18 I [personally solemnly] warn everyone who listens to the statements of the prophecy [the predictions and the consolations and admonitions pertaining to them] in this book: If anyone shall add anything to them, God will add and lay upon him the plagues (the afflictions and the calamities) that are recorded and described in this book.
19 And if anyone cancels or takes away from the statements of the book of this prophecy [these predictions relating to Christ’s kingdom and its speedy triumph, together with the consolations and admonitions or warnings pertaining to them], God will cancel and take away from him his share in the tree of life and in the city of holiness (purity and hallowedness), which are described and promised in this book.
- These scriptures have been used by a lot of people to talk about us loosing our salvation. But the Truth is no one who has truly been grafted into the Vine would ever take away or add to this prophecy. If they could, then our Father would have made a mistake by grafting them into the Vine in the first place. Our Father knows the beginning and the end, but yet so many want us to believe that He grafted someone in whose heart wasn’t right? That would mean our Father was fooled by these people, and God is never fooled. These verses are only a statement saying don’t mess with what Jesus had written, it's Truth and it will set you free.
- People killed, tortured, and lied about Jesus, Who is the Word of God, and He forgave them. People will in ignorance mess up Revelation and they too will be forgiven, our Father never changes.
- A lot of people will also shy away from Revelation, don’t it is a great Book of Truth and there is such a blessing when our Father uses us to share it and study it with others.
- Blessed (happy, to be envied) is the man who reads aloud [in the assemblies] the word of this prophecy; and blessed (happy, to be envied) are those who hear [it read] and who keep themselves true to the things which are written in it [heeding them and laying them to heart], for the time [for them to be fulfilled] is near. Revelation 1:3
- The sower sows the Word. Mark 4:14
- Revelation is the Word and our Father empowers us to sow His Word and His Word sets us all free.
20 He Who gives this warning and affirms and testifies to these things says, Yes (it is true). [Surely] I am coming quickly (swiftly, speedily). Amen (so let it be)! Yes, come, Lord Jesus!
21 The grace (blessing and favor) of the Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah) be with all the saints (God’s holy people, those set apart for God, to be, as it were, exclusively His). Amen (so let it be)!
- I truly hope that our Father uses these studies of Revelation to bless all who read them as much as He has blessed me with sharing them.
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