SISERA GOT THE 'POINT' and a fatal wound to his 'head' at the hand of Jael - after he had oppressed God's people for twenty years (Judges 4:3). Likewise, the NIV (1973) preyed on the church for twenty years until Gail's New Age Bible Versions (1993) struck a blow at the "heady, high-minded" enemy of God's word- textual criticism.

Discerning Christians worldwide received the book enthusiastically. Letters poured in from grateful readers like author Leonard Ravenhill (Jan. 1994) who wrote: "Thanks for your tedious labor of love in producing this monumental book on the New Age versions. We gave the book to folks in strategic positions and will mail out the flyers to intelligent believers. I call the KJV the real NIV - Never Improved Version." Bill Gothard wrote, "Just a note to encourage you in the battle, I know you are under attack and I am praying that you will look above the reactions and realize that you are sounding an important alarm." Scholars like Geradus Bouw, editor of The Biblical Astronomer, said, "a monumental piece of research work! I've sent copies to over a dozen skeptics and none of them have come up with any substantial arguments against Riplinger's work." New Age experts like Mary Pride, author of Ancient Empires of the New Age, wrote, "We were diehard NIV users for years, but this book convinced us otherwise." Noah Hutchings of Southwest Radio Church said, "Thank you, Gail, for your courage in defending these eternal truths."

The entire Canadian Council of Evangelical Protestant Churches unanimously passed a resolution at their Sept. 1994 meeting stating: "Whereas, the falsity of these polluted versions has been exposed in a 700 page book entitled, 'New Age Bible Versions' in which thousands of references are given completely exposing the falsity of the new perversions and fully supporting the King James Bible, 1611. We, therefore, resolve that The Canadian Council of Evangelical Protestant Churches will continue to stand for the King James 1611 Bible and oppose and expose all promotion of these erroneous perversions of God's Word and strongly recommend the purchase of the book, New Age Bible Versions..."

Well-respected Christian monthlies gave glowing reviews. The Sword of the Lord review by Hugh Pyle said, "Brilliantly written, it reveals a genius of research into the most popular versions of the Bible...a fascinating study, very well documented...it is hard to put it down." James Lloyd, editor of Christian Media, wrote that the book was "a devastating appraisal of the behind the scenes manipulation of the Word of God by apostate individuals. Although the book has generated an enormous amount of interest...industry forces continue to blacklist and attack the book at every opportunity...The publishing and distribution of modern translations of the Bible is a sacred cash cow that the major commercial media entities want to protect at all costs. In short, certain powerful Christian media interests have chosen to serve Mammon instead of Christ."

The volume that is mentioned in the sentence above is "King James Version ditches Blind Guides". It is Gail Riplinger "correcting" those who lied about her and her first book, "New Age Bible Versions" which most "Christian" bookstores don't carry becasue it will hurt their "bible" sales. But remember 1 Tim 6:10, "For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows." There isn't much that man won't do for money...

Her address is below:

A.V. Publications
P.O. Box 280
Ararat, VA 24053