Page 93 - Gods Plan of the Ages

the creation, has just begun. It is in its infancy. Yahshua is establishing the kingdom of God
inside the lives of a firstfruits group of men and women at this hour. These will be the first
to be resurrected. They in turn will share in the work of reconciling the remainder of the
creation back to the Father, both things in the heavens and on the earth.

Revelation 20:6
Blessed and holy is the one who has a part in the first resurrection; over these the second
death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with Him
for a thousand years.

I Corinthians 6:3
Do you not know that we will judge angels?

When Christ's reign has accomplished its full purpose, all things will be reconciled to
the Father. Then Christ will hand the kingdom over to the Father. There will be no more
need of rule, or of a ruler. Christ will reign to the end of the ages, then time itself will be no
more as all things are summed back up into the Father.
When God's plan of the ages is understood, the error of proclaiming Christ to be an
eternal king, and his kingdom to be forever, becomes apparent. The men tasked with
translating the King James Bible did not understand the ages of God, or the end of all
things. Even if they did perceive these things, the king's edict to not interpret the Scriptures
in such a way as to upset the orthodox view of the church would have constrained them.
When King James of England authorized a group of scholars tocreate a new English
translation of the Bible, he gave them fifteen rules to guide them. These rules were printed
in the front of the early King James Bibles. Among these rules are the following guidelines.

1. The ordinary Bible read in the Church, commonly called the Bishops Bible, to be
followed, and as little altered as the Truth of the original will permit.
2. The names of the Prophets, and the Holy Writers, with the other Names of the Text, to
be retained, as nigh as may be, accordingly as they were vulgarly used.
3. The Old Ecclesiastical Words to be kept, viz. the Word Church not to be translated
Congregation &c.
4. When a Word hath divers Significations, that to be kept which hath been most
commonly used by the most of the Ancient Fathers, being agreeable to the Propriety of
the Place, and the Analogy of the Faith.
14. These translations to be used when they agree better with the Text than the Bishops
Bible: Tyndale's, Matthew's, Coverdale's, Whitchurch's, Geneva.

It was points number 3 and 4 which have caused the greatest harm to this translation.
The king was in effect ordering that the orthodox views of the Church of England should be
supported by the translation. Not only could the Greek word translated as church not be
changed to the word congregation, but the Greek word baptizo could not be translated at
all. The meaning of the Greek word is "immerse," but the practice of the church was to
sprinkle. To get around this obvious contradiction, the translators did not translate the
word at all. They transliterated it, which is to simply keep it in its original Greek form with
only a slight alteration for English reading. Thus baptizo was rendered as baptize, and the
church could interpret this word any way they desired.
Obviously, the teaching of the church in 1611 supported eternal torment. The concept
of the reconciliation of the entire creation was rejected by the Church of England, and the
understanding of the ages and the temporal reign of Christ was not embraced. Therefore,