This Revelation Timeline Decoded Bible study focuses on the basic paths of the New Testament manuscripts.
Note: Instead of using the generic title of ‘God,’ I use the name ‘Yah’ which is based on the Tetragrammaton, the combination of four Hebrew letters, yud-hey-vav-hey (יהוה) that form the ancient Hebrew name of the Heavenly Father. Some point to a Hebrew rendering of our Heavenly Father’s name as Yahuah. Other’s point to an Aramaic rendering of our Heavenly Father’s name as Yahweh. HalleluYah means’ Praise Yah!’
Since the Garden of Eden, when Satan said to Eve, “Did God really say?,” Satan has been corrupting the words of Yah to deceive us.
Every time the Heavenly Father has given us His written Word, Satan has countered by creating a similar corrupt text to deceive people. Knowing that he can’t eliminate Yah’s Word, Satan created a deceptive path that has led to our modern Bible versions.
On this page you will learn about the two paths of New Testament manuscripts that have formed our Bibles:
- Yah promised to “preserve His Word forever” and that path was forged by believers who trusted in the inerrant word of Yah, and sought to preserve His pure words.
- The other path was created by heretics who didn’t believe in the inerrant word of Yah or the deity of Messiah; so they amended, changed and deleted words and verses, that didn’t agree with their philosophy.
The New Testament manuscripts were written in Greek, so that they could spread throughout the Roman Empire.
Messiah and the disciples spoke in Hebrew, but the N.T. was written in Greek, which was the common trade language at the time, so that the Gospel would spread to the nations.
True Path – Believers in Antioch, Syria collected the Holy Scriptures, which formed the New Testament. Antioch is where followers of Messiah were first called Christians. They made many copies of the scriptures and shared them with other churches, and many believed in Messiah through their witness.
Corrupt Path – Satan countered by having philosophers in Alexandria, Egypt change the Syrian texts to fit their beliefs. Unbelieving philosophers in Alexandria Egypt, such as a man named Origen, who did not accept the Bible as the Word of Yah or Messiah as the Son of Yah; amended, added to and deleted many portions of the true text and then palmed off their work as the Word of Yah.
As a result, their Greek manuscripts either changed words, deleted words, or deleted entire verses, where a text validated the deity of Messiah.
The two most prominent of the corrupt Alexandrian codices are called the Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Vaticanus:
Codex Siniaticus (Aleph or a) was put in the trash heap by the monks of St Catherine’s Monastery. On nearly every page of the manuscript there are corrections and revisions, done by 10 different people. It is indeed worthless trash.
Codex Vaticanus (B) is kept by the Roman Catholic Church, which the Reformers properly identified as the harlot church of the antichrist beast Popes. In the Gospels alone it leaves out 237 words, 452 clauses and 748 whole sentences.
The early believers REJECTED these manuscripts, so they were cast aside for a thousand years, until they were later dug up and called “ancient manuscripts.”
Yah had the Bible translated into Latin, so that it could spread throughout the Roman Empire.
True Path – Yah had the Vaudois (who lived in the Alps) translate the Bible into Latin. The Old Latin Bible became known as the Vulgate (common) Bible, and it spread all the way to England before 200 AD.
Corrupt Path – Satan responded by having the Roman Catholic Church commission Jerome to write their own version, the Latin Vulgate. Jerome followed Origen’s teachings, so the same corruptions occurred in this Bible. It was completed in 405 AD.
The Latin Vulgate Bible didn’t catch on during that time, because the saints knew it was a fake.
During the Dark Ages 500-1500 AD, Satan used the Roman Catholic Church to kill millions of Christians for using the true Bible, and they burned the bibles.
The Roman Catholic Church taught from their corrupt Latin Vulgate Bible and forbid people to read the word of Yah.
They persecuted whole groups of people like the Waldenses, the Huguenots, the Vaudois in the Alps, and many more.
As copies of New Testament manuscripts have been collected over the years, they have formed two groups.
True Path – The ‘Majority Text’ makes up 95% of 5,300+ existing manuscripts that are in agreement and form the basis for the Textus Receptus which is also called the ‘Received Text’ or ‘Byzantine Text’.
The Textus Receptus is the text which the King James translators used.
Corrupt Path – The ‘Minority Text’ consists of only 5% of existing manuscripts. The main texts, Sinaiticus and Vaticanus, contradict each other over 3,000 times in the gospels alone, and they disagree with the ‘Majority Text’ in 13,000 places.
Amazingly, modern Bible versions like the NIV and ESV are based on these ‘Minority Text’manuscripts.
Sinaiticus and Vaticanus were written from 300-400 A.D., so because they’re ‘ancient’, modern Bible translators mistakenly think that they must be better.
But the Textus Receptus agrees with the earliest versions of the Bible: Peshitta (AD 150) Old Latin Vulgate (AD 157), the Italic Bible (AD 157) etc. These Bibles were produced some 200 years before the Sinaiticus and Vaticanus.
Yah had His Words translated into the English language, so that it could spread around the world.
Because of its purity, the Textus Receptus was used by all the Protestant Reformers of Europe to make their translations.
- John Wycliffe’s Translation (1380-82) was the first manuscript (hand-written) Bible in the English language. 21 years after he died, the Roman Catholic Church dug him up, tried him for heresy, found guilty, they burned his ashes.
- Martin Luther translated it into German, giving Germany the Word of Yah.
