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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 438
fuller triumph only disclosed its fuller evil; and, to the shame of human reason,
and the terror and suffering of human virtue, Rome, in the hour of its consummate
grandeur, teemed with the monstrous and horrid birth of the INQUISITION!
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Jesus told us that we would be able to identify his followers by their fruits. In the Sermon
on the Mount Jesus instructed: “Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of
thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree
bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring
forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.” (Matthew 7:16-20)
The fruit of the martyrs indicates that they were among God's faithful. During the Dark
Ages, the way that the martyrs conducted themselves during their executions is undeniably a
fulfillment of the word of God: “And they overcame him (Satan) by the blood of the Lamb, and
by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death” (Revelation 12:11).
Their fruit was good. The Bible of these faithful was the Received Text. It is just as undeniable
that the Catholic Church in its ruthless persecution of the God’s faithful produced bad fruit. This
fruit identifies them as agents of Satan himself.
Spiritual Integrity of Westcott & Hort
In 1870 a Revised Standard Revision Committee was established to update the English of
the King James Version of the Bible. The Committee apparently had many godly men as
members but the committee was headed by Brooke Foss Westcott and Fenton John Anthony
Hort. The revision committee chose not to rely on the Received Text and relied heavily upon
Sinaiticus, Vaticanus and other Alexandrian Texts. The result was the creation of a new Greek
text and a new English version of the Bible called the Revised Version of 1881. This Revised
Version and its new underlying Greek text have been the basis of almost if not all of the new
English translations of the twentieth century.
As we shall see, Westcott and Hort were two men of very questionable integrity; in fact, I
wouldn’t consider then Christians at all. Left in the hands of these men, I believe the Christian
Church would have disappeared. Later we'll see evidence of this from their own letters. As an
example: Hort did not believe that Jesus' death on the cross atoned for our sins; he called it a
“fictitious substitution.” He did not believe that scripture was infallible, it fact he thought it was
“perverted” and it was his goal to correct those perversions. He also believed the New Age
teaching that man is “divine.” In a letter to a colleague he stated that his “trifling alterations” of
scripture were of major significance when “taken together.” Westcott said that he was a skeptic;
he said his faith was weak; and he was plagued with “unbelief”. Like Hort, Westcott rejected the
infallibility of scripture; he didn't believe the creation account in Genesis and said there was no
literal heaven.
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During their college years at Cambridge Westcott and Hort became members of the
Ghost Society, which later became known as The Society for Psychical Research (SFPR). This
was an occult organization and their involvement with it continued until they became involved
with editing the Bible.
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