We are have reached the last three passages in six verses in our look into the book of Revelation what the LORD has next remains a mystery to me. The one thing that we can take away with our deep study is this: not all that is proclaimed by theologians is so! Nor is the Strong's Bible Word Dictionary trust worthy; And that means our Bible no matter its translation is not accurate or trust worthy. We are therefore forced to what the Lord Jesus said about the Spirit who would come after Him to teach and train us to see and to hear with clarity and understanding. The Bible language. But the author of the Mirror Study Bible has a few notes on chapter 22 that we shall include as we have his others, they are "Thoughts on Judgment and the Resurrection," with Thoughts on the "Power" of the Blood," and Thoughts of the word Proskuneo - often translated, worship."
The Final Message:
Revelation 22:18-19, 20, 21 "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:
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.
He which testifieth these things saith, 'Surely I come quickly.' Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen." (KJV)
Revelation 22:18-19, 20, 21 "I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book, and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.
He who testifies to these things says, 'Surely I am coming soon.' Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!
The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all. Amen." (ESV)
Revelation 22:18-19, 20, 21, ""Jesus is GOD's language and message to humanity. He is the context of Scripture. To add anything to His completed work in revealing and redeeming the image of GOD in human form, or taking anything away from what GOD spoke to us in Him, is to depart from the essence of the Gospel.
The One, responding to the bidding of the Bride, on a disillusioned humanity's behalf [ like the prodigal returning home in the return of Jesus from our lost-ness and darkness] says, yes! I am the evidence of your return! Without any delay!
"Oh! You're so welcome Lord Jesus!," says the bride! I can't wait to embrace you home, my LORD and my GOD!"
The grace of the Lord Jesus is with everyone!" (Revelation ends with one final surprise, in the form of a textual variant in verse 21. Is grace declared to "all the Saints" (NRSV text footnotes)? The shorter reading is the more original! The words meta pantoon, with everyone is the original ending - some copyists felt more comfortable sneaking in another (that leaned towards their religious preference) "conditional clause!," meta toon hagion, with "the Saints!"
It is a typical threat to copyists of the book, that they are not to add to or remove any of its words. Similar imprecations can be found scattered throughout the range of earlier Christian writings. Commentators disagree keenly about the words in Rev. 22:18-19. Robert Charles rejects them as an interpolation and out of harmony with the rest of the book. [A critical and exegetical commentary on the Revelation of St. John by Charles, R.H. (Robert Henry), 1855-1931)
Revelation 22:18-19, assumes a settled text. We cannot disobey a prohibition against adding or taking away words when those words are uncertain to begin with.
There are about 200,000 variants in the 5300 manuscripts we have access to! These are not "errors" but variant readings, the most majority of which are strictly grammatical; But according to the warning we dare not add or take away any! Any of which ms are we talking about!! And by the way, Revelation is the book of the Bible with the most textual variants!
The first edition of the new testament with a Greek text was prepared by Erasmus and published in 1516. For Revelation, he based his Greek text on a single manuscript, minuscule 1r (now numbered 2814 according to the new Gregory-Aland number). 2/This manuscript, however, lacks the final verses of the book of Revelation, and in order to have a complete text, Erasmus retranslated these verses into Greek from the Latin. Elements of his retranslation survive in every edition of the so-called Textus Receptus, the standard text of the printed Greek new Testament until the nineteenth century...
Deliberate changes to the wording of the Book of Revelation itself were made to improve and clarify the force of its message. Here's one of many examples, see note on Rev. 20:5, The words, "But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished!" were added at a time when the church claimed to be fulfilling the thousand-year reign of Christ. The Sinaitic MS., remarkable as being the oldest as well as for its completeness and accuracy, is the only Greek authority on Revelation ante-dating the fifth century: and it does not contain the clause.
Someone remarked, "If we're going to be cutting verses from the Bible, we should probably star with the one that's usually taken to threaten dire consequences for anyone who, er, cuts verses from the Bible!" (The Mirror, with editing.)
Now is the day Now is the time for our awakening to begin yet again as in each new generation of man the message is renewed again within man. May the LORD of ALL richly bless us all in our reception of His rhema that awakens His incarnation (Logos) within us.
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