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After Yeshua (Jesus) Died, His Teachings Were Perverted by Many Yeshua’s Teachings were Perverted by Paul, Emperor Constantine, the Vatican, the Rothschilds and many others. Paul Perverted Yeshua’s Teachings: Paul lied to say he was an Apostle, when he was NOT, and he forced a structuring of the Church that made Priests into Leaders that weren’t subject to the Laity (parishioners), which eventually led to rule by the Vatican and its minions. Thomas Jefferson said “Paul was the first corrupter of the doctrines of Jesus.” Albert Schweitzer said “Paul avoids quoting the teaching of Jesus” Carl Jung stated “Paul hardly ever allows the real Jesus of Nazareth to get a word in.” in US News and World Report Apr, 22/1991, p.55 According to www.godlikeproductions.com: Paul was not an apostle of Jesus, but falsely claimed to be in Ephesians 1:1. Rev. 2:2 talks about the 7 eastern churches that found liars that claimed to be apostles (like Paul) were not apostles. Paul put the officials of the church over the laity, as did the Nicolaitans. As a result of his rejection as a liar, Paul said “This you know, that all those in Asia have turned away from me.” 2Timothy 1:15 “Nicolaitanes” is that the bishops and prelates of the Church have gained a triumphal conquest over the laiton — the laity. “But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the NICOLAITANS, which I also hate.” (Revelation 2:6) Paul’s Nicolaitan-like words: “We beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you; and to esteem them very highly in love for their work´s sake. And be at peace among yourselves,” (I Thessalonians 5:12-13). “Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine,” (ITimothy 5:17). 1 Corr 12: 28: And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers. Eph. 4:11 And he gave some, apostles, and some prophets and some evangelists and some pastors and some teachers. “The elders which are among you exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed. Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight [not rulership] thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind; Neither as being lords over God´s heritage, but being ensamples to the flock,” (I Peter 5:1-3). ) Paul claimed to be an apostle to the Ephesians. “Paul, an apostle of Yeshua by the will of God, To the saints who are in Ephesus,” Ephesians 1:1 NKJV “I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars” (Rev 2:2) In Revelation, the 7 Asian churches cast away the liar that claimed to be an apostle (Paul). Paul, the liar, said: “Paul, an apostle of Yeshua by the will of God, To the saints who are in Ephesus,” Ephesians 1:1 NKJV
Emperor Constantine next changed Church Doctrine: Roman Emperor Constantine was actually a worshipper of the Sun god. Emperor Constantine summoned the first General Council of the Church of Niceae, in 325, to make Sunday the day of worship instead of Sabbath (the day commanded by the 4th Commandment) and to declare Yeshua to be of the same substance as the Father. 2 more Councils were convened in 381 AD, 428 AD, and 435 AD, which gave further powers to the Vatican and led to the false Concept of Trinity. The search for basic truth deteriorated into a widely accepted doctrine which was influenced, not by logic and biblical research, but by politics and human egotism. Trinity Is Man-Made Concept The facts, therefore, prove that the doctrine of the Trinity does not appear in the Bible[(15)Dictionary of the Bible, by J. McKenzie, c.1965] “nor did Jesus and his followers intend to contradict the Shema in the Old testament: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord’ (Deut. 6:4)…. The doctrine developed gradually over several centuries and through many controversies…. By the end of the 4th century the doctrine of the Trinity took substantially the form it has maintained ever since.”[(16)The New Encyclopedia Britannica, Vol. 10, Micropedia Ready Reference, c.1976] There Is Only One Supreme God Although there are many words translated as “god” in the English language, the Bible clearly states that thee is but one true eternal Supreme deity and He has a name. In Bible manuscripts, God Almighty is referred to by the letters YHWH or JHWH, generally called the Tetragrammaton. The Tetragrammaton appears in the Hebrew texts over 6,800 times and is transliterated as Yahweh or Jehovah. While many Bible translators prefer “Yahweh,” the most used English pronunciation is “Jehovah.” “That men may know that thou, whose name alone is Jehovah, art the most high over all the earth.” (Psalms 83:18, KJV) Jesus