Here's another verse where the NIV seems to support a futuristic end-times view previously unknown to the great reformers, revivalists, Bible-commentators, missionaries and evangelists of the Church.
MARK 13:14
14 But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains:
The NIV omits the words, "...spoken of by Daniel the prophet..."
According to the KJV, Jesus invited His hearers to understand and correctly apply the quoted passage in Daniel.
But the NIV makes us think that Jesus is inviting the reader to understand His words, not Daniel's writings.
The NIV meaning isn't really possible though because at the time when Jesus was speaking, His words weren't written yet! So He must have been referring to something which was already [at the time] written - namely, the Book of Daniel.
Unless you are going to say that the writer [Mark] was inserting his own narration ("...let the reader understand...") rather than quoting Jesus by that phrase.
But the words are in red. Those were Jesus' words!
The KJV links the two prophecies (Jesus' own, and Daniel's) and links the timing and manner in which they both were to be fulfilled, whereas the NIV doesn't necessarily link the two prophecies nor the manner nor timing in which they were to be fulfilled.
The KJV therefore may allow for the interpretation that the prophecies referred (in part, at least) to events surrounding the destruction of the Temple and city (circa AD70) - but the NIV makes almost any future meaning possible but no meaning definite.
Failing to allow both prophecies to qualify the setting and timing of the fulfillment of the other wrongly allows us to place the prophecies in different settings and timings to each other - hence creating lots of fanciful applications, none of which would be certain because neither of them could be qualified by the other.
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