that we, ultimately, become God."

God's Holy Days
He immediately continued with, "Now another thing that has been restored is,
through the Holy Days, God's plan, His Master Plan for accomplishing that purpose,
and the annual Holy Days. And no other Church has had those Holy Days, and understands them."
Herbert Armstrong then added,
"All right, what's the next thing restored? I don't think these are in any special order".
Comment: - He did not number any after the first, but this article will continue to number them for clarity.

He stated, "But to go on with the things that have been restored...
The government of God has been restored to the Church, and the government of God has been placed in the Church.
You read that in Ephesians 4 and I Corinthians 12.
Christ is the head of the Church and under Christ in the administration of the government are an apostle or apostles,
then evangelists, then pastors, then all are called elders, all ministers all the way up clear down to the lowest.
So then there are teachers and elders both speaking elders and preaching elders, deacons and deaconesses.
And the Church is restored in that form of government..."
He also wrote,
"The government of God is of necessity government from the top down.
It cannot be 'government by the consent of the governed'."

He immediately continued with, "Who and what God IS. NO RELIGION ON EARTH KNOWS WHO AND WHAT GOD IS!
NO RELIGION ON EARTH! BILLY GRAHAM DOESN'T KNOW IT! JERRY FALWELL DOESN'T KNOW IT! ROMAN CATHOLICS DON'T KNOW IT!
GOD IS NOT A TRINITY! GOD IS NOT A SINGLE PERSON! God is a family of persons, and the family began with God and the Word.
You read of that in John 1:1-5. And you read of it in Genesis 1 beginning with verse 1.
You should learn about God first, and it begins first both in the New Testament and the Old,
because many experts feel that, so-called experts, that the book of John should be placed first in the New Testament,
although it was not written first. That God is a family and it began with the two, and we can be born into that family."

He immediately continued with, "Now the next thing that's restored to the Church — what and why man is!
WHAT IS MAN? WHY DID WE COME TO BE ON EARTH? The Sardis Church didn't know, they didn't know in the Middle Ages.
Man was made from the dust of the ground. Man was made with one spirit and he needs another spirit,
the Spirit of God which unites him with God, and is the impregnation of God-life in him, and he will be born of God."
Later in that sermon he states,
"The knowledge that he that is born of the flesh IS flesh, mortal, that's what we are",
which seems to clarify the 'what' portion of this truth.

After the term 'God', he immediately continued with,
"Next the human spirit IN man. No other Church knows about that. That has been revealed to the Church.
That is knowledge that has been restored to the Church of God. And this Church has that knowledge."
The Bible teaches that "there is a spirit in man and the breath of the Almighty gives him understanding" (Job 32:8)
which God did not give to the animals (e.g. Job 39:17).
"For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of man which is in him" (I Cor 2:11).
Mr. Armstrong wrote, "This 'human' spirit imparts the power of intellect to the human physical brain".
This spirit is not the same as the spirit of God which humans need to understand the things of God,
but this spirit is needed to understand the things of humankind (Job 32:8; I Cor 2:11).

He immediately continued with,
"Another, the next piece of knowledge that has been restored to this Church,
that the rest don't know and no other Church knows it, that this Church is the first-fruits,
that God is not trying to save the whole world now.
He's calling us out now and He'll use us as teachers to help save the others in THEIR turn,
and they in turn, from the Millennium, will help save all the rest in the great White Throne of Judgment.
And ultimately, God's going to go after the saving of everybody who ever lived.
But no Church understands that, that we are the first-fruits, we are the embryo of the kingdom of God.
The fact that we have to be called by God, and salvation is not open to just anyone, whosoever will.
The whosoever will may come is found in the last chapter of the Bible, and does not pertain to this time at all.
And no other Church seems to know that. That knowledge has been restored to this Church."

He immediately continued with, "The knowledge of the Millennium and what it is.
Now the Sardis people knew that Christ would rule a thousand years. They knew it would be a Millennium.
They had NO IDEA IN THE WORLD about what would happen in the Millennium.
They HAD NO IDEA WHAT IS THE PURPOSE of the Millennium. We know when we assemble at the Feast of Tabernacles,
that's what we're celebrating, and we know what's going to happen in the Millennium and that salvation will be open,
then, to all that are still alive. But it is not open to all now. No other Church knows that.
These are things that YOU, brethren, are privileged to know.
YOU, God has blessed you with this knowledge, has restored this knowledge to you."

