THE 3 HEAVENLY WITNESSES!

The great stronghold of Christianity that was North Africa was swept away by the locust plague from the desert known as the Muslim Saracens. Their so-called "holy book" denies the fundamental Christian doctrine of the Holy Trinity:

People of the Book, do not transgress the bounds of your religion. Speak nothing but the truth about God. The Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, was no more than God's apostle and His Word which he cast to Mary: a spirit from Him. So believe in God and his apostles and do not say 'Three.' Forbear, and it shall be better for you. God is but one God. God forbid that he should have a son (Sura 4:171, Parallel Arabic-English text).

Their so-called "holy book" also advocates beheading anybody who refuses to deny belief in the Holy Trinity:

When you meet the unbelievers in the battlefield strike off their heads and, when you have laid them low, bind your captives firmly. Then grant them their freedom or take ransom from them, until War shall lay down her burdens (Sura 47:1).

The Saracenic reign of terror was replaced by the Terrible Turks, and beheading was also their favorite method of execution!

Erasmus said the verse was spurious because he could not find it in any Greek manuscripts!!

Erasmus of Rotterdam is famous for collating the Greek New Testament that sparked the blessed Reformation. Erasmus scoured Europe looking for Bible manuscripts, but he claimed that he could not find one Greek manuscript that contained the 3 Heavenly Witnesses.

However, he did not look very carefully, and he chose to ignore several Greek manuscripts that contained the verse in a library in Zurich, Switzerland.

Desiderius Erasmus (1466–1536).

Erasmus scoured Europe for copies of Greek manuscripts. He claimed that he could not find one Greek manuscript that contained I Saint John 5:7, so he rejected the verse as spurious. Erasmus was a close friend of Sir Thomas More, and in his Dialogue Concerning Heresies, More wrote about seeing "old and fair English Bibles in the houses of his friends." Naturally, those Bibles were for the eyes of the clergy only and could not be perused by the laity.

Sir Thomas More (1478–1535).

Erasmus produced a parallel Greek-Latin translation so that "scholars" could see the difference between the two versions. Obviously, I Saint John 5:7 was missing from the Greek version, so Erasmus implied that it was a later interpolation.

Unfortunately for Erasmus, many English Christians were familiar with the verse because it was included in the New Covenant or New Testament of Saint John Wycliffe.

Saint John Wycliffe (1328–1384).

Saint John Wycliffe—the Morning Star of the Reformation—was a professor at Oxford University. While teaching at the university he discovered a copy of the Old Latin Version. That version included the all-important verse, and it was included in the English version of the Latin Vulgate! Erasmus was forced to include it in his 1522 edition of the Greek New Testament.

Babylonians burning the bones of Saint John Wycliffe.

That is how the English version of the Latin Vulgate included a verse which was missing from the Latin Vulgate in the Vatican library....For translating the Bible into English from the Old Latin Version, the Babylonians dug up and burned his bones . . . 44 years after his death!

Sir Isaac "Newton" and author Edward Gibbon were bitter foes of the 3 Heavenly Witnesses!!

Sir Isaac "Newton" is famous for his massive Latin tome entitled the Principia—the greatest work of science fiction ever written....Because none of his peers could understand it, "Newton" saw that as proof of his superior intelligence!

As a professor at Trinity College, Cambridge, "Newton" spent many years studying the history of Christianity in order to disprove the Holy Trinity!

Bust of Sir Isaac "Newton" (1642/43–1726/27).

During his lifetime, "Newton" was afraid to publish his heretical views so all of his theological books were published after his death. His Two Notable Corruptions of Scripture attacked I Saint John 5:7 and I Timothy 3:16. Gibbon is famous for his massive 6-volume History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. That "historian" didn't know that Emperor Jesus Constantine and George Washington were born in Britannia!

Author Edward Gibbon (1737–1794).

Gibbon couldn't refrain from using his poison pen to vent his sarcasm at the 3 Heavenly Witnesses:

The memorable text which asserts the unity of the THREE who bear witness in heaven, is condemned by the universal silence of the orthodox Fathers, ancient versions, and authentic MAS. It was first alleged by the Catholic Bishops whom summoned to the Conference of Carthage. An allegorical interpretation, in the form perhaps of a marginal note, invaded the text of the Latin Bibles, which were renewed and corrected in a dark period of ten centuries. After the invention of printing, the editors of the Greek Testament yielded to their own prejudices, or those of the times; and the pious fraud, which was embraced with equal zeal at Rome and at Geneva, has been infinitely multiplied in every country and every language of modern Europe). (Gibbon, Decline and Fall, VI, pp. 291-293).

If both of those men were alive at the time of Saint John Wycliffe they would have been delighted to carry the firewood that burned his bones!

A 19th century Bible manuscript was pawned off as the oldest Bible in the world!!

The burning issue during the 19th century was the identity of the true Greek text of the New Testament. In 1844, "biblical scholar" Constantin von Tischendorf set out for Egypt in order to "discover" the oldest Greek manuscripts of the New Testament.

Before sailing to Cairo, he stopped off at the Vatican, where he had a private audience with Pope Gregory XVI. That was the same Pope Gregory who condemned Bible Societies as "pests."

