I AM the Light of the World Jesus declares "I AM the light of the world: he that follows me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.” (John 8:12). This is the second of the seven “I AM” statements in the book of John. Jesus (I AM) is everything we need emotionally, physically, and spiritually. Perhaps, it is His Light that we need most. Without it we cannot possibly find our way. The backdrop of when and where Jesus makes this declaration is amazing! The seven-day Feast of Tabernacles just ended (around the October time frame about six months before Jesus is crucified). On the first day of the feast there are four seventy-five foot high “Golden Candlesticks” erected in the “Women’s Court” where the treasury was located. The light from these was so bright it lighted up every courtyard in Jerusalem. At the end of the feast those candlesticks are taken down. It was at the time that the candlesticks (and the light they produced) was being taken down Jesus, standing in the Woman’s Court, declares this message to everyone. Can’t you just see the massive golden candlesticks being dismantled and taken away behind Jesus as he declares that HE is the LIGHT of the World? In John 9:5 Jesus again states “I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. As long as i am in the world, I AM the light of the world”. Jesus first said this to his disciples when Jesus came across a blind man from birth and Jesus was about to give him sight. The blind man from birth was given physical sight but there is a much deeper meaning that was presented. Jesus tells us that this man was not blind because of any fault of his own and that he was born blind in order that “the works of God should be made manifest in him” (John 9:3). Spiritually, we are all born blind without any possibility to see spiritually unless God gives us spiritual sight. Jesus used his spit with clay of the ground and anointed the blind man eyes and told him to wash in the pool of Siloam (meaning “sent”). The man only received his sight when he obeyed the Lord and went to the pool and washed his face. This also represent a very powerful message to us that only when we obey can truly see and sent by God to do his work. The blind man was questioned by his neighbors and the Pharisees and gave a truthful accounting of his healing by Christ. He gave his testimony “Though I was blind, now I see” and was cast out of the synagogue (the worst thing that can happen to a Jew). Likewise, when our eyes are opened and follow Christ, we will experience tribulation and the world will hate us as we are no longer of the world but followers of Christ. There is also a very significant parable where 10 virgin brides are waiting for the groom to come and be taken to the wedding feast at night. Five of those virgins are foolish and let their lamps run out of oil and return to the world. The light from the lamps illuminates their way (to the groom) and the oil represents the Holy Spirit who provides the light to direct our path. When the groom (Christ) comes the five virgins in the world do not get to come to the marriage and hence are left in the world. This parable tells us that Christ (through the Holy Spirit) provides us with light, and we must always be led by the Holy Spirit and never return to the World. The Feast of Tabernacles Foreshadows Christ being our Light: All Jews understood the reference to “I AM” as they studied and learned the Old Testament. When Moses met the Lord at the burning bush, God said to Moses: “… I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.” (Exodus 3:14). Despite their captivity, the children of Israel understood the reference to “I AM” and believed Moses was sent by God. One of the first references in the Old Testament where God used light to provide direction was when He was a pillar of fire at night to give light to his people the Israelites, so that they could see during the 40 years they were in the wilderness. The Feast of Tabernacles was celebrating (1) the water that God provided the Israelites and (2) also celebrating the light of the pillar of fire God used to illuminate the camp. This feast was a foreshadowing of the future comping of Christ. Jesus Christ was the fulfillment of that feast and during the feast declared that (1) “If anyone thirst, let him come to me and drink … and will flow rivers of living water.” (John 7:37-38). Jesus also declared while standing in the treasury in the courtyard that (2) “He was the light of the world” (John 8:12). Do you Want to know God better? We must Read His Word. It is through studying God's Word that we are able to get closer to Him and studying His Word is required by God! (2 Tim 2:15) God's Word in the New Testament is the original Koine Greek but very few of us can read it, and hence, it is difficult for most of us to know what was actually said as it was written over 1,900 years ago. We then rely on our favorite "translation" to tell us. To make matters worse, there are over 450 different English translations today which all contradict each other in thousands of places but also contradict themselves in places. Even the KJV, which, in my humble opinion, is the best compilation of verses in the last 400 years, has hundreds of word discrepancies and thousands of unapplied parsings. In other words, there is no such thing as a perfect "translation" so it is extremely important to