He immediately continued with,
"Now truth regarding the Holy Spirit", but did not in this sermon go into it in depth.
He had previously emphasized "GOD IS NOT A TRINITY!"
Furthermore, he did write,
"No one can have the Holy Spirit, which alone can open the human mind to understanding this Word of God,
without a complete repentance. There was a time, when those two Personages coexisted and NOTHING ELSE did.
No third Person is mentioned--no "Ghost"...The Holy Spirit came from heaven, audibly, sounding like a mighty wind,
"and it [the Holy Spirit] filled all the house where they were sitting."
Next, the Holy Spirit appeared--WAS VISIBLY SEEN--manifested--
"And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it [the Holy Spirit in the form of divided tongues]
sat upon each of them" (Acts 2:2-3). In verse 18, Peter is quoting from the prophet Joel:
"I will pour out...of my Spirit...." The Holy Spirit, like water or a fluid, can be "POURED OUT."
Can you pour out a person from one into another--as from God into those assembled there?
John 7:37-39: "In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying,
If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said,
out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive:
for the Holy [Spirit] was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)"
Again in Acts 10:45, "...on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy [Spirit]."

He immediately continued with, "And the fact that we are begotten now. You're not born yet, only begotten".
He did not mention much else about it in that sermon, but did write the following,
"Now, as the physical male sperm finds its way to, and unites with the nucleus in the ovum,
so God's Spirit enters and combines with the human spirit and MIND!
There is, as explained before, a spirit IN man. This human spirit has combined with the brain to form human MIND.
God's Spirit unites with, and witnesses with our spirit that we are, now, the children of GOD (Rom. 8:16).
And God's Holy Spirit, now combined with our human spirit in our MIND,
imparts to our mind power to comprehend SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE (I Cor. 2:11)--which the carnal mind cannot grasp.
Now we have the presence of ETERNAL LIFE--God-life--through God's Spirit.
In like manner the human embryo was an actual human life as yet undeveloped.
But we are not yet immortal spirit beings--not yet BORN of GOD--just as the human ovum was not yet
born of its human parents--not yet inheritors, and possessors, but physical HEIRS (Rom. 8:17).
But IF God's Holy Spirit dwells in us, God will, at the resurrection, 'quicken' to immortality
our mortal bodies BY his Spirit that 'dwelleth in us'. " (Rom. 8:11; I Cor. 15:49-53)

He stated, "You're not born yet, only begotten, that we will become born at the time of the second coming of Christ,
when this mortal puts on immortality, when we won't be human any longer, we'll be divine.
The knowledge that he that is born of the flesh IS flesh, mortal, that's what we are.
That that is when you're born in the Spirit you BE Spirit.
'Someone please go tell Jerry Falwell that, so he'll know he's not born again'."

He immediately continued with, "Another thing restored to us is our own roots, our identity, who we are.
We are the tribe of Manasseh of the lost ten tribes of Israel, and no other Church on earth knows it.
That knowledge has been restored into this Church, and God restored that to me 53 years ago."

He immediately continued with, "Our identity. And that opens all the doors...
and the understanding of prophecy has been opened to this Church. That has been restored to this Church."

He stated, "The second and third tithe, what other Church knows about that?
And that was restored by this Church, that knowledge restored by this Church."
Second and third tithes are discussed in Deuteronomy 14:22-29.
God specifically calls third tithe a "holy tithe" (26:13).

He immediately continued with,
"Then the great deception, the counterfeit of Revelation 17:5, Babylon, the Great,
the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth, her daughter churches and who they are...
Those people in the Catholic Church and the Protestant churches have been deceived."

He stated, "And the fact that Satan, the devil, has deceived the whole world.
Brethren, Satan is the one who is guilty." (Revelation 12:9 20:3)
"Those people in the Catholic Church and the Protestant churches have been deceived.
And I think they really believe. God just hasn't opened any more truth to them.
We don't sit in judgment of them." (Revelation 20:11-15)
"All truth will be opened and God will take away the blindness from their eyes so they can understand if they're willing.
Today they couldn't understand it, even if they're willing. I don't think they're willing, either, as far as that goes."

He immediately continued with, "And how in Revelation 18:4 that God has called us out from among them, to be separate."

In order for Christ's heirs to understand his will they must have a faithful translation.
If his heirs try to interpret God's will by using a translation that contains not the pure intent of God,
but instead the intent of the translator, then they can no longer determine God's will.
A will that has been rewritten and corrupted with the thoughts of one other than the testator,
it is considered a forgery and a fraud. So also are the new translations of the bible forgeries and frauds.

"And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth." (Hebrews 9:15-17 AV)

As testator he is free to change the testament and add to it. That is what Jesus did when he added the New Testament to the Old Testament.
"By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament." (Hebrews 7:22 AV) However, only the testator is allowed to change or add to a testament.

If anyone else adds to or changes a testament, the changes make the resulting document a forgery.

Dynamic equivalencies caused 6,653 English word changes in the New International Version (NIV), approximately 4,000 word changes in the New American Standard Bible (NASB), and approximately 2,000 word changes in the New King James Version (NKJV). Those word changes reflect the subjective bias of the interpreters. The combined effect of having a corrupted text and then having that text interpreted using dynamic equivalence has been that the NIV has 64,098 fewer words than the AV. That is a 10% loss in the bible. That means that an NIV bible would have 170 fewer pages than a typical 1,700 page AV bible.