- In 1534 John Calvin helped it get translated into French.
- William Tyndale’s New Testament (1526) was the first printed English Bible.
The Roman Catholic Church hated him and his TR-based Bible so much, that they burned him at the stake.
Yah used the printing press and the English Bible to save millions of people.
The printing press allowed people to read the Word of Yah for the first time, and the Protestant Reformers discovered the pure gospel of Messiah.
When the Reformers read the scriptures, they realized that the Roman Catholic Church is Antichrist, the little horn of Daniel, and the beast of Revelation.
Martin Luther declared “We here are of the conviction that the papacy is the seat of the true and real Antichrist.” And millions came out of the Roman Catholic Church and were saved by the true gospel of Messiah.
The Ninety-Five Theses was written by Martin Luther in 1517 and is widely regarded as the initial catalyst for the Protestant Reformation.
The age that brought the Geneva Bible and the 1611 King James Bible was a time of incredible world missions, salvation, growth in churches, called the ‘Great Awakening’, where millions of people were saved.
The Roman Catholic Church created a “counter-reformation” plan.
At the Council of Trent in 1559, they put the new Bibles on the “Forbidden Book” list, punishable by death.
And it empowered the Jesuits, the Roman Catholic Church army, to go destroy all that oppose them. Their mission is to bring the Protestant Church back to the Mother church, and to destroy those who oppose.
Millions of ‘heretics’, mostly Messiah’s saints, were tortured and killed during the Inquisition.
Part of their counter-reformation plan was to rewrite the Greek Bible and then English Bibles.
Satan countered by having unbelieving heretics, Brooke Foss Westcott and Fenton John Anthony Hort (WH), create a Greek New Testament in 1881, based on the corrupt Sinaiticus and Vaticanus, which removed many words that validate Messiah’s deity.
They called the Textus Receptus ‘vile’ and refused to believe that Yah preserved His holy words. So they set out to create their own Greek text, based on their beliefs and philosophy.
Their Greek New Testament has 5,337 deletions as compared to the Textus Receptus Greek.
Satan then had Westcott and Hort help create the 1885 English Revised Version Bible. The NIV, ESV and other modern Bibles are built on this corrupt foundation, which is why they’re missing many words that validate Messiah’s deity.
Then they created the Nestle-Aland (NA) and the United Bible Societies(UBS) Greek New Testaments, which are based on the Westcott-Hort Greek Text.
The Nestle-Aland(NA) Greek N.T. is the basis for nearly every modern Bible translation, including the NIV and ESV.
It has 8,000 differences from the Textus Receptus, which explains why the modern Bible versions are missing so many words and verses. (i.e. The NIV has 64,576 fewer words than the King James.)
Satan has infiltrated most seminaries and Bible schools, so that they teach based on the corrupt Greek text.
Because the corrupt Greek Bibles and modern Bible versions, like the NIV and ESV, are both missing words and verses, most Pastors don’t notice the deception. This has created generations of pastors who in turn teach from the corrupt texts, which misleads the masses of believers. As you can see, Satan has been very effective.
For you see, instead of Satan attacking the church from the outside, which would be obvious to everyone, he has infiltrated most Seminaries, Bible colleges and church denominations, to get them to use his corrupt Greek texts and Bible versions, as to deceive not only the world, but the church of Messiah.
Not only that, but they teach them to doubt that Yah has preserved His word, that every manuscript and translation is corrupt, that modern Bibles are based on supposedly ‘older, better manuscripts’
The Jesuits teachings spread from the Vatican to secular Universities. Then students took their teachings to Princeton, Yale and Liberal seminaries. Faith was replaced with doubt through Liberal ‘Higher Criticism’. Then the next generation of professors moved into mainline colleges and seminaries. And then into conservative Bible Colleges and Seminaries. Then their teachings were spread throughout fundamentalist schools and Bible churches.
Their teachings spread the deception throughout the body of Messiah, which is Satan’s goal. Do you now see how we got to where we are?
We should not trust Pastors just because they went to seminary. The Apostle Paul encouraged Christians to “search the scriptures daily, (and prove) whether these things were so.” Acts 17:11
So which path of New Testament manuscripts will you follow?
True Path – The ‘Majority Text’ path (King James Bible) that is validated by 95% of 5,300+ existing manuscripts, which were written and kept by believers who trusted in Yah’s inerrant Word?
Corrupt Path – The ‘Minority Text’ path (NIV, ESV and most modern Bible versions) that are based on only 5% of existing manuscripts, which were written by unbelievers who don’t believe that Yah’s Word is inerrant, or in the deity of Messiah?
Your pastor, teacher, website Greek, Greek Bible, may use the wrong Greek text, so they are giving wrong answers. The problem is that pastors are unknowingly using a Greek Bible that Satan has corrupted, which has completely removed many of the key proof texts.
I am not saying that the King James is a perfect translation, but it’s based on the right foundation of manuscripts. I use the King James in studies, as the Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Dictionary is based on it, as are the writings of the great theologians of the 16-20th centuries.
Here are some other Bibles which are based on the right foundation of New Testament manuscripts.
I read from The Scriptures (ISR) which is a literal translation of the Tanakh and the Messianic Scriptures.
I also read the KJ3 – Literal Translation of the Bible by Jay P. Green, Sr., who based it on his extension four-volume Interlinear Hebrew/Greek to English Bible
