Thorn & Crown Co.

Somebody actually DM’d me on TikTok and asked me how I study. How I’ve come to know and understand so much when it comes to God’s word. And… I had never truly thought about it. I’ve just always acted… I started writing and man… Words started flowing out of me in a way I didn’t expect. So… Here’s the story!

Well firstly, last year He told me if I didn’t start listening to Him that I was going to die. So, September 1, 2024… I left everything… Everything my flesh wanted, worked so hard for, FOUGHT for… and loved because of how I KNEW, I had the KNOWING it was God who told me that. And, it broke me… totally broke me.

However; 22 days later I was in an accident where He supernaturally saved me. I was untouched except for a mark on my forehead, some bruising and a little concussed lol. That’s it… After that, I laid it all down for Him.

He told me to give a warning and leave my job; I did…

He told me not to get another job… I resisted… Failed, and realized… He was trying to heal me… I was in the way. So, I quit the part time job and said alright God, I am ALL Yours. Have Your absolute way. Turn me inside out. Lets do this.

I started simply by reading my NASB bible. That alone. I’d read 2-8+ hours a day. Nope. Not joking. Him as my witness. I was a sponge. All I wanted was Him, all I wanted was His Truth, Presence, Deliverance, Understanding, Revelation, Breath, Prophecy, His name for me… I wanted it all. I was broken, and cornered by a world I don’t fit into. I read. I prayed. I cried. I learned. I broke. I lost… a lot. I cried more. Daily for months sometimes. But, I had never cried… Not really. He WAS healing me… It’s just hard to deny His presence when you experience His Presence… The ones where you are on your FACE in brokenness and His fire shows up and starts churning inside of you… Breaking YOUR will, showing you it’s hurting you… Bringing you into HIS will for you… It is pure love. But then… In His time, He’ll show up with His intimacy (relationship), the only depth of love that one would be willingly and knowingly sacrificed in such a way; bringing with Him… His scent; Frankincense and Myrrh. The most earthy, grounding, luxurious, masculine smells there are that just screamed, “GLORY.” How could I EVER again forsake this? Him? I couldn’t. I wouldn’t. Yes, unto death. In Jesus’ name His will be done.

I kept on this reading process for 3 months, enough to get my nervous system relaxed enough (NOT healed lol, relaxed) to where… I was able to come out of fight or flight that was my normal… like, always. Did I realize this? Nope. Did I know something was very wrong with my body and that it has been screaming at me for a while? Yep. Could I ever find anything wrong? Every dr, “your blood results actually continue to improve! You’re the healthiest you’ve ever been!” I mean, I have always been an athlete for most of my life despite my early/mid 20’s. But… Really? Bc I don’t feel like the pinnacle of health. Well, I decided to look into how to read a blood panel myself. What true levels should be at what times of the day; fasted, non fasted, etc.

Haha. Sillies. I include this because my Father showed me I DONT NEED this medical systems. And I am completely free from the serpent angel icon of western modern medicine in Jesus’ name!

How I study:

I study by using my NASB, most of the time I simply look of hebrew origin, and the the historical, biblical and prophetic interpretations. Sometimes I also compare to my interlinear (has greek, Hebrew and English origin transl). Now, those steps are time consuming. So after that, once YOU have the understanding of the original meaning, always go with discernment from the Holy Spirit #1. But then, once you do these steps if you learn this way—understand; I acknowledge this sounds like a nightmare to some people. But I need you to understand; people have been intentionally dumbed down illiterately (NOTHING to be ashamed of) and have a hard time reading a sentence, and understand what that sentence means. Because, if you don’t know what the words mean that you’re reading, HOW can you be expected to interpret a sentence? A verse? A chapter? A BOOK? And then MANY books? It’s discouraging; I know. But I need you to believe. I need you to have FAITH that if God said we can MOVE MOUNTAINS, that He can quickly interpret His wisdom, understanding, revelation, prophecy, contextual truths and HIS Truths QUICKLY!

