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Conference lgp30::christian-perspective

Title:Discussions from a Christian Perspective
Notice:Prostitutes and tax collectors welcome!
Moderator:CSC32::J_CHRISTIE
Created:Mon Sep 17 1990
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1362
Total number of notes:61362

1255.0. "Revelation 22.18-19" by CSC32::J_CHRISTIE (Psalm 85.10) Fri Aug 09 1996 14:13

Revelation 22.18-19

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.

Is it logical or reasonable or rational to believe the foregoing refers
to the canon, the canon agreed upon a couple of centuries after these
words were written?

Shalom,
Richard
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1255.1LGP30::FLEISCHERwithout vision the people perish (DTN 227-3978, TAY1)Fri Aug 09 1996 14:2415
re Note 1255.0 by CSC32::J_CHRISTIE:

> Is it logical or reasonable or rational to believe the foregoing refers
> to the canon, the canon agreed upon a couple of centuries after these
> words were written?
  
        More to the point, is it logical or reasonable or rational to
        believe the foregoing must refer to the canon of a couple of
        centuries afterward, and could not merely be referring to the
        one book containing these words?

        As seems so often the case, some people demand that that one
        particular interpretation be accepted as "objective truth".

        Bob
1255.2PHXSS1::HEISERwatchman on the wallFri Aug 09 1996 15:215
    It is my belief that this applies to the book of Revelation only. 
    However, as I said before, Proverbs 30:5-6 more than covers what people
    try to use this passage for.
    
    Mike
1255.3ACISS2::LEECHFri Aug 09 1996 18:0530
    I always believed this verse applied specifically to Revelation.  It is
    easy to see how one might believe it is applied to the entire Bible,
    however, since most modern readers (myself included) tend to look at
    the Bible as one book, rather than 66 individual books separated by
    years, or even centuries, from one another.  The intricasy of God's word, 
    as a whole, certainly doesn't help us to remember this fact. 
    
    The reason, IMO (<-- and I stress these three letters), for this
    specific warning for this one book, is that Revelation will play a
    special role during the Great Tribulation.  Why, you ask?  8^)
    Here are two brief explanations as to why I believe this:
    
    1) It is a time-table that will give hope those who come to God during 
    this time.  It will tell them that this hell on earth *will* come to an
    end, and when. 
    
    2) At no other time in history will prophesy be fulfilled in such un
    unmistakable manner than during the Great Tribulation.  I believe this 
    will result in *many* people coming to Christ (and if you read Revelation, 
    there are multitudes of saints that come out of the Great Tribulation.  
    For those left on earth who have an open mind about God, it will be hard 
    to escape the literal fulfillment of Bible prophesy once they 
    are confronted with the truth (and according to Revelation, everyone will 
    be confronted with it and will have the opportunity to come to Christ - by 
    either the 144,000, the two winesses, or the "angels" mentioned in 
    Revelation... I'm not even going to speculate on the "angels"  8^) ).
    
    
    
    -steve