Belfast Church hymns

I grew up in a British based church where the people were English, Irish, Scottish or Welsh, so I feel I can relate to these people. Most of these songs I heard when I was a kid.

  1. A wonderful Saviour is Jesus my Lord
  2. All that thrills my soul is Jesus
  3. Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?
  4. Blessed assurance
  5. Great is Thy faithfulness
  6. Have you any room for Jesus? /On mountains high
  7. He lives, He lives, I know that my Redeemer lives
  8. He touched me
  9. Holy, holy, holy, LORD GOD Almighty
  10. How great Thou art
  11. I am so glad that Jesus loves me
  12. I know not why God’s wondrous grace
  13. I stand amazed
  14. I will enter His gates with thanksgiving in my heart
  15. I will sing the wondrous story
  16. If that isn’t love
  17. It is well with my soul
  18. Isn’t the love of Jesus something wonderful?
  19. Jesus keep me near the cross
  20. Just a closer walk with Thee
  21. Leaning on the everlasting arms
  22. My Jesus I love Thee
  23. No not one
  24. Now none but Christ can satisfy
  25. O for a thousand tongues to sing / He touched me
  26. O happy day
  27. Old rugged cross
  28. Power in the blood
  29. Standing on the promises
  30. The love of God
  31. There is a fountain filled with blood
  32. Thine be the glory
  33. This old world will never hold me/Give me oil in my lamp
  34. We’re marching to Zion
  35. When I survey the wondrous cross
  36. When we all get to heaven
  37. Whiter than the snow
  38. Worship

Bible – Searching for the “Right Bible”

Everybody in the world seems to think and believe differently. I think it has a lot to do with where we were born and raised, and what our parents taught us. So to start with, I feel I must share a little bit of my background so that you can try and understand the way I think.

I was born in England, but when I was a baby, my parents took me to Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, and I grew up there till the age of 12. (The terrorists won the war and Salisbury is now called Harare, and the country is now called Zimbabwe). It was a lovely climate and I had a very happy childhood. My mother received Jesus as her Saviour when I was little, and she took us to church every week. It was a British based church, and the only Bible we had was the Authorized King James Version, which is slightly different from the American King James Version.

From the age of 12 to 24 I lived in Bulawayo. From there I went to South Africa as a gospel singer, and my manager lived in Salisbury, and he had a gospel film library called the Religious Film Service. I ended up spending 9 years in South Africa as a gospel singer, travelling all over the country. During that time, I got married, and the South African Government gave me one month to get out of the country, or to apply for immigration. Then they put me on a 6 month visa.

My home country was going through terrorist warfare at that time, and I was scared that if South Africa kicked me out, then I would have to be in a situation where I would have to kill or be killed in Rhodesia. So I thought that if I join a church, then they would give me permanent residence. So I joined a church, but was still on a 6 month visa for many years.

With joining a church, I was forced to study theology and become a minister of religion. During that time, TV came to South Africa, and my bookings went down to zero. One night I was singing at someone’s house and an American preacher heard me and invited me to come to America and sing in his church. My wife told me that I always go where I am invited, and suggested we go to America. So we sold everything we had, and went on a trip to America, and God and the church people were very good to us there.

In America we bought puppets, and my wife started doing puppet shows which were very popular. In Rhodesia, the warfare was getting worse all the time, and some of my best friends were killed there. We could have been killed a few times as we were ministering around the country with the puppet shows. I got scared and decided to apply for a job in America, but there were no openings there, but there was an opening in Canada. So we arranged to come to Canada. Just before we left South Africa, the South African government gave me permanent residence, but it was too late to change plans.

On the way to Canada, my wife wanted to go to Israel. From there we went to Rome, and the Holy Spirit spoke to me in Saint Peter’s Basilica, that totally changed my thinking. First we worked at an apartment building in Canada and paid off our airfares, then a church came open, and I applied for the job.

It was a problem church and in 10 years they had about 8 different ministers. I was about 33 years old, and had always experienced God’s blessings in South Africa, and thought I could get the church “right.” During that time I did the Book of Mark in pictures that later got published in America. It was just black and white drawings. Since then I have done it in colour using the paint program on the computer.

We were living in the back of the church building with an income of $25 a week, which was a gas allowance. It was at that time that I prayed for a guy in the wheelchair, who climbed out of his wheelchair and walked. Then the church turned against me on account of one word that Jesus spoke in Luke 13:32. The word was “perfected.” The leader of the church told me that the King James Bible was “no good” and that the Greek Interlinear was “wrong.” Since then I have been trying to find the “Right Bible.”

When the leader of the church told me that, it felt like he took the rock out from under my feet. Jesus said that if we hear his words and do them, it is like a man building his house on the rock. (Matthew 7:24 and Luke 6:47 – 48) When I came to Canada, I thought that my faith was so strong that nothing could shake it. I guess I was wrong. When we came to Canada, the leader of the church told us that he used to fight against A. A. Allen in Georgia. I guess that should have been a clue for us. On the way to Canada my wife had a vision in England and she said she saw the leader of the church come against me, and we left the church.

To cut a long story short, we left the church, and I travelled around Canada and America singing for Jesus. One time when were in America, I was reading a story about the guy who wrote the hymn: “The old rugged cross.” He said that the word “Calvary” is not supposed to be in the Bible. That was a surprise to me. When we were in Jerusalem looking at the place where Jesus was crucified an old hymn keep running through my mind that said: “At Calvary.” Now he says that word is not supposed to be in the Bible! Wow. In Strong’s Concordance it means the base of a skull or cranium. Jesus was actually crucified at the base of the rock formation. I guess the word cranium leads to the word “calvaria” in Latin which leads to the word “Calvary” in English. In Hebrew it is “Golgotha” which means “skull.” It is the rock face there outside the Damascus gate. (Luke 23:33) In the Greek Interlinear it says “skull.”

