18 April 2022 by themoonmonkey OxOxford University Press Arno’s Support Team The Man Behind Scofield Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward. Jude 1:11 Earlier in his career Arno had been a Methodist missionary working to reach Jews on the lower East Side. He and his family were supported by the church. [16] But he was accused of Judiazing [17] and when the Zionist movement began he severed his relationship with the Methodist church. [18] He then started his magazine which stated that it “preached to the Gentile church in behalf of the Jew.” His new ministry was supported by Zionists. His account of his meeting Scofield reveals that he arranged the financing for Scofield’s proposed reference bible. [19] But Arno was writing a cover-up and not an objective history of the events. We now know that Scofield was being managed by Samuel Untermeyer [20] and that the book was owned by the Fabian socialist Oxford University Press. Oxford University Press had opened its New York office in 1896. So it is more probable that Untermeyer was working with contacts at Oxford in England and they hired Arno to do the book while Untermeyer controlled the front man. Arno lists the financial backers of the book. Two of them were members of the Lotus Club on 14th Avenue. Other contributors were mentioned but none that he listed were Jews. Untermeyer who was a member of the Lotus Club and was controlling Scofield was not mentioned. Arno knew Untermeyer was paying Scofield’s rent at the club. Apparently, Arno chose not to mention the names of his Jewish backers. Mark Twain made a famous talk at Lotus Club in 1900, Scofield might have been in the audience. He lived there at the kindness of his Bolshevik friends. It is interesting that on page 2 of the original Scofield Bible, Scofield acknowledged the influence of Oxford scholar B. F. Westcott. [21] Scofield travelled to England to meet him. It has always been a question who financed that expensive trip. Westcott had died in 1903 while the book was being written. He was close to James Balfour. He and Balfour were both deeply into spiritualism and had seances together at Balfour’s London townhouse. [22] Balfour who was one of the most powerful men in England was an ardent Zionist. He and his close friend Edmond Rothschild were the signatories to the infamous Balfour Agreement which deeded Palestine to the Jews in 1917. Rothschild controlled Jacob Schiff in New York who controlled Samuel Untermeyer. So we see that Gaebelein and Scofield were connected to a Bolshevik Jew and a closet Jesuit in the Church of England. Each of these men were but one face away from Edmond Rothschild. Rothschild it was said, “owned” Zionism. If Edmond Rothschild was involved in the Scofield Bible project he would see to it that no one ever knew it. He always operated through agents. David Rausch mentions that people were “filtering” money to Arno and unlike other ministers at that time, he always seemed to have money. [23] Rothschild began pouring a fortune into Zionism at about the time Arno started his Zionist magazine in 1894. Some of that money may have trickled down to the lower East side. And Arno, like Balaam, was a prophet for hire. Email Marketing by