“Satan, the real master of the New Age, delights in mysterious code words and phrases because they allow his agents, when questioned, to escape public censure by hiding behind a verbal mirage.”
-- Texe Marrs, author of Dark Secrets of the New Age.
Much of the New Age plot behind the “modern versions” of the Bible is accomplished through either omitting or changing God’s use of phrases and words—including the connotations of words—to make verses support Satan’s cause.
One of hundreds of great examples is the change of the word “devils” to “demons” in the New King James Version, along with the other corrupt bibles published since the King James Bible.
In Webster’s dictionary, “demon” is defined as “a tutelary divinity,” while the word “devil” comes with the explanation, “In Jewish and Christian theology, the personal supreme spirit of evil and unrighteousness.”
Madame H.P. Blavatsky, founder of the Theosophical Society and recognized as “the mother of the New Age Movement,” once wrote:
“[T]he Church is wrong in calling them Devils. . .[T]he word demon however, as in the case of Socrates, and in the spirit of meaning given to it by the whole of antiquity, stand[s] for the Guardian Spirit or Angel, not a Devil of Satanic descent as Theology would have it. . . Demons is a very loose word to use, as it applies to. . . minor Gods;. . .there are no devils.”
Indeed, in The Theosophical Dictionary, demon is said to have “a meaning identical with that of ‘god’, ‘angel’ or ‘genius’. Under the word “demon” in The Encyclopedia of Occultism & Parapsychology, Socrates is quoted as saying, “[A] voice has been heard by me throughout my life. . . I call it a God or a daemon.”
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To the Greeks, the word “daemon” meant “demigod” and Socrates taught that a daemon was a “spiritual something that put him on the road to wisdom.”
In her 1993 book, New Age Bible Versions, author Gail Riplinger writes, “All of the world’s religions, except biblical Christianity and Judaism, believe that those entities which the Bible calls evil spirits are demigods, worthy of veneration or placation.
“In the West, New Agers are told that Nathaniel Hawthorne, ‘ascribe[s] some measure of importance and success to his prompt obedience to the wise Daemon’s direction.’ Eastward, Buddhists tell of ‘good demons,’ mosri sho shu and mischievous demons, nushi sho shu. . .
“By switching to the globally acceptable ‘demons’, new ‘International’ versions follow their admitted philosophy of choosing words which ‘allow each reader to decide for himself’ what a verse means. God, however, has already decided. . .
“(New Testament) Greek dabblers may jump to the floor with reference to the Greek’s use of both diabolos and daemonium to refer to Satan and the devils, respectively. Any objection to translating two different Greek words as one English word fails disastrously since new version editors themselves translate two different Hebrew words, shed and sair, as one word ‘demon’.
“Scholars who live in glass houses should refrain from throwing ‘original language’ stones, particularly when their house of cards appears to have been designed by a New Age architect.”
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On the subject of satanically corrupted modern bible versions, Jordan reminds:
“Jesus Christ says, ‘I am the way; I am truth.’ Jesus Christ was and is truth personified in person. He once prayed for His disciples and said, ‘Sanctify them by the word; thy word is truth.’
“Just like Jesus Christ was the perfect truth of God, He said His Word was the perfect truth of God. That’s what Paul said when he wrote, ‘Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.’
“If you’ve got a bible and you don’t believe it’s the truth—and I don’t mean generically the truth; I’m talking about when you read a specific verse and the words in the verse—
then you have an entirely different attitude toward the Word of God than God Himself does.
“That’s why the bible version issue is not just something to take casually because if we went around this room and took up all the different versions, they wouldn’t all have the same verses in them, and there would be a lot of verses you’d read that wouldn’t say the same thing.
“The King James Bible has a great heritage; it’s the text that matches the Bible that’s been used from the time of Paul all the way until now. It’s the proper translation of the proper text. It’s truth, and if you can’t say that about the bible you’re using, then you’re saying it’s not truth. It’s not the w-o-r-d-s of truth.
“I understand there’s a lot of folks who don’t like what I say. I used to work with people who didn’t believe that and when they began to tell me I couldn’t believe my Bible was all true, and that I had to believe it had errors in it, I had to then say, ‘You know, I don’t think we can work together anymore.’
“You see when Satan came to Eve, he said, ‘Yea, hath God said?’ And if that’s the question—‘Is that really what God said?’—Paul said we’re ‘not as many which corrupt the Word of God.’
“That’s what Satan wants to do—come in and corrupt that thing. You see lie can have a lot of truth in it but truth can’t have any lie. Satan’s methodology has always been to take the truth and make it look like the lie. He’s done that all through the Bible.
“II Cor. 11:13 says, ‘For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.’ They counterfeit themselves.
“The passage goes on to say, ‘And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.’
“They’re going around telling people how they ought to live right. Satan’s plan to propagate the lie is to make the lie look exactly like the truth so you can’t tell the difference easily; so that you can swallow the lie.
“Therefore, he copies it just as close as he can. Satan’s ‘transformed into an angel of light.’ Think about that. God is ‘light in whom there’s no darkness at all.’ So Satan says he’s an angel of light.
“Jesus Christ is an angel (Paul calls him an angel in Galatians 4) so Satan transforms himself into an angel.
“Jesus Christ, He’s the Christ, He’s the anointed one of God (Acts 4 says He’s the Lord’s Christ). Ezekiel 28 calls Satan the anointed cherub. He’s a Christ too. Jesus Christ has ministers. Satan has ministers.
“Jesus Christ is God. In Hebrews 1:8, God the Father says to God the Son, ‘Thy throne, O God.’ Satan is ‘the god of this world.’ Jesus Christ is called ‘the prince of peace.’ Satan’s called ‘the prince of this world.’
“Jesus Christ is identified as ‘the lion of the tribe of Judah.’ So Satan is a ‘roaring lion.’ Jesus Christ has a church. Satan has a church called ‘mystery Babylon the great, the mother of harlots.’ (Rev. 17)
“The Great Counterfeit; that’s always been the way he’s done it. He started back in Israel. Baal worship was introduced in Israel through the tribe of Dan in Judges 17, and you know how Satan did it—he used a priest. God makes priests; now Satan’s got a priest. The priest was called ‘Father.’
“Did you ever wonder why anybody would call a priest ‘Father’? Kind of a strange title for a priest. It comes out of Baal worship. They had a house of god. God had a temple so they had a temple. They had aids to worship. They were called idols. They made sacrifices. They wore long robes or ‘vestments.’ You could just go on and on and on with this stuff!
“And you know what happened? It got introduced into Israel in the tribe of Dan up north above Galilee and wound up at the time of Solomon’s death having Jeroboam institute it in the northern kingdom. And when he did that, he set up the idols and the house of god in Bethel and Dan of Beersheba, reasoning, ‘We don’t want people to go back down to Jerusalem, so let’s set up a church close to them.’ He persuaded the people, ‘Go to the church of your choice that’s near you. You don’t have to travel so far; we got something up here just like what they got down there.’
“Dan takes Israel into Babylonian captivity and what does he do? He says, ‘Look Israel, I’m gonna take some of your religion and put it over here in my religion. Let’s just all worship together.’
“And after Israel left Babylon and returned to Palestine following that corruption, Jesus looked at the religious leaders of Israel and said, ‘You are of your father the devil.’ Now why were they of their father the devil? Because they were a part of that satanic counterfeit program; that religion. And that thing goes all through the Bible.”
(Editor's note: another article tomorrow . . . )
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