The Apocrypha. You know, it appeared in the original King James Bible in 1611.

The Interesting.

And here to talk about the King James Bible and the Apocrypha and a number of other interesting facts is Dr. Kenneth Johnson.

Our good friend Ken Johnson, welcome

back to Prophecy Watchers.

And thanks for having me back.

The book is called the Ancient Apocalypse of Ezra. And then there's sort of a little

parenthetical statement down here called Second Esdras in the King James version of 1611. And you've written a book

about Ezra. Now let's talk about the Ezra of the Old Testament and Esdras, ESDRAS, as he appears in

the apocryphal books. And by the way, we're going to be talking about the apocryphal books.

And by the way, we're going to be talking about the apocrypha quite a bit today.

Well, Ezra was the priest that came back from the first exile.

And Ezra and Nehemiah, we have that in our Bible.

So what we have is Ezra is in the Greek version, like the Septuagint of those Bibles, and then the Latin form, is Ezris. They just spell it differently. So we have first

Ezra in the Greek text, which is basically Ezra, or sometimes it's Ezra and Nehemiah put

together. But second Ezra, or the apocalypse of Ezra, or sometimes it's Ezra and Nehemiah put together. But second Ezra, or the apocalypse

of Ezra, is actually a secondary book on prophecy.

Now I have here a facsimile of the 1611 King James Version of the Bible and I open it up

and lo and behold, right in the middle between old

and New Testaments are the books of the Apocrypha and this just fell open to second

Esdras which we're going to be talking about today and in fact you have a first

edress and a second Esdras and we're going to talk about how those work and why there's a one and a two.

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