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20 Hope of Israel Ministries BIBLE Correspondence Course Lesson 42

Holy Scriptures that have been handed down to
us. The text in all fundamentals AGREES with
what we have in our PRESENT-DAY BIBLES!
The only differences are minor spelling changes
and misplaced words, changes that represent the
carelessness of unofficial scribes who copied
that text of the book of Isaiah.
In other words, the present Masoretic
Hebrew text, which is a continuation of the
official Old Testament Hebrew, is far superior in
preservation to the unofficial copy of Isaiah
made 2000 years ago. Furthermore, we have the
wonderful knowledge that the ancient scroll of
Isaiah, just like the printed copies of Isaiah in
any modern-day Bible, whether Hebrew, Greek, The first 15 lines of the Isaiah Manuscript found
English or German, has the SAME 66 CHAP- in 1947 in a cave near the Dead Sea.
TERS of our present-day text.
of the law to fail" (Luke 16:17). Modern critics
Until this find, the oldest and fullest
assume the Messiah was wrong. They think the
Manuscript in Hebrew was the Codex Petro-
Old Testament has not been accurately pre-
politanus, dating from about 916 A.D. This
served. But they are wrong!
proves how accurate the Judahites have been in
1. Has the Bible been hopelessly corrup-
copying, generation after generation, the books
ted? Can we ever be sure what the words of the
of the Old Testament. HOW CAN ANYONE
Messiah really were? Matthew 24:35, Mark
DENY THAT YEHOVAH GOD IS GIVING
13:31 and Luke 21:33.
DIVINE PROTECTION TO THE BOOK
COMMENT: What words those! --
THAT CONTAINS HIS COMMANDS AND
“Heaven and earth shall pass away, but MY
REVELATIONS TO MAN!
WORDS SHALL NOT PASS AWAY"!
Between 1949 and 1951 additional man-
The Messiah’s words -- the very words
uscripts were located in other caves near the
recorded by the apostles in the New Testament --
Dead Sea. In these scrolls were 19 books of the
shall NOT pass away!
Old Testament -- all telling the same story as the
Of course the MODERN CRITICS
Isaiah Manuscript!
prefer to quote the Messiah as saying: “Heaven
and earth CANNOT pass away, but my words
Who Has Preserved the Bible?
SHALL PASS AWAY!" But these critics are
wrong! Yeshua is right. His words have not pas-
Through whom has YEHOVAH God
sed away. The critics have merely been unwil-
preserved His authoritative written Word accu-
ling to look for his words where he said they
rately?
could be found! They have, instead, looked else-
The Messiah said: “Till heaven and earth
where so that they WOULD not find the Mes-
pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass
siah’s words.
from the law till all be fulfilled" (Matthew 5:
Notice where we ought to look for the
18). Has this happened? Was the Messiah right?
authoritative text of the Old Testament. Read it
Or has the Law -- the Old Testament -- been
from the Revised Standard Version which the
hopelessly lost and corrupted?
modern critics have themselves translated:
Luke quotes Yeshua as saying: “And it is
“Then what advantage has the Jew?"
easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle
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