was Jehovah’s only direct creation, “…his only begotten Son….” (John 3:16, KJV) Thereafter, Jehovah used Jesus as the instrument through which everything else was created. This did not mean that Jesus was a co-creator with Jehovah, but only a servant of God who carried out the Almighty’s will. Jesus always credited Jehovah with creation (see Matthew 19:4-6). Another section of the Bible wrongly used to support Trinity theory is in 1 John 5. The king James Version states: “For there are three that bear record [in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost; and these three are one. And there are three that bear witness in earth], the spirit, and the water, and the blood; and these three agree in one.” (1 John 5:7-8, KJV) The oldest and most reliable Bible manuscripts do not include the words within the brackets in the above scripture and most recognized Bible scholars do not recognize them as part of the original text. The Revised Standard Version states: “And the Spirit is the witness, because the Spirit is the truth. There are three witnesses, the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and these three agree.” (1 John 5:7-8, also see NIV, MEB, NEB, TLB, GNB, NAS) Read more at https://sites.google.com/site/dnageneticsresearch/facts-fictions/according-to-research-the-trinity-doctrine-is-not-in-the-original-scriptures. Thomas Jefferson’s studies it was the world renowned English Unitarian minister and scientist, Joseph Priestley, who had the most profound impact on his thought. According to Priestley’s Corruptions of Christianity, published in 1782, and many other of his books, the teachings of Jesus and his human character were obscured and obfuscated in the early Christian centuries. As the Church Fathers adapted Christianity to Mediterranean-primarily Greek-forms of thought, they contrived doctrines altogether foreign to Biblical thought, such as the doctrine of the Trinity. Jefferson assumed that a thoroughly reformed Christian faith, true to Jesus’ teaching, would be purged of all Greek influence and doctrinal absurdity. Writing in 1803 to the Universalist physician Benjamin Rush, Jefferson wrote, “To the corruptions of Christianity, I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only sense in which he wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others; ascribing to himself every human excellence, and believing he never claimed any other.” Jefferson’s christology is apparent in … letters, and also in one of his most famous writings, the “Jefferson Bible.” The Vatican then became a Monster that Destroyed Many and Tried to Keep People from Reading the Bible and from Having any Say in Directing Christianity. Everyone knows about the Inquisition to kill all Opponents to the Vatican. The Best Example of the Opposite of the Vatican’s Control-Freak Direction was the group of Albigensien/Cathar Believers, who showed that the Church could work great without Appointed Priests. Gnostic Christian leaders were killed, their books burned, and crusades were even led to eradicate “good christians”, like the Cathars/Albigensians in southern France. The Knights Templar with the Knights Hospitalier joined the Crusade against the Cathars, but after the Knights Templar saw how nobly the Cathars died, praying for their torturers, even while burning at the stake, many of the Knights Templar joined the Cathars in their last stand. What did the Gnostics believe that was so heretical? The core of their teaching was to go within and experience God directly: “Gnosis” was greek for “knowing”. They did not agree with the overstructurization of the Roman Catholic church, so they were a direct threat to Papal dominion. The Pope had to get rid of them before their beliefs spread and the Pope’s infallibility was questioned further. Spirit-led Church vs. Literal-Word Conformist Dictators When did this separation of the church into a structured “Literalist” branch as opposed to a Gnostic spiritual branch begin? According to the Nag Hammadi Scrolls’ “Gospel of Mary”, “Gospel of Thomas”, “Gospel of Phillip”, “the Sophia of Christ”, the schism started between Peter and Mary Magdalene. It appears that Mary Magdalene was Jesus’s “beloved disciple”, and even his wife (Gospel of Phillip says she is the companion, partner or consort of Jesus, and Jesus kissed Mary frequently. (see the essay “Mary Magdalene and the Disciple Jesus Loved” by Esther A. de Boor). Mary Magdalene was the first to see Jesus at his resurrection, and so was the apostle to the apostles. In the book “The Da Vinci Code”, Dan Brown writes on pp.247-248: “At this point in the