They wanted to kick me out of the church because of one word in the Bible that they said was the wrong translation, so does that mean that every Bible that has the word “Calvary” should be scrapped? Does that mean that every church that uses the word “Calvary” should close down? Does that mean that every song that has the word “Calvary” should be taken out of the hymn books?

A couple of years ago I sang the Gaither song: “Thanks to Calvary I don’t live here anymore.” I thought that if I have to sing it correctly, I should have to sing: “Thanks to a skull I don’t live here anymore.” But that didn’t feel right. So I sang: “Thanks to Jesus I don’t live here anymore.”

If every church was judged the way I was, then every church should close down. If every Bible was judged the way I was, then every Bible should be scrapped. If every preacher was judged the way I was, then every preacher should be kicked out of the church. How far do we go on this matter? I am just searching for the truth.

Then another word came up. I was having meetings with a preacher in Arkansas, and the word “Easter” popped into my mind. So I looked in his Greek Interlinear Bible and found that it is supposed to read “Passover.” (Acts 12:4) So that is another word that is wrong in the King James Bible. That word “Easter” is the name of “the goddess of spring” (if you live in the northern hemisphere). I grew up in the southern hemisphere where it was autumn at that time of the year.

When Peter was in prison, it was the days of unleavened bread. In the scripture, first it was the Passover, followed by 7 days of unleavened bread. The Israelites celebrated Passover in Egypt then ate unleavened bread all the way to the Gulf of Aqaba where they crossed the Red Sea.

So let us get this straight. Herod wanted to bring Peter out of prison after “Easter” (King James Version) and most of the modern Bibles use the word “Passover” which probably means the end of the days of unleavened bread. Jesus was crucified at Passover as the Lamb of God.

On the internet, all the stories read that “Easter” was three days after Jesus was crucified. How can that be true? If it is at the end of the “Festival” as one version says, it would be 7 days later! So all these stories on the internet are all lying!

“Easter” has nothing to do with the resurrection of Jesus. God himself says we must not mention the names of other gods, neither must it be heard out of our mouths. (Exodus 23:13) 

When I was a pastor, the leader of the church in Canada said to me: “You must celebrate Christ’s death on Good Friday morning at 11 am.” Jesus died in the afternoon, and the “Fri” day is named after a pagan sex goddess. So the leader of the church himself should be kicked out of the church! Jesus died at Passover which doesn’t fit into the Roman calendar either, and it varies from year to year.

So, if every church was judged the way I was judged, most of them should close down! In the city where I live, I saw a sign by the one church that said: “Easter worship 10 am.” So according to the sign they worship a pagan goddess! That is opposite to what is written in the Bible! Another church had a sign that said: “Sun worship 10 am.” Sun worship is death penalty according to the Law of Moses. (Deuteronomy 17)

At the time of the year when churches remember the death of Jesus, one church had a sign saying: “Pork roast.” Another church had a sign saying: “Ham dinner.” So the churches seem to believe that Jesus was a pig! John the Baptist called Jesus “The Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.” (John 1:29) In the Book of Revelation Jesus is depicted as a “Lamb as it had been slain.” (Revelation 5:6)

How far do we go in searching for the truth? So many things that I have been taught in churches and Bible school are completely different to what is written in the scriptures. Stay with me, as we go on this journey. Jesus said that you will “know the truth and the truth shall make you free.” (John 8:32)

Beloved, I have searched for many years to try and find the truth concerning many things. Stay with me, it is a long journey!

After that we got a job at an apartment building in Toronto, and the tenants kept bugging us, even when we were ‘off duty.’ So we had to get away from the building to have some peace, and took the subway to downtown Toronto.

One day when were at The World’s Biggest Bookstore, I saw a display of books called: “The Other Bible.” I was sceptical as I guess everyone is when it comes to something different to what we are used to. However, as I looked at it, they mentioned the “First and Second books of Enoch!” That spiked my interest because in 1977 I had a vision of the coming of Jesus, and the Holy Spirit said to me: “The Lord cometh with ten thousands of his holy ones.” In Jude verse 14, he is quoting from Enoch, but we do not have the writings of Enoch in our Bibles! However, the book was very expensive and I was heavily in debt, so I didn’t buy it.

About 2 weeks went by, and I was so burdened with wanting to know the truth about these writings of Enoch, that I took the subway back to Toronto to buy the book. As I approached the religious section, I noticed that there was only one book left on the shelf where the big display had been! So I ran and grabbed it, holding it to my chest as if it was gold!

When I got home and started reading it, I discovered that they were only ‘quoting’ from the writings of Enoch, and it wasn’t the complete writings. That was very disappointing. However, someone told me that there is a shop in Toronto that specializes in ordering books for students and that they might have the writings of Enoch.

So I took the subway to Britnell’s Bookstore, and they had a book of Enoch, but the lady didn’t know if it was the first or the second book. So I ordered it anyway. They called me about two weeks later and I bought the First Book of Enoch. Lots of the books that cost me so much money in the old days, are now freely available on the internet! So you are so lucky!

My book of Enoch is from the Ethiopic Version. In 1768 a Scotsman by the name of James Bruce went to Ethiopia for 6 years and came back with 3 copies of Enoch. He gave one copy to the British Museum in London that sat there for over 50 years until someone could translate it. The experts say that it could have been written by 4 different authors. So some things may be genuine and some things may be fake.

In Jude verse 14 it is written: “Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,” (KJV). In chapter 2 from Enoch it is written: “Behold he comes with ten thousands of his saints,” I read somewhere that when the Roman Catholic Church was making the Bible that they had the first book of Enoch, didn’t accept it.

