Jan/Feb 2018 BattleServing the Bible-believing Christians ofC the World Who’s In Charge of the Bible? Pope Francis recently decided that the Lord’s Prayer should be changed. Since God does not “lead” man to sin, he suggests that it should read, “…do not let us fall into temptation,” instead of, “lead us not into temptation.” Of course, sin is not the issue here; temptation is. But this is a brazen assumption on Francis’ part. It is based on the Roman Catholic assertion that since the Vatican gave us the Bible, they should have the authority to change it if they please. Protestants, and even evangelicals, have bought the lie that without the Roman “church” we wouldn’t have the Bible. The truth is that most of the Bibles used today did come from the Vatican, but not the one that promised to preserve. For centuries they have tried every possible way Why does Pope Francis venerate the to kill it. Today, the PR campaign against the Bible and then claim that tradition gives him the authority to change it? See Who’s In Charge... p. 2 (See Matt. 15:6.)

100 Years —100 Million Dead Under Communism 100 years ago this year the Bolsheviks stormed the Winter Palace in Petrograd, in this issue Russia. That set off the revolution that • God Sees the Seed We Plant ...... p. 6 ended in the USSR, the first Marxist- • Same Joy ...... p. 6 based government. • Malawi Church Started with Tract . p. 7 Marxism, like evolution, denies • Chick Mail Bag ...... p. 7 the God of creation. But, Marxism is ...... p. 8 necessary for the evolutionist. Those • Anxious Young People p. 10 who believe in evolution must ignore • Missions Fund Report...... Genesis in the Bible. Without God and • Letter from David W. Daniels. . . . p. 15 His principles of government, another • Jack’s Cartoon ...... p. 16 form of government must be fabricated. Evil still exists and must be addressed by See Communism... p. 4

“Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?” Galatians 4:16 2 BattleCry - Jan/Feb 2018 Who’s In Charge... From p. 1 KJV is fierce. meaning as “Vice President,” one who Author David W. Daniels points out in acts in the place of the president. The his book, Did the Give pope claims to act in the place of Christ. Us the Bible? that there are two streams The Bible that God preserved over of manuscripts responsible for today’s the centuries in the northern stream, Bibles. One that he calls the northern culminated in the Classic English version stream originated in Israel, but accurate authorized by King James. Its history copies were made by the early church fulfills Christ’s promise in Matthew that spread north through Asia Minor, 24:35 that “ and earth shall pass Turkey, Greece, and into Europe. Faithful away, but my words shall not pass away.” translations were made of the copies as The head of this counterfeit “church” needed along the way, culminating in the is simply doing what many popes have Classic English King James Version. done: modify a counterfeit Bible created The other, southern stream of copies by Rome’s Jesuits out of faked, polluted left Apostolic Israel but traveled through manuscripts in the southern stream. He Egypt and into Italy and Rome. While has no authority over the Classic English the northern manuscripts show almost KJV that God has blessed with the power no variation in wording in the copies and to inspire sweeping revivals and the extreme accuracy in the translations, the greatest missionary effort in history. southern manuscripts contain thousands Daniels’ new book, Is ‘The World’s of discrepancies in both text and Oldest Bible’ a Fake? details the translation. unknown history of the centerpiece of From the earliest records of the the southern stream of manuscripts, the southern stream, Vatican agents Codex Sinaiticus. He also shows why we were masterminding the release and can trust that we have the exact words management of the manuscripts. Today’s God wants us to have in the Classic modern versions based on the Westcott English Bible authorized by King James. and Hort Greek are the product of that God gave it once and He doesn’t need stream. to revise it. We just need to step up and So, it all comes down to a simple learn to read it. question: Who is in charge of scripture? God, or man? If God, then the Lord Jesus clearly said, “And lead us not into temptation…” both in Matthew 6:13 and Luke 11:4. If man decides that he is the authority, can he decide that God said it wrong? Thus this mere man in the Vatican sets himself above the scriptures. Yet the Lord placed the word above His name. Psalm 138:2: “…for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.” The pope has claimed that he speaks for Christ on the earth, when he takes the name, “Vicar of Christ.” Vicar comes from the same Jan/Feb 2018 - BattleCry 3

