I have been reading the Geneva Bible--the Bible the Pilgrims brought with them to America. The Geneva Bible was published in 1560. Much of the KJV traces back to the Geneva Bible--except that King James did not like the notes by the people who translated the Geneva Bible from the original languages and created the Geneva Bible. He didn't like the notes because to him the notes undermined the notion of worldly kings being ordained by God to rule the people via their "royal" bloodlines. The margin notes are an incredible addition to the text because we get to see the viewpoint of learned Christians and Biblical scholars of the 1500s.
Today I started reading Isaiah Chapter 43 and in the very first verse there are two margin notes. This is the Chapter after Isaiah is giving prophecy from God about Him sending Christ to the world. For context, Chapter 42: v. 6: "I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and I will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, & for a light of the Gentiles, 7. That thou may open the eyes of the blind, & bring out the prisoners from the prison: and them that sit in darkness, out of the prison house."
(This seems to me to be what Jesus came to do and it is happening right now in the Great Awakening.)
The Geneva Bible has short summaries in italics before each chapter. The summary for the first part of Chapter 43, which I was reading this morning: "The Lord comforteth his people.."
Halfway through the first verse there are two margin notes. I was surprised to see the word "conspiracies" in the second note. The note is for the second part of the verse: "Fear not: for I have redeemed thee: I have called thee by thy name, thou art mine."
The margin note to me feels like it was written 500 years ago for all of us right now:
"When thou seest dangers and conspiracies on all sides, remember this benefit and the love of thy God, and it shall encourage thee."
The Pilgrims came to America with the Geneva Bible in hand to get away from the bloodline families of Europe and their dark rule. And here we are 500 years later seeing "dangers and conspiracies on all sides" caused by those same bloodline families that our ancestors sought to leave behind when they came to America. We should take their advice to remember the love of God and let that encourage us so that we FEAR NOT."
We should fear not as we fight to take back our country and restore it to being a Godly nation. God is with us and just as Q said: It's going to be Biblical.
A blessed day to you all.
Well, I believe the Church of England was heretical & its origins were born out of sin. Early during the protestant revolution, King Henry VIII came to the defensive of the Catholic Church & Rome. However, Henry turned his back on Rome when he was bewitched Anne Boylin. Rome refused to grant King Henry a divorced at which point he jumped on the protestant bandwagon stole church property, made himself a Pope & annulled his marriage and hooked up with Boylan. Anne would be executed and accused of incest and witchcraft, and some people might believe that was just king Henry’s way of getting out of his marriage however it gets a lot more interesting when we study the life of their daughter Queen Elizabeth I. in her court, she openly practiced the occult and John D, Francis Bacon and other Gnostics helped her rise to power after she executed the rightful of the crown Catholic queen Mary. Rome recognized the occult Queen was a heretic & had many assassination attempts put on her. The Occult Queen Elizabeth I would go on hunt down & persecute Catholics that did not go along with the new heretical religion & the church was driven underground.
Mind you that at this time, Catholics had a dominant presence in California, Mexico, Louisiana & Florida. Catholics were established & flourishing in America a century prior to the pilgrims arriving.America’s Christian history is Catholic, this was God’s providence, especially after Mother Mary appeared to the Mexicans & converted 9 million Indians in 1535.
I don’t blame Pilgrims for leaving England but they were heavily judiasied Protestant sect. William Bradford, was a Pilgram who recorded the voyagers to the Americas. He was a member of the Separatists, a Protestant Christian sect that broke away from the Church of England and which believed that the Bible was better understood in its original language, Hebrew.
The Separatists sought a refuge away from England where they could practice their version of Christianity, first in Holland and then in North America. Journeying on the Mayflower, they saw parallels with biblical Israelites en route to a new Jerusalem. Years after reaching that new Jerusalem, Bradford’s decision to add a Hebrew section to his manuscript looks like a significant, if overlooked, part of the Pilgrims’ journey.
This is an unpopular opinion but here it goes: Protestantism was a revolutionary movement meant to weaken & divide Christianity by the same enemies we face today.