let the Holy Spirit guide you into all truth as you read. What would be helpful is to have access to the best word-for-word extraction of the original meaning of the Word (the KJV textus receptus) that one can possibly obtain. What is God's Word and What do we need to study? The root of the problem is "translations" themselves. A "translation" is when man has "decided" what each verse should, or should not say, and you can GUARANTEE that they will be wrong every time! This has been the case ever since Koine Greek has been an obsolete language and lost to time around 350AD. Even Shakespeare later made the phrase "It's all Greek to me" popular in a play. He took this phrase from the Italian Monks around 550AD when they were handed a Greek scroll to translate. They said that, not because Greek was difficult, but because Greek was a lost language, and no-one knew what it said. Without anyone being the wiser, the Catholic Church created over 649 different "translations" during the dark ages and none of them referenced God's Word (because Greek was a lost language) but were all made for political, religious, and social control of the masses to push their current agendas of the day. As those agendas changed, so new “bibles” were created to reflect their new agendas. Through the grace of God, 47 scholars and clergymen under the direction of King James, compiled the Authorized King James Version in 1611 by referring to nearly 5,000 retrieved English and Latin documents and chose the wording of each verse based on past writings with the goal to create a compromise that both the Puritans and Protestants could agree upon and hence bring peace to England. It was also known that all prior "writings" were not based on the Greek either but the best opinions of the various writers attempting to “strip-out” Catholicism from the hundreds of the prior “Bibles” made over the past 1,200 years. Since the KJV scribes were honest men they openly admitted that no-one knew Greek but instead selected existing verses from many previous English and Latin writings and putting them together from many authors and documents over the prior centuries the best way they wished to create the compromise they needed and to be approved by King James. They also did not keep track of which document each verse was pulled from when they were all concatenated to form the KJV authorized version. - Thus the preface to the first edition says that the translators never set out to make a translation, but to make "out of many good ones", one principal good one. Interestingly enough then, the King James Bible reflects the spoken English of the early 1500's rather than the early 1600s in which it was printed. Scholars agree, that though the translation work was done by a committee, this large group of men, with diverse resources, produced a better version of the English Bible than had previously been available. It certainly was not perfect nor was the English text inspired, but it was carefully done, faithful as possible to the available texts and manuscripts.
Is there something better which more closely matches the Inspired Word? Since a "translation" (ie, determined by man) is the problem, what is needed is to go back in time and determine the primary meanings of original Koine Greek words, and apply them to each of the 140,745 words of the KJV textus receptus and the parsing of each of the words in sequence. The Pure Word project was started to do just that. The project took 22 years and when the precise meanings of each of the Greek root words was applied along with the original parsings, an in-depth clarified meaning emerged that is not shown in most other translations. [It wasn’t until 260 years after the King James Version was made that the parsing of each of the words were determined in 1894 by Dr. Scrivener using upwards of 100 scholars spending decades of work on the task.] After 22 years of research determining the original meanings of each Greek root word, The Pure Word was then created in a single second by automatically applying the meanings and parsings word-for-word assigned to each of the 140,745 words in the KJV textus receptus Koine Greek. It is for this reason, that we can not call this a "translation" as no man had any input on a single verse and due to the very nature of how it was created, traditions of man and opinion have been 100% eliminated wherever they previously existed and previously incorporated over the centuries for political, religious, or social control. The Pure Word is an "extraction" of the original text and printed as is. This process removed all known discrepancies and provides a consistency and clarity of meaning that was never before possible. The Pure Word is a Resource All Christians Should have I would strongly suggest that every Christian obtain a copy of The Pure Word and use it alongside your favorite Bible version to see the original meanings and open your eyes like never before. Watch the official introductory video now and see exactly how The Pure Word is an invaluable resource that should be used by every Christian, pastor, and Bible study group. Experience the gospel as they did in the first century, during the time of Christ, the Apostles, and the birth of the Church! Revealing the Original Depth of Meaning as Written by the Apostles Over 1,900 Years Ago! | 
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