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Communism... From p. 1 some set of laws. encroachment of socialism in our However, evolution presumes that evil policymaking? is in the environment, not in the heart. However, in the light of prophecy, that Thus, when man does evil, it is because 200 plus years of prosperity may have of his outside circumstances. Without provided the fulfilment of Matt. 24:14 God, big government is then needed to that when the has been shared change the circumstances. with all nations, then the end would In the effort to make man do “right,” come. That, along with other signs, will government must increase control over point to the soon coming of our Messiah. man’s actions. But it is other men who Marxist ideology is rapidly shaping assume the control, unredeemed men up as the most likely foundation for who have “like passions” to those they the emergence of the Beast of Rev 17. strive to control. The evil in their hearts Government control is humanism’s emerges and creates a leadership addicted answer to the depravity of man. And to power. what better way to do that than with a America’s founding fathers were right one-world government? in declaring that no government will Another sign of the near end could be work without “self-government” —every the amassing of the enemies of Israel, person living out a life of virtue as with Russia, Iran and Syria all camped specified in the Bible. They knew that any just outside Israel’s northern border. All other set of laws was inadequate because are stockpiling enough “weapons of mass they did not address the depravity of the destruction” to cook not only Israel, but heart. the rest of the planet. In these 100 years, Communist and Jesus said that unless the last days Socialist countries have proven over and be shortened, no flesh would be saved. over the failure of their dream. Education There surely seem to be enough mad (or re-education) is the main tool they use men loose to qualify for the Lord to step to try to get man to do right. But when it in with His planned interruption. But fails, execution is the only alternative. when He does, our opportunity to share Witness the 100 million dead under the the gospel one more time will be ended. hands of communist regimes in the last Jesus said to work “while it is day” 100 years. for “the night cometh...” (John 9:4). For Yet, dozens of countries still pursue the centuries, soul winners have recognized humanist heaven on earth without God. the power of no-nonsense gospel tracts. Their “strong delusion” (2 Thes. 2:11) is And they still work today. the old definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over, expecting a different result. In the U.S. we have been blessed with unheard of freedom to share the gospel for over 250 years. Nowhere on earth and at no time in history has the THE common man shared such prosperity and BEAST personal freedom for so long. How is it that we can sit and watch the agony in neighbors like Cuba and Venezuela and still tolerate the humanist takeover of our universities and the Jan/Feb 2018 - BattleCry 5 Now that you’re a Christian . . . What’s next? Completely illustrated by Jack T. Chick Both new and old Christians will benefit from this guide on how to live your faith.

