2 ESDRAS: The Hidden Book of Prophecy With 1st Esdras - Book - Page 9
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By Timothy Schwab
Author, Publisher, Researcher, Speaker, Singer/Songwriter,
Founder of The God Culture, Non-Pharisee and proudly so...
In our extensive research restoring Biblical geography and scripture through exhaustive
testing and supporting detail, we have often visited the Books of 1st and 2nd Esdras.
Esdras is simply the Latin and Greek form of Ezra, the Prophet who actually wrote at
least four books. The Rabbis catalogue these as:
1 Ezra = Ezra (Modern Old Testament Canon)
2 Ezra = Nehemiah (Modern Old Testament Canon)
3 Ezra = 1 Esdras (Mislabeled as Apocrypha, a meaningless classification)
4 Ezra = 2 Esdras (Mislabeled as Apocrypha, a meaningless classification)
Understand 1st and 2nd Esdras are translated into English, a major undertaking in
that day especially, and published in the Original, Authorized 1611 King James Bible
as well as the Original 1560 Geneva Bible. They would not have gone to such trouble
to translate these just as they did scripture unless they viewed these as useful whether
separated into a different category or not. They are in the 1611 KJV and 1560 Geneva
Bibles period thus we should know them and publishing them would be a waste of a
massive amount of time and resources otherwise. Yet they did.
The Geneva Bible separates these and notes that they are for edification which
connotation is an endorsement of their value whether they even call it scripture or
not. Let’s cut thru the modern political correctness nonsense in scholarship. If the
1560 Geneva and 1611 KJV Bibles translated these works into English and published
them, they read and used these books. Why don’t we? Why doesn’t every church? Who
censored these and how could they be dropped from most modern Bibles?
Even the KJV only crowd seems to be largely unaware, these books were published
in the original 1611 KJV yet many act as if they are not. They are not sticking to
the King James Version if they are not using 1st and 2nd Esdras. So they need to
reclassify themselves as partial KJV only. 2nd Esdras is even anchored to Messiah’s
quoting it even. Can someone explain how it is that something Messiah quoted could
be eliminated from publishing?
Even the Geneva Bible’s diminutive language still definitively offers evidence these
are useful books to be read along with scripture and there is no debating that because
they are there published in 1560 and 1611 period. It matters not whether a Catholic
council branded them with their seal of approval. They have no authority to change
what the Temple Priests already kept and we will unveil research in this book which
makes such connection with 1st and 2nd Esdras to the Dead Sea Scrolls. Many will find
this enlightening and well proven.
Also, the Catholic claim of “compiling the Bible” is not accurate in regards to the Old
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