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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 454
According to a 2003 Harris poll, 84% of Americans believe that the soul lives on after
death.
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In other words they don’t believe we really die. This is contrary to the word of God.
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Revelation 21 speaks of the New Jerusalem, which shall be the home of the redeemed that have
accepted Jesus Christ as their savior. According to the modern versions everyone shall live in the
New Jerusalem:
Rev. 21:24 (KJV)
24
And the nations of them
which are saved shall walk in the
light of it: and the kings of the earth
do bring their glory and honour into
it.
NAB, NCV,
NIV,
NRSV,
RSV, NLT,
NASB
Rev. 21:24 (NASB)
24
The nations will walk by
its light, and the kings of the earth
will bring their glory unto it.
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Again, in the example below the modern versions edit the very words of Jesus himself:
Luke 4:4 (KJV)
4
And Jesus answered him,
saying, It is written, That man shall
not live by bread alone, but by
every word of God.
NAB, NCV,
NIV,
NRSV,
RSV, NLT,
NASB
Luke 4:4 (NASB)
And Jesus answered him, It
is written, MAN SHALL NOT
LIVE BY BREAD ALONE.
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Comment: If every word of God is important the readers of the modern versions are
being short changed, they’re being misled and they’re being deceived. According to Les Garrett,
author of Which Bible Can We Trust, the NIV has 64,000 fewer words than the KJV of the Bible.
That is the equivalent of the middle of Acts to the end of Revelation. These deletions include
over 650 words of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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In Isaiah 8:20 we find one of the tools that we Christians have for exposing false
teachers, false prophets, false gospels and Antichrists. If they don’t completely agree with the
word of God then there is no light in them, they have no truth:
Isaiah 8:20 (KJV)
20
To the law and to the
testimony: if they speak not
according to this word, it is because
there is no light in them.
NAB, NCV,
NIV,
NRSV,
RSV, NLT,
NASB
Isaiah 8:20 (NAB)
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then this document will
furnish its instruction. That kind
of thing they will surely say.
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Comment: The valuable truth revealed in Isaiah 8:20 cannot be found in the modern
versions. The NIV and the NASB come close (NIV says “they have no light of dawn” and the
NASB says “they have no dawn”). Among the other modern versions there is no consistent
rendering of the text. The Catholic NAB has no resemblance to the original whatsoever.
1 John 4:1-3 is another valuable tool that the word of God gives us. It reveals the “spirit
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