The New King James Version (NKJV) and the 21st Century King James Version (KJ21) are particularly misleading.
They try to trade on the accuracy of the Authorized (King James) Version of the Holy Bible (AV) by putting King James in their titles.

They claim that their bibles are simply updates of the King James. Their copyright, however, gives them away. What they don't tell the public is that in order to obtain a copyright on a book that is in the public domain, as is the King James Bible, they are required to make substantial revision to the text, such that it can be clearly distinguishable from the original. Essentially, it must be a new literary work. Otherwise, the publisher of the revision cannot claim a copyright.

The NKJV and the KJ21 are both copyrighted books; which means they must be substantially different from the King James Bible. Yet, in order to sell the new bible they tell the public that it is really the same as the old King James Bible, that they have simply updated the archaic language in order to make it more readable.

The publishers of the NKJV and the KJ21 versions are being disingenuous when they claim that their new versions are not new at all, but just easier to read updates of the original Authorized (King James) Version (AV). The NKJV made over 100,000 word changes from the AV, deleting 2,289 words from the New Testament alone. The NKJV removed the word "Lord" 66 times, removed the word "God" 51 times, and removed the word "Heaven" 50 times. Yet, Nelson publications has the nerve to advertise that "Nothing has been changed except to make the original meaning clearer."

The KJ21 publishers state that in order to maintain the accuracy and keep the KJ21 faithful to the original AV they even kept the thees and thous, etc.
They have, in fact, made many unnecessary changes to the text, which make their bible less clear and understandable. If one reads the text of the KJ21, one sees that conjunctions are added when unnecessary and the word order is changed in passages, not to make the passages clearer, but so that the revision is considered substantially different from the King James Bible. They had to make substantial changes in order to obtain a copyright on the publication. The KJ21 is, quite simply, about making money. The publishers are not telling the truth when they claim that the KJ21 is not a revision but only an update. George Shafer did a computer check of the verses in the four Gospels, comparing the KJ21 with the original AV. He discovered that the KJ21 modified 2,200 of the 3,779 verses.

That is a change in approximately 60% of the verses in the four gospels. Why did they make so many changes, when they claimed to have only updated it? Remember, they must make substantial changes in order to get a copyright, but they also want to sell their corrupted bibles.

The KJ21 claims in their preface:

"The KJ21® is unique among modern Bibles in that it is closer in language to the original King James Version than any other Bible copyrighted in the twentieth century. Unlike all other modern Bibles, it alone retains the power, beauty, and poetic language of the glorious King James Version."

The KJ21 publishers are saying that they have changed the powerful and beautiful King James Bible to a lesser degree than other copyrighted new bible versions. The KJ21 publishers seem to be admitting that the leaven of changes to the King James Bible are for the worse, so they made fewer of them.

"A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump." (Galatians 5:9 AV) All it takes is a little poison to poison a well. These new bible versions are spiritual poison.

The texts of the new bible versions, such as the NIV, manifest the pagan antichrist agenda of its publishers.
In Isaiah there is a passage about Lucifer that refers to him as "Lucifer, son of the morning." In the NIV, the Isaiah passage is changed.

AV :

How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. (Isaiah 14:12-15 AV)

NIV :

How you have fallen from heaven, O morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations! You said in your heart, "I will ascend to heaven, I will raise my throne above the stars of God: I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, in the utmost heights of the sacred mountain. I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the most High." But you are brought down to the grave, to the depths of the pit. (Isaiah 14:12-15 NIV)

Notice that the NIV has changed the subject of the passage from "Lucifer" to the "morning star." What is the significance of that change?
In Revelation 22:16, Jesus calls himself the "morning star." Do you see what Satan has done? Jesus is the "morning star" in the NIV Isaiah passage.

Satan has taken a passage that refers to Satan's destruction and has twisted it in the NIV to describe the destruction of Jesus, who is Lord God Almighty.

Another example of Satan's twisting of God's word is found in Luke in the new versions of the bible. In the Authorized Version, Mary's and Joseph's relationship to Jesus is described as "Joseph and his mother." Whereas, in the NIV, and virtually every other new version of the bible, Mary's and Joseph's relationship to Jesus is described as "the child's father and mother." We know that Joseph was not Jesus' father, because Mary, when she was still a virgin, conceived Jesus by the Holy Spirit. God is Jesus' Father. Jesus is the Son of God, not the son of Joseph. ". . . [T]hat holy thing which shall be of thee shall be called the Son of God." Luke 1:35.

Throughout the corrupted bible versions, passages that prove the deity of Jesus are removed or changed.

