KING JAMES VERSION BIBLE VS. MODERN ENGLISH BIBLES

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REVELATION 22 [FONT=&quot][[/FONT]19] And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book
 
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I know all the verses. :)

If Lucifer is not an ancient Babylonian king then who is Lucifer?
Venus. Its a Latin word that has no business in a Hebrew text.

From Plato...

Plato said:
Time, then, and the heaven came into being at the same instant in order that, having been created together, if ever there was to be a dissolution of them, they might be dissolved together. It was framed after the pattern of the eternal nature, that it might resemble this as far as was possible; for the pattern exists from eternity, and the created heaven has been, and is, and will be, in all time. Such was the mind and thought of God in the creation of time. The sun and moon and five other stars, which are called the planets, were created by him in order to distinguish and preserve the numbers of time; and when he had made their several bodies, he placed them in the orbits in which the circle of the other was revolving — in seven orbits seven stars. First, there was the moon in the orbit nearest the earth, and next the sun, in the second orbit above the earth; then came the morning star and the star sacred to Hermes, moving in orbits which have an equal swiftness with the sun, but in an opposite direction; and this is the reason why the sun and Hermes and Lucifer overtake and are overtaken by each other.
Plato is saying that Lucifer is actually the planet Venus.

I got this from...

Lucifer: Satan, or Venus? - Astrological Musings
 
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Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him, we ask you, brothers and sisters, not to become easily unsettled or alarmed by the teaching allegedly from us—whether by a prophecy or by word of mouth or by letter—asserting that the day of the Lord has already come. Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessnessis revealed, the man doomed to destruction. He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God.[2 Thess. 1:1-4]

Apostle Paul warns them about a false teaching that the day of the Lord has already happened. If its not a future event, why the warning?
Can you just wait on this until we finish the Lucifer discussion?
 
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No.....................
Ok then who fell from heaven and who said the following?

For thou hast said in thine heart,
I will ascend into heaven,
I will exalt my throne above the stars of God:
I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;
I will be like the most High.
 
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Ok then who fell from heaven and who said the following?

For thou hast said in thine heart,
I will ascend into heaven,
I will exalt my throne above the stars of God:
I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;
I will be like the most High.
This was figurative language employed by the king of Babylon, as this king was boasting of his greatness. It's like Muhammed Ali saying he is the greatest of all time.

Look, you asked me who Lucifer was, and I showed you it is the planet Venus. Lucifer came from Jerome's Latin Vulgate. It got inserted by Erasmus when he translated it into the Greek text that later the KJV translators used.

Lucifer was even attributed to Venus by Plato.
 
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This was figurative language employed by the king of Babylon, as this king was boasting of his greatness. It's like Muhammed Ali saying he is the greatest of all time.

Look, you asked me who Lucifer was, and I showed you it is the planet Venus. Lucifer came from Jerome's Latin Vulgate. It got inserted by Erasmus when he translated it into the Greek text that later the KJV translators used.

Lucifer was even attributed to Venus by Plato.
None of that is about a literal king of Babylon, all of Isaiah 13 and 14 is about the day of the Lord.
 
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None of that is about a literal king of Babylon, all of Isaiah 13 and 14 is about the day of the Lord.
And the day of the Lord is a future event, as I previously posted.

The Lord will have compassion on Jacob; once again he will choose Israel and will settle them in their own land. Foreigners will join them and unite with the descendants of Jacob. Nations will take them and bring them to their own place. And Israel will take possession of the nations and make them male and female servants in the Lord’s land. They will make captives of their captors and rule over their oppressors.On the day the Lord gives you relief from your suffering and turmoil and from the harsh labor forced on you, you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has come to an end! How his furyhas ended! The Lord has broken the rod of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers, which in anger struck down peoples with unceasing blows, and in fury subdued nations with relentless aggression. All the lands are at rest and at peace; they break into singing.Even the junipers and the cedars of Lebanon gloat over you and say, "Now that you have been laid low, no one comes to cut us down.” The realm of the dead below is all astir to meet you at your coming; it rouses the spirits of the departed to greet you—all those who were leaders in the world; it makes them rise from their thrones—all those who were kings over the nations. They will all respond, they will say to you, “You also have become weak, as we are; you have become like us.” All your pomp has been brought down to the grave, along with the noise of your harps; maggots are spread out beneath you and worms cover you.How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations![Isaiah 14:1-12]

Every whit of this is about Lucifer, the morning star, the king of Babylon. In vss 13,14, the king gloated about his own greatness, and expressed it with figurative language.

