Christmas Greetings

[Jim Watt]

 *Jim & Marie Watt*

“*Two Are Better than One” Ministries*

*Tel: 253-517-9195 - Email: jmbetter at gmail.com*

*December 17, 2010*


 *Christmas Greetings and New Year Good Wishes*


 *Though we celebrate the birthday of Jesus who came as the Son of :God
through Incarnation, and the Son of :man through human birth through Mary -
yet proportionately speaking, the 4 Gospels give but a few chapters to His
birth, but between one fifth to one third of them are given to His last week
on earth, majoring on His atoning work on our behalf on Calvary - and then
His glorious Resurrection, followed soon after by His Ascension and giving
of the Holy Spirit, the Promise of the Father. And soon - He is coming back
again as Lord of lords and King of kings.*

*So we celebrate and identify with Him in His Cross which followed His birth
- but we see Him now with His Crown - which He has desired to share with us.
*


 *Family News**: 2010 has been a year of testing for us. In January Marie
sustained head pains - more severe than those of migraines. Our General
Practioner through computer technology was able to diagnose the problem as
“Temporal arteritis” - inflammation of areries of the head - within 30
minutes. She had the same problem some 20 years ago, and 8 specialists -
before the days of computer technology, were unable to make this diagnosis!
This was comfirmed the next day by the Tacoma Group Health Clinic. The **
only proven help for this problem is “Prednisone.” If not treated within a
week, blindness can be the result.*


 *They started her off with 60 mgms a day, which produced 5 quite unpleasant
side-effects, but worth it because the major problem was temporarily solved.
The Memorial Service for her brother John on Saturday May 1st in Port
Alberni - came up too quickly for her to be well enough to attend. This is
the first Gaudet Family time she has been unable to attend. Our son Jim
drove me up on Friday, and I was able to take the Graveside Memorial
service, and then attend a family luncheon of sharing, in which I took part.
Uncle Bert Thomson led in that. But for the three year family reunion in
July, Marie was able to make it, and did quite well. *


 *She came completely off of Prednisone in early Fall, but thesymptons of
the Temporal Arteritis returned, which has put her back on it again, but to
a lesser degree. Some 100 joined in prayer for her during the summer, and
that made a tremendous difference. Thanks to all of you who took part at
that time. *


 *The church we have joined in Federal Way in January is only 5 minutes from
home. What a blessing. It is called Our Savior's Baptist Church, and is part
of the former Baptist General Conference, a very good evangelical
fellowship. Marie and I pastored for 4 years the First Baptist Church of
Round Lake, Illinois, which was also of this same Conference. In May we
broke ground for a new sanctuary seating about 550, and it will serve as an
Outreach Center. A “flying stage” was donated, something like Opera Houses
use to quickly change scenes. It's worth over $100,000, and will serve our
community as well as for us. Pastor Jeff MacLurg and his 3 brothers went to
school in Kent with our three offspring. These 4 boys are all in the
ministry, and Jeff, the second son, is an excellent expository Bible
preacher, true to the Word, and not departing from its clear teaching.*


 *Project News. I have nearly completed God's assignment to me, to form an
Interlineary Greek NT text that came to Russian Ivan Panin because of his
discovery of God's Bible Numerics back in 1890. It will be printed in 2011,
and besides an Introduction and Preface, I need to write an
“Acknowledgements” for it. J.A.W.*


 *To Dr. Jewell, who introduced Panin to me the Summer of 1944 in Victoria -
the Discovery made by Ivan Panin of Bible Numerics, and his Greek text minus
3000 alternate readings because of his discovery.*


 *To Ivan Panin, who died in 1942 in Aldershot, Ontario at the age of 87. In
the Introduction of his Greek Numeric NT, he pointed out his added discovery
that even the structure of sentences, subdivisions, paragrahs and sections
(chapter equivalents) were established by Bible Numerics. I am an outliner,
and starting with the book of Ephesians, I outlined it according to this
discovery, and by 1967 completed the entire NT in an Interlinear format. I
typed up the English text, and wrote in by hand the Greek equivalent, clause
by clause and sentence by sentence, including my personal outlines.*


 *To Winston Churchill; Peter Marshal, Chaplain of the US Senate in the late
40's; and J.B. Rotherham's “Emphasized Bible.” Churchil's speeches were
indented in clausal form with the main clause at the extreme left, and
dependent clauses indented in succeeding order. He could by this formatting,
read his speeches with tremendous clarity and expression. Peter Marshall
wrote his sermons on much the same principle. Rotherham arranged the entire
Bible with similar emphasis. The Interlinear Greek NT before you has been
centered mainly by clauses and sentences, so that the author's development
of thought can more easily stand out.*


 *To Ken Taylor of the Living Bible. His use of paraphrase over and above
literal Word by word translation, has enabled a “thought by thought”
equivalent to be used, using colloquilalisms and familiar idiomatic speech.
I have placed Panin's English translation under his Greek text in clausal
equivalents, so that those not wishing to make use of the Greek text, can
more easily make this choice.*


 *To Berlitz - and its method of transliterating languages for tourists and
those desiring quick use of other languages. The accented syllable is
capitalized; the syllables on either side of this accent are not separated
by a hyphen; but all syllables beyond the two close ones, are hyphenated, so
that the complete Greek word stands complete in itself.*


