Q: “IS THE ESV A DOUBLE MINDED VERSION?”
Q: “IS THE ESV A DOUBLE MINDED VERSION?”
A: “YES … GUILTY YOUR HONOUR … BY ITS OWN ADMISSION”
Q: Did
Moses cover his face before or after
speaking to Israel?
A: The
ESV says BOTH!
The King James Bible says only BEFORE!
Background:
Dear Reader, if you’d spent 40 days and nights with
the Lord, your face would be as bright as a 4,000 watt bulb as well
(1Corinthians 13:12).
So much so that Moses had to cover his face before
talking to Israel … you know … Israel were not ready then,
or now
(with Jesus Christ), of receiving so much light from God.
The
King James Bible gives the account as follows …
“And
he (Moses)
was there with the LORD forty days and forty
nights; …
when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of
testimony
in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not
that the
skin of his face shone while he talked with him (God). And
when
Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin
of
his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him. …
and he gave
them in commandment all that the LORD had spoken with him in mount
Sinai. And TILL
Moses
had done speaking with them, he put a veil on his face.”
(Exodus 34:28-31,32-33)
And
this account agrees with the new testament of the King James Bible, in
Paul’s
account
(2 Corinthians 3:13-16)
with Moses covering his face BEFORE
he
speaks to Israel.
Ari
says to Moses …“Hey Mo’, where you bin? You’re glowing Bro’ … put a
mask on
your face or something! Arrgghh! Your face is too bright for us!”
But
hold the phone, let’s see what the ESV has for us …
“And
when Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a
veil over
his face.” (Exodus 34:33)
(English Standard Version ESV)
In
the ESV, Moses puts a veil over his face AFTER speaking
to
Israel.
“Hang
on … but isn’t that the opposite of what the King James Bible says?”
Correct!
But
then the ESV also contradicts itself in the ESV new
testament
with …
“…
Moses
who would put a veil over his face so that the Israelites might
not gaze
at the outcome of what was being brought to an end. But their minds
were
hardened. For to this day when they read the old covenant, that the
same veil
remains unlifted. Yes, to this day whenever Moses is read a veil
lies over
their hearts. But when one turns to the Lord the veil is removed.”
(2 Corinthians 3:13-16)
So
in the ESV old testament,
Moses puts a veil over his face WHEN
he has FINISHED
speaking.
But
in the ESV new testament,
Moses puts a veil over his face BEFORE
he
speaks.
WHAT
ARE WE TO CONCLUDE?
The
ESV is a double minded version.
Now,
the meaning of being double minded is to be indecisive, wavering,
two faced (how appropriate in this instance) or ambivalent.
The
word
“wavering” comes from the word “wave” … and waves are absolutely flexible,
unpredictable and never permanent … especially in a storm.
Isaiah
says that troubled seas do not rest and their waters bring up
mire and
dirt (Isaiah 57:20).
Jude
calls them raging waves that foam out their own shame
that are
driven by wind and tossed (Jude
1:13).
God
says that he does not give wisdom liberally to waverers … the double
minded …
they get nothing!
Furthermore,
a double minded man is unstable in all his ways (James 1:8).
There
are three scriptures that describe the unstable man …
the first
two about adultery and fornication and the third
about
wresting the scriptures to destruction …
1.
“Unstable
as
water, thou (Reuben)
shalt not excel; because thou
wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went
up to my
couch.”
(Genesis 49:4)
2.
“Having
eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin;
beguiling
unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous
practices; cursed
children:”
(2 Peter 2:14)
3.
Peter
speaking “As also in all his (Paul) epistles, speaking in
them of
these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which
they that
are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other
scriptures, unto their own destruction.”
(2 Peter 3:16)
So
Dear Reader, if you are looking for a Bible with wisdom, certainly
don’t touch
the ESV as the warnings are obvious.
But
if God is not the author of confusion
(1Corinthians 14:33) ….
Mmmm! Who
is?
It
is Satan … infiltrating churches with Rome’s
version of Aleph
(Sinaiticus) and
B (Vaticanus) … published under the title of the English
Standard
version
ESV.
But
with regard to the fullest accuracy of the ESV, the ESV preface
categorically ASSURES us with the following …
“To
this end each word and phrase in the ESV has been CAREFULLY
weighed
against the original Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek, to ensure the
FULLEST
ACCURACY and CLARITY
and to avoid under-translating or
overlooking
any nuance of the
original text.”
What?
Pull the other leg! Just the opposite!
Ooops!
Talk about shooting yourself in the foot!
Guess
the ESV committee must have been double minded, wavering and
unstable … when it came to Moses … who in their opinion …
must have been
double minded about his veil.
Harley
Hitchcock
This
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