Bible Bandits
Fr. Campbell
Since
the time of the Apostles, the Holy Catholic Church has preached the
Gospel by the authority granted it by Jesus Christ. The Church was
preaching the Gospel years before Matthew, Mark, Luke and John wrote it
down, and it has continued to this day to fulfill Our Lord’s command to
“preach the Gospel to every creature” (Mk.16:15).
The
Church collected the Scriptures that make up the Bible. But Bible
bandits like Martin Luther threw out the books they didn’t like, and the
Protestant version of the Bible was born. This Bible was then touted as
the sole authority subject to the “private interpretation” of the
believer, thus denying the Church’s authority to preach the Gospel and
interpret the Scriptures. However, it seems “the believers” are willing
to believe much that is not to be found in the Bible.
No
doubt many of us are puzzled by the strange phenomenon of Christian
Zionism. Many Evangelical Christians are enthusiastic supporters of
Jewish Zionism, although not all Jews are Zionists, and many of the Jews
themselves dispute the Zionist claims.
The
Jewish Zionist Movement was founded by Theodor Herzl in 1897. Its chief
purpose was the creation of a Jewish homeland in the territory defined
as the “Land of Israel” in the Bible. They aim to rebuild the Temple,
and restore the ancient religious rites. They believe they have a right
to the lands promised to Abraham by God, but they don’t stop there.
Misinterpreting Old Testament Scriptures, the Jewish Zionists think they
are destined to rule the world.
So
what could have turned famous Protestant preachers like Pat Robertson
and the late Billy Graham into Christian Zionists, enthusiastic
supporters of the aims of Jewish Zionism? Could it have been – the
Scofield Bible?
One
of the schemes of the Jewish Zionists was to alter the Christian view
of Zionism by creating and promoting a pro-Zionist subculture within
Christianity. One Cyrus Scofield (1843-1921) was funded by Jewish
Zionist agents to re-create the King James Version of the Bible by
inserting Zionist-friendly notes in the margins, between verses and
chapters, and on the bottoms of the pages. It was first published in
1909 by Oxford University Press.
Scofield produced a revolutionary Bible that radically altered the context of the King James Version.
Oxford's promoters made the Scofield Bible, with its Christian Zionist
footnotes, a standard for interpreting scripture in Christian churches,
seminaries, and Bible study groups. The
Scofield Reference Bible is widely used in Protestant seminaries in the
North America, from which emerge preachers enthusiastically supportive
of Jewish Zionism, like John Hagee, founder of Christians United for
Israel.
After
Scofield’s death, the Oxford University Press turned the Scofield Bible
into a manual for the Christian worship of the State of Israel.
Scofield’s un-Christian, pro-Jewish theology, has permitted the theft of
Palestine and the squeezing out of the Palestinians, with hardly a
whimper from the Christian mass media evangelists or most other American
church leaders, including the so-called U. S. Conference of Catholic
Bishops.
In his Epistle to the Galatians, St. Paul demolishes the claims of the Scofield Bible:
“The
promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring. He does not say,
‘And to his offsprings,’ as of many; but as of one, ‘And to his
offspring,’ who is Christ… For you are all the children of God through
faith in Christ Jesus. For all who have been baptized into Christ, have
put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek; there is neither slave
nor freeman; there is neither male nor female. For you are all one in
Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ’s, then you are the offspring of
Abraham, heirs according to promise” (Gal.3:15b,16;26-29).
This
makes it clear that to be a natural descendant of Abraham is of no
advantage to those who do not have faith in Jesus Christ. And Scofield
and the Oxford University Press are liars when they try to prove that
those who are known today as “Jews” are the heirs to the promises of
Abraham. We read this whopper on page 1136 of the 1967 edition: “All Jews are natural descendants of Abraham…”
This is absolutely false and absurd. The great majority of the so-called Jews who control Israel today are not
descendants of Abraham. They are the Ashkenazi Jews, descendants of the
Khazars of Eastern Europe. They are imposters, with no right to the
lands of the Bible! Although known as “Jews” they are such neither by
blood nor by religion, because the Jewish religion their ancestors
adopted in the eighth century is not the true religion of the
ancient Jews of the time of Christ, but the false Talmudic Judaism which
blasphemes Jesus Christ and His Holy Mother Mary, and deifies the
Jewish race.
In
Scofield’s Bible we find this blatant lie: “God made an unconditional
promise of blessings through Abram’s seed… to the Nation of Israel to
inherit a specific territory forever.”
What
a deception! The televangelists and their huge following have accepted
this abominable lie, and have led the whole country into vassalage to
the Godless modern State of Israel. Jesus Christ is Abraham’s heir, not
the State of Israel. The promises God made to Abraham are fulfilled in
Jesus Christ. The Jewish Zionists have no true understanding of the
Scriptures. And who would have thought that the “Bible believing
Christians” would have stumbled after them into the darkness?
“Did
you never read in the Scriptures,” said Our Lord to the Pharisees:
“‘The stone which the builders rejected, has become the corner stone; by
the Lord this has been done, and it is wonderful in our eyes’?
Therefore I say to you, that the kingdom of God will be taken away from
you and will be given to a people yielding its fruits” (Mt.21:42,43).
Well,
surely that means us Catholics, does it not? The Protestant sects were
led into the darkness by their poisonous Scofield Bible. That can’t
happen to Catholics, because they are under obedience to the legitimate
teaching authority of the Catholic Church. But the devil finds a way.
Catholics have been led into the darkness by the false shepherds of the
Novus Ordo. As Our Lord said to the Apostles on Mount Olivet, just
before His arrest by the Jewish authorities:
“You
will all be scandalized this night because of me; for it is written, ‘I
will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered’”
(Mt.26:31).