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28 6 BattleCry - Jan/Feb 2018 God Sees the Seed that We Plant By David W. Daniels In my years in high school, I had known four years. only one Christian: David Rhodes. He’s the But during that time, I would bike, one who gave me Chick tracts. But David skateboard or walk across town to the had said to a friend, basically this: “Of all Christian Light Bookstore in Ontario and the people I’ve known in my life, the one buy the newest Chick tract for a nickel when I’m sure won’t get saved is David Daniels.” it came out, even while I was a Mormon! I don’t blame him! I looked pretty far away And when I went to my friend Chad’s from Biblical . house, he and his brother Craig had a But God saw me, and brought me to Himself whole pile of Chick tracts lying around at the right time. And what seed did God have their room. When I stayed the night, I’d planted in my mind? —a Chick tract. read them all —even though I didn’t You see, what David couldn’t have understand the doctrine. known (because I never told him), was that Seeds were being planted all that time, 8 years before, on June 7, 1972, a man I’d even when it looked like I was as lost as never seen before or since, came by my could be. So, when the Lord called me apartment and asked me if I wanted to read back to Himself in repentance, He had the Chick tract, This Was Your Life! been tending to my soil all that time, And I read it —out loud to him. Then making me ready to leave all that other he asked if I would like to receive Jesus as stuff behind to follow Him. my Saviour. And I said Yes. So, we turned When we hand out gospel tracts we have to page 23 and I prayed that prayer. And no idea what will happen. So not just when God saw me. After he left, I had no one I hand out Chick tracts to the servers or to guide me. And I became a Mormon for See Seed... From p. 14 I Wanted Them to Have the Same Joy By Chad Bernik Chad Bernick and his family are would get me stirred up for God. They missionaries in Wainwright, on Alaska’s far asked me questions that made me want to North Slope. He grew up on Chick tracts and learn more Bible. relates how he uses them as a soulwinner. In my teenage years, I began leading Bible While growing up, I didn’t always have a studies at school, first in the gymnasium steady supply of tracts and I wasn’t always every morning during my sophomore year spiritually minded, but I used Chick tracts and eventually in the library once a week repeatedly throughout my time in public during my senior year. I instructed my school. I remember reading the Crusader peers on the need to be a publick witness. I Comics and having my eyes opened to wanted them to have the same joy that I got some great truths as a young man. from witnessing to others. I wanted them I grew up playing video games, reading to get the thrill of doing something good comic books, and played sports like soccer you were afraid to do and being blessed by and yard football. I watched cable TV, God for it. went to church, and hung out with the One Wednesday during our library Bible neighborhood kids. Chick tracts helped meeting, I brought a bunch of stacks of keep me from going wayward and made Chick tracts prepared for evangelizing the it easy for me to give the gospel to my entire student body. I told the class, “Some friends. It got them to ask questions that of you have been saved for years and See Same Joy... From p. 8 Jan/Feb 2018 - BattleCry 7 Malawi Church Started with a Chick Tract By Missionary Rai Paparatti On our last few days of missions work talking amongst themselves about “If God in Malawi, our team usually enjoys one is real, we need to know who He is and “day of rest” for evaluation and reflection need to be told about Him.” These men of what the Lord had accomplished. This were Muslim men and searching for God year, since we were in the village of to reveal Himself to them. Zomba, Malawi, our team was afforded an They received the message about Christ. opportunity to hike up the famous Zomba They received Christ into their hearts. The Plateau. local pastor began sharing with them the Aside from the beauty, we were not fact that they were now a local church up prepared for a 6 hour hike up a mountain. in the mountain. When we reached near the summit, we We showed them how to pray, how to passed a logging site. Many people from meet together and encourage one another. all over Malawi will get these jobs and The only thing we now needed to give spend months at a time up in the mountain them was Scripture. We were so far away cutting down timber. from being able to get them a Bible in their Upon reaching this mountain top local language. The only Scriptures they community, one of our team members had were the ones printed in the Gospel felt compelled by the Lord to stop and tract in Chichewa. share with these men the Gospel. The only We encouraged them to use the tract material we had in hand was the Chick and the scriptures inside and meditate on tract in Chichewa. the words and talk about them with each For over forty minutes the Gospel was other. It was marvelous. A New Testament shared. Once we saw that they had received type church starting atop a mountain with the message, we called for our interpreter to only a Chick tract. I am amazed at God and help us make sure that we had adequately what He does. presented the Gospel and help them Thank you so much for placing material through the sinner’s prayer. Our translator in our hands and giving us something to is a local Malawian pastor and was brilliant use for the Lord. We encouraged our team in his talking and encouragement. from that point forward to always have These men which received Christ had a Chick Tract on them. You never know been up on the mountain for some time when God will use it to start a church!!!!!