Please have faith… literally I ask everyone this: What’s the ONE thing Christ Jesus rebuked the disciples for? “You of little faith”… When their boat was rocking… Jesus was disappointed they had little faith… WE MUST BELIEVE! He IS only as powerful as you believe UNTIL you witness Him. But you have to believe to witness… 🤍🙌🏼🙏🏼

All that said; you will be able to see the prophetic patterns unfold as you continue to read and reread the texts. The Holy Spirit is truly the only interpreter when it comes to seeing and understanding in the spirit; I don’t believe this is something to understand by carnal works alone such as the scribes—see my notes below:

I think it’s a balancing of efforts between searching and meditating on the scriptures, taking your thoughts captive and protecting, keeping—the work He does within you and watch His fruit flourish from within you. While researching the texts (including Dead Sea scrolls and Apocrypha) having the correct heart posture and intent— and always ask the Lord for the understanding in Jesus name on the WHY behind why people did what they did, etc. Like basically… like studying your family lineage. What would YOU want to know about your Fathers people? Thats how my brain operates.

But; I go through phases where I read like CRAZY and have tons of information at once. Then, there’s times where I don’t read much (at minimum

once SOMETHING a day, but I don’t force myself into ANYTHING. I also listen to the audio bible app while I sleep; I believe there’s a secret sauce to this) and allow myself to really simplify worship, focus in seeing His goodness, allow Him to break me down as He needs to continue cleansing my heart. It’s all a process and I don’t think anyones walk is the same bc we’re all broken and fallen in different ways. But, He knows that. He knows HOW to get to you the way YOU need it. Not the way the world thinks He needs to approach you. He approaches you as a friend that LOVES you… and as the relationship this intimacy builds that translates to a Father and daughter/son relationship with just pure UNCONDITIONAL love, mercy and protection… That’s ALL YOU FEAR is disappointing HIM… and thats when the stripping really starts. It’ll make you walk away from people and things like you never imagined… Stand in intercession as Christ does for us to the Father for crazy unpredictable scenarios, unexplainable things will happen when you enter the way He calls, with blindfolds on… It’s pure blind faith. Forging in FIRE, His fire. Not relying on your own understanding—aka what you see and or hear in the physical; but standing 10 toes on His word, His truth, and what HE TOLD YOU…

But it’s all for Him. And it hurts but… it’s like you gain His freedom, true freedom—the more you allow Him to turn your heart inside out, the more you lay it all down before Him and realize He’s wanting to walk INTO the darkness within you, with YOU… He does. Christ is NOT SCARED of your sin, your darkness. He wants to FREE you from it… We prohibit it. We prohibit Him, we handcuff Him from moving in our lives. Because, we think WE can do it better. Hence… Tower of Babel and the days of nimrod; days of Noah.

{Side note bc I have to—you know the last time the firmament was cracked? Nimrod, when he did it. Know who’s done it recently? Mlon Eusk. With his serpent rockets. I discuss this here: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8B3aD2E/

Our man made machines can heal better, our diets, medicine, church organization, the way tithing is done (uh yeah; read the texts on that and you’ll see exposure of EVERY church in America real quick); BUT we do not go and physically express anger and/or hate these people; we do not. We are called to help the weak, the lame, the lonely of the world and “LOVE THY NEIGHBOR AS THYSELF”. THAT’S CHRISTS LAW… See scriptures at bottom.

But yeah—we’ve all been dumbed down, by design. Yes, all of us. Therefore, I took it upon myself to quietly deep dive into ALL “truths” for roughly 14 years now. On and off. Steadily and consistently since 2018. Biblically and prophetically alone? A year, a little over a year. May of 2024 I dove my face into those smooth, thin, golden flakey living papers of God’s word. And, He’s transformed me in ways I haven’t been able to put into words yet… While being persecuted by the closest people to me, learning to love my judas, yet keep boundaries and drop passivity to “keep the peace”; not Christs design… So yeah! I feel a little ramble at this point, but this is the truth.

My personal account of how I came to know the One True Living God; YHWH, I Am, Yeshua, Christ Jesus of Nazareth. Our Savior who redeemed the bloodline of Adam; the bloodline of the fallen man.

the Bible is truly a beautiful prophetic symphony.

This is simply an account from a broken girl from Texas’ transformed to child of GOD; my imperfect journey with the Most High showing ups like an absolute wrecking ball in my life to break me down and remold me; as the potter does with the clay.

