1 Chronicles 17:11 “And it shall come to pass, when thy days be expired that thou must go to be with thy fathers, that I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall be of thy sons; and I will establish his kingdom.
12 He shall build me an house, and I will stablish his throne for ever.
13 I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not take my mercy away from him, as I took it from him that was before thee:
14 But I will settle him in mine house and in my kingdom for ever: and his throne shall be established for evermore.”
Acts 2:29 “Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day.
30 Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;
31 He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.
32 This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.”
The following revisions omit important words from Acts 2:29:
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For beginners, the mentioned revisions remove, “according to the flesh” from Acts 2:29 (see 1 John 4:1-3 for more on that matter). They also omit, “raise up Christ.” This disrupts the correlation not only with “raise up” in 1 Chronicles 17:11, but also disrupts Acts 2:29-32 in itself.
The omission of “raise up Christ” to sit on his throne is replaced in the revisions with only, “seat” or “put” one of his (David) descendants on his throne. As proven by Acts 2:29-32; the series in 1 Chronicles 17:11-14 is more than seating a descendant of David on the throne–“raise up,” a prophecy fulfilled by the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.
As I said, removing “raise up Christ” & replacing it with seating one of his descendants on his throne in Acts 2:30 does not even sync well with the subsequent verses concerning His resurrection. Acts 2:30 includes “raise up Christ” & the provided portion concludes with:
Acts 2:32 “This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.”
The word of God is a perfect, interconnected symphony; if one note is changed over here, it disrupts the unity & continuity with a note elsewhere. A person does not need to know one iota of Hebrew or Greek to witness the recklessness of modern scholars in the English language.
Modern scholars have often claimed they simply want to update pronouns such as thee, thou or ye (in truth, the English Grammar pronouns are more concise than the wide ranging vernacular pronouns). However, avid Bible readers can routinely witness that they have changed so much more.
There is a great irony with the modern scholars & their more “readable” revisions: not only do they disrupt verse-to-verse correlations in the Bible, but they also have made verses more difficult to understand even within their own context.
John 2:18 “Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?
19 Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”
THE EXILE OBSERVER 