gospels, Jesus suspects He will soon be captured and crucified. So he gives Mary Magdalene instruction on how to carry on His Church after he is gone.” There are hints of tender moments between Jesus & Mary Magdalene in the Gospel of Mary, the Gospel of Phillip, & other Nag Hammadi scrolls, as well as in John 20, which hints at 2 beloved disciples. Was Mary Magdalene the most Beloved Disciple of Jesus? – Peter’s Jealousy In the Nag Hammadi documents, Peter is portrayed as jealous of Mary, and views Mary as a woman who does not know her place. In the Nag Hammadi “Dialog of the Savior”, Mary is described as a leading disciple in conversation with Jesus and the other disciples, utters wisdom sayings attributed elsewhere to Jesus and she is described as “a woman who understood everything”. In the Sophia of Christ, she is presented as the most prominent of all the disciples.” According to Karen L. King in “Why all the Controversy? Mary in the Gospel of Mary”, Mary was an exemplary disciple. Mary does not falter when the Savior departs (p.73) and “Her character proves the truth of her teaching, and by extension, authorizes the teaching of the Gospel of Mary – and it does so by opposing her to those apostles who reject women’s authority and preach another gospel, laying down laws beyond that which the Savior taught.” (p.74). a Pope labeled Mary Magdalene a Prostitute – to Vilify her Pope Gregory in the 6th Century felt so threatened by Mary that he wrongly interpreted Luke 7:36-50 (on the prostitute) as being Mary Magdalene, vilifying her for centuries. Peter, then Paul tried to structure the Church with only male leadership. The Gnostics felt men and women both could act for Jesus, and women were allowed to baptize and do other things. The Roman Catholic church claimed these rights only for male priests, and therefore the Cathars were annihilated by Crusade.
The Catholic Church became Power-Hungry: Merchants could only sell their wares in front of a Cathedral, under the watchful eyes of the Knights Templar, who collected tribute for the right to sell. The Knights Templar were the middlemen of Money for the Vatican, and even Kings had to deal with them, until a French King killed them and took the money they had. The Knights Templar had plundered the Middle East for the Vatican. When an English King refused to allow a Rothschild Central Bank, the Normans conquered them and created one. Watch “The Knights Templar & The True History of Friday the 13th”: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT-2zaaUXrU. More Recently, the Rothschilds have perverted Bible Interpretation with PreTrib Rapture and created the State of Israel: Rothschild’s 3 main ways to confound Christians are 1) the Darby misinterpretation of bible verses that were understood properly until 1830, when Darby BS misinterpreted them to make the Rapture PreTribulation instead of PostTribulation, at the time of the 2nd Coming of Christ. 2) Scofield’s misleading annotations to twist bible verses to promote the takeover of half Palestine by Ashkenazi Khazarian Mafia, the Turks that were not blood of Abraham, who stole the land from Christians and Arabs. 3) the actual takeover of half Palestine by Ashkenazi Khazarian Mafia, the Turks that were not blood of Abraham, who stole the land from Christians and Arabs in the territory the got, then from the rest of Palestine. Revelation and the Rothschild connection proliberty.com/observer/20090404.htm. after the curse of Balaam, God told Moses that if Israel did not keep His commands, stipulations and decrees, He would destroy them from the face of the land (Deut 6:15-16), which he has done twice—In 585 BC and again in 70 AD. the State of Israel has violated God’s Commandments not to Steal and Kill. You support Lucifer by supporting Darby, Scofield, Rothschilds, and Israel. Who (or what) is the “state” of Israel: The Rothschild connection The current Armageddon plot was hatched in the late 18th century by a Khazarian, or “Ashkenazi” Jew, whose family had migrated to Germany from the area by the Caspian Sea now called Georgia. His name was Mayer Amschel Bauer (1744-1812), which he changed to Mayer Amschel Rothschild, (“Rot,” meaning “Red,” and “Schild,” meaning “Sign”) after the red hexagram which his father, a moneylender, placed over the door of his bank in Frankfurt, Germany. The red hexagram geometrically and numerically translates into the number 666. Rothschild claimed to be Jewish because the Khazars, descendents of Noah’s youngest son Japheth (as opposed to being descendants of Abraham, a descendent of Noah’s oldest son Shem), had converted