Revelation 22:19 - 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.
Please notice that it doesn't say the book of the Lamb.
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. You don't want to take away from the book of Revelation and make it be something else rather than what it is. It is the Revelation of Jesus Christ.
We are given the benediction in Verses 20 and 21:
Revelation 22:21 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
Then he says the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. And again, as with all the letters, notice the word (be) in your bible is in italics. It's because it's not in the original text. It's not a wish, or a prayer. It is a statement of fact.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ is with you all. And then the final Amen!
We give you praise and thanks. We thank you for your provision and we thank you for your faithfulness. Your word and Your Spirit are an encouragement to us all, because life can be discouraging. Life is difficult, as you know, because you sympathize with our weaknesses. But we're so thankful that you uphold us. You cause us to overcome. And you have given us a birth into a living hope, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
In spite of our difficulties we face here in this life, we have such a glorious future to look forward to. And as Paul said, it's not even a comparison to the suffering that we have here, to our eternity forever with Christ.
Lord, we pray that you would continue to use your word, and the studies that we've had together, not just the study I have presented over these past few months, but the things that each and every one of us here have to share, as an instruction, and as an encouragement to us as we finish out our pilgrimage here on earth.
We ask that you continue to minister to our hearts and minds as we fellowship together in this on-line forum. We pray that the time we spend here will not cause us to lose our focus of fellowship with your Son, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. We ask that you continue to give each of us a never-ending hunger for your word.
We thank you, and we pray these things in Jesus' name, Amen!
Thank you, Jesse!! Your knowledge of the Greek language has been a blessing to many. You are very appreciated for sharing that knowledge. My prayers go out to all the lost that they may accept Jesus and find eternal life. Blessings to all!
And thanks too from me brother Jesse for this great contribution for our understanding, bringing in the Greek translation and perspectives to our reading of the NT.
I feel that the LORD knows that through this great passage of time since the original writings of the Gospels & the Epistles, and with the fragments of the DSS & the various MSS that have come to us, we today are truly blessed to have His Word in our hands, even with their many variations & mistranslations. What we have been given is true & holy & the Holy Spirit is given us to help us work through all this & make the Word meaningful & applicable in our lives. After all, it is our heart's condition & longing for the LORD our Father and His Son that matters to Him & His Spirit will lead us into all Truth, even as our Savior prayed, "Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth." May we pursue it with every fiber of our being. Every blessing brother and thanks again for this great work and commitment.
I again want to thank everyone who has commented on these studies and given me the encouragement to see this through. To any who may have been following along but not commenting, I also thank you and hope that something I have shared may have ministered to you in some way.
I give the Lord all praise and glory. I have nothing to boast of as far as knowledge goes. I can only understand what the Lord allows me understanding because without His Spirit, the bible would be like any other textbook, just words on a page. But His word is alive to those who truly belong to Him. And it's on His time, whenever He thinks I'm ready for more.
Only He knows what I'm ready to handle. I'll mention no names, but I view some of you as being far more knowledgeable of God's word than myself and I praise God for the things He has given you to share with the rest of us and for the things I have learned from many in this forum. We all have something to share, and we are to be like the Bereans, take what we are given, and then search the scriptures to see if what is being shared is true.
Again, I thank those of you who have encouraged me to stick with this, and I give all glory to God for leading me through this and blessing me with the time to complete this study. It is my hope that the Lord will continue to draw us all to Himself, even when we feel like giving up because it's just too hard, or we're too busy, and that when we get to that point of exhaustion, that He will push us even more. We should all desire to know Him more and more each and every day through His written word. That should be our constant desire. God is faithful so may He teach us also to be faithful to Him.
This is all I have to share from the book of Revelation and concludes this study of the New Testament from a Biblical Greek perspective. This is something I thought from the beginning would not take so long and I probably would have stopped back in Matthew if some of you had not have encouraged me to continue on.
This was originally intended for one person, someone who asked me to do this but dropped out early on in Matthew. My intent was to compare the New Testament of our English Bible (Specifically the KJB) with the Greek text (Textus Receptus) which was the text used by the translators. This was in no way whatsoever meant to discredit the KJB, or any other English translation, but to show some differences between the English and Greek texts, and also to show how the Greek text can be used to enhance ones understanding and give a more clear and literal meaning of what our English text is actually saying.
There is so much that we miss from our English text. English is such a general language where words can have more than one meaning. That's why I believe we have so many different denominations out there. It's because believers can't agree with each other on what our English bibles are saying, even though we might read from the same bible. Koine Greek has been said to be the most exact language there is, and I believe this is why God chose such a language. With so much doctrinal teaching in the New Testament, it had to be an exact language.
The KJB is my bible of choice, and it will remain so. But I also believe that there are other English translations out there that are also trustworthy, and we should never condemn those who choose a translation different from ours. Most of us, if not all would agree that it is God's Spirit that leads us into all truth and reveals the truth of His word to us. So, if someone chooses to study from a bible that we do not agree with, shouldn't this same concept apply?
Jesse, Your work on this perspective is really appreciated and I have learned from it.
I was thinking today of the one person you originally were conversing with who insisted that the KJV was a "perfect" translation and you were wishing to show how the English translation differs from what the original Greek said and meant. She did disappear soon after you began posting on Matthew and we have not heard from her since. Today I was praying for her, as I often do. I do hope that she did hang with us for many of your posts so that she can be enlightened to know that her premise concerning the perfection of the KJV is faulty.
Most of us know that translation errors have occurred. But we do know also that God will make His word alive and active in the life of believers. He will not fail us. The truths of His word will prevail forever.
Thanks again for staying with this study to the end. Your knowledge of Greek is a skill many of us do not have, so we do need make us of how you contribute here. Thank you and may God bless you in abundance.