In Jude verse 6 it is written: ”And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.” (KJV)

The women on earth were so beautiful that 200 angels decided to leave heaven and marry women on earth. (Enoch chapter 7) Their children were giants, and were eating everything they could find, including people. So God sent judgment on those angels as is recorded in Jude verse 6. The angels also taught people lots of things that they didn’t know. (Enoch chapter 7) I seem to remember being taught in history that people became cleverer over time, but that may not be the case. They were taught by the fallen angels!

I watched a movie based on the old days in Greece where women were married to gods. I think they were married to the fallen angels who were supernatural creatures that the people considered as gods. That is my theory. The story of the Trojan horse is quite famous and Paul went to Troas many times as is recorded in the book of Acts. I went on Google Maps and typed in Troas, and took 6 screen shots of 2 different Trojan horses. 

In 2 Peter 2:4 it is written: “For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;” In the Greek it says “Tartarus” which I guess is a division of hell. (Enoch chapter 10)

Judgment was also dished out to the children of the angels. They would kill each other (Enoch chapter 10), but their spirits would remain on earth and be known as evil spirits. (Enoch chapter 15) Jesus cast out many evil spirits in his ministry.

In Jude verse 9, he quotes from a different Bible again, and I have not yet found where he is quoting from: “Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.” (KJV)

In Enoch’s writings, he refers to Jesus about 8 times as: “The Son of man.” (Example chapter 46) Jesus referred to himself by that title many times.

When we were in Toronto in about 1983-1985, I bought many ancient writings, and one of them was The Lost Books of the Bible, that has some very exciting stories about the childhood of Jesus, etc. When I read The Gospel of Nicodemus I kept feeling that there was some hidden mystery in that book, and I read it many times in two different versions, but I couldn’t find the hidden mystery. Many years later, in 1995 when we were back in South Africa, I felt I should read it again to see if I could find the hidden mystery, but to no avail. However, that night I had a dream where the Holy Spirit supernaturally showed me the names “Jannes and Jambres.”

The next morning, before I even had a cup of tea, I went back to the Gospel of Nicodemus, and found their names in chapter 5, verse 5. They were the magicians in Egypt. My brain were one step forward and I thought that I had read those words somewhere in the Bible, but I couldn`t remember where. So I went to the concordance expecting to find an Old Testament reference. There was none! Only a New Testament reference: 2 Timothy 3:8.

It said something like this: “As Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so do these men oppose the truth.” As I sat there staring at the page, I realized that verse 16 was the main verse that I was taught in theology.

2 Timothy 3:16-17: “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

17 That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.” (KJV)

I was taught that “All Scripture” meant the Bible, but right here in the same chapter, Paul is quoting from a different Bible! This was like the “cherry on the cake” or “the tip of the iceberg” for me, concerning all the things I had read.

 Beloved, every writer in the New Testament quotes scriptures that are from a different Bible! Jesus himself quotes scriptures that are from a different Bible!

So, NOBODY has the right Bible!

And they wanted to kick me out of the church because of one word in the Bible that they said was the wrong translation!

The churches all need to get right with God!

Everybody needs to get right with God!

One day we all have to give an account at the judgment seat of Christ.

My next problem was to find where Paul was quoting from. How can the man of God be “perfect” if he doesn’t have all the right scriptures? In my ancient writings I had a paper called The Damascus document, and it mentions “Jannes and his brother.” But that didn’t fit the equation.

I went to work for a church school on South Africa, and they promised me 3 months probation, but dumped me after 2 weeks. So I ended up without a job and eventually had to sell the house and fly back to Canada.

One day in America, a very important lady told us of an ancient writing that someone had given her. She was very excited about the book, and I couldn’t help asking what it was called. She said: “Jasher or something. It is mentioned in the Bible.”

When we got back to Canada I checked the concordance again, and found 2 references to the Book of Jasher: Joshua 10:13 and 2 Samuel 1:18.

Then I remembered how many years before that I had to do house sitting for my wife when she was doing real estate in South Africa. I borrowed her Amplified Bible and was reading from it to pass the time. I remembered reading how the sun and the moon stood still, and that it was written in the book of Jasher! I remembered putting ‘a question mark’ in the margin of her Amplified Bible, which is still there! I have read the Bible many times, and lots of other books, but cannot contain all the information in my brain. But it seemed like the Holy Spirit had prompted my curiosity way back then!

We were very poor at the time and didn’t own an internet computer, but I saw a paper stuck on a light pole offering a free computer course downtown. During the one coffee break my wife suggested I type in the ‘Book of Jasher’ in one of the search engines. So I did that and took the first advert that I saw and ordered a book. I sent the US$26 and got the book in the mail.

After some speed reading I found the names Jannes and Jambres in chapter 79, verse 27. They were related to Balaam the sorcerer.

Jesus said that by the mouth of 2 or 3 witnesses let every word be established. (Matthew 18:16)

So there are 3 witnesses in the Bible. Joshua, Samuel and Paul. If you believe in the Gospel of Nicodemus, it makes 4. So how come the guys who make the Bibles don’t have the Book of Jasher in our Bibles? Apparently there are a number of different versions of the Book of Jasher, the same as there are a number of different versions of the First Book of Enoch. So the plot thickens old chap! Get Sherlock Holmes on the job!

Matthew reports that when Jesus died there was an earthquake and some of the graves were opened. After the resurrection of Jesus, many saints came out of the graves and appeared to people in the holy city. (Matthew 27:51-53)

Nicodemus was a ruler of the Jews, and in his Gospel he reports how saints who had died were alive again. They find the two sons of Simeon the high priest who blessed Jesus when he was a baby. Simeon’s two sons had died but were alive again. They give an account of how Jesus went down to the underworld and released all the saints. Neither Satan nor Beelzebub, the prince of hell, could stop him.

The righteous saints went to paradise and met the thief on the cross there. On their way they met Enoch and Elijah who will come back later as reported in the Book of Revelation. I personally think that The Gospel of Nicodemus should be in the Bible.