Is it over yet? No. I am raw. I am healing actively, I am getting off of mind altering substances actively; but that does not mean my witness of the power of GOD is any less. It just makes me able to nakedly bare my soul before the internet, unashamed because of who my Father says I am.

God bless you in Jesus name if you read. I truly appreciate you, and Christ LOVES you so…

The Living Woman, Taylor B.

@taybuck7

9/3/25

EXPANSIVE NOTES BELOW:

Sources

1. The “lying pen of the scribes” (Jeremiah 8:8)

Event: Jeremiah prophesied around 626–586 BC, leading up to the Babylonian exile.

Context: In Judah, temple scribes and priests had corrupted the Torah by twisting its meaning to justify idolatry and oppression. Jeremiah accused them directly of rewriting and distorting God’s Word.

Lookup: Jeremiah 8:8, connected with Josiah’s reign (640–609 BC) and his reforms (2 Kings 22, discovery of the “Book of the Law” in 622 BC).

2. The rediscovery of the Law under Josiah

Event: Around 622 BC, during temple repairs, Hilkiah the priest found “the Book of the Law” (2 Kings 22:8).

Scribe involved: Shaphan the scribe read it aloud to King Josiah. This shows that even within the temple system, the Law had been neglected or suppressed by scribes and priests until that moment.

Lookup: 2 Kings 22:8–10, year 622 BC in Josiah’s reign.

3. Post-exile elevation of scribes

Event: After the return from Babylonian exile (~538 BC onward), Ezra (a scribe) led reforms around 458 BC under Persian King Artaxerxes.

Significance: Ezra “set his heart to study the Law” (Ezra 7:10), showing scribes now moved from court recorders into Torah specialists. This shift marks the beginning of their later dominance.

Lookup: Ezra 7:6–10, historical setting ~458 BC.

4. Intertestamental corruption — Oral Torah

Event: Between 200–100 BC, Pharisaic scribes in Judea began systematizing the “tradition of the elders” (later written as the Mishnah ~200 AD).

Example: The Hasmonean period (~167–63 BC) saw scribes aligning with religious parties (Pharisees/Sadducees), using tradition to interpret the Law.

Lookup: Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews XIII.10–16 describes Pharisees and scribes enforcing human traditions.

5. Christ’s Rebuke of Scribes

Event: During His ministry (~27–30 AD), Jesus publicly condemned scribes for hypocrisy and misuse of authority.

Specific references:

Matthew 23 (likely during Passion Week in 30 AD) — “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!”

Luke 11:52 — “You have taken away the key of knowledge…” (Galilean ministry ~28 AD).

Lookup: Matthew 23, Luke 11, historically placed in early 1st century Judea.

6. Preservation vs. Corruption (Dead Sea Scrolls)

Event: Qumran community scribes (c. 150 BC – 68 AD) carefully copied the Law, Prophets, and commentaries, separating themselves from Jerusalem scribes whom they considered corrupt.

Significance: Confirms that in Christ’s day there was a known divide between faithful scribes (Qumran) and corrupted scribes (Temple/Pharisees).

Lookup: Dead Sea Scrolls manuscripts (e.g., 1QpHab, Habakkuk Commentary, ~100 BC).

7. Nullifying God’s Word with tradition

Event: Jesus confronted scribes and Pharisees around 30 AD for setting aside God’s commands to honor father and mother, replacing them with manmade vows (Corban) (Mark 7:9–13).

Lookup: Mark 7:9–13, direct confrontation with scribes from Jerusalem.

The Pattern in Christ

From Jeremiah (626–586 BC) exposing lying scribes,

to Josiah’s reforms (622 BC) where scribes read the neglected Law,

to Ezra (458 BC) elevating scribes as teachers of Torah,

to Hasmonean scribes (~150 BC) who codified tradition,

to Jesus (~30 AD) directly rebuking them —
the scribes’ story is one of a role God intended for truth that was repeatedly corrupted for control.

1000–1200 AD: Monastic Scribes

Event: Scripture was copied almost exclusively by monks in monasteries across Europe.

Practice: They produced handwritten Latin manuscripts (the Vulgate).

Corruption: The Bible was locked in Latin, inaccessible to ordinary people. Interpretation was controlled by the clergy — the “scribes” of this age.

