The Attack to Change God’s Word

“For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.” II Cor. 2:17

The most important thing any person can ever have is God’s Word — the Bible. It is God’s Word that will save a person’s soul from Hell, help one live a successful and fruitful life, and will help one get eternal rewards. Because of its great importance, great efforts have been made to keep man from its truths and to change it. None of the interferences have been from God!

• In the Garden of Eden, the first woman God created was first tempted to question and doubt God’s Word. It was Satan, using the serpent, that attempted to confuse Eve on what God had really said.  She fell for his trickery and allowed sin to enter the human race by her disobedience to God’s commandments.
  “Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?”  Gen. 3:1
• Satan’s tool of tempting others to question and therefore disobey God’s commandments continued all through the Bible. The enemy of God and His people was most likely behind much of Israel and its leaders’ sins of disobedience. Satan certainly was behind King David’s act of defiance of God’s commandments to him.
  “And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.” I Chron. 21:1
• Early churches faced deceitful corruptions of God’s truths and Jesus’ teachings. There were false preachers who claimed to have seen Christ, and other “ministers” of God’s work who furthered deceptions.
  “For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.” II Cor. 11:13
  “Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment:” Acts 15:24
  “But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. 2 I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:” II Pet. 2:1-2
• There were many that tempted God’s people with their own words, rather than God’s.
  “Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.” Gal. 1:7 This perversion of the Gospel is still continuing in many of today’s churches.
  “And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words.” Col. 2:4
• Most that taught false doctrines, and not what God’s Word says, did it for their own benefit and motives. Many false teachings continue today for the same reasons.
  “For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.” Rom. 16:18
  “For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision: 11 Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.” Titus 1:10-11 Often these “deceivers” are “religious” (the circumcision).
  “Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:” Philip. 1:15 
• The main reason for all new “bible” perversions is to make money! That is why each version varies from another, so it can be declared different and abide by copyright laws. The KJV can be duplicated without paying royalties, whereas most modern “bible” owners are paid royalties when their revision is reprinted or even quoted, in some instances.
• In man’s last days, there will be an increase in the corrupting of God’s commandments. This is what is happening in ALL of the modern “bible” translations and versions”.
  “Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; 2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;” I Tim 4:1-2

There is a spiritual battle raging (Eph. 6:12) to turn man away from obeying God’s Word. His Word is still being changed and hidden in all the new “bibles”.

With all the deception that is continuing today, how can one protect himself from those false teachings?  The only protection from being a casualty in today’s spiritual war is to follow God’s Word, still preserved in the King James Bible for English speaking people (the same Hebrew and Greek of the KJV is also preserved in Bibles in other major languages).

“Try”, or test, what is said about God, Jesus, or His Word to see if it lines up with God’s ruler — the Bible.  If it does not line up, it is not the truth.  It is a lie, and it is not of God!
“Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.” I John 4:1 

“People and organizations that declare to be of God are not always what they claim!  Do not be deceived.  Read and study your Bible to discern what is truly of God!

This lesson was featured in The Bible View #617.