Jesus said these words in Matthew 23:37: “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!”

I think Jesus is quoting from one of the books in the Apocrypha which says: “I gathered you together, as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings: but now, what shall I do unto you? I will cast you out from my face.” (2 Esdras 1:30)

Paul said these words: “I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.” (Acts 20:35) We do not have these words of Jesus in our Gospels in the Bible. So Paul had some different Gospels.

Paul said these words to the church in Corinth: “Know ye not that we shall judge angels? (1 Corinthians 6:3) In the First Book of Enoch, Enoch had to speak to the angels about their sinning. Maybe that is what Paul is talking about.

Paul also said other words to the church in Corinth regarding the scriptures: “For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:” (1 Corinthians 15:3-4) We don’t have those scriptures in our Bibles, but I found those words in The ascension of Isaiah where he says how Jesus is going to be crucified, buried and rise from the dead on the third day. (The Other Bible page 521-522)

In the past when I have spoken these things to other people, they always quote Psalm 16:10: “For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.” But that verse is not saying the same thing.

Paul wrote a letter to the church in Laodicea, and asked for it to be read in the church, but the Bible makers didn’t put it in the Bible. Colossians 4:16: “And when this epistle is read among you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans; and that ye likewise read the epistle from Laodicea.” There is a copy of that letter in The Lost Books of the Bible. I read that letter in a church once and had big hatred against me!

In James 4:5 it is written: “Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?” I looked in the Dake’s Bible and he says he doesn’t know what scripture James is quoting from.

In the Gospel of John 7:37-39 it is written: “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.

38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

39 (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)”

I have never found the scripture that Jesus is quoting from.

Matthew 2:23: “And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene.” I have never found that verse in the Old Testament.

In Mark 12:24 it is written: “And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God? 25 For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.” Jesus may be referring to the First Book of Enoch where the fallen angels are punished for getting married.

Hebrews 11:5: “By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.” It doesn’t say that in the Bible, it says it in the writings of Enoch.

I think I have covered every writer in the New Testament, and all of them quote scriptures that are not found in our Bibles!

What is The Book of the Wars of the Lord? Numbers 21:14: “Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the Lord, What he did in the Red sea, and in the brooks of Arnon,” I am curious about this book that is mentioned in the Bible, but is not found in our Bibles today.

So the Bibles we have on the market today do not have all the scriptures that are quoted in the Bible.

The next problem is the translations. Some of the modern Bibles have words like “Friday” and “Sunday.” Those words are not correct translations. The only days of the week that are mentioned are ‘the Sabbath day’ and ‘the first day of the week.’ In the Bible, days end at sunset, not at midnight like in Pope Gregory’s calendar.

Another example is the word: ”Christian.” In most translations that word is only found 3 times. Twice it is used by unbelievers and only once used by a disciple. Peter uses it only in connection with persecution: “Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.” (1 Peter 4:16) Peter says: “Love the Brotherhood.” (1 Peter 2:17) One of the Bibles uses the word “Christian” 133 times. Another version uses the word 333 times. So they are not translating correctly.

Some Bibles ADD in words that are not there in the Greek Interlinear. Here is an example:

Mark 7:15: “There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.” (KJV)

Mark 7:19: “Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?” (King James Version)

Lots of the Bible versions ADD on words that Jesus didn’t say, and claim the he said that all foods are now clean.

But in the Bible there are rules about clean and unclean meats. When Peter had the vision about unclean animals in Acts chapter 10, he took it to mean that he must preach the gospel to the Romans.

 “And he said unto them, Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto one of another nation; but God hath shewed me that I should not call any man common or unclean.” (Acts 10:28) He saw the unclean animals in the vision as being the Gentiles, who were now allowed to get saved by faith in Jesus.

Some Bible versions TAKE OUT words that are in the Greek Interlinear. Here is an example:

1 John 5:7: “For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.” (KJV)

Most of the Bible versions just say that there are ‘3 witnesses’ or ‘3 that testify.’ That is pretty vague! It makes no sense at all.

So you will have to do a lot of research to try and find the right translation that suits your beliefs.

A BIG WARNING There is a very scary warning in the Book of Revelation 22:18-19:

“For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:

19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.”

I pray that everyone who visits my websites will get saved and have eternal life. God bless you all.

Footnote 1

Different Bible versions can leave a person with very different beliefs. I was at a conference once in Cape Town where a preacher from South America was speaking. He was reading from Hebrews 6:2 about ‘baptisms.’ But the Bible version I was using at that time had the word ‘ablutions.’

That took my mind back to Gwelo in Rhodesia where I was doing forced military training, and we were staying in the ‘Ablution Block.’ They told us that was where the toilets used to be. So my mind associates ‘ablution’ as going to the toilet. Now, going to the toilet and getting baptized are two completely different things!

Footnote 2

In one book, I read the writings of Caiaphas. In the third book of Caiaphas, he tells how he was sitting in his office after the death of Jesus, and Jesus appeared to him. Jesus told him that he had killed his last lamb. He fainted. His father-in-law Annas, found him there and revived him. They looked for Jesus, but couldn’t find him. The door was locked with a soldier outside the door, but no Jesus.

Then Caiaphas resigned from being high priest. That is contrary to the rules. A high priest is supposed to be high priest until he dies. Like Aaron. Then Annas took the job.

When I read that, I went to check if that was true according to the Bible, and I discovered that Caiaphas was still alive and no longer high priest!

“And Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the high priest, were gathered together at Jerusalem.” (Acts 4:6)

There are rules in the scriptures about the cities of refuge, that when the high priest dies, then the people can go back to their homes, etc. (The book of Numbers chapter 35)

There are lots and lots of exciting things that I have read in the ancient writings. I am old now, and I have difficulty reading, but if you want to know more, search for the truth!

