Conspiracy

There is a conspiracy afoot. This conspiracy does not involve aliens, secret societies or cults, or who killed President Kennedy. It is a conspiracy involving scripture, and it has been in place from the beginning. The purpose of this conspiracy is to conceal truth, to put scales over people's eyes, so they cannot receive the truth. Those actually involved in the conspiracy are from among the most learned in the scriptures, and in our society, and yes, this conspiracy is ongoing, but it will not remain hidden much longer.
One of the characteristics of any conspiracy is that those "in the know" have the facts about a situation, and either conceal those facts, or lie about them, in order to keep the facts from the general population. Such is also the case here.
One of our own Presidents, Thomas Jefferson, created something called "The Jefferson Bible". With literally a razor and glue, he cut out the portions of the New Testament that he felt were not worth reading. These omitted sections contained the miracles, even the resurrection, of Christ.  He must have read them before cutting them out, but he didn't want you to read them. There is a further description of this bizarre publication at the end of this entry.
This deliberate conspiracy is directed both to the Jew and the Christian. The Church conspired for centuries to keep the scriptures out of the hands of the general population, and took extreme measures to insure that scripture was kept only in the Greek and Latin languages, so the people couldn't read them. They kept physical access to the scriptures limited to clergy only. People were labeled heretics, strangled and burnt at the stake for daring to translate and distribute the scriptures in the common languages of the people (see Wycliffe/Tyndale). Why would these men risk such terrible consequences to get the scriptures into our hands? Because they knew that there was a conspiracy by the Church to keep the truth from the people. Martin Luther discovered that salvation did not have to be controlled by, or purchased from, the Church when he read the Book of Romans (Rom. 10:9-10). When he published this information, he became a condemned fugitive. There are still Christians today who have never been taught these salvation scriptures by their church. So let the Church not get too far from repentance itself. The careful "editing" of what is taught in churches from the Bible still continues. A person can live their whole life attending church and never hear a whisper of some of the main, precious, life-giving spiritual truths freely available to them from scripture. We will see how this conspiracy has been directed to the Jewish people as well.
Jesus exposed this deliberate conspiracy, and held His most severe judgment for those who were involved in it. Let's look at some examples:
In John 3, we are told about a man who seeks Jesus out secretly at night to hear Him. He was a leader in the religious council, the Sanhedrin. His name was Nicodemus, which means "conqueror of the assembly of people", and is described as "a ruler of the Jews". In one encounter, as Nicodemus describes Jesus as a "teacher", Jesus exposes Nicodemus for what he is pretending not to know. He tells Nicodemus, "Most assuredly I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."
Nicodemus feigned ignorance regarding what Jesus was saying, and Jesus repeated His declaration. As Nicodemus continues to claim a lack of understanding, Jesus says, "Are you the teacher of Israel, and do not know these things?" Nicodemus had refused to acknowledge what Jesus declared to him because it would mean that Nicodemus would have to accept that Jesus declared it as an eyewitness of it in heaven:
"Most assuredly I say to you, We speak what we know and testify what We have seen, and you do not receive our witness....No one has ascended to heaven but He who came down from heaven, that is the Son of Man who is in heaven."   Jn. 3:11, 13
Jesus knew that Nicodemus, as a teacher in Israel, contrary to what Nicodemus claimed, knew exactly what Jesus was talking about, and knew exactly who Jesus was. And if Nicodemus, the teacher of Israel, was unwilling to admit his knowledge to Jesus, he certainly wasn't teaching it to others. Thankfully, there is evidence that Nicodemus, personally, was changed by the encounter. We see later in the Gospel of John, that he attempted to influence the Sanhedrin, without actually publicly supporting Jesus, before His trial, and he contributed to Jesus' burial after His death (Jn. 7:50, 19:39). We do not know, however, if Nicodemus ever taught what he knew to the people of Israel. It was in that private conversation with Nicodemus that Jesus revealed:
"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved."  Jn. 3:16-17
The Torah, Histories, Psalms, and Prophets, or Old Testament, gives clear testimony, both directly, and within the Hebrew language originally used, of salvation, the Savior, and the specifics pertaining to Him. Even the very individual letters of the Hebrew aleph-bet, a pictographic written language, bear witness to the Son of God. This is why Jesus described Himself as the "Alpha and the Omega" (Rev. 1:8, 11, 21:6, 22:13), which is the Greek translation of the Hebrew/Aramaic. Jesus would have originally said, "I am the Aleph-Tav".
