Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Matthew 7:15
Beware of false prophets who come to you in the name of the King James Bible, bearing new revelations never before seen or heard. One such “revelator” is Gary Rovarino. He is one of the founders of the King James Bible Museum in Phoenix, Arizona, which idea may initially put him in a position of general respect among defenders of the King James Bible. He advertises himself as “knowing and elaborating of the hidden-inner most workings of the revelations of God in the King James Bible.” Such hubris should be warning enough, though perhaps it is not for some weak believers struggling to support their continued use of the King James Bible. A “prophet” who can reveal “Never Before Seen REVELATION of John 3:16” is not a Bible prophet. Gary Rovarino is a “false friend” of the King James Bible. Beware. (Additionally, be aware that Gary Rovarino is also known as G. John Rov. He writes under that pen name.)
The biblical faith is a grounded and settled faith, truth established on a rock, openly taught and passed down from generation to generation. It does not require a false foundation from mysterious math that can only be rendered visible by a secret scholar seeking sickly sheep. Be a Berean!
Jude exhorts us to “earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints” (verse 3). Note that the biblical faith is a “once delivered” faith. “Never before seen” revelations of John 3:16 – or any other text – should be an immediate wake-up call for the Bible believer. Certainly, there are new things you and I will learn from the Bible, but that is not because they were never before seen or heard until some modern-day false prophet came along. It is things that we just have not noticed before but that have been there all along – in the open, and believed by others before us!
The biblical faith is a passed-down faith. The apostles taught all things that Jesus commanded them (Matthew 28:19), and these truths have been taught in and by churches of the Lord Jesus Christ from that time to this day. A new thing not known before now is a false thing not taught to the apostles by Jesus and not passed down from the apostles through the churches. What Paul received, he also delivered (1 Corinthians 11:23; 15:1). The teachings were committed to faithful men who passed them on (2 Timothy 2). John declared what he had seen and heard (1 John 1:3, 5). Peter taught what he received, and put his hearers in remembrance of it (2 Peter 1:15-16). This nature of truth is consistently established in the New Testament, that the disciples passed on the faith once delivered to the saints. A deliverer of new things we should not bear with (2 Corinthians 11:4).
For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them. Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears. Acts 20:20-31
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