to the Jewish faith by sovereign edict in AD 740. That the Rothschilds were genetically unrelated to the biblical Jews was inconsequential to them since they intended to redefine Bible prophecy to better serve their long-term economic goals. Rothschild became associated with the court of Prince William IX of Hesse-Hanau, one of the richest royal houses in Europe and quickly discovered that loaning money to governments and royalty is more profitable than loaning to commoners, as the loans are bigger and secured by the nation’s taxes and resource wealth. In 1770, Rothschild drew up plans for the creation of the Illuminati, which Dr. Henry Makow in his book Illuminati: The Cult that Hijacked the World (2008) (see ad page 4), tells us is based upon the Talmud (a book of interpretations of the Rabbinical [Pharisee] Jews that is full of contempt for non-Jews) and the Cabala, the basis of modern occultism, sex worship, violence, fear and the “New Age Movement” that has engulfed the world. As a result of this influence, the arc of Western Civilization has gone from “ascent”—belief in God—focused on the higher centers of love, joy, purity and selflessness, to descent—belief in Satan—focused on the lower centers of consciousness like those of power, wealth and physical gratification. The apex was called the “Enlightenment,” when the “Illuminated ones”—a Luciferian term meaning “keepers of the light”—took over for God. Typical of Satan, decline into moral darkness is represented as light. In 1776 Adam Weishaupt, who wrote, “The Lodge shall be our nursery,” was appointed to reorganize the Illuminati which was merged with Freemasonry in 1782. According to Andre Krylienko (The Red Thread, 1997) the merger was consecrated “to enlist non-Jews consciously or unconsciously in the service of Jewry.” Within the lodge system, corruptible non-Jews would be let in on the true agenda and allowed to rise in ranks; those not suited for ruthlessness would remain in the Masonic lodge as “useful idiots”—innocents who cannot conceive they’ve been betrayed, who maintain the benevolent and socially-concerned facade of the lodge while attacking anyone who dares question the “cause.” On Feb. 21, 1791, President Washington’s Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton established the First Bank of the United States, a private, Rothschild-backed central bank in America with a 20-year charter. When Congress voted against the charter’s renewal in 1811, Rothschild’s son Nathan stated, “The United States will find itself involved in a most disastrous war.” The following year, the “War of 1812” began. In 1816 Congress voted for a second Rothschild-dominated central bank, ending the British/American War of 1812. President Andrew Jackson refused to renew The Second Bank of the United States’ charter in 1836 and it’s doors closed by 1840. As the 19th century came to an end, it is estimated that the Rothschild family controlled half the wealth of the world. The Final Stage In 1913 the Rothschilds set up their third and current central bank in America, the Federal Reserve Bank, with the help of their agents JP Morgan and JD Rockefeller, whose investments in American industry had been Rothschild-financed since 1865. In 1914, at the start of World War I, the German Rothschilds loaned money to the Germans, the British Rothschilds loaned money to the British and the French Rothschilds loaned money to the French. The Rothschilds also controlled the three main European news agencies, Wolff in Germany, Reuters in England and Havas in France and used them to stir the public into fervor for war. Before the end of the year Rothschild agent Louis Brandeis sent a Zionist delegation from America to Britain with a promise to bring America into the war on the side of the British, provided the British agree to give the land of Palestine to the Rothschilds. The Rothschild propaganda machine then went into overdrive in America. The coast-to-coast effort led to President Wilson reneging on his campaign promises to “keep your sons out of war.” America entered the First World War on April 6, 1917. On November 2, 1917, the British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour, also an occultist, drafted a letter commonly known as the, “Balfour Declaration,” which gave the House of Rothschild 80 percent of the land now called Israel for “the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.” In 1921, under the orders of Rothschild agent Jacob Schiff, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) was founded as an organization in America to select politicians to carry on the Rothschild