Those who have studied the Hebrew language, know exactly the spiritual depth that the language contains. Do they teach this fullness of the Hebrew language to the people? 
This was again noted specifically in Jesus' ministry. He called out the scribes, the ones who copied letter by letter, word after word of the Hebrew that was used to write the scriptures.  They painstakingly wrote it out by hand, and could not be ignorant of what the Hebrew revealed, nor to what each Hebrew letter testified. Jesus said to them, "You search the scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life."  Jn. 5:39-40
About the very learned priests and scribes, Jesus called them "hypocrites". When Herod wanted to know where the Savior was to be born according to scripture, he called in the scriptural experts, the most learned, the scribes and priests, and they told him precisely of the Savior's expected birth in Bethlehem (Mt. 2:4). Though they had this expert knowledge of the scriptures, they did not teach it to the people. The people remarked at the difference between how Jesus taught the scriptures, and what they were used to hearing from the scribes (Mt. 7:29). Though Jesus could support everything He declared and taught with scripture, the scribes falsely accused Him of blasphemy (Mt. 9:3). When He opened the scriptures in truth to the people, the scribes demanded signs from Him (Mt. 12:38). Jesus condemned the scribes in this manner:
"Woe (passionate cry of grief and despair) to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites (to feign, play a part, actor, dissembler, pretender)! For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in. Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses (it was financially advantageous to them to keep the truth from the people), and for a pretense (pretended cause, outward show) make long prayers. Therefore, you will receive greater condemnation. Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel land and sea to win one proselyte (newcomer, stranger, gentile convert), and when he is won, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves."  Mt. 23:13-14
Jesus didn't pull any punches in dealing with the scribes. He did not condemn them because they were ignorant, but because they knew. Not only did they pretend not to know, but they concealed the knowledge from the people.Like Nicodemus, they also knew, and they knew that Jesus knew that they knew, if you know what I mean! Because Jesus knew this about them, He was a danger to them, and, in their view, He had to die. The scribes, among others, who knew every letter and every word of scripture, would betray Him, and condemn Him to death, as Jesus prophesied (Mt. 20:18). Jesus categorized it as a "betrayal" because they knew.
Though men, both in the temples and in the churches, have conspired for thousands of years to keep the truth of the scriptures, the Gospel, and the Christ from the people, the lid is coming off of their secret:
"For there is nothing hidden which will not be revealed, nor has anything been kept secret but that it should come to light. If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear."   Mk. 4:22-23
"He reveals deep and secret things; He knows what is in the darkness, and light dwells with Him."   Dan. 2:22
If you are a Christian, and your church does not teach you the complete scriptures, but rather chooses small selections of verse here and there, read the complete scriptures for yourself, both the Old and New Testaments.
If you are Jewish, and your temple does not read and teach all of the scriptures, but just carefully selected passages, read the complete sriptures for yourself. If you are able to read them in the original Hebrew, even better.
If you have been told that you must accept others' interpretations of passages of scripture because they are/were learned men, read the scriptures for yourself. God has written them in a manner that you are able to understand. His Spirit, which hovers over His Word, will help and guide you in revealing His Word to you. Men have died anguished deaths to provide scripture to us all so that we can read and understand them for ourselves.
If you are an individual, or an organization, that has conspired to keep the truth and the complete text of scripture out of the hands of the people in order to preserve yourself, and your system, God sees and He knows, and He will reveal.
The conspiracy still exists today. To call it anything less would mean becoming a co-conspirator. However, we don't have to have the complete truth hidden from us any longer.

Our Father has freely given us His Word of life. (Read it for yourself!)

More details on The Jefferson Bible:
The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth, commonly referred to as the Jefferson Bible, refers to one of two religious works constructed by Thomas Jefferson. The first, The Philosophy of Jesus of Nazareth, was completed in 1804, but no copies exist today. The second, The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth, was completed in 1820 by cutting and pasting with a razor and glue numerous sections from the New Testament as extractions of the doctrine of Jesus. Jefferson's condensed composition is especially notable for its exclusion of all miracles by Jesus and most mentions of the supernatural, including sections of the four gospels that contain the Resurrection and most other miracles, and passages that portray Jesus as divine