[Music] [Music] hello friends and welcome to JW reasoning comm this is the first of a series of videos that I'm going to be doing on the new world translation of the Holy Scriptures now we know it's been revised several times throughout the years the most recent one was in 2013 as far as the printed edition and how important is it the Bible translation be done correctly I would say as one of Jehovah's Witnesses we would say it's extremely important this is why we have our own translation of the Bible but if something has changed from
the original text if something has been changed could that possibly change our doctrine has the organization ever done this now this is going to be a very brief video there's going to be other ones to follow and I will be trying to cover a series of things that I'd like you to see and examine it for yourself to begin with I'd like to share a scripture with you that's found in Revelation chapter 22 verses 18 and 19 and here's what it says I'm bearing witness to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this
scroll if anyone makes in addition to these things God will add to him the plagues that are written in this scroll and if anyone takes anything away from the words of the scroll of this prophecy God will take his portion away from the trees of life and out of the holy city things that are written about in this scroll so I would say this is pretty serious if we make an addition to or we take away from the prophecy or anything I believe in the Bible it could be a dangerous thing according to this you'll
suffer from the plagues that are gonna take place in the future so some people might argue well that's only in the book of Revelation and others would say well that would include the whole Bible well let's just suppose it's just in the book of Revelation just for this video I would like to share a few things with you and again this is from Revelation chapter 4 this particular part the slide I'm about to show you is an actual photograph that I took of this particular kingdom interlinear the Christian Greek scriptures now there was an older
one I did a video on that a while back this is the one that we were told when I was an elder in 2006 I was told to get rid of the old purple one and this blue one was the one that would take the place of the older one because there have been some changes made to it and they wanted this one to be the new material so just just take a look at this I actually took this photo and I apologize for the markings that I've put in mine but I want you to
notice they're in the left side of the screen you'll notice the word upon it'll say upon the throne there at the top and I'll highlight it here in red for you now it says upon the Thrones in the middle and then down below it says upon the heads of them and then if you look to the right you'll see the New World Translation and the way they translated it into the New World Translation you see each time that word upon appears it is translated upon and if you look to the left there on the far
left of your screen you'll see the blue 1985 edition kingdom interlinear of the Christian Greek scriptures and I give you a picture of that Greek word that's translated upon well I want you to notice the very next slide and here's another chapter this is chapter 5 in Revelation and I want you to notice this word upon chapter 5 verse 10 same Greek word but take a look at how its translated in the New World Translation you see that it says that they rule as Kings over the earth does that change the meaning of the text
when it's talking about these kings and priests who rule it it's literally it should say they rule upon the earth but instead they have changed it to rule over the earth and you might say well that's really not a big change but I would say that it is changing something from a pond to over makes all the difference in the world is Jehovah sitting upon his throne or is is he sitting over his throne and some might say well it doesn't make any difference well it made enough difference to the watchtower that they changed the
text in that verse and I want you to take a look at the next slide revelation 5:10 here are some of the different trends patience that use the word either on or upon you notice the King James version there we shall reign on the earth the American Standard Version upon the earth the Bible and basic English on contemporary English on English standard version on international versions or standard version on the New International Version on the earth and there are more translations that which say either on or upon the earth and here they are and you'll
notice the list and there's actually many more than this these are just the ones that I have a personal copy of I could look them up for myself and I could see what they actually said let me ask you does it make a difference whether these people this 144,000 or this 24 elders group or Jesus is on the earth or over the earth I think it changes every doctrine it changes everything that we've been taught as Jehovah's Witnesses therefore to make their theology work they have to put over the earth and if they change the
Bible here where else did they change it and I'm going to just give you a little bit at a time I want you to think about this look this up check it for yourself see if I'm telling you the right thing the next thing I just wanted to show you something that I noticed in the 2013 edition of the Bible I want you to take a look before it before I show you that the Jehovah's Witness stand has always been that well since after 1914 as always since that time it has been that Satan was
kicked out of heaven in 1914 that's what Jehovah's Witnesses have been taught if I ask any Jehovah's Witness when was he kicked out there's no doubt it's not well it's going to be around this time or about that time it's 1914 and some will be very specific and say October of 1914 because that's what the organization is taught but I want you to notice this is an actual photograph of the 2013 this particular silver Bible I took an actual photograph of it and I'm gonna post it right here for you take a look and notice
what this says here on this page you notice and let me highlight it in red you it talks about Jesus hurls the serpent Satan down to earth you notice it says about 1914 see II about is that right is that really what they believe well it was about that time it happened around then or approximately then isn't that what about means or if it did it happen on that year in that year and on a particular date in that year you see they're being a little tricky here just and maybe I'm just being critical but
I have to go by what I've been told I have to go about what they've published by all the things they've said there's been no doubt in the mind of Jehovah's Witnesses in my lifetime that they've always taught that 1914 was the year that Satan was cast out of heaven and now they're saying about 1914 are they getting ready for another change are they getting ready for a doctrinal change if they change this doctrine it's going to skew a lot of things because they've built a lot of theology on this particular belief and they've had
a lot of articles on this so I just wanted to give you some food for thought friends please keep studying your Bibles I appreciate the comments I appreciate your emails and I hope to see you again may Java bless you until I see you again [Applause] [Music] you
