SID: Hello, Sid Roth here with Bill Morford. Bill has spent the last 20 years studying Greek, studying Hebrew and translating the Old and the New Covenant. And he has uncovered things that will make literally your understanding of the scriptures go to a whole new level. He’s recaptured the Jewish roots. The idioms, the ancient Jewish idioms, an idiom, an example Bill used earlier was “it’s raining cats and dogs”. Well we know that today, but you didn’t know the idioms of 2000 years ago. Give me a couple idioms that you found and what they mean.
BILL: Okay. One is with the evil eye. And that’s in Matthew 5:29: “If your right eye causes you to sin you must tear it out at once and cast it from you.”
SID: And believe it or not, people have read that and tried to please God, and unfortunately, they took their eye out. And that’s not what God is say. What is God saying? What’s that saying mean?
BILL: It’s saying, stop doing it. And what the evil eye is, is being stingy or greedy, and that’s defined in Deuteronomy 15:9.
SID: What about where it talks about cut off your right hand in the New Testament?
BILL: It’s the same thing. Stop doing that. The right hand, of course, is the hand of power. It always speaks of power in scripture. So you have to be humble. You have to stop doing whatever it was that you were doing. If your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and cast it from you.
SID: But it doesn’t mean literally cut it off.
BILL: No.
SID: It means to stop.
BILL: Right.
SID: Now your understanding of the messianic prophecy, for instance, in a approved Jewish Bible, Isaiah 7:14 says, we’re going to have a sign. A young woman will conceive and have a child and this child’s name will be Emanuel. But in most Christian Bibles, it says, “A virgin will.” Who’s right?
BILL: Well technically, the Jewish Bible is because the word Hebrew, “amma”, means a marriageable young woman. She is single. And what it is, the whole verse is therefore, the Lord Himself will give you a sign. “Behold the young woman will conceive and bear a son and she will call his name Emanuel.” Well the young woman, unmarried, had to be a virgin.
SID: There was a translation called the Septuagint. It was called that because 70 traditional rabbis did this translation. How many years before Jesus came was this?
BILL: Two hundred fifty years before Jesus was born.
SID: All right, 250 years before Jesus was born, these traditional rabbis, the best in the land, translated the Greek version of the Jewish scriptures, and they chose the one Greek word that means exclusively “virgin”. You can’t get much stronger than that.
BILL: You can’t beat that, no. I have three footnotes on that verse. And the first one is, “The sign from the Lord, this birth will be an extraordinary event bringing an extraordinary person known as ‘God with us'”.
SID: That’s what Emanuel means: God is with us. You know, I think we’ve kind of satisfied that particular situation. But you had a revelation, Bill, in the 53rd Chapter of Isaiah. It’s where it says “stripes”. We know what a stripe is. A stripe is where someone is beaten and where blood flood flows, and from this blood, we had such wonderful things happen: forgiveness of sin, healing of diseases. But you found the word “stripe” in the Hebrew means something else also.
BILL: Yes. “Chavuratu” in modern Hebrew means “fellowship with Him”. And that’s, of course, the only way. That’s God with us. It’s through fellowship with Him.
SID: The best way to get a healing is through having intimacy and relationship, and fellowship with God. It’s because of his blood that we are healed. But it is because of our fellowship that we have a clear passageway for the healing to manifest in our body. Bill, I asked you to pray last night and see if God wanted you to say something special. What did He tell you?
BILL: Oh, it’s on the fellowship.
SID: Really?
BILL: It’s all about relationship. And those of you out there, I know this is more than one person, says, ‘God is not with me.’ You have to accept God in faith. He said He is with you. His Word says He is with you. He is in you so that you, by focusing on Him will know that He is in you. When that torment that you’re in now, you’re in pain, you have to know that the God who is in you feels that same pain, whether it’s physical pain or whether it’s emotional distress, depression, whatever, He is with you. He feels that. He will take it.
SID: I come from a traditional Jewish background. And when I became a believer in the Messiah, I saw the Book of James. James does not sound like a real Jewish name to me. What did you find out?
BILL: That that was changed.
SID: What was it originally?
BILL: Jacob.
SID: That’s Jewish.
BILL: Right.
SID: Why did they change Jacob to James? It doesn’t make sense?
BILL: Well both the Latin text and the Greek text have Jacob for the name of the book. The name James does not appear in them. The first appearance of the name James is the King James Bible.
SID: King James orchestrated it.
BILL: That’s right.
SID: Do you think he did it? It’s sort of like sometimes people that direct shows, movies and TV shows do a cameo. They walk in. That was his cameo in the Bible. How about the word “law”? That’s so misunderstood and it’s all over the place in the New Testament. Was that translated properly?
BILL: No.
SID: No? Why?
BILL: Tradition!
SID: [singing] Tradition. [speaking] I wish I had my violin. What should it have been translated?
BILL: Torah.
SID: What does Torah mean?
BILL: Teaching or instruction.
SID ROTH: Sounds a lot different. If the Bible were, rather than said “law”, it would be “teaching”. The law you think, not under that law. Teaching? Yeah, I want that teaching. Don’t go away. Wait until you hear these other revelations that Bill had. We’ll be back in a moment.