Footnote 3

As I lay in bed the other night, I got to thinking that some people may think that I didn’t mention anything about Luke’s writings. However, Luke wrote the Book of Acts, and I mentioned Paul quoting from a different gospel. Also Luke quotes Jesus talking about a hen and her brood, the same as Matthew, and is quoting from one of the books of the Apocrypha.

Luke 13:34: “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not!”

2 Esdras 1:30: “I gathered you together, as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings: but now, what shall I do unto you? I will cast you out from my face.”

Donkey ride?

 

About 27 years ago, an old man shouted at me in the face saying: “You don’t believe in the cannon of scripture!” I wonder if he gets to heaven, will he shout at Jesus in the face, or Peter, or Paul, or James, or Jude, etc. All of them quote scriptures that are not in the Bible, or maybe he doesn’t know the Bible good enough to realize that. Or maybe he was so full of hatred that he didn’t know what he was doing. I was about to join the church he was in, but I never went back. I am tired of hatred. I prefer love.

About 1,600 years ago the Romans made the cannon of scripture, so does that mean I must go backwards about 1,600 years to fit into churchianity? To me it feels like I must quit driving a car and start riding a donkey! Actually, some church people are like that, and they don’t drive cars.

Because of the things that the Holy Spirit has taught me, I have gone way beyond the Bible.

Beloved, I had a vision of the coming of Jesus back in 1977, and the Holy Spirit said to me: “The Lord cometh with ten thousands of His holy ones.” Jude was quoting from the writings of Enoch, so to my way of thinking the Holy Spirit put his stamp of approval on the writings of Enoch. Many years later I came across the writings of Enoch, and have some of them in my possession. Enoch says some very important things. For example, he explains where the demons come from.

In 1995 I had a dream where the Holy Spirit showed me the names: “Jannes and Jambres.” Those names are not in the Old Testament, yet Paul mentions them in 2 Timothy 3:8, and he is quoting from a different Bible! When Paul says “All scripture” in verse 16, he does not mean the same Bible as any of the Bible producers make. Nobody has the right Bible. How can the man of God be ‘perfect’ if he doesn’t have all the right scriptures?

Many years later I found the names ‘Jannes and Jambres’ in the Book of Jasher, which is mentioned twice in the Bible. (Joshua 10:13 and 2 Samuel 1:18) So how come the people who make the Bibles don’t put the Book of Jasher in our Bibles? They are stuck on the Romans. Maybe they are scared of being burnt at the stake or something. That’s what happened in the old days when people didn’t agree with the Romans.

Beloved, I am just following the leading of the Holy Spirit, and I am sorry if I offend people. Jesus knew that healing the sick people on the Sabbath day offended the religious people, but he kept doing it anyway. God blessed the Sabbath day (Exodus 20:11), and the greatest blessing that anyone can receive is to be healed. Lots of millionaires have died from sicknesses, and their millions of dollars could not buy them their healing. So healing is an even greater blessing than money!

Many years ago I read lots of ancient writings, so I don’t think the same as other people. There is a whole lot more to everything than what we have in our Bibles. I am just searching for the truth because I have been taught many things by church people and ministers of religion that are not the truth. Jesus said that he is the way, the truth and the life (John 14:6), and that the Holy Spirit is the spirit of truth. (John 14:17)

Actually, the verse that caused this big problem with that old man, was found in Colossians 4:16, where Paul says: “And when this epistle is read among you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans; and that ye likewise read the epistle from Laodicea.”

So Paul wrote a letter to the church in Laodicea, but I have never heard it read in any church, because it is not in anybody’s Bible. So I thought I would be fulfilling Paul’s words by reading it in a church. It is not my fault that the people who make the Bibles don’t put it in their Bibles.

I did it as part of a sermon I was doing, because Jesus refers to the church in Laodicea in Revelation chapter three. Beloved, Jesus said some very important things to that church. If we want to make it through the pearly gates one day, I think we should obey the words of Jesus.

Jesus said that if we are ‘lukewarm’ he will spit us out of his mouth. I wrote a song about that in 1966. It is called: “Don’t sit on the fence.”

TROUBLE IN THE CHURCH

This is a follow up to the story called: “Wheelchair”

That night in church I shared with the people how the guy climbed out of his wheelchair and walked. To me, that was so exciting that I blurted out: “We can expect miracles!”

Apparently, that was my big sin. Notice this – I didn’t say that I could do miracles. One woman in the church took offence at what I said, and replied: “Only Jesus can do miracles!” Perhaps she didn’t hear clearly what I said, because I never said I could do miracles. I have never claimed to do miracles, or to heal the sick. Some people that I had prayed for in the past had been healed, but I give God the credit, not myself. I want to emphasize that point because she came against me as if I had claimed that I could do miracles. I know how weak and useless I am.

Jesus told his disciples: “Without me ye can do nothing.” (John 15:5) Jesus himself said: “The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do:” (John 5:19) Again Jesus said: “I can of my own self do nothing:” (John 5:30)

The woman kept arguing and arguing, and eventually she said: “Jesus could do miracles because he was perfect.” I responded with this: “Jesus didn’t consider himself perfect” and quoted his words in Luke 13:32: “Behold, I cast out devils, and do cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I shall be perfected.” I suggested that Jesus was perfected on the cross.

In the Book of Hebrews, that is what is suggested there. “To make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.” (Hebrews 2:10) Another two verses say this: “Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him:” (Hebrews 5:8-9)

So the one word “Perfected” caused the big blow up in the church. I didn’t mean anything bad towards Jesus himself, I was quoting his own words. The leader of the church came against me and said that the King James Bible was “no good” and that the Greek Interlinear Bible was “wrong.” In South Africa I was told to use the King James Version, and was introduced to the Greek Interlinear New Testament. So although the two churches were supposed to be joined together, they didn’t believe the same!

