Laodicean Apostasy in Full Bloom
March 2008, Bible Believers’ Bulletin
The Great Apostasy of the Laodicean church period came into full “blossom” 26 years ago, in 1982, when a bunch of conservatives got together and decided to put out a Bible based on the Textus Receptus. They called their translation the New King James Version. The man who promoted it the heaviest was Jerry Falwell of Lynchburg, Virginia, a member of the Bible Baptist Fellowship.
The apostates produced a Bible that restored, to the reader, corrupt readings from the Revised Standard Version (published by Liberals and Modernists in the National Council of Churches and printed by Thomas Nelson and Sons—the same company that prints the New King James Version) and put them back into the King James text under the guise of the New King James Version. The NKJV destroys both commandments to study the Bible.
- Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
- You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me.
- Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
- Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
The NKJV takes away the resurrection of Jesus in Acts 1:3. “Passion” means the suffering and death of a martyr. Therefore, the KJB supports Jesus’ resurrection from the grave by many infallible proofs. The NKJV has Jesus proving that he was still alive in spite of His suffering. “Suffering” doesn’t always result in death.
- To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:
- to whom He also presented Himself alive after His suffering by many infallible proofs, being seen by them during forty days and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God.
The NKJV attacks the Deity of Jesus Christ by converting Him from God’s “child” to merely God’s “servant.”
- For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,
- For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.
- And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word,
- By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus.
- "For truly against Your holy Servant Jesus, whom You anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together
- to do whatever Your hand and Your purpose determined before to be done.
- Now, Lord, look on their threats, and grant to Your servants that with all boldness they may speak Your word,
- by stretching out Your hand to heal, and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of Your holy Servant Jesus."
The NKJV says it is alright to appear evil as long as you don’t do evil.
- Abstain from all appearance of evil.
- Abstain from every form of evil.
This same translation picks up fifty readings from the apostate Alexandrian text of the RV, RSV, ASV, NASV, NIV, etc. (not the TR of the AV ) and puts them back into a book that calls itself the New King James Version. Now, I thought you should know who the gentlemen are who performed this act and are responsible for the fraud.
Dr. Edward Hindson of Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia (formerly known as Liberty Baptist College before they took the word Baptist away from it).
Dr. Meredith C. Kline of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Massachusetts.
Dr. James D. Price of Tennessee Temple University, who worked on the translation right before Lee Roberson resigned.
Truman Dollar of Kansas City Baptist Temple (a part of the Baptist Bible Fellowship), who later committed suicide after getting involved in a mess in Temple Baptist Church in Detroit, Michigan (Beauchamp Vick’s church which he pastored until he died).
Wally Criswell, the Southern Baptist pastor of First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas.
A. V. Henderson, who took over the Temple Baptist Church of Detroit, Michigan (also a Bible Baptist Fellowship church) immediately after Beauchamp Vick died.
Harold Ockenga, the founder of New Evangelicalism.
Now, do you realize what is so odd about that last name? Well, here we have on the list of men who helped put out the NKJV, the editor of The Sword of the Lord, Curtis Hutson. For years previous to his involvement, The Sword of the Lord had been publishing a headline on its first page that said it was against Neo-evangelicalism. But when it came time to put out the NKJV, the editor of The Sword of the Lord and the founder of Neo-evangelicalism were in close fellowship together and just as “snug as a bug in a rug,” before God took Curtis home.
Duke McCall, President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, which has been recommending corrupt “Bibles” for the last sixty years.
Thomas Zimmerman, General Superintendent of the Assemblies of God.
Rev. Goodwin Hudson, an Episcopalian Bishop in London.
Dr. William Van Gemeren, Reformed Theological Seminary.
Nathaniel A. Urshan, General Superintendent of the United Pentecostals.
So the “New” KJV is a translation put together by a Charismatic in the Assemblies of God, a Campbellite Pentecostal, an Episcopalian Bishop, a Reformed Five-Point Calvinist, the founder of Neoevangelicalism, the editor of The Sword of the Lord, and some Southern Baptists and Fundamental Baptists in the Bible Baptist Fellowship. That is the greatest smorgasbord (or rat’s nest) of Conservative apostates you ever saw in your life. The Baptists are in full communion with Charismatics, Campbellites, Episcopalians, Five-Point Calvinists, and Neo-orthodox apostates who got their teaching from Barth, Brunner, and Tillich.
That was Laodicean apostasy at its finest. Since then, 28 more corruptions of the Scriptures have been produced by religious apostates just like them. Those include the Contemporary English Version, the English Standard Version (a “conservative” revision of the RSV ), and the Holman Christian Standard Bible by the Southern Baptists. The same kind of trash by the same bunch.