 *To Dr. Leddy - head of the Greek Department of the University of
Saskatchewan. I took two years of classical Greek under him, before going on
to the study of 3 years of NT Koi-ne Greek in Seminary. Dr. Leddy was a
Rhodes Scholar. When we in class questioned him concerning the distinction
between the acute and grave accents in Greek, he felt the significance for
pronunciation purposes had largely been lost over the couurse of time. With
this observation, I have taken these two, plus circumflex accents, and
simply capitalized all 3 of them. Scholars can work backwards from the
transliteration to the original text. I have also omitted the “dative
subscripts” for the sake of simplicity for Laymen.*


 *To my grandson Keelan Long, who in 2007 helped me format each sentence:
the title is in black type; the Greek text in light type; Panin's English
translation is in black type, so that the contrast of the above easily
stands out. Keelan initially volunteered to update my Website as a
Web-master, chiefly for articles I have written that could be placed under
“Archives”. He had no idea of the magnitude of the Interlinear Production,
and has produced a data-process undergirding to simplify the Homepage for
going through the 260 NT chapters, and eventually to allow me to post these
myself on the Website. One at the age of 87 doesn't learn these new
techniques too easily. The Website is not yet complete, but glitches are
being removed as Keelans has time and opportunity between College and Job.*


 *To my wife Marie and family, who have put up with Dad seeking a way to
produce this Interlinear Greek NT before the days of Computers. Marie
supplied me with a 2008 HP 17” Laptop, and Keelan put Linux software on it,
which enables him to correct my work and solve problems from Mount Vernon.*


 *To my eldest son Jim, who in 2000 set up my first Website for me to look
after the requests for unabridged copies of the 12 Embryonic Revival
Principles that came out of the 1948 Visitation in Northern Canada. Richard
Long in 1998 asked me to consider writing them up, as I was by then one of
the last living elders for the 1948 Summer Camp from North Battleford,
Saskatchewan.*


 *To Larry Van Schoiack - who in 1995 had watched me using an electronic
typewriter, and said, Jim, you need a computer. I'll give you one, and train
you how to use it. He did, and that started me on the trail that led up to
my present laptop and Broadband.*


 *To my former associate, who went ahead unilaterally and produced an
Interlinear Greek NT, completely by-passing Panin's English text, and even
making a few changes in his Greek text. He had no background in Greek except
what he picked up from me, and illustrates the old adage, a little Greek is
a dangerous thing. I was so upset with his production, that for two years I
could not even look at it. I did not then have the faith that I could do a
work fulfilling the vision that Panin had for an Interlinear Greek NT.
Jehovah's Witnesses offered to do it for him, but because he deemed them a
“cult”, he had to refuse their offer. But I felt such a desire to please God
and justify Panin, that God used my former associate to so motivate me, that
by faith I launched out to help fulfill Panin's dream.*


 *To Walter Muench, who has voluntarily proof-read all of Panin's English
text in this production, plus my sentence, subdivision, paragraph and
section titling.*


 *To Elvin Gladney, who believed that this Interlinear as the key component
part of the 7-fold Automated Laser-Telescope that God showed me in vision in
1967, must be put in print. He has kept my nose to the grindstone to finish
this production by December, the 12th month of 2010.*


 *To Timothy Johnson, friend of Elvin Gladney, who when he heard of this
production, and the part it would play for Spiritual Star Wars, felt God
leading him to print it, eliminating my notes. These notes are on the
Website www.2rbetter.org under “Interlinear”, and can be read there for
those who are interested.*


 *To donors. One couple every quarter for the last number of years has sent
helpful gifts for this project, which I have shared with my grandson Keelan.
Others have sent helpful gifts on occasion.*


 *To Intercessory Prayer Leaders, who have been undergirding this Project:
Rosemary Lambert of Tacoma; Cindy Cowper of Placerville, California; and
Julie Baxter of Texas. I am sure that in the sight of God, this is one of
the most important ingredients behind the success of this whole project. It
is for me. It is a part of the Body of Christ - important for the
functioning of the whole corporate body under the Headship of Christ. Each
part is important. In our natural body, none of us would wish to give up the
functioning of any part. In the Spiritual Body of Christ, I am sure He does
not want to do without any of us as parts. But prayer being such a weighty
ingredient of Christ Himself - therefore this has high priority.*


 *To God - who led me to transliterate the Greek text, to make it less
formidable to laymen. The formatting by clause and sentence is also of Him,
chiefly through Winston Churchill. When He spoke to a combined US Congress
following our declaration of war in December 1941, a page of his speech fell
to the floor. It was found by a cub reporter, and reprinted on the front
page of many daily US newspapers. I was fascinated by the ease to deliver a
speech from these notes. I felt a similar format would help Laymen more
simply to grasp the Inspiration of the Holy Spirit in NT Scripture. Hence
this format. Also, in 1967 I received a word from the Lord - “Get My New
Testament Done!” This is not my NT! It is not even Ivan Panin's. He merely
discovered God's Bible Numerics in both the Hebrew and Greek texts of the
Bible, which he used in the NT to produce a text without alternate readings,
and the possibility of outlining the entire NT according to God's sentence,
subdivision, paragraph and section structure. I put my work in this
outlining as more important than the transliteration, though both are a
challenge. For those then who prefer studying from a printed page, rather
than from a computer screen - this is what God also desired. *



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