1200–1400 AD: Suppression and Translation Attempts

Event: John Wycliffe (c. 1320–1384) and his followers (the Lollards) translated the Bible into English from the Latin Vulgate.

Reaction: The Church banned it. Wycliffe’s bones were dug up and burned in 1428, forty years after his death, as punishment for giving the Word to the common people.

Parallel to Christ’s rebuke: Religious scribes guarded power by withholding God’s Word.

1400–1500 AD: Printing and Wider Access

Event: Johannes Gutenberg printed the Latin Bible in 1455, revolutionizing access.

Shift: Handwritten scribes began to lose dominance as the printing press spread Scripture faster than church control could contain.

1500–1600 AD: Reformation and Bloodshed

Event: Martin Luther translated the New Testament into German (1522), making Scripture accessible to the common people.

Other translators: William Tyndale translated the Bible into English (1525–1536).

Reaction: Tyndale was executed in 1536 for making the Bible readable in English. His last words: “Lord, open the King of England’s eyes.”

Relevance: The very “scribal spirit” Christ condemned lived on — controlling access to God’s Word, killing those who freed it.

1600–1700 AD: Authorized and Standardized

Event: The King James Version (1611) was published in England. It became the standard Bible for English-speaking Christians.

Control: While more accessible, it was still filtered through state and church authority.

Wars of religion: The Word, once bound by scribes, was now weaponized by kings and clergy to justify power.

1700–1800 AD: Enlightenment and Criticism

Event: Scholars in universities began “textual criticism,” questioning Scripture’s authority.

Example: Johann Semler (1725–1791), called the “father of historical-critical method,” argued Scripture must be studied like any other book.

Impact: The scribal corruption shifted from hiding Scripture to dissecting it — undermining faith in its divine origin.

1800–1900 AD: Translation Explosion and Division

Event: Bible societies (like the British and Foreign Bible Society, founded 1804) mass-produced Scripture in many languages.

Corruption: At the same time, higher criticism (Germany, mid-1800s) spread doubt, denying miracles and Christ’s authority.

Example: Julius Wellhausen’s “Documentary Hypothesis” (1878) claimed the Pentateuch was pieced together by scribes centuries later — echoing the lying pen of scribes Jeremiah condemned.

The Thread in Christ

From monastic scribes hoarding the Word (1000–1400),

to reformers executed for translating it (1500s),

to church and state binding it in their authority (1600s),

to critics dismantling its truth (1700s–1800s) —
the same spirit of the scribes persists: keeping people from the Living Word, Christ Jesus.

Where the Spirit of Christ moves, the Word is loosed into the hands of the humble. Where the spirit of the scribes rules, the Word is either chained, twisted, or gutted.

1900–2025: Historical Fulfillment of Christ’s Rebuke of the Scribes

1. Shutting up the Kingdom (Luke 11:52)

Event: In 1924, the Roman Catholic Church placed English translations of the Bible on the Index of Forbidden Books unless with official approval.

Factual tie: Just as Christ said scribes “took away the key of knowledge,” church scribes restricted Scripture from the people.

2. Nullifying God’s Word with Tradition (Mark 7:13)

Event: The Second Vatican Council (1962–1965) declared tradition and Scripture equal in authority (Dei Verbum, 1965).

Factual tie: Christ condemned scribes for elevating man’s traditions above God’s Word. The official record shows the same: human tradition bound alongside divine Word.

3. Loving Chief Seats and Honors (Mark 12:38–39)

Event: Throughout the 20th century, biblical scholars in Western universities became celebrated “authorities” who decided which words of Jesus were authentic.

Example: The Jesus Seminar (founded 1985) voted on Christ’s sayings with colored beads, dismissing most as inauthentic.

Factual tie: Exactly as Christ said — scribes loved status but in doing so rejected Him, the Word.

4. The Lying Pen (Jeremiah 8:8, echoed in Matthew 23)

Event: From the 1800s–1900s into today, “textual criticism” (Wellhausen onward) declared much of the Old Testament a patchwork of late scribes.

Key date: 1878 Wellhausen documentary hypothesis, expanded and institutionalized in seminaries through the 20th century.

