When The Standard Was Switched: How The Bible Has Been Tampered With. The Bible, as we read it today, is often assumed to be an untouchable, unaltered divine manuscript. Yet the scriptures themselves and the history of the people of Akobe (Jacob) tell a very different story—one of national betrayal, conquest, captivity, and the eventual loss of holy records. This isn’t speculation—it’s written plainly in the Bible itself.
Much like Richard Nixon took the United States off the gold standard, Jeroboam—the first king of the northern kingdom of Akobe (Ephraim/Israel)—took the nation off the “Creator Standard.”
In 1 Kings 12:25–33, after the division of the united monarchy, Jeroboam feared the people’s hearts would return to Jerusalem if they continued to worship at the Temple. His solution was tragic: he made two golden calves, declared them the gods of Jacob, and set up his own priesthood. He also fired the Levites and instituted a hybrid religion that mixed Levitical tradition with Baal worship.
Baal Worship?
This idolatrous system eventually infected the Kingdom of Judah, cloaked under the false guise of brotherhood. Over generations, both kingdoms descended into rebellion. By the time Zedekiah ruled, the spiritual condition of the nation was, in today’s terms, “fried.”
The people had long turned from the Creator’s statutes and had embraced religious confusion. As a result, the Creator withdrew His protection.
The Babylonian siege of Jerusalem was the consequence. In 2nd Chronicles 36:17–18, Babylon enters the sanctuary and takes “all the vessels, great and small… the treasures of the house of the Almighty, and the treasures of the king.”
Babylon didn’t just destroy the temple…
Babylon stripped Judah of everything precious, including sacred scrolls, writings, and vessels used for worship. This wasn’t simply a physical conquest—it was a dismantling of a spiritual system and nation.
Lamentations 1:10 adds painful clarity:
“The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation.”
And in Lamentations 5:1–2, the cry of the people is clear:
“Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.”
This was more than just stolen land—it was the theft of divine inheritance, of holy understanding, of the truth.
The prophet Hosea proclaims the core reason for this downfall:
“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge… seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.” (Hosea 4:6)
The rejection of divine knowledge led to the loss of priesthood, leadership, and identity. And this rejection was not brief. According to Daniel 7:25, a power would rise that would “think to change times and laws,” and that the holy people would be given into its hand for a “time, times, and the dividing of time.”
This indicates a long prophetic period of distortion and control—including over time, records, and understanding.
Following Babylon’s fall, the Persians allowed the people of Judah to return to Jerusalem and attempt to reconstruct what was lost. However, the damage was deep. And not long after, the Romans entered the scene, and by 70 A.D., under General Titus, Jerusalem was sacked once again. The temple was burned, its treasures looted, and the people scattered. Whatever records were restored, copied, or rebuilt were once again plundered and taken to the center of power—Rome.
And this is the dilemma.
If the enemies of the Almighty had control over the records, the scrolls, the names, the locations, and the narrative—should we expect the Bible to be perfectly preserved? Or should we, as scripture warns, expect tampering?
It’s written in Deuteronomy 4:2,
“Ye shall not add unto the word… neither shall ye diminish ought from it.”
And again in Revelation 22:18–19,
“If any man shall add… or take away… the Almighty shall take away his part out of the book of life…”
These warnings were not for show—they were prophetic protections, issued because tampering would occur.
Today, we read from a collection of writings filtered through Greek, Latin, and English traditions, with missing books, name changes, cultural erasures, and geographical distortions. The records of a Semitic people, originally set in the landscape of Africa, have been rebranded and recast by their conquerors. And we are expected to trust these same empires to have preserved the truth?
The good news is: the Spirit of the Almighty still leads those who seek. Even among altered pages, the truth runs through. But we must be bold enough to question, to research, and to rediscover the original Creator Standard that Jeroboam abandoned—and that the world continues to bury.
Until next time…
Minister Koko
Power be with you!
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