BULLSEYE!
ACCURATE BIBLE KNOWLEDGE!
“IS IT JUPITER and MERCURIUS or ZEUS and HERMES?”
(Acts 14:12)
QUESTION: The King James Bible
has “Jupiter and Mercurius” as gods (Acts 14:12). The New King James
Version
has “Zeus” and “Hermes”. Which is correct?
ANSWER: ALWAYS the King James Bible.
EXPLANATION:
Jesus, when tempted in the desert could have easily said
“Now look here
Satan, don’t you know who I am? I am God who created the heaven and the
earth; I
created you as Lucifer; I am Almighty God manifest in the flesh; I
could snuff
you out in a nano-second if I wanted! All power is given me in heaven
and
earth!”
But he didn’t. Christ simply used the scriptures as his
choice of weapon
against Satan. It is no wonder the Satan will do anything to discredit
God’s
holy words of The King James Bible. Satan has a vehement hatred that
cannot be
extinguished, toward the Word (1John 5:7-8) and his perfect words
of the
Authorized Bible, being The King James Bible. So Satan’s
servant, Rome,
produced the New King James Version.
In particular, we look at the following:
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The Authorized Bible (Christian)
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The New King James Version (Rome’s bible
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Acts 14:12
(KJB) And they called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercurius,
because he was the chief speaker.
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Acts:14:12 (NKJV) And
Barnabas they called Zeus, and Paul, Hermes, because he
was the chief speaker.
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It is on Paul’s 1st trip,
between 45-48AD, that he and
Barnabas visit Lystra, and are called by the names of Jupiter
and
Mercurius, the gods of Rome. Rome worshipped Jupiter as the
supreme chief
of gods, and with Barnabas being older than Paul, he was given that
title. Paul,
having the gift of speaking, was given the title Mercurius, being the
interpreter
and messenger.
So Rome’s bible, the New King James
Version would
have us believe, that after, approximately 75 years under Roman rule,
the city of Lystra still worshipped the Greek gods of Zeus and Hermes
and not
Rome’s gods? Hardly!
Firstly, why would Rome’s bible, the New
King James Version a.k.a Rome’s bible for the unsuspecting
Christian, cover
up and hide, the worship of their own gods, with the worship of the
Greek gods?
The answer lies with the accusations of Paul and Barnabas. Paul
and
Barnabas were literally tearing their clothes and crying out “…ye should turn
from these vanities unto the living God, which
made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein:”
(Acts
14:15). Rome, not
wanting to be accused of worshipping the vanities of Jupiter
and Mercurius, quietly substitute a couple of Greek gods to take the
blame. “Oh yes”
says Rome “look at those pagan and nasty people of Lystra
worshipping those pagan vanities of Zeus and Hermes! They are not our
gods!”. The
New King James Version lets Rome off the hook.
Secondly, why
would the Roman city of Lystra be worshipping the superseded Greek
gods of Zeus and Hermes, when the city of Lystra had an imposing and
formidable
statue of Jupiter himself, the guardian god of Lystra, seated on a
chair, right
in the front of the city, with a winged cap with the name of “MERCURY”,
not
Hermes, on his head, and the inscription of “Jupiter Custos”,
meaning
“Jupiter Keeper and Guardian”, imprinted right on him? They wouldn’t.
Thirdly, we come to the city of Ephesus,
which Paul visits on his 3rd trip between 54-58AD.
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The Authorized Bible (Christian)
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New King James Version (Rome’s bible)
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Acts 19:35
(KJB) And when
the townclerk had appeased the people, he said, Ye men of Ephesus,
what man is there that knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians
is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image
which fell down from Jupiter?
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Acts:19:35 (NKJV) And when
the city clerk had quieted the crowd, he said: "Men of Ephesus,
what man is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is
temple guardian of the great goddess Diana, and of the image
which fell down from Zeus?
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Now the city of Ephesus, apart from Rome, was the backbone
of the
Roman Empire, and with a population of around 225,000, was at the
centre of the
Imperial Highway from Rome to the East, and was indeed, the commercial
centre
of all Asia. The city was also at the approximate geographic centre of
the
Roman Empire. The temple of Diana, 425
feet long and 220 feet wide with 127 columns, taking over 20 years to
complete,
some say more, and being made of pure marble, was one of the Seven
Wonders of
the world.
The New King James Version
brazenly and wrongly states, that in this
bastion of Roman culture, geography, commerce and religion, that the
men of
Ephesus roared for two hours “… cried
out,
saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.” (Acts 19:28). Were they
‘going off their brains’ and frothing at the mouth, over some
3rd rate mythological deity called Zeus, from a town in
Greece?
Hardly! Once again, Rome wanting to avoid the accusation they
worshipped the
Roman Diana, the many-breasted fertility goddess of the state, that
sanctioned
vice, prostitution and gross immorality, substitute the Greek
god of
Zeus to take the blame.
ARE WE TO
BE
SURPRISED WITH THIS SWITCH?
Hardly!
This is
what Rome did (two chapters earlier in Acts 12:4) with substituting the
Jewish
word “Passover” to take the place of the Roman word “Easter”, in order
to
remove itself from the scene, and therefore not be accused, of wanting
to kill
its own ‘pope’. What better way to minimize blame, than to bring out
Peter
during the Jewish time of their celebration.
Rome
has produced
their own Bible for willingly ignorant Christians, which is
firmly based
on their own corrupted Alexandrian manuscripts, and called it the New
King
James Version. With an incredible stealth and
deception (“slowly, slowly, but above
all not too much zeal”) they have wheeled in a ‘Trojan horse’ in the
form of
the New King James Version, thereby deceiving good, godly and
sincere
but willingly ignorant Christians.
Dear Reader, please read on …
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Harley
Hitchcock
www.
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