For those people who like to fight about Bibles verses, I am going to throw this into the mix. That one word in the Gospel of Luke caused my problem, but remember this, Luke also wrote the Book of Acts.

Many years before that, I did a comic story of the conversion of Saul of Tarsus from Acts chapter 9, using the Revised Standard Version. (I do not possess a copy of the comic anymore). In verse 7 it said these words: “The men who were traveling with him stood speechless, hearing a voice but seeing no one.”

Later on Paul gave his testimony in Jerusalem before the Jews and said: “And they that were with me …. heard not the voice of him that spake to me.” (Acts 22:9) (KJV)

When Paul spoke to King Agrippa he said: “And when we were all fallen to the earth,” (Acts 26:14) (KJV)

So, for those people who love to fight, let’s check what went on. Did the men with him all stand or did they all fall? Did the men with him all hear the voice of Jesus or didn’t they? You can fight and split churches on this issue. You can fight and split churches on a hundred and one stories in the Bible if you want to. Everybody believes whatever they want to believe, regardless of what is written in whatever translation they choose to believe in.

I personally like peace, but I believe very strongly in things that the Holy Spirit has taught me.

Jesus made this statement to his disciples: “But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.” (John 14:26)

The Holy Spirit is a Comforter. Satan is the accuser. (Revelation 12:10) When you have peace in your heart, you will know it is the Holy Spirit. When you have turmoil, then it is probably Satan. We have authority to command Satan to leave us. I have been accused by lots of church people and by ministers of religion, and by leaders of churches.

Beloved, stay close to Jesus and follow the leading of the Holy Spirit. One time Satan used Peter, and Jesus said to him: “Get thee behind me Satan.” (Matthew 16:23) (Mark 8:33) Satan used Job’s wife to try and get him to curse God. (Job 2:9) Satan will try and use any human to bring you down, and destroy you.

I have said this before, but I have found that whenever God blesses me, Satan attacks. When Paul cast a devil out of a fortune teller, Satan attacked. Paul and Silas were beaten and imprisoned, etc. (Acts 16) When Paul got a guy healed in Lystra, Satan attacked and he got stoned to death. (Acts 14)

It is the same pattern all the time. When you work for God, Satan gets angry and will try to destroy you. But they overcame the devil by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony. (Revelation 12:11)

To cut a long story short, I resigned from the church, and later on I got a letter from the head office in the USA to say my ministry had been revoked. I took it as a joke at the time, because the church didn’t give me my ministry, Jesus did. I was in the ministry before I joined the church. I joined the church because the South Africa government had me on a 6 month temporary visa, and I thought that if I join a church that the government would give me permanent residence. My home country Rhodesia was going through terrorist warfare, and they kept calling my mother wanting me to go and fight for the country. I didn’t want to fight and kill anyone, I was trying to save souls.

However, I joined a church and was forced to study theology and become a minister of religion. The government still kept me on a 6 month visa. There came a time that I got scared, and applied to come to Canada. Just before leaving South Africa, the government gave me permanent residence, but it was too late to change plans. Everything went wrong in Canada, and we went back to South Africa.

The church in South Africa couldn’t accept me back until they heard from the church in America. They put me on probation, but it was never lifted, so I couldn’t get a job working for the Lord. We came back to Canada, and my desire was to work for God in America, but it never worked out. So in between things I have had lots of different jobs.

My burden is still to try and reach the whole world with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. That is why I now do web sites. Jesus told his disciples to go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. (Mark 16:15)

Beloved, try and do your part in getting people saved. It is the responsibility of every believer to spread the gospel in whatever way we can. Eternity is forever. God doesn’t want anyone to perish. (2 Peter 3:9 ) He wants us all to have eternal life. May the Lord be with you all.

PS

The other day when I looked at the word “perfected” in the New King James Version, there was a footnote that said: “resurrected.”

It is amazing how one word can cause so much trouble. However, I am reminded that when we were in England on the way to Canada, that my wife had a vision, and she said she saw the leader of the church come against me. When we arrived at the airport in Toronto, the leader of the church came to pick us up. From a distance, as we were pulling out suitcases towards his car, my wife said: “That is the man I saw in my vision!” My heart just sank. I don’t like any trouble. I thought if I don’t believe it, then it won’t happen, but it happened anyway. So I just have to believe that all things work together for good. (Romans 8:28)

Actually, as I was in the park early this morning talking to the Lord, I was asking him to heal me. I thought of years ago when I had cancer, I prayed a prayer in that same park thanking the Lord for everything that had happened in my life, and I got healed of cancer! My doctor said it was a miracle.

So I am back to square one again, accepting that everything that has happened in my life is God’s will for my life. When I prayed that prayer in the park early this morning, it was then that I thought I should write this story, to try and get the churches of the world right. None of us are perfect. We all have to try and believe right, and do right. Amen.

PPS

There is another spin off to this story. The leader of the church said my Bible was “no good” so since then I have been trying to find the “right Bible.” That is going to be a big story for the future.

PPPS

There is also another spin off to this story.

No other gods

45 years ago the Holy Spirit led me to check out the Roman calendar by popping these words into my head: “What does Tuesday mean?” I discovered it is the name of a god of war. Then these words popped into my head: “You must not mention the name of another god.” Then I wondered if those words were in the Bible, so I started reading from the Ten Commandments, and found them 3 chapters later. I grew up with the Roman calendar the same as everyone else, but it is opposite to the word of God. Every day of the week is named after other gods, and half of the months. Every church I have ever been in, has claimed to believe the Bible, yet they all follow the Roman calendar. It is a sin to mention all these names, so as I lay in bed last night, I thought of using alternative names that are similar, but have nothing to do with pagan gods. You can make up your own names too, whatever suits your fancy.

