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  Best of Bob | Up and Coming Sabbath Shows…and How the Bible in English Came to Be

This coming Sabbath day, we are going to have a, or I should say two shows, the morning Sabbath show and then the entertainment show for the nighttime. We always do a short story or a video. Last week we did a movie, Corey Temboom’s story, The Hiding Place, which was a long movie.We put the whole thing up and didn’t look like we had that many viewers. It looked like maybe three or four, but three or four people can see the real story about people who died in the name of Jesus Christ, saving Jews from the Nazis in World War II. So, we’re never gonna have a big audience.I already know that, what I’m doing. What I believe is what God’s will is, that you should be informed about things that normally the mainstream media and all the mainstream TV shows just don’t want to inform you about. So this coming Sabbath day, we’re going to have the story of the King James Bible and the story of the Bible in general, and we’re also going to have the story of William Tyndale for the movie.It’s a documentary on William Tyndale for the 7-11 p.m. program, and I just wanted to get early in this week to talk about the Bible. William Tyndale, the Bible, the English Bible, and you, because today you take a lot of things for granted. For example, you take your iPhone for granted, and especially if you’re young enough, you don’t even remember not having an iPhone in your life.Well, I remember not having an iPhone. I remember not having a cell phone. I remember going back to the days where you had a CB in a car if you had that, and your home phone was the only way people could get a hold of you, and actually in business back in like 1979, people had beepers because that’s how you got a hold of somebody.You beep somebody with your telephone number, and they would stop at a payphone and call you. I bet you there are people today in the United States of America that don’t even have never seen and don’t even know what a payphone is, and yet you used to get off an airplane in anairport, and you would walk by literally a hundred payphones on the way to the rampway to get your car or to find a taxi cab. There’s not a payphone to be found anymore.You would go to a restaurant. There’d be a payphone in a restaurant. You would go to a gas station.There would be a payphone in the gas station. On the city green or on the side of the post office, you would see a payphone. Well, today, because of cell phones, you don’t see payphones anymore.So there are many things we take for granted. You take for granted, for example, that you can go to the supermarket and you can buy peaches all year round. Well, you couldn’t do that back in the 1960s, even the 1970s or the 1980s until the world trade where they found the peach crop that goes all the way around the world.So your peaches in one time of the year comes from Georgia, one time comes from California,then later on it comes from maybe Australia or even South America or maybe some Africancountry, maybe grown peaches. I’m not an expert on peaches. But what I’m saying is you can findtoday what 25 years ago you couldn’t find in a supermarket because we take all this stuff forgranted.Well, the biggest thing you take for granted is the Bible that’s sitting somewhere in your home because 85% of all American homes have a Bible. That’s what statistics said. I just looked it up this morning.75% to 80% of homes have a Bible. And probably 95% of the people in those homes have never even looked or read that Bible. And if they did, they did soak a few pages and put it down.That’s why whenever, and I buy a lot of Bibles on auctions and I buy Bibles, some of them are 200 or 300 years old, a lot of the which looks like they’ve never been read when you buy one. It’s pretty good. If you buy a Bible from the 1960s, 70s or 80s, for example, a really nice looking Bible, I can guarantee you almost every page has never been opened.And because people have the Bibles, but they don’t read them. And they don’t realize the blood that is all over your King James Bible. No, you don’t see that blood.But the blood of the people that brought you that Bible that you take for granted is all over that Bible. You see, the Catholic church, it was a death penalty to transcribe the Bible, the Latin Vulgate Bible into any other language. It was even against the law.If you were a lay person to have even a Catholic Bible in your possession, if you did, you would be severely, you wouldn’t be killed for that, but you would be severely punished. But if you had an English version of a New Testament or a Bible, or in one case, a little girl that had the Lord’s Prayer in English, our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, in English, her father was killed, burned at the stake because she had that prayer in English and not in Latin. He would have been severely whipped, by the way, if he even had it in Latin and because he was a lay person.That is the state, less than 500 years ago, that the entire civilized, or so-called, civilized world was under. And to the people like William Tyndale and Martin Luther, the people who rebelled against the Catholic church, and in the case of William Tyndale, made an English, the very first person to make an English copy of the New Testament, of the Torah, the first five books of the Moses. Later on, the Judge is the second part of the Bible, and smuggled them into England, 30, 40, 50,000 copies.People were hungrily wanting to buy them. And what happened to him for doing so was he was called a heretic. He was finally found out and discovered where his location was.He was betrayed by a so-called friend who was a traitor, and he was arrested, and he was burned at the stake. Now, because he was a scholar, he was allowed to be strangled to death before they burned him at the stake. And his prayer that he was allowed to give his last speech at that stake before he was strangled was, God opened the eyes of the king, and within 10 years, King Henry’s eyes were opened, and a Bible was printed in English.What no one knew at the time was that Bible was the Bible written by William Tyndale. And what you don’t know to now, most people do not know, that almost 60% of the King James Version of the Bible is William Tyndale’s translation. Look forward to it Saturday.This is Bob Barney, The Plain Truth Today. Thank you for listening.