For example, the translators of the NIV, NASB, RSV, and most of the new translations delete Jesus' assertion in Revelation 1:11 that: "I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last." In addition, the NIV and the other new bible versions delete the word "God" from 1 Timothy 3:16, using the pronoun "He" in its place. 1 Timothy 3:16 clearly reveals that Jesus is God. The new bible versions, however, remove the revelation that Jesus is God from that passage.

In 1996, Pope John Paul II announced that evolution is compatible with Christian beliefs.
While evolution is compatible with Catholicism, evolution is not compatible with Christianity; evolution is irreconcilable with and antagonistic to Christianity.

In 1998, the pope toned down his position, by announcing that evolution alone cannot account for human existence. He, however, did not repudiate his pro-evolutionary position. God's word describes Adam as being "made a living soul." The NIV, however, follows the evolutionary philosophy of the world and changes God's word to say that Adam "became a living being."

In the NIV man was not created, but instead just "became." This evolutionary slant fits in nicely with the Roman Catholic teachings.
AV : And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul. (1 Corinthians 15:45 AV)
NIV : So it is written: "The first man Adam became a living being." (1 Corinthians 15:45 NIV)

In the KJV (AV) the ways of the wicked are always "grievous." Psalms 10:4-5. The devil cannot have that, so Psalms 10:4-5 in his NKJV states the ways of the wicked are always "prospering." The wicked "were forgotten" in Ecclesiastes 8:10 of God's word in the KJV, but in the NIV Ecclesiastes 8:10 passage the wicked "receive praise." The Zionists disciples of Satan were able to change their bibles to make Israel a "spreading vine" in the NIV and even a "luxuriant vine" in the NASB in Hosea 10:1. God, however, states that "Israel is an empty vine" in his KJV Holy Bible at Hosea 10:1.

God states that "the words of a talebearer are as wounds." Proverbs 26:22. However, the NIV change agents contradict God by saying in Proverbs 26:22 of their NIV that "the words of a gossip are like choice morsels." In Proverbs 25:23 God states that "the north wind driveth away rain." The NASB, however, states in their Proverbs 25:23 that "the north wind brings forth rain."

There are numerous other examples of Satan tampering with God's word and trying to pass it off as more accurate than the original.
Satan's strategy from the beginning is to "taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts." Mark 4:15. In the NIV, the verse at Matthew 23:14 is missing; — it is the verse that criticizes the scribes for making pretentious, long prayers as are made by the Catholic priests of today.

"Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation." Matthew 23:14 AV.

Mathew 18:11 is deleted from the NIV, that verse states: "For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost."

Acts 8:37 is also deleted from the NIV. "And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God." Acts 8:37 AV. In the NIV verse 1 John 5:7 Satan completely removes the reference to the three persons of the Godhead. He tries to cover his tracks by taking part of verse 8 and labeling it verse 7, hoping nobody would notice the missing verse. Verse 7 should read as follows: "For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one." (1 John 5:7 AV)

The following verses have been completely removed from the NIV: Matthew 17:21; Mark 7:16; 9:44; 9:46; 11:26; Luke 17:37; 23:17; and Acts 28:29.

The new bible versions even hide the object of the faith that gains eternal salvation.
In John 6:47 the AV passage reads: "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life."
The NASB version of John 6:47, however, says: "Truly, truly I say to you, he who believes has eternal life."
Notice that the NASB simply requires belief. Belief in what? Belief in whom? The NASB passage gives room for the Catholic Church to say that belief in the Catholic Church (plus works) gains salvation. Jesus, however, says that only believing on him gains eternal salvation.

The corrupters of God's word even change the passage that refers to them. In the NIV they changed the word "corrupt" to "peddle for profit" in 2 Corinthians 2:17.

The passage "we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God" was changed in the NIV to say "[u]nlike so many, we do not peddle the word of God for profit."

The passage in the Authorized Version establishes that from the beginning of the church there were those that were corrupting the word of God. Satan simply cannot permit that fact to be established in the scriptures, so he changed the passage for his counterfeit bibles.

Defenders of the new bibles claim that the essential doctrines of the Christian Faith are expressed in the new bibles, even though they have been deleted or changed in many passages. James H. Son, author of The New Athenians, likened the logic of that argument to removing a stop sign from a busy street intersection and then justifying the removal because the other traffic signals in the city were left intact. Even though the sign only contained one word, that word is of critical importance to those who arrive at the intersection, just as each word in the Holy Bible is of critical importance to those who are reading it. God has made the point in the Holy Bible that every word of God is important.

"And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God." (Luke 4:4 AV)

Incidently, the doctrine of Luke 4:4 is missing in the new bible versions. The NASB, for example leaves out the last clause and simply states: "And Jesus answered him, 'it is written, MAN SHALL NOT LIVE ON BREAD ALONE.'" (Luke 4:4 NASB) The new versions leave the reader in ignorance as to what it is other than bread by which man lives.

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