Revelation 22:19 - 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.
Please notice that it doesn't say the book of the Lamb.
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. You don't want to take away from the book of Revelation and make it be something else rather than what it is. It is the Revelation of Jesus Christ.
We are given the benediction in Verses 20 and 21:
Revelation 22:21 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
Then he says the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. And again, as with all the letters, notice the word (be) in your bible is in italics. It's because it's not in the original text. It's not a wish, or a prayer. It is a statement of fact.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ is with you all. And then the final Amen!
In Closing (Part 3):
I would like to end this study in prayer,
Our heavenly Father,
We give you praise and thanks. We thank you for your provision and we thank you for your faithfulness. Your word and Your Spirit are an encouragement to us all, because life can be discouraging. Life is difficult, as you know, because you sympathize with our weaknesses. But we're so thankful that you uphold us. You cause us to overcome. And you have given us a birth into a living hope, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
In spite of our difficulties we face here in this life, we have such a glorious future to look forward to. And as Paul said, it's not even a comparison to the suffering that we have here, to our eternity forever with Christ.
Lord, we pray that you would continue to use your word, and the studies that we've had together, not just the study I have presented over these past few months, but the things that each and every one of us here have to share, as an instruction, and as an encouragement to us as we finish out our pilgrimage here on earth.
We ask that you continue to minister to our hearts and minds as we fellowship together in this on-line forum. We pray that the time we spend here will not cause us to lose our focus of fellowship with your Son, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. We ask that you continue to give each of us a never-ending hunger for your word.
We thank you, and we pray these things in Jesus' name, Amen!
You went far and beyond what I expected and it was well appreciated by many of us for this great study material.
God bless you!
I feel that the LORD knows that through this great passage of time since the original writings of the Gospels & the Epistles, and with the fragments of the DSS & the various MSS that have come to us, we today are truly blessed to have His Word in our hands, even with their many variations & mistranslations. What we have been given is true & holy & the Holy Spirit is given us to help us work through all this & make the Word meaningful & applicable in our lives. After all, it is our heart's condition & longing for the LORD our Father and His Son that matters to Him & His Spirit will lead us into all Truth, even as our Savior prayed, "Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth." May we pursue it with every fiber of our being. Every blessing brother and thanks again for this great work and commitment.
God bless,
RLW
In Closing (Part 2):
I again want to thank everyone who has commented on these studies and given me the encouragement to see this through. To any who may have been following along but not commenting, I also thank you and hope that something I have shared may have ministered to you in some way.
I give the Lord all praise and glory. I have nothing to boast of as far as knowledge goes. I can only understand what the Lord allows me understanding because without His Spirit, the bible would be like any other textbook, just words on a page. But His word is alive to those who truly belong to Him. And it's on His time, whenever He thinks I'm ready for more.
Only He knows what I'm ready to handle. I'll mention no names, but I view some of you as being far more knowledgeable of God's word than myself and I praise God for the things He has given you to share with the rest of us and for the things I have learned from many in this forum. We all have something to share, and we are to be like the Bereans, take what we are given, and then search the scriptures to see if what is being shared is true.
Again, I thank those of you who have encouraged me to stick with this, and I give all glory to God for leading me through this and blessing me with the time to complete this study. It is my hope that the Lord will continue to draw us all to Himself, even when we feel like giving up because it's just too hard, or we're too busy, and that when we get to that point of exhaustion, that He will push us even more. We should all desire to know Him more and more each and every day through His written word. That should be our constant desire. God is faithful so may He teach us also to be faithful to Him.
In Closing (Part 1):
This is all I have to share from the book of Revelation and concludes this study of the New Testament from a Biblical Greek perspective. This is something I thought from the beginning would not take so long and I probably would have stopped back in Matthew if some of you had not have encouraged me to continue on.
This was originally intended for one person, someone who asked me to do this but dropped out early on in Matthew. My intent was to compare the New Testament of our English Bible (Specifically the KJB) with the Greek text (Textus Receptus) which was the text used by the translators. This was in no way whatsoever meant to discredit the KJB, or any other English translation, but to show some differences between the English and Greek texts, and also to show how the Greek text can be used to enhance ones understanding and give a more clear and literal meaning of what our English text is actually saying.
There is so much that we miss from our English text. English is such a general language where words can have more than one meaning. That's why I believe we have so many different denominations out there. It's because believers can't agree with each other on what our English bibles are saying, even though we might read from the same bible. Koine Greek has been said to be the most exact language there is, and I believe this is why God chose such a language. With so much doctrinal teaching in the New Testament, it had to be an exact language.
The KJB is my bible of choice, and it will remain so. But I also believe that there are other English translations out there that are also trustworthy, and we should never condemn those who choose a translation different from ours. Most of us, if not all would agree that it is God's Spirit that leads us into all truth and reveals the truth of His word to us. So, if someone chooses to study from a bible that we do not agree with, shouldn't this same concept apply?
I was thinking today of the one person you originally were conversing with who insisted that the KJV was a "perfect" translation and you were wishing to show how the English translation differs from what the original Greek said and meant. She did disappear soon after you began posting on Matthew and we have not heard from her since. Today I was praying for her, as I often do. I do hope that she did hang with us for many of your posts so that she can be enlightened to know that her premise concerning the perfection of the KJV is faulty.
Most of us know that translation errors have occurred. But we do know also that God will make His word alive and active in the life of believers. He will not fail us. The truths of His word will prevail forever.
Thanks again for staying with this study to the end. Your knowledge of Greek is a skill many of us do not have, so we do need make us of how you contribute here. Thank you and may God bless you in abundance.
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