What is Satan's goal? Satan could care less about those, who already reject Christ. He could care less about those forms of Christianity, who are no on the right path, the ones that Jesus is going to say to, "'I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.'" Satan and his tens of millions of demonic angels are concerned with true Christianity, and true Christians. It is their goal, to get every Christian to drift away, to fall away, to turn away, to beg off, to become sluggish, to become hardened to the deceptive power of sin, to tire out, and shrink back to destruction. As the...

We may be advancing in a career that is going to take more and more of our time for Christ. We may be pursuing an education that will lead to a career, which demands that we work 60-80 hours a week, like an attorney. If this life were all that there is, this type of behavior would make sense. However, if there is "a life that is real" (1 Tim 6:19), an eternal life on the other side of Armageddon, what sense does it make to invest 70-90 percent of our time on this side, advancing in a world of wicked humanity, which will eventually be destroyed? As Jesus said, "No one can serve two masters,...

When Jesus was asked questions, he was very proficient in his ability to reference Scripture, as well as use illustrations to reach the hearts of his listeners. (Matt. 12:1-12) The apostle Paul made it an established custom to 'reason with them from the Scriptures, explaining and proving' what he taught them. (Acts 17:2-3) The apostle Peter said that we are all always to 'be prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in us. (1 Pet 3:15) If we are to be effective, we must be able to do the same. If we are proficient in our use of the Bible, we too will...

The new translation philosophy is called dynamic equivalence, but that designation is very inadequate to cover all that modernizing translations actually do. In fact, equivalence is not usually, what these translations give. Usually they give a substitution or replacement for what the original says. Additionally, dynamic equivalent translators omit material from material in the original and add to it. Dynamic equivalent translators feel no compulsion to reproduce in English the words that the biblical authors wrote. In fact, the prefaces to these translations, as well as surrounding published...

Bible Translation Magazine is hard at work for all individuals interested in the Bible translation process, from the person who has just purchased his first Bible, to the professional translator. The main purpose of our work is education. Our articles are a place for those who are sincerely interested in the importance of the translation process, as well as which translation(s) would be the most beneficial to use. The translation of God's Word from the original languages of Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek is a task unlike any other and should never be taken lightly because it carries with it the...