information surfaced on Facebook posts claiming that the word amen was from Egyptian origin and referred to the name of one of their gods. This has since then been confirmed to be false, and fact checkers have an article here : https://factcheck.afp.com/amen-hebrew-not-egyptian-origin.
A bible view on the word amen:
We are warned in the 3rd and 4th last verses of the book of revelations in the Bible not to add or remove anything from the book of this prophecy.
Revelation 22:18-19 KJV – [18] For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: [19] And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
I for one do not want to remove a word from the Bible and be removed from the book of life.
Just looking at the book of revelations as a first example, the word Amen is recorded 9 times. The Bible in use for this study is the 1611 KJV Bible as it makes a word study a lot easier as it has the Strong’s Concordance to assist us with the source words used in the original text.
we know that the Revelation was given to the Apostle John by our Savior and God Jesus Christ.
Do we not trust the words written down by our Apostolic church fathers?
Were the authors of the books not guided by the Holy Spirit?
Did John not receive the words directly from our Savior?
Revelation 1:1 KJV – The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John.
I do not believe that God ever breaks his own law, his commandments, his statutes, and his judgments. God’s word clearly states that every word needs to be established by two or three witnesses.
Matthew 18:16 KJV – But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.
2 Corinthians 13:1 KJV – This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.
Even the statement highlighted above appears twice in Gods word. Having understood from the verses above, any accusation that I would like to bring against the word of God, would need at least two witnesses. Are there any reliable witnesses on this earth other than the word of God? Do we want to teach something other than the word of God? Let’s pretend for a minute that the man-made Google platform is a witness, is that enough? Where is the second witness? If you are unable to establish a fact using the word of God, with at least 2 witnesses as per the two verses above, is it worth even mentioning? should you be teaching that fact? Do we now believe something in Google and reject the word of God? That option feels like a slippery slope moving away from our Father in heaven toward something else that I do not want to consider.
Let’s look at a verse in the book of Revelations containing the word amen:
Revelation 3:14 KJV – And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior calls himself “the Amen, the faithful and true witness”. If the word amen meant anything other than truly, verily, “let it be” or “so be it”, why would our Savior call himself that?
(God does not break his own commandments – Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Exodus 20:3)
While the Son of God walked on this earth in human form as Jesus our Christ, he taught many lessons that were recorded by his apostles in the books of the New Testament. I believe that they were guided by the Holy Spirit and accurately recorded the words of Jesus. Let’s look at a few of these verses:
Matthew 5:18 KJV – For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Matthew 8:10 KJV – When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.
Mark 9:41 KJV – For whosoever shall give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because ye belong to Christ, verily I say unto you, he shall not lose his reward.
Mark 10:15 KJV – Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein.
John 1:51 KJV – And he saith unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.
John 3:3 KJV – Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
Above are 3 witnesses all who were Disciples of Jesus. They have recorded the words of Jesus, having received the words directly from the source. The words above I believe to be the words of Jesus. What do these verses of the Bible have to do with the word amen? Using the Strongs concordance we know the following:
In the KJV New Testament, the Greek word άμήν (amen) is recorded 126 times with two different translations for the same word, depending on whether the word was at the beginning or at the end of a sentence.
Strongs and Thayers define the word as follows:
Strong’s Definition:
Of Hebrew origin [H543]; properly firm that is (figuratively) trustworthy; adverbially surely(often as interjection so be it): – amen verily.
Thayer’s Definition:
firm metaph. faithful,verily, amen
- at the beginning of a discourse – surely, truly, of a truth
- at the end – so it is, so be it, may it be fulfilled.
The Greek for John 6:47 is: “Άμήν άμήν λέγώ ύμήν ό πιστευων έχει ζωιν αίώνιον” when spoken out loud in Greek, the first two words would still sound the same irrespective of where the word sits in the sentence.
John 6:47 KJV – Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.
To conclude the verse above could just as easily have been translated as Amen Amen I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.
There are so many more verses where Jesus used the word Amen as recorded by the authors in the New Testament. The word amen is recorded as mentioned previously over a hundred times. Why do we allow ourselves to be pulled away from the Word of God by unimportant information that cannot hold up against the Word of God?
Are we not told to study the word of God, so that we can rightly divide the word of truth?
2 Timothy 2:15 KJV – Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.(1 Timothy4:13)(2 Peter 1:10)
Dear reader if you have read everything to this point, my prayer for you is that this information will help you to rightly divide his truth in the word of God.
Amen.(may it be fulfilled)