Factual tie: Christ rebuked scribes for twisting Scripture; here, scholars (modern scribes) claimed whole swaths were man-made, gutting its divine truth.

5. Hindering Salvation (Matthew 23:13)

Event: In the 20th century, state atheism (Soviet Union, 1920s–1980s) banned Bible ownership and executed those distributing it.

Factual tie: Christ said scribes hinder people entering the Kingdom; history shows regimes backed by scribal elites cut off access to the Word entirely.

6. Christ’s Words Vindicated Today

From church scribes restricting access (1924 ban),

to tradition elevated equal to Scripture (1965 Vatican II),

to academic scribes voting away His words (1985 Jesus Seminar),

to textual critics claiming Scripture was scribal invention (1878–present),

to political powers outlawing the Bible (Soviet Union 1920s–80s) —
every one of Christ’s charges against the scribes has been historically fulfilled in verifiable events.

LINKS related to crimes against God’s Word

On Bible bans and Catholic control (1924 / Index of Forbidden Books):
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03744a.htm
https://archive.org/details/indexofprohibite00cath

On Vatican II (1962–1965) declaring tradition equal to Scripture:
https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19651118_dei-verbum_en.html

On the Jesus Seminar (1985, dismissing Christ’s words):
https://archive.org/details/fivegospelswhatd0000funk
https://www.westarinstitute.org/projects/the-jesus-seminar/

On Julius Wellhausen and the Documentary Hypothesis (1878 onward):
https://archive.org/details/prolegomenatothe00well
https://archive.org/details/introductiontoot0000well

On Soviet Bible bans and persecution (1920s–1980s):
https://archive.org/details/persecutionofrel017059mbp
https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/coldwar.html

1. Suppression of Scripture in Latin (1000s–1400s)

Index of Prohibited Books (Catholic Church, multiple editions):
https://archive.org/details/indexofprohibite00cath

Article on medieval restriction of vernacular Bibles:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Biblical-translation/Medieval-times

2. Wycliffe and English Bible Suppression (1300s–1400s)

Council of Constance (1415) condemnation of Wycliffe:
https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/constance.asp

Record of Wycliffe’s bones exhumed and burned (1428):
https://www.historyextra.com/period/medieval/john-wycliffe-life-bible-translation-english-heritic/

Digitized Wycliffite Bible (proof they existed, though suppressed):
https://archive.org/details/Unc_chapel_hill_Wycliffite_bible

3. William Tyndale’s Translation and Execution (1500s)

Trial records and account of Tyndale’s death (1536):
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/22200/22200-h/22200-h.htm

Archive on Tyndale’s Bible and suppression by church/state:
https://archive.org/details/williamtyndalehi00dema

Encyclopedia Britannica on Tyndale’s execution for Bible translation:
https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Tyndale

4. Index and Censorship of Vernacular Bibles (1500s–1800s)

Catholic Church decree on Scripture access (Council of Trent, 1546):
https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/trent-session4.asp

Documentation of banned translations and control:
https://archive.org/details/catholicchurchan00mose

“History of the English Bible” (detailing suppression, burnings, censorship):
https://archive.org/details/historyenglishbi00moulrich

5. Higher Criticism and Scribal Dismantling (1800s)

Julius Wellhausen’s Prolegomena to the History of Israel (1878):
https://archive.org/details/prolegomenatothe00well

Example of “scribal” dismantling of the Pentateuch (Wellhausen hypothesis):
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/wellhausen/

These sources prove with documentation how “scribes” — whether medieval clerics, councils, or later critics — hid, banned, burned, or twisted the Word of God, exactly as Christ said.

Verses of Christ’s Law…

Leviticus 19:18

“You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the sons of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself; I am the LORD.”

Matthew 22:37–40

“‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the great and foremost commandment. The second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets.”

Mark 12:30–31

“‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ The second is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

Romans 13:8–10

“Owe nothing to anyone except to love one another; for the one who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the Law. For this, ‘You shall not commit adultery, you shall not murder, you shall not steal, you shall not covet,’ and if there is any other commandment, it is summed up in this saying, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the Law.”

Galatians 5:14

“For the whole Law is fulfilled in one word, in the statement, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”

James 2:8

“If, however, you are fulfilling the royal law according to the Scripture, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself,’ you are doing well.”