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Same Joy... From p. 6 you’ve never really told anyone else how to cities and give Chick tracts to any that be saved. That’s going to change right now! would take them. We’re going to give these to every student It was during this time that God began in the break area. Let’s pray and go do it!” to toughen me up more through the pointed We did. A dozen of us handed out rejection we received more often in the hundreds of tracts in a few minutes. Almost city atmosphere. Whenever it seemed I everyone stopped and began perusing the was getting out of balance or off track tracts. in an area, Chick tracts helped me stay I’m so thankful to have had several straight because they contain so much teachers that were born again believers. scripture. Even times in my youth when I They took the brunt of adversity that wasn’t living much like a Christian, Chick would come for such a radical display of tracts were a simple way to put out Bible evangelism on the public-school grounds. truth. Several students mocked and threw their My oldest son came to repentance and copies in the trash, but for the most part, a accepted Jesus as his Saviour after reading hush of Holy Spirit conviction swept over Flight 144 when he was six years old. He the entire school that day. Several other evangelizes his teenage peers using Chick times, I seeded the cars in the parking lot tracts. When my oldest son and I made a with tracts. I was burdened for my peers mission’s survey trip to the Philippines and Chick tracts made reaching them with last year, we evangelized using mostly the gospel quick and easy. Chick tracts. Into adulthood, I went to Bible school I know of many pastors that use Chick and began doing street ministry. My tracts amidst their other evangelistic friends and I passed out thousands of weapons and there is a common bond tracts during this time. We would preach between soulwinners that see the publickly in the downtown areas of major usefulness of these great tools. Anxious Young People School counselors and therapists are The biblical statement that “perfect love seeing an alarming rise in the number of casts out fear” has been buried by a godless anxious young people. This is way beyond education system and secular society. the uncertainty experienced by the normal Man’s heart was designed to rest in the transition into adulthood. Anxiety has comfort of a relationship with his Creator. overtaken depression as the main reason No Bible training in the schools (and most college students seek counselling. And homes), replaced by the teaching that we the last ten years have seen a doubling of are just highly evolved animals, guts any hospital admissions for suicidal teenagers. confidence that life is worth the effort. A recent New York Times article And the vacuum in the heart is still there described one high achiever who snapped after achieving adulthood. The 18-30-year- one day, fought all efforts by his parents old Millennials are increasingly “getting to persuade him to go to school and curled in touch with their spiritual side” and into a fetal position on the floor. After providing a booming business for many months of expensive “treatment” purveyors of . Researchers find (one residential care facility cost $910 per that 2 billion dollars a year is spent on day), he gradually came to terms with his “psychic services” like astrology, tarot- fear of failure. card readings, mediumship, crystals, See Anxious... From p. 14 The Story of Jesus It actually starts in Genesis! Full color—64 pages—only $4.50—Item #250

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Missions Fund Report... From p. 10 Kenya – Joetta Smith: I am so happy to report all the tracts have now been received and are literally ‘flying’ out the door! It seems they have finally ‘discovered’ that this is where the tracts are ‘coming’ from and we can’t seem to keep up! We get report after report from pastors about how much the tracts are affecting their ministries and they are excited because that with all the Scripture references in the tracts people are really understanding their Bibles as never before. It is almost like they are in Bible School. Philippines: Donnie Whitlock of Mass Media Outreach Ministry, coordinated it all himself, so he organizes outreaches outreaches with Chick tracts in several through many Filipino churches, getting areas of the Philippines. He shared hundreds of thousands of tracts into the a report from Pastor De La Cruz in hands of people who have never been the Philippines that “the missions and told. churches start with Bibles and Chick Recently, Hunsaker took Chick tracts tracts distribution. Please send more to one of the islands (the Philippines has over 7,000 of them) with a small population of only 4000, but Hunsaker was not about to ignore them. Look at the picture above. These young people had never seen a Chick tract before, and when Hunsaker passed them out, everything stopped. All the kids are reading the Gospel. They are running out of tracts, and we bibles, materials, Chick tracts so we can don’t have funds at the present to send begin more new missions.” them more. So many missionaries all Sometimes a missionary has to do over the world have learned of the Chick something disruptive for the sake of Mission Fund, and have requested tracts, the Gospel. Bruce Hunsaker, missionary that we don’t currently have the funding to the Philippines, says that is what to meet all of their needs. New outreach happens when he hands out Chick tracts mission churches are being planted using on the street, everything stops. Whether Chick tracts. We hate to tell them “no,” it is spreading tracts and preaching in but we can only give them what God lays the streets where young girls are being on your heart to provide. Please pray peddled by the sex trade, or sitting about what the Lord would have you do down with teens to tell them about Jesus for them. (and pray with them), Hunsaker is an enthusiastic evangelist who loves the Chick tracts you send to him. He can’t do Jan/Feb 2018 - BattleCry 13 NEW from Mark Cahill 208 pages—paperback—$9.99 Item #1300

