Little did the Hebrews know (not even their ancestors who went through the Red Sea), that God allowed the Hebrews in the Wilderness to go hungry and suffer for 40 years to TEST THEIR FAITH. God wanted them to learn that life is more than eat, drink and be merry because someday we die.
God wanted His people to learn that living by faith (trusting God) is infinitely more important than having food to eat. That is why we read in 1st Peter 1:7-9, "That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls."
Most believers are naïve, thinking that God is upset or punishing them because things are so bad in their life; but the opposite is true. God is testing our faith, to teach us that unshakable faith comes from having our faith shaken. As we just read in 1st Peter 1:7-9, the problems and hardships in a believer's life are more valuable then gold that perisheth. I just checked and Gold is now selling for $2,020.37 an ounce. That's $32,325.92 per pound. Your burdens, heartaches and miseries are worth MUCH MORE than that the Bible says!
Without pain we cannot grow and learn. Faith is like the old 35 mm film, it develops in the dark. It is the bad things which happen to us that drive us to the inspired Word of God. Jesus' quotes Moses' words from Deuteronomy 8:3 in Matthew 4:4. Also in Luke 4:4, "And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God." Notice that we need "every word" to live by. God did not give us an incomplete Holy Bible. I encourage you to listen to this helpful MP3 sermon by Pastor Jack Hyles titled, "HOW WE GOT GOD'S WORD," in which he explains we we need "every word" of God to live by.
Also, I recommend hearing Dr. Hyles' excellent sermon titled, "THE BATTLE OF THE AGES" from 1994.
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We must have EVERY WORD of God if we are to live. Since all the different Bible versions today do not have the same words, they cannot all be God's inspired Word.
For example: Look how the popular English Standard Version (ESV), used by Bob Jones University and many Baptist churches today, perverts Luke 4:4, by removing "every word of God"...
KING JAMES BIBLE (KJV) - Luke 4:4, "And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗯𝘆 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗚𝗼𝗱."
ENGLISH STANDARD VERSION (ESV) - Luke 4:4, "And Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone.’”
It's GONE, GONE, GONE!!!
I HATE the Devil's modern Bible revisions. Why, oh why, are so many Bible colleges and church pastors so woefully stupid, wicked and willfully ignorant today in this matter? Shame on Bob Jones University and Pensacola Christian College for wickedly bidding them Godspeed!
God said that we need EVERY WORD of His to live by. Half a Bible won't do. 65 books won't do. We need all 66 books! The original Bible had no chapter divisions or verse numbers. Men added those centuries later after the Bible was completed in 96 AD, to make it easier to navigate through the Scriptures. It was just a collection of 66 books.
God's Holy Spirit inspired approximately 40 men to pen the Bible verbatim as He dictated it to them. God said what He meant, and He meant what He said. I believe that those 54 men who translated the King James Bible were working with inspired texts, and they faithfully translated those ancient Hebrew, Chaldean and Greek texts, and other available Latin translations, into an English Bible for us today. I believe since they did an accurate job, we have an inspired today.
Having said that, respectfully, I fully disagree with Peter Ruckman and Gail Riplinger that God inspired the King James Bible and its 54 translators to give us a "newly inspired" Bible that supersedes the ancient texts. Since they were working with texts that were already inspired, and they faithfully translated those words into the English language, we have an inspired Bible today. There was no new inspiration given by God.
But these modern corrupt Bible perversions are NOT inspired, because Satan has tampered with them, changing thousands of words and butchering God's Word. No wonder Amos 8:11 says that God would send a famine of the Word of God in the last days, "Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:" Could this be because of the wickedness of men who have perverted the Words of the living God? I do not know. But I do know that the new revised Bibles are deadly, attacking Jesus' deity, removing the Godhead, changing what it means to "repent" and in so doing perverting the very Gospel itself.
Thank God that we have an EVERY WORD Bible today in the inspired King James Bible.
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