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Though if I had, he should still have been aware that none of the apocryphal books were written in the
Hebrew language, but in Greek, except one which was in Latin. None of the apocryphal writers laid claim
to have met God somewhere upon a mountain so the inspiration to write them didn‘t come via that way,
and is the said reason they were rejected by certain quarters of the church, for not being the word of God,
though maybe a more like a ―legal record‖. It‘s been said apocryphal books weren‘t acknowledged as
sacred scriptures by the Jews, custodians of the Hebrew Scriptures, and the Apocrypha was written prior to
the New Testament. The Jewish people rejected and destroyed the Apocrypha after the overthrow of
Jerusalem in 70 AD, perhaps because the name wasn‘t on the deeds, and it shows that the land-rights
should belong the Beta-Israel if anyone at all. The Apocryphal books were not permitted among the sacred
books during the first four centuries of the Christian church [3] .
Antleman goes on to say; in the instructions God gave Moses, he said: ―When a prophet speaketh in the
name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, - that is the thing which the Lord hath not
spoken‖. By this test Esdras [Ezra the Scribe] writings are inspired. Antleman continues to say: ―Already
his remarkable prophecies pertaining to the activities of two heads of the ‗three headed eagle‘ have been
fulfilled in detail in the rise and fall of Fascism and Nazism. The Communists are even now moving to
fulfil the allotted part assigned to them under the symbolism of the remaining head‖. Esdras clearly
foresaw the destruction of both the Nazi and Fascist governments and gives the results which will follow
the evil aggression of the Communists. [And perhaps it was in reference to Esdra, as to where Albert Pike
got his so called prophecies in 1891, and his theory on the Three World Wars]. [5]
Another reference to the Eagle from Dr Vendyl Jones, is concerning the ―Eagle nation‖ of the United
States, [the Black Nobility and the Holy See which is an eagle symbol, its government having three heads
[Heads of government, Judicial, Executive & Legislative], thus an obvious correlation to Esdras and the
three-headed eagle in the fifth vision which concerns an eagle with three heads and twenty wings [twelve
large wings and eight smaller wings over against them]. The eagle is rebuked by a lion and then burned.
The explanation of this vision is that the eagle refers to the fourth kingdom of the vision of Daniel, with the
wings and heads as rulers. The final scene is the triumph of the Messiah over the empire.] [6]
In 1826 the Apocrypha, was removed from the protestant editions of the King James Version of the
Bible. It used to be sandwiched between the Old and New Testaments. This followed the format that
Luther had used. Luther prefaced the Apocrypha with a statement: ―Apocrypha-that is, books which are
not regarded as equal to the Holy Scriptures, and yet are profitable and good to read‖. - King James
Version Defended page 98. - In 1599, 12 years before the King James Bible was published, King James
said this about the Apocrypha: ―As to the Apocriphe bookes, I omit them because I am no Papist [as I said
before]...‖ - King James Charles Stewart Basilicon Doron, page 13 - In his; ―A Premonition to All Most
Mightie Monarches‖, King James said; ―...Is it a small corrupting of the Scriptures to make all, or the
most part of the Apocrypha of equall faith with the canonicall Scriptures...?‖ The sixth article of the
Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England, - 1571 edition, the church of England published the
authorised [King James Version] which states that the Old and New Testaments are the Bible and the
apocrypha is not: ―In the name of the Holy, we do understand those canonical books of the old and new
Testament, of whose authority was never any doubt in the Church...‖
Now concerning the apocrypha it states; ―...And the other bookes, [as Hierome sayeth], the Churche
doth reade for example of life and instruction of manners: but yet doth it not applie them to establish any
doctrine‖. - Philip Schaff, Creeds of Christendom. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1977, Vol. III, pp.
489-491. - The Hampton Court Document came as a result of the famous Hampton Court Conference of
1604 when King James authorised the translation of the Bible that would one day bear his name.
Concerning the apocrypha and the Church of England, it states: The Apocrypha, that hath some
repugnancy to the canonical scriptures, shall not be read... Puritans and Presbyterians lobbied for the
complete removal of the Apocrypha from the Bible, and in 1825 the British and Foreign Bible Society
agreed. From that time on, the Apocrypha has been eliminated from practically all English Bibles, with
Catholic Bibles and some pulpit Bibles being excepted. [3]
Jerome [340-420] rejected the Apocrypha: ―As the Church reads the books of Judith and Tobit and
Maccabees but does not receive them among the canonical Scriptures, so also it reads Wisdom and
Ecclesiasticus for the edification of the people, not for the authoritative confirmation of doctrine‖. Other
non-canonical books include the Pseudepigrapha which contains; Enoch, Michael the Archangel, and
Jannes and Jambres. Many of these books falsely claim to have been written by various Old Testament
patriarchs. They were composed between 200 B.C. and 100 A.D. [3] There are lots of these
unauthenticated books like The Assumption of Moses, Apocalypse of Elijah, and Ascension of Isaiah.