The day of the Lord is a future event, as evidenced by...

I always thank my God for you because of his grace given you in Christ Jesus. For in him you have been enriched in every way—with all kinds of speech and with all knowledge—God thus confirming our testimony about Christ among you. Therefore you do not lack any spiritual gift as you eagerly wait for our Lord Jesus Christ to be revealed. He will also keep you firm to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.[1 Cor. 1:4-8]

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that even pagans do not tolerate: A man is sleeping with his father’s wife. And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have gone into mourning and have put out of your fellowship the man who has been doing this? For my part, even though I am not physically present, I am with you in spirit. As one who is present with you in this way, I have already passed judgment in the name of our Lord Jesus on the one who has been doing this. So when you are assembled and I am with you in spirit, and the power of our Lord Jesus is present, hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord.[1 Cor. 5:1-5]

Then there's 2 Peter 3:10, 1 Thess. 5:2, 2 Thess. 1:1-4. The day of the Lord is a future event and not in Isaiah 14:13,14.
 
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And the day of the Lord is a future event, as I previously posted.

The Lord will have compassion on Jacob; once again he will choose Israel and will settle them in their own land. Foreigners will join them and unite with the descendants of Jacob. Nations will take them and bring them to their own place. And Israel will take possession of the nations and make them male and female servants in the Lord’s land. They will make captives of their captors and rule over their oppressors.On the day the Lord gives you relief from your suffering and turmoil and from the harsh labor forced on you, you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has come to an end! How his furyhas ended! The Lord has broken the rod of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers, which in anger struck down peoples with unceasing blows, and in fury subdued nations with relentless aggression. All the lands are at rest and at peace; they break into singing.Even the junipers and the cedars of Lebanon gloat over you and say, "Now that you have been laid low, no one comes to cut us down.” The realm of the dead below is all astir to meet you at your coming; it rouses the spirits of the departed to greet you—all those who were leaders in the world; it makes them rise from their thrones—all those who were kings over the nations. They will all respond, they will say to you, “You also have become weak, as we are; you have become like us.” All your pomp has been brought down to the grave, along with the noise of your harps; maggots are spread out beneath you and worms cover you.How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations![Isaiah 14:1-12]

Every whit of this is about Lucifer, the morning star, the king of Babylon. In vss 13,14, the king gloated about his own greatness, and expressed it with figurative language.

The day of the Lord is a future event, as evidenced by...

I always thank my God for you because of his grace given you in Christ Jesus. For in him you have been enriched in every way—with all kinds of speech and with all knowledge—God thus confirming our testimony about Christ among you. Therefore you do not lack any spiritual gift as you eagerly wait for our Lord Jesus Christ to be revealed. He will also keep you firm to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.[1 Cor. 1:4-8]

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that even pagans do not tolerate: A man is sleeping with his father’s wife. And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have gone into mourning and have put out of your fellowship the man who has been doing this? For my part, even though I am not physically present, I am with you in spirit. As one who is present with you in this way, I have already passed judgment in the name of our Lord Jesus on the one who has been doing this. So when you are assembled and I am with you in spirit, and the power of our Lord Jesus is present, hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord.[1 Cor. 5:1-5]

Then there's 2 Peter 3:10, 1 Thess. 5:2, 2 Thess. 1:1-4. The day of the Lord is a future event and not in Isaiah 14:13,14.
What part of Isaiah 13 and 14 are you not understanding, the entirety of both chapters is about the day of the Lord.

Isaiah 13:6-22 (KJV)

6 Howl ye; for the day of the Lord is at hand;
it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.

7 Therefore shall all hands be faint,
and every man’s heart shall melt:
8 and they shall be afraid:
pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them;
they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth:
they shall be amazed one at another;
their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of the Lord cometh,
cruel both with wrath and fierce anger,
to lay the land desolate:
and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light:
the sun shall be darkened in his going forth,
and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil,
and the wicked for their iniquity;
and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease,
and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold;
even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens,
and the earth shall remove out of her place,
in the wrath of the Lord of hosts,
and in the day of his fierce anger.
14 And it shall be as the chased roe,
and as a sheep that no man taketh up:
they shall every man turn to his own people,
and flee every one into his own land.
15 Every one that is found shall be thrust through;
and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.
16 Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes;
their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them,
which shall not regard silver;
and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
18 Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces;
and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb;
their eye shall not spare children.


19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms,
the beauty of the Chaldees’ excellency,
shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
20 It shall never be inhabited,
neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation:
neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there;
neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.
21 But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there;
and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures;
and owls shall dwell there,
and satyrs shall dance there.
22 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses,
and dragons in their pleasant palaces:
and her time is near to come,
and her days shall not be prolonged.