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From p. 6 Seed... all the doctrine. For instance, after reading people I meet, but when I leave them lying Bewitched and The Thing, I destroyed my around, I am spreading seeds to nurture Ouija board. I got that message clear. someone’s soil. Things might have been quite different. God sees them, and He knows when I am so thankful for all those Chick tracts. they’re ready. And if there’s a Christian God also saw Jack Chick, and gave him a willing to be used by God, they can receive vision, to make it easy to spread the gospel the Lord right there. We have no idea who or in the modern, busy world. how or when it will happen. But it does. So, if you want to be part of God’s work But what if that man didn’t hand me of sowing the seed of the word of God, and This Was Your Life? you don’t have time to stand there and talk What if Chad and Craig didn’t have with everyone you see, there is a solution. those Chick tracts lying around? I saw other Do like David and Chad and others did Christian pamphlets over the years, but I for me. Give tracts. Pick ones you like. Pray never read them. They were over my head. over them. Leave them places. And let the And they were full of words. But the comic paper missionaries get more soil ready. tracts grabbed me, even when I didn’t get You have no idea what fruit they will bear.

Anxious... From p. 8 literature, and other information. message of easy believism ignoring the One typical “boutique” sells a variety reality of has stripped the churches of of charms and other “holy hardware.” their power to call men to repentance. But on the side, workshops are offered If we preached that hell is real and in “Witchcraft 101” and instructions in that Christ died to provide our escape, performing séances. Over half of the young the message of God’s love would mean adults in the U.S. believe that astrology is something to a fearful and lost generation. actually a science. One astrology app Otherwise the church’s overbalanced released recently crashed three times in the emphasis on God’s love leaves people first week because of high demand. thinking hell is not an issue. The boutique owner commented that the As the clouds of evil descend over our young people today feel caught in forces young people, distress levels of fear and beyond their control and see spiritism as depression will continue to rise. a way to “enact change in their lives.” What defense do we have? No longer How sad no one has shown her where true are schools and culture our friend in raising change comes from. our children or navigating our own way in In a large way, this is an indictment of the world. We are back to normal where the church who has failed to communicate the world sees the Gospel as dangerous or the good news of freedom in Christ. God useless. Thus it has been for 90+ percent of made Adam, and the rest of us, with that Christian history. Jesus promised it would God-shaped vacuum in our spirits and we be so (see Luke 21:12; John 15:20). are either mildly uncomfortable or deeply So, what is our role? A light in the fearful without trust in a loving God. darkness; salt and light to the culture. Of course, Satan is right there to offer How? If we put a no-nonsense gospel tract some counterfeit comfort and disparage into the hand of everyone we meet, some our true security in Christ. We have failed will respond. Then we can share the joy to warn against his plotting, with few and comfort of knowing that we are safe today believing that he even exists. A in the arms of Jesus. Jan/Feb 2018 - BattleCry 15

Brothers and Sisters in Christ:

Way back in 2005, we were preparing Did the Catholic Church Give Us the Bible? and we wanted to have a way to introduce the topic. Some suggested to have the priest in Jack’s comic drawing say, “Mother Church can change the Bible because she gave it to us!” I asked them, “Have you actually heard Roman Catholics say this?” Yes, they had. Then I saw more testimonies that the Catholic Church claimed to be able to change the Bible. Do you want to see a recent example? Enter Pope Francis. In November of 2016, he proposed six new beatitudes. Even then, no one took his ideas seriously, to add them to the Bible. But now, in December 2017, he went a step further: he proposed changing the actual words of the Lord Jesus in the mis-named “Lord’s Prayer” at Matthew 6:13 and Luke 11:4. As my friends point out, other translations have already changed “lead us not into temptation” to something like his proposed “…do not let us fall into temptation.” The 1998 New International Reader’s Version (NIrV) says “Keep us from falling into sin” and the 2007 New Living Translation (NLT) says “And don’t let us yield to temptation”. And this is amazing enough, because the Greek text clearly says “lead us not.” They literally changed Jesus’ words, and these are both supposed to be Bible translations. The pope may just be “testing the waters,” to see the people’s response to his proposals. One day a pope may have a lot more power, and may actually force publishers to change Jesus’ words in places like these. We at Chick do all we can to support and promote Bibles that are translated correctly, such as the King James and Reina Valera Gomez 2010. We do our best to make sure our tracts have the words of God in them, not the changed words of sinful men. And we must be diligent, because, as Jack always said, “The power is in the scriptures.” May God bless you as you pass out gospel tracts, to point the world to God’s holy words, while we still have time.

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