conspiracy. In 1929 the Federal Reserve crashed the United States economy by contracting the money supply. It took only 20 years, from 1913 to 1933, for the Rothschilds to officially bankrupt this country. The Rothschilds, Hitler and Israel On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. He drove Jews, many of whom were communists, out of governmental positions within Germany. As a result, Ashkenazi Jew Samuel Untermyer, the New York attorney who not only arranged for the publication of the Scofield Bible with Rothschild, but also pressured President Wilson to sign the Federal Reserve Act, made a radio speech August 7, 1933, saying, “The Jews are the aristocrats of the world…Our campaign is…the economic boycott against all German goods, shipping and services… Each of you …must refuse to deal with any merchant or shopkeeper who sells any German-made goods or who patronizes German ships or shipping.” Jews throughout America protested and damaged shops in which they found any products with, “Made in Germany,” printed on them, causing stores to have to dump these products or risk bankruptcy. Once the effects of this boycott began to be felt in Germany, the Germans, who had demonstrated no violence towards the Jews up to this point, began boycotting Jewish stores in the same manner. Meanwhile, Rothschild financed IBM—which supplied punch card machines the Nazis used to manage the identification and social expulsion of Jews, the confiscation of their property and administrate their concentrated encampment. In 1934 Swiss banking secrecy laws were reformed: In preparation for the Rothschild-engineered Second World War in which, as usual, they would fund both sides, it became an imprisonable offense for any bank employee to violate bank secrecy. Also that year, President Roosevelt ordered the all-seeing eye to be placed upon all new dollar bills along with the motto, “Novus Ordo Seclorum,” Latin for, “A New Order of the Ages.” On September 1, 1939, the Second World War started when Germany invaded Poland. The war went as planned: $billions were spent, millions were killed and the state of Israel was created. Tribunals were convened after the war to investigate and punish Nazi war criminals. If there was any mention as to which bankers were providing Hitler with financial assistance, that testimony has been edited from the historical record. In 1945 giant steps towards the Rothschilds’ goal of world domination were achieved when the United Nations was approved—one year after their banking success at Bretton Woods, which established the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. In 1947 the British transferred control of Palestine to the United Nations, which resolved to have Palestine partitioned into two states, one Jewish and one Arab, with Jerusalem to remain as an international zone. In the spring of 1948, according to historian Andrew Hitchcock (author of The Synagog of Satan and History of the House of Rothschild [www.andrewhitchcock.org]), the Rothschilds bribed President Harry S. Truman with $2 million in campaign funds to recognize Israel as a sovereign state. The flag of Israel was unveiled and, despite tremendous opposition, the emblem on the flag is a blue colored version of the Rothschild red hexagram. According to Simon Schama in his book, Two Rothschilds and the Land of Israel (1978), the House of Rothschild funded the Nazis and then founded Israel, not as a home for Jewish people, but as a base for the terrorists who created that state in order to operate a global terror and political manipulation network. The influence of its intelligence arm, Mossad, is vast for this tiny country because it is funded by the Rothschild global power elite. The motto of the Mossad is probably the most disgusting secret service motto in the world: “By way of deception, thou shalt do war.” Henry H. Klein, wrote in A Jew Warns Jews (1947), “Political Zionism is an agency of Big Business. It is being used by Jewish and Christian financiers in this country and Great Britain, to make Jews believe that Palestine will be ruled by a descendant of King David who will ultimately rule the world. What delusion! It will lead to war between Arabs and Jews and eventually to war between Muslims and non-Muslims. That will be the turning point of history.” In Henry Makow’s book Illuminati, he observes that “[g]enuine Jewish people are being used. Jewish leadership has perverted the idea of a holy people chosen to advocate morality into a ‘self chosen’ elite to take God’s place. But when critics suggest that the ‘chosen’ are being misled and betrayed, they