 
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Lucifer = Planet Venus, not Satan - PROOF, page 1


Jerome goofed big time by inserting Lucifer into his vulgate.

It has no place in a Hebrew text.
Ok so now you've changed it to the planet Saturn fell from heaven and is going to say:

I will ascend into heaven,
I will exalt my throne above the stars of God:
I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation,
in the sides of the north:
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;
I will be like the most High.

You really think a planet is going to do that?
 
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Ok so now you've changed it to the planet Saturn fell from heaven and is going to say:

I will ascend into heaven,
I will exalt my throne above the stars of God:
I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation,
in the sides of the north:
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;
I will be like the most High.

You really think a planet is going to do that?
Isaiah 14:13,14 is figurative language. The day of the Lord is coming in the future. Why would Paul warn the Thessalonican church about the false teaching that the day of the Lord was already past?

Lucifer is used ONCE in the whole bible, and not once in the NT, and ppl get in a tizzy when shown that Lucifer is not another name for Satan.

The word should have never been used. Its from Latin. It has no business in a Hebrew text.
 
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Ok so now you've changed it to the planet Saturn fell from heaven and is going to say:

I will ascend into heaven,
I will exalt my throne above the stars of God:
I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation,
in the sides of the north:
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;
I will be like the most High.

You really think a planet is going to do that?
Saturn? Where did I say Saturn? Lucifer is the planet Venus. I showed you where even Plato called the planet Venus Lucifer.
 
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Ok so now you've changed it to the planet Saturn fell from heaven and is going to say:

I will ascend into heaven,
I will exalt my throne above the stars of God:
I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation,
in the sides of the north:
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;
I will be like the most High.

You really think a planet is going to do that?
A planet? No. But the Babylonian king was boasting of his greatness and God cut him asunder.<----thought you might like that. :D :)
 
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Isaiah 14:13,14 is figurative language. The day of the Lord is coming in the future. Why would Paul warn the Thessalonican church about the false teaching that the day of the Lord was already past?

Lucifer is used ONCE in the whole bible, and not once in the NT, and ppl get in a tizzy when shown that Lucifer is not another name for Satan.

The word should have never been used. Its from Latin. It has no business in a Hebrew text.
I've noticed that everything you disagree with turns into figurative language. It doesn't matter what the bible actually says.
 
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I've noticed that everything you disagree with turns into figurative language. It doesn't matter what the bible actually says.
The context of Isaiah 14:1-14 is about the king of Babylon. We all use figurative language.

"If I've told you once, I've told you a million times." No, we haven't told them a literal 1,000,000 times. Jesus also called Himself the 'Door of the sheep', but He never had any hinges or doorknobs on Him.

Jerome inserted Lucifer, a LATIN word, into a HEBREW text, that had no business being there. Then Erasmus incorporated into his Greek text and then the KJV translators inserted it into the KJV.

It has no business being there.
 
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The context of Isaiah 14:1-14 is about the king of Babylon. We all use figurative language.

"If I've told you once, I've told you a million times." No, we haven't told them a literal 1,000,000 times. Jesus also called Himself the 'Door of the sheep', but He never had any hinges or doorknobs on Him.

Jerome inserted Lucifer, a LATIN word, into a HEBREW text, that had no business being there. Then Erasmus incorporated into his Greek text and then the KJV translators inserted it into the KJV.

It has no business being there.
The day of the Lord is not figuraitve, Isaiah 13 and 14 are describing the day of the Lord.
 

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REVELATION 22 [19] And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book
Welcome, Shelley :)

Was there a particular reason that you quoted this particular verse in this particular thread?
 

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How is it that you know God's word hasn't been available to his people in all languages? I mean think about it, from the time the new testament was given we see the Holy Spirit immediately translating the words of God into multiple languages.

If God didn't continue this work beyond the book of Acts then 2 Timothy 2:15 is not possible and therefor a false statement.
God did translate His words immediately into other languages in Acts 2... and I would assert confidently that such is not His normal method for translating (and further, that was not a translation of His written word). If it were His normal method, why would Wycliffe Bible Translators exist? Why would Wycliffe himself, Tyndale, Luther, and all other translators have had to work diligently at translating? Why would there still be people groups without a Bible in their own language?

I see no conflict with 2 Timothy 2:15, which is always possible because someone who does not have a Bible in their native language can learn another language in which a Bible is available.