Constantin von Tischendorf, S.J. (1815–1874).

In 1844, sinister Jesuit Constantin von Tischendorf "discovered" a Greek version of the New Testament in St. Catherine's Monastery in Mount Sinai, Egypt. It was hailed in England as the oldest extant copy of the New Testament. Obviously, it was missing I Saint John 5:7. When Greek paleographer Constantine Simonides saw the manuscript in Liverpool, he realized immediately that it was the same manuscript that he had written in Mount Athos!

Constantine Simonides (1820–1867).

As a brilliant young paleographer, Constantine was commissioned by his Uncle Benedict—head monk in the Mount Athos Monastery—to produce a copy of the Greek Bible as a present for Tsar Nicholas I of Russia:

About the end of the year 1839, the venerable Benedict, my uncle, spiritual head of the monastery Panteleemon in Mount Athos, wished to present to the Emperor Nicholas I of Russia, some gift from the sacred mountain, in grateful acknowledgement of the presents which had from time to time been offered to the monastery of the martyr. Not possessing anything which he deemed acceptable, he consulted with the herald Procopius and the Russian monk Paul, and they decided upon a copy of the Old and New Testaments, written according to the ancient form, in capital letters, and on parchment. (Cooper, The Forging of Codex Sinaiticus, p. 150).

The Bible was to look authentic as a work produced in the 4th century. He was assisted by the monks and he called the finished manuscript Codex Simonides.

Mount Athos Monastery in Greece.

Around 1839, Constantine Simonides was commissioned to produce a copy of the ancient Greek Bible as a present for the Tsar of Russia. Constantine used the ancient Greek script and it was written on ancient unused parchment! That Bible never reached the Tsar because it ended up in the Saint Catherine's Monastery where it was "discovered" by Tischendorf.

Saint Catherine's Monastery in Mount Sinai where Tischendorf "discovered" Codex Simonides.

Simonides could identity the manuscript as his own work because of certain identifying marks he had placed in the text. However, he was ruthlessly attacked by the Jesuits because they planned on using that counterfeit to replace the traditional Greek Textus Receptus.

Simonides met an untimely death in 1867 because he refused to keep silent about the massive fraud perpetuated by the Jesuits!

Tischendorf made 3 trips to the Mount Sinai Monastery. The first trip he returned with 43 pages of the codex to Leipzig University in Germany. The second trip in 1853 he returned empty-handed. His third trip was sponsored by Tsar Alexander II of Russia, so the remainder of the manuscript ended up in the Russian National Library in St. Petersburg.

The Joseph Stalin double sold Codex Sinaiticus to his British sponsors!!

In 1933, the Joseph Stalin double regime was broke so the double decided to sell Codex Sinaitiucs to the British Library for £100,000. That was a colossal sum during the Great Depression! Imagine a "Communist" dictator raising money by selling a very rare "Bible" manuscript! It was not incongruous because "Stalin" and Codex Sinaiticus were both fakes!

The British Library purchased Codex Sinaiticus from the Joseph Stalin double in 1933.

The codex is now split into four unequal portions: 347 leaves in the British Library in London (199 of the Old Testament, 148 of the New Testament), 12 leaves and 14 fragments in the Saint Catherine's Monastery, 43 leaves in the Leipzig University Library, and fragments of 3 leaves in theRussian National Library in Saint Petersburg.

The Vatican Library collection of manuscripts and books is just the tip of the iceberg!

The Vatican Library is aboveground and contains a vast collection of books and manuscripts. However, the bulk of the Vatican collection, dating back 2000 years, is located in the Secret Archives!

The Vatican Library is located aboveground, but access is strictly limited.

Most of the manuscripts and books written during the past 2000 years are kept in the vast Secret Archives. The archives are purported to stretch for 30 miles (48 km) under the city of Roma. Copies of the original Latin Italia version are kept there.

The Vatican Secret Archives contains millions of manuscripts and books!

That is the one place on earth where you can see complete, uncorrupted copies of the Holy Scriptures. Of course, they are off limits to the public, and anybody seeking access to the aboveground library is carefully vetted!

The twin of Codex Sinaiticus is called Codex Vaticanus, and all of the modern versions of the "Bible" are based on the those 2 corrupt manuscripts! Of course, they all omit the 3 Heavenly Witnesses!

The Messiah promised to preserve his WORDS to all generations:

The words of JEHOVAH are pure words, as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them O JEHOVAH, thou shalt preserve them from this generation forever (Psalm 12: 6-7).

As much as Apollyon rages against the Holy Scriptures he cannot change one single WORD because he is a spirit....What is beyond belief is the fact that throughout the long centuries he has found a legion of human helpers to do his diabolical work:

For I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds to these things, Elohim will add to him the plagues that are written in this book; and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, Elohim shall take away his part from the Book of Life, from the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book (Apocalypse 22:18-19).

Changing the Scriptures did not begin with Jesus Constantine because the scribes in Jerusalem were changing the Hebrew Scriptures during the 40 years prior to the destruction of Old Jerusalem.