NLV Bible Changes 'High Priest' To 'Religious Leader'

Hebrews 4:14, “Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.”

The Old Testament tabernacle, high priest and sacrificial lambs were all a shadow of better things to come, that is, the LAMB OF GOD, which taketh away the sins of the world (John 1:29). Studying the Old Testament work of the high priest greatly helped me to understand salvation. Jesus is our heavenly High Priest! There were three different types of laws in the Old Testament: CEREMONIAL, CIVIL and MORAL. Civil laws governed the people, just like our civil laws today. Moral laws are the Ten Commandments. Ceremonial laws were intended to teach spiritual truths. The work of the high priest and the tabernacle with all ceremonial laws, intended as a pattern of the heavenly things. What saith the Scripture? ...

Hebrews 9:23-26, “It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us: Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others; For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.”

I love that Bible passage!!! The purpose for all the tabernacle and work of the high priest in the Old Testament was to provide a visual aid for all mankind to understand the Gospel. That was the purpose of all of the ceremonial laws. Carefully notice in the preceding Scripture passage, that the Old Testament high priest was required EVERY YEAR to enter into the holy place with the blood of a lamb; but Jesus Christ has entered only ONCE into the Holy Place in Heaven!!! The Bible is so simple if you keep it simple!

Jesus died as our sacrificial LAMB, but He raised up as our heavenly HIGH PRIEST. If Christ had not risen from the dead, then we would have a sacrificial lamb, but no high priest in Heaven to sprinkle His blood upon the heavenly Mercy Seat (Hebrews 9:12, 24). There is nothing in the inspired Holy Bible more important than the high priestly work of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Retarded 'New Life Version' Reduces 'High Priest' To 'Religious Leader'

Having laid the foundation of the importance of Jesus our High Priest, now let me show you how wicked the 'New Life Version' (NLV) of the Bible is! ...

KING JAMES BIBLE (KJB) - Hebrews 4:14, “Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.”

NEW LIFE VERSION (NLV) - Hebrews 4:14, “We have a great Religious Leader Who has made the way for man to go to God.”

I think I need to go vomit! Great religious leader? Are you kidding me? Seriously? I was shocked when I saw what Gleason and Kathryn Ledyard did to corrupt Hebrews 4:14. They were missionaries to the Eskimos in the arctic circle and penned their own simplified Bible translation—the New Life Version (NLV) of the Bible in 1969. Folks, the Holy Spirit doesn't need our help to explain what He meant in the Bible. More destructive than the vilest criminals in the world, are those sincere religious people who tamper with the Word of God. When Uzzah sincerely reached out to steady to wobbling Ark Of The Covenant, God instantly killed him (1st Chronicles 13:1-14). The message is plain and clear to see—don't touch the Word of God!!!

Jesus is not our RELIGIOUS LEADER! What a bad joke! Sadly, that is all Jesus means to tens of millions of ecumenical churchgoers today. He is their glorified religious leader up in Heaven! The inspired Word of God says that Jesus is our HIGH PRIEST! Romans 8:34, “Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.” Jesus Christ is our heavenly INTERCESSOR, our GREAT HIGH PRIEST! Religious leader?—I'll give you religious leader! What heresy! What gross theological incompetence!! Dear reader, please use only the trustworthy inspired KING JAMES BIBLE!!!

“The Word of God is our only hope—that's our only hope! This has been the generation of translations and abominations, and perversions, of the Word of God! It's been a long time; now when the Revised Standard Version came out, I stood against it before I knew what it was, because the wrong crowd heard of that, and the wrong crowd received it, and I knew it got too much publicity to be right! And I knew if the newspapers publicized something, it had to be wrong! And so I knew that the American people and a lot of American preachers—they welcomed it into their house before they knew it was a rattlesnake!” —Brother Lester Roloff, a needful quote from the MP3 sermon titled, “'THE LIVING BIBLE' EXPOSED!”