Days of week – Sunnyday, Moneyday, Chewingday, Weddingday, Thirstyday, Fryingday, and Sittingday.

Months – Janet, Fabian, Marsha, Apple, Mary, Jane, Julia, Auto, Nine, Ten, Eleven and Twelve.

Wheelchair – The guy in the wheelchair

About 44 years ago, I prayed for a guy in a wheelchair, and he climbed out of his wheelchair and walked. Because of that, the church turned against me, and wanted to kick me out of the church.

That experience affected me so much that I am not a member of any church anymore, but I still believe in Jesus, and I still believe in healing and miracles, because I have had so many experiences with the Holy Spirit.

If you want to know more, carry on reading.

One day the head office in America sent me a pack of books about the Holy Spirit, and I was instructed to read the book and share with the people of the church. I did my duty, and read the book. The first three chapters were really boring theological writings, but the other chapters caused a quickening in my spirit. When I had finished the book, I felt I should give a copy of the book to a guy down the street that didn’t believe in the Holy Spirit. So, first I went to the washroom, and then I told my wife.

When I told my wife, an anointing of the Holy Spirit came upon me so strongly, that the Holy Spirit was saying: “Right now!” So I quickly grabbed a copy of the book off the bookshelf, and grabbed my jacket, and ran from the back of the church where we were staying. As I ran, I was putting on my jacket. That is how urgent it was.

I have had lots of fantastic experiences with the Holy Spirit, and this is one among the many. As I was running down the sidewalk near the guy’s house there was a guy in a wheelchair that was flagging me down. He had a short sleeve shirt, and his arm was very skinny and looked very frail.

My first thought was that it was a trick of the devil to stop me from doing my job. A story from the Bible flashed through my mind of a prophet who was sent by God to do a job and then was deceived by an old prophet, and ended up getting killed by a lion. (1 Kings 13) But I couldn’t just ignore the guy and pretend that I hadn’t seen him. So I stopped, and he asked me to push him to the Salvation Army Men’s home. So I said to him: “I have to deliver this book, but if you are still here when I get back, I will push you.”

I ran across the street to the guy’s house and knocked on the door. There was no reply, so I left the book on the doorstep and ran back across the street to the guy in the wheelchair. As I ran across the street, an old chorus popped into my head: “It’s bubbling, it’s bubbling, it’s bubbling in my soul. It’s singing and laughing, since Jesus made me whole. Folks don’t understand it, nor can I keep it quiet. It’s bubbling, bubbling, bubbling, bubbling, bubbling day and night.”

I felt such an anointing on me. It was like I was in the perfect will of God at that moment in time. I had obeyed the Lord and had delivered the book. I had done the job that was assigned to me. As I started to push the wheelchair I felt an unusual boldness come over me, that I asked the guy: “Do you believe in Jesus Christ as your Saviour?” He replied: “Yes I do, and I believe that I am not going to die of multiple sclerosis.”

I had never heard of that sickness before, so later on I looked it up in the dictionary. Some years later I saw a show on TV where a young Canadian guy died of multiple sclerosis. It is some kind of a disease that affects the nervous system.

As I was pushing him, I nearly ditched him when we came to the old tram tracks, but he was very patient with me, and said I must turn the wheelchair around and go with the big back wheels first. Then I shared with him my first two healing experiences. How my cracked spine got healed, and how the terrible disease I had in my feet got healed. Then, on the corner of Niagara and Church Street, I offered to pray for him. He said: “Okay.”

I laid my hands on his shoulders, and said a little prayer for him. Then I shot a silent prayer up to God asking what I must do next. Then a thought popped into my head of how Billy Graham told about how Jesus told a man to stretch out his hand and he got healed. That is why Billy Graham believed we must do something physical in response to our faith, so that is why he would ask the people to come to the front in his meetings. Actually, in the Book of Acts, what people did in response to their faith was to get baptized.

So I told the guy to test himself to see if anything is different. He stuck out his legs, and said: “I think I am healed!” Then he climbed out of his wheelchair and started pushing his wheelchair down the sidewalk. He looked a bit wobbly, and I instinctively reached out towards him. Then he got mad at me and said: “Don’t hijack me!” So I backed off. I told him that Peter walked on the water while kept his eyes on Jesus, but when he took his eyes off Jesus then he began to sink. So I told him to keep his eyes of Jesus.

Then he stopped opposite the Salvation Men’s Home, and said: “Can I ask you a favour?” I said: “Sure.” The question was: “Will you buy me a cup of coffee?” I replied that I didn’t have any money on me. He responded with: “Okay,” and started pushing his wheelchair across the street. I quickly ran ahead of him and stopped the traffic because didn’t want him to get killed now that he had gotten healed!

When he went into the building he said something to me in a foreign language, and I am not sure what it was. I presume it was either French or Italian.

As I walked back up the sidewalk where he had pushed his wheelchair, I thought of how Peter didn’t have any money either when he went in by the Gate Beautiful as recorded in Acts chapter three, and God did a wonderful healing on the man who was lame. When I thought of that, I got over excited, and felt like I had just stepped out of the pages of the Bible. I guess that was my big sin. That is what caused my big trouble.

That night in church I shared with the people what had happened, and got over excited again, and said: “We can expect miracles!”

That is what caused the big blow up in the church. Many years later I experienced a few fantastic miracles, but I don’t share those things anymore, because I cannot handle the demonic backlash. Every time God blesses me, Satan attacks me. Satan uses all kinds of people to attack me. He often uses church people and ministers of religion too.

I like love and peace and joy, but all the things that God has done are so exciting, that I keep thinking of those things. Unfortunately, a lot of people cannot accept the things I say, even if they are written in the Bible that they say they believe in. So beloved, we all have to give an account one day, and I hope we all can make it through them pearly gates. Amen.

All scripture – what does it mean?

”All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.” 2 Timothy 3:16-17.