are accused of being ‘anti-Semitic’ and charged with ‘hate-crimes.’” The end times biblical script In 1871, General Albert Pike who, since 1859 had been the most powerful Freemason of his time in America, completed a military blueprint for the Illuminati. It included three world wars and various revolutions throughout the world, culminating into moving Rothschild’s great conspiracy into its final stage. The first world war would be fought for the purpose of destroying the Tsar in Russia because he refused to allow Rothschild to put a bank in his country. The Tsar would be replaced with communism which would be used to attack religions, predominantly Christianity. The second world war would be used to foment the controversy between fascism and political Zionism, the Masonic international Jewish political movement that has supported the reestablishment of a homeland for the Jewish People in Palestine. Using the slaughter of Jews in Germany to bring hatred against the German people, this war would also increase the power of communism to a level equaling that of united Christendom. The third world war would be played out by stirring up hatred of the Muslim world for the purposes of playing the Islamic world and the Zionists against one another. While this is going on, the remaining nations would be forced to fight themselves into a state of mental, physical, spiritual and economic exhaustion. According to Makow, organized Jewry and its Masonic allies are following this script, based on end times biblical prophesies. It calls for mass destruction of all people. The New World Order would then rise from the debris. As the world is being readied for world war three, there are only five nations left in the world without a Rothschild-controlled central bank: Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Cuba and Libya. According to the American Free Press (3/16/09), every American bank is now part of the Rothschild-owned Federal Reserve scam. Illuminati: The Cult that Hijacked the World www.amazon.com/Illuminati-Cult-that-Hijacked-World/dp/1439211485. Free at archive.org/details/henry-makow-illuminati-2008 Darby’s Rapture Theory godskingdom.org/studies/ffi-newsletter/2021/darbys-rapture-theory/ Popular Christian teaching about the second coming of Christ took a major turn in the 1850’s when a new view was introduced by John Nelson Darby. Prior to this time, the Historicist view had dominated the thinking in Protestant churches, because they had come out of the Roman church and believed that Rome was the great harlot of Revelation 17. Darby’s “Dispensationalist” view of prophecy, along with his pre-tribulation rapture theory, was later popularized by Cyrus Scofield, whose dubious moral character was overlooked when men studied the Scofield Reference Bible. Darby was a minion of the Rothschilds and a Theosophist. ulfilledcg.com/Magazine/previous-issues-2021-2025/2022-winter/tj-smith.htm Before examining Scofield’s life, we need to understand John Nelson Darby, the principle figure from whom Scofield borrowed his biblical analysis. Darby was a Satanist, Freemason, and agent of the Rothschild-owned British East India Company. Darby’s family owned Leap Castle, renowned as the most sinister and occultic castle in Ireland’s history. Darby became a leader of a Christian sect called the Plymouth Brethren. He is generally credited with originating the “Secret Rapture” doctrine and made several trips to America to spread his “vaccine” of heresies. Darby used many terms in common with occult Theosophists: he referred to Jesus as “the coming one” (the term New Agers use for the Antichrist); referred to God as the “architect” (same phrase employed by Freemasons, meaning “God” for the uninitiated, but “Lucifer” to true initiates); and many other occult phrases. Darby even penned his own satanic version of the Bible. The Illuminati always knew they could not perform a wholesale transformation of the Bible, because it would be recognized and rejected. Therefore, the approach through the centuries has been to whittle it away: a word here, a phrase there—the universal strategy of boiling the frog. Darby slyly introduced satanic wording into the biblical text. For example, in the King James rendering of John 6:69, Peter told Jesus: “And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God.” Darby rendered this: “And we have believed and known that thou art the holy one of God.” In the King James, “Holy one of God” is a title for Jesus used only by demons. Scofield Spreads Darby Like a Virus In 1897, Theodore Herzl began hosting the Rothschild-backed Zionist congresses in Switzerland, developing the plan for a Zionist takeover of Palestine. On August 29, 1897, Herzl predicted that within fifty years there would be a Jewish state. And that would have been . . . 