Modern English Bible translations change “Lucifer” to “day star” in Isaiah 14:12. Is this part of a satanic conspiracy to exalt Satan as KJV-only authors demand? Or is the truth much more simple than we suspected? 🤔
It is true that most modern translations do not include “Lucifer” in Isaiah 14:12, the only verse with the word in the entire Bible. This controversial translation choice has given rise to KJV-only accusations of satanic practices being performed secretly by modern Bible translators. Certainly, whoever made this change must worship Satan, right?
Granted, there may be satanic practices being performed by professing Christians which have infiltrated Bible translation committees. Such infiltration, however, did not influence the change from “Lucifer” to “day star”. This is plain to see and easy to prove from history and the Scriptures themselves.
The name Lucifer has been traditionally applied to Satan for most of Christian history. It comes as a shock to most, but the learned men at the time the KJV was translated didn’t think “Lucifer” was a true name of Satan! Were the scholars of the 17th century alive today, they would battle the same KJV-only conspiracy theories as intellectually misleading and detrimentally divisive to Christianity.
Abundant proof of this conclusion is readily available spanning every century that demonstrates KJV-only advocates are dead wrong about Lucifer. The latest discovery we’ve made is Matthew Poole’s Commentary on Isaiah 14:12 from the year 1685. For his noble contribution to the demise of scriptural ignorance and needless discord among brethren, Poole wins our “Devil’s Advocate” of the week award! 🏆🥳 …Posthumously of course. 🙃
The section from his commentary reads thusly:
“O Lucifer; which properly is a bright and eminent star, which ushers in the sun and the morning; but is here metaphorically taken for the high and mighty king of Babylon. And it is a very usual thing, both in prophetical and in profane writers, to describe the princes and potentates of the world under the title of the sun or stars of heaven. Some understand this place of the devil; to whom indeed it may be mystically applied; but as he is never called by this name in Scripture, so it cannot be literally meant of him, but of the king of Babylon, as is undeniably evident from the whole context, which certainly speaks of one and the same person, and describes him as plainly as words can do it.”
Were Pool alive today, would he join KJV-only advocates in their objections to “day star” replacing “Lucifer” in modern English Bibles? Simply, NO! In fact, he taught that Satan holds no natural place in the passage, something KJV-only authors can’t abide.
Perhaps Satan has in some sense a secondary spiritual or “mystical” place in this passage, however this is not enough to sustain the wilting flower of KJV-only falsehoods and objections to “day star”. KJV-only objections to this sort of information stem from the inability of their arguments to withstand exposure to plain facts of history in linguistics: facts of which old and modern translators are only too aware.
Stay tuned for a full treatment of the falsehoods and facts surrounding the “Lucifer” vs “day star” controversy on our upcoming page bibleversionconspiracy.com/lucifer
Have a blessed week! ❤️
Joseph Armstrong
bibleversionconspiracy.com
Proverbs 6:16-19 KJV — These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
Revelation 12:10 KJV — And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
This content was originally published to our Buy Me A Coffee page on April 1, 2025. buymeacoffee.com/josepharmstrong/devil-advocate-week-matthew-poole-1685
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