When I studied theology, this was the main verse that I was taught concerning the Bible. It was a very long time ago, so I cannot remember all the details, but I seem to recall being taught that “all scripture” meant the “Bible.”

About 20 years later, I had a dream where the Holy Spirit showed me the names: “Jannes and Jambres.” The next morning, before I even had a cup of tea, I went back to the book I had read the day before, and I read that Jannes and Jambres were the magicians in Egypt.

Then my mind went one step further, and I thought that I had read those names somewhere in the Bible before, but I couldn’t remember where. So I went to the concordance, expecting to find an Old Testament reference, but there were none. There was only one reference, and it was in the New Testament:

As Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so do these men oppose the truth.” 2 Timothy 3:8.

As I sat there staring at the page, it dawned on me, that verse 16 was the main verse that I was taught in theology, and that Paul was quoting from a different Bible. It was like the “cherry on the cake” or “the tip of the iceberg” concerning lots of other things that the Holy Spirit had taught me over the years. I told my family it was “one small step for man, and one giant leap for mankind.” Like a man walking on the moon.

The next step was to find where Paul was quoting from. I found an ancient writing that mentioned “Jannes and his brother” but that didn’t fit the equation. At that time we were living in South Africa, and computers on the market, but we were very poor and didn’t own a fancy computer. I had lost my job working at a church school, and didn’t have a salary.

So we sold the house, and flew back to Canada. One day in America, I got a clue to solving the mystery. A dear old lady was telling us about an ancient writing that someone had given her. I interrupted her, and asked her what the ancient writing was that she was talking about. She replied: “Jasher, or something, it is mentioned in the Bible.”

We came back to Canada and I looked in the concordance again to find the word “Jasher” and there were two references. Then it dawned on me that I had read that word before. One time in South Africa when my wife was doing real estate, I covered for her when she had an “open house” and I borrowed her Amplified Bible, and I read a bit as I was waiting for customers. I remembered reading that word in Joshua 10:13 and putting a question mark in the margin of her Bible, but I had forgotten all about it.

There is also another reference, of how King David taught his men to fight according to the words of Judah in the Book of Jasher. 2 Samuel 1:18.

One day I saw a sign on a light pole that there was a free computer course available down town. During one of the coffee breaks my wife suggested that I type in the “Book of Jasher” in the search engine. So I did that, and I ordered a copy of the book from an American company. I found Jannes and Jambres names in chapter 79 verse 27. Apparently there are many different versions of the Book of Jasher.

So beloved, how come we don’t have the book of Jasher in our Bibles? Jesus said that by the mouth of two or three witnesses let every word be established. Matthew 18:16. Here we have 3 witnesses mentioned in every Bible. The Holy Spirit showed me these names after reading the Gospel of Nicodemas. So there are 4 witnesses. How many witnesses does it take to get people to believe the truth? “The answer my friend is blowing in the wind.”

 In 1977 I had a vision of the coming of Jesus, and the Holy Spirit said to me: “The Lord cometh with ten thousands of his holy ones.” After the vision, I got to thinking that Jude was quoting from Enoch, but we don’t have Enoch’s writings in our Bibles. At that time I was on a temporary visa in South Africa, and my home county was going through terrorist warfare.

Many years later at the World’s biggest bookstore in Toronto, I came across the writings on Enoch. From there it led to many journeys in many other different directions.

Every writer in the New Testament quotes scriptures from a different Bible. Jesus himself quotes scriptures that are not found in our Bibles.

One time, many years ago, I had a man shouting at me in my face that I don’t agree with the Cannon of Scripture. I wonder, if he ever gets to heaven, will he shout at Jesus in his face, or Peter or Paul, or John, or James, or Jude? I have had so many church people hate me on account of the Holy Spirit. Beloved, on this website I have lots of other references to other scriptures, and if you want know more, you can check them out.

Beloved, I wish above all things that you may prosper and be healthy, even as your soul prospers. 3 John 2

I wish you love, joy and peace, and everlasting life.

Remember our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for our sins.

God’s New Year

The other week ago I kept singing a song in my mind called “A new Day.” I wrote the song many years ago. Then when I turned the page on the calendar and saw when Passover was, I realized that it was God’s New Year that I was celebrating in my mind. God told Moses when the New Year started, and on the 14th day of the first month was Passover. (Exodus chapter 12 in the Scriptures).

Today is Passover, and I wish you all a belated Happy New Year according to God’s calendar.

A new day (with lyrics)

Happy New Year

Beloved, the other day at the supermarket I met up with an old acquaintance, and she smiled and said to me: “Happy New Year.” She means well, but those words just keep ‘pushing my buttons.’ Every church I have ever been to, claim to believe that the Bible is the Word of God. However, I have never been in any church that actually believes in God’s New Year. All the church people seem to put Satan’s New Year higher than God’s New Year. God’s New Year is found in Exodus chapter 12. So I guess I have to keep on ‘bugging’ the church people until they start believing the Word of God. Sorry if I irritate you, but I want people to believe the truth. The Devil is a liar and he deceives so many people. All liars are going to end up in the lake of fire, and I don’t want to go there, and I don’t want you to go there. Jesus said: “Give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar, and give to God what belongs to God.” Julius Caesar brought January into the calendar because it was named after an idol that he worshipped as his god of beginnings and endings. Idol worship is forbidden in the Word of God. God even said we must not even mention the name of another god, neither must it be heard out of our mouth. If I don’t warn people, then their blood might be required of my hand. Beloved, this is serious stuff. Please obey the Word of God, and may God bless you.

Love your enemies

Yesterday I prayed a prayer to God for all my enemies to get saved, and it felt like a load lifted off my back. Then I thought of doing a picture of a hand, to try and find a way to remember the words of Jesus.

Beloved, I want to encourage you to follow Jesus and His words.