1947. Coincidence? Knowing this scheme would require Christian approval, Herzl approached Pope Pius X in 1904, who very politely told him where he could stick his plan. After being rejected by the Catholics, the Rothschilds knew Protestant support would be essential. But this could only be achieved by tampering with the Bible to make it appear God himself had ordained Jews to retake Palestine. Such a Bible needed to come from a non-Jew, someone with credentials as a theologian. And thus emerged Cyrus Scofield and his reference Bible. Scofield started out as a crooked Kansas lawyer and politician. In 1881, the Atchison Globe reported: “C. I. Schofield [sic], who was appointed United States District Attorney for Kansas in 1873, and who turned out worse than any other Kansas official, is now a Campbellite preacher in Missouri. His wife and two children live in Atchison. He contributes nothing to their support except good advice.” That same year, the Topeka Daily Capital published this: “Cyrus I. Schofield [sic], formerly of Kansas, late lawyer, politician and shyster generally, has come to the surface again, and promises once more to gather around himself that halo of notoriety that has made him so prominent in the past. The last personal knowledge that Kansans have had of this peer among scalawags, was when about four years ago, after a series of forgeries and confidence games, he left the state and a destitute family and took refuge in Canada. For a time he kept undercover, nothing being heard of him until within the past two years when he turned up in St. Louis, where he had a wealthy widowed sister living who has generally come to the front and squared up Cyrus’ little follies and foibles by paying good round sums of money. Within the past year, however, Cyrus committed a series of St. Louis forgeries that could not be settled so easily, and the erratic young gentleman was compelled to linger in the St. Louis jail for a period of six months.” However, court cases against Scofield were inexplicably dropped. As Joseph M. Canfield, who is probably Scofield’s most thorough biographer, noted: “The very sudden dropping of the criminal charges without proper adjudication suggests that Scofield’s career was in the hands of someone who had clout . . .” Scofield immersed himself in Darby’s teachings and made rapid ecclesiastical progress: by 1881 he was already pastoring in St. Louis, despite having no seminary training or religious education. In 1882, Scofield moved to Dallas and began an extended term as pastor of the First Congregational Church. Possibly this move was necessitated because his criminal past and familial irresponsibility were too well known in the Kansas-Missouri region. As Rev. John S. Torell wrote: “There were a number of wealthy and political power brokers in the membership of the First Congregational Church in Dallas . . . I do know that most churches in the United States are heavily infested with Freemasons. George Bannerman Dealey was a member of the Westminster Presbyterian Church in the later part of his life. But he was also heavily involved in the occult, majoring in the Scottish Rite of Masonry with a 33rd degree and active as a Shriner, and was also a member of the Red Cross of Constantine. Most likely he had a hand in getting Cyrus into Masonic circles and particularly the Lotos Club in New York.” Meanwhile, back in Kansas . . . in 1883, Scofield’s wife Leontine, and her children, were granted a divorce on the grounds of abandonment. Within six months of the divorce, Scofield married a new wife, Hettie. The apostle Paul wrote to Timothy, “But if any provide not for his own, and especially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel” (1 Tim 5:8). Scofield’s fans gave him a free pass on this teaching and, big surprise, the Scofield Reference Bible makes no commentary on this verse. Although Scofield became quite wealthy from his reference Bible, there is no evidence that he ever shared his riches with his abandoned family, or ever made restitution to the people whom he had defrauded in Kansas and Missouri. By 1892 Cyrus began using the title “Dr. Scofield.” However, there is no evidence Scofield ever received a doctorate. He never attended a college or seminary. Again, this deceit was performed to erase any “red flags” from those doubting his new version of the Scriptures.
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