Modern Day state of Israel the church and the second coming of Jesus
I have been thinking about why there are so many different beliefs about the second coming of Jesus. Where did they come from and when did they start. Did it come about through the Church Fathers?
So I began to do a bit of research into this and to my shock I found out how Replacement theology of the early church Fathers including Augustine were in fact influential on how the church viewed the second coming of Jesus. Augustine in fact after Origen and Justin Martyr and a few others were the chief ones who really influenced the church in its beliefs concerning the return of Jesus. These erroneous beliefs are still very much being taught today.
How we view the modern State of Israel or not view her really affects what we believe concerning the return of Christ.
Replacement Theology which teaches that the church ie Gentiles from the nations have replaced the nation, and people of Israel who are descendent from Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in God's love and that He has thrown over the Israeli people for the Gentiles who make up the church.
This is wrong because Jesus is an Israeli and He is a Jew being descended from the tribe of Judah and He also is a descendant of Abraham through Isaac and Jacob the father of Judah. The church is not the 12 tribes of Israel we mostly are Gentile though some may have Jewish / Israeli genes in them through family lines.
The bible speaks in the Old Testament about the literal nation of Israel, the city of Jerusalem and the people are called time and time again by God Himself His people, His chosen people. They are the Holy Seed especially Jesus who is born of woman He is the seed of woman and He is the most Holy of the Holy seed the Israeli people.
God said that Israel is His inheritance Deuteronomy 32:7- 9.
Deuteronomy 32:7- 9
7 Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.
8 When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
9 For the Lord's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
Judah is His inheritance from the tribes of Israel. Judah is the tribe of His portion in the Holy land Zechariah 2:12.
Zechariah 2:12
12 And the Lord shall inherit Judah his portion in the holy land, and shall choose Jerusalem again.
Why is that so? It is so because as mentioned above Jesus comes from the tribe of Judah that He is the descendant of King David through Mary His earthly mother and He will rule from David's throne when He returns to earth to rule and reign from Mt Zion.
God several times in the Old Testament promises to comfort Zion and turn back her captivity to heal her and prosper her and to make an end of the nations among whom the Israeli people were scattered. Nowhere in the Bible neither in the Old Testament or the New Testament does God say He will make an end of His people or replace them with others ie Gentiles who believe in His Son.
He does say in Isaiah 54 and in Ezekiel 39 He did hide His face from them because of their transgression against Him. Possibly because of their rejection of His Son in the New Testament.
While He was angry with them for a brief period He will draw them to Himself again and make it clear to the heathen nations that they are His people and He is their God.
Hosea 2 speaks of God drawing His people to Himself again and Isaiah 54 about peace being a covenant between them and God.
Hosea 2:14-23
14 Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.
15 And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
16 And it shall be at that day, saith the Lord, that thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali.
17 For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name.
18 And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.
19 And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies.
20 I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the Lord.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the Lord, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth;
22 And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel.
23 And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God.
Isaiah 54:1-10
1 Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the Lord.
2 Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;
3 For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
4 Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more.
5 For thy Maker is thine husband; the Lord of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.
6 For the Lord hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.
7 For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.
8 In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the Lord thy Redeemer.
9 For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.
10 For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee.
The scriptures say in Ezekiel 38 & 39 and in Zechariah 8 and 14 that God will fight in jealous wrath against the nations to defend His people.
These passages make it very clear He is speaking about the physical descendants of Abraham through Isaac and Jacob not the heathens.
The church has erroneously taught that God has thrown over the Israeli people for the Gentiles who believe in Jesus. This is not right. If He did this then this will make Him out to be a liar, fickle and faithless after promising them an eternal covenant of the land and the Mosaic covenant.
Which they broke but God kept faith with them down the centuries. Jesus Himself is their New Covenant made through His eternal life blood. Once they believe in Him they are re instated into their Native Olive tree Romans 11:17-32, the gentiles are not to boast against the fallen off branches the Israeli people. We are to pray for them and to reach them with the gospel Romans 1:16.
Romans 1:16
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
That is why their land covenant stands still today it is firstly God's land and His Son's inheritance Leviticus 25:23-24. His eternal love is still towards them and He will save a remnant at the end of the age who will call for Him.
It is they who will call for Him to save them that will bring Jesus out of Heaven at their call. He will come out of heaven in response to their call. On His way to Jerusalem from heaven He will be raising up the righteous who sleep in Him and catch up those who are alive at that time who belong to Him.
God will be jealous for Zion and will fight for her as she is His bride not the church made up of Gentiles.
The visible church at His coming will by then be the harlot Babylonian system riding the monster beast of Islam who will be persecuting the true brethren of Jesus both Jew and Gentile who believe in Him - these will be the saints that are mentioned in Revelation and they will form the underground persecuted church - and those yet to come to faith (Jews) in Him.
These Jews will possibly be hidden among the nations and will be brought back to Israel at the visible return of Jesus when He judges the nations in the Valley of Decision Joel 3:9-17 and Matthew 25:31 - 46.
So what am I saying?
What I am saying is when we take Israel out of the equation concerning salvation coming through Jesus a Jew for salvation is of the Jews John 4:22 and the return of Jesus. Then things go pear shaped and false teaching, false beliefs come into play ie tares among the wheat that effects what the scriptures teach on this topic.
This in turn impacts on what Jesus Himself taught as God the Son ie the message from His Father and what He said will take place leading up to His return.
Men have put their ideas upon this topic their words are treated with more respect than the words of Christ who is God and we should be putting His words on top of men's words.
We should be viewing what men teach through the lens of the scriptures especially what Jesus said and not view His words or the scriptures through the lens of those who taught evil things about Israel and her people. What they teach is diabolical and they are evil and they are indeed tares among the wheat.
In fact Jesus speaks of this happening in a parable about the wheat and the tares in Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43. For indeed satan had sown tares among the wheat of the gospel.
This was done by the beginning of the 2nd Century AD when the church was becoming more and more Gentile. The evil tares of Replacement theology was being sown among the Gentile Church world thus causing an unhealable break between the Gentile believers and the Jews. Satan had done his evil work well through this evil doctrine. It has affected believers down the centuries.
In fact the wheat and the tares will not be harvested until the end of the age when the angels separate the tares from the wheat ie those who belong to Jesus from those who don't Matthew 13:39-42.
Some of the church Fathers or in fact only one really taught and agreed with what Jesus taught on His Olivet discourse re what will take place leading up to His return and this agreed with what the Jews did teach too. As this person was more in line with things to do with Israel he got pushed aside and ignored for centuries and others took his place and wrote evil reports about Israel and made up lies concerning the end times.
That is why there is so many unbiblical theories of the end times and a lot of these teachings either ignore Israel or are against Israel especially they are against the modern State of Israel having any relevance in connection to the return of Christ.
They ignore the truth that Jesus will return to rule from Mt Zion in Jerusalem on the throne of David over the House of Jacob and the nations.
They teach that at His return that it will be the White Throne judgment and then the New Heaven and earth. They teach that the millennium is only spiritual or allegory no evidence in scripture ie New Testament that God will restore Zion. That the church is the bride of Christ ie New Jerusalem. This is not so.
We as Gentiles are grafted into the native olive tree of Israel but we must not boast against the fallen off branches that will one day be re grafted in by faith in their Messiah Jesus see Romans 11.
Due to this evil belief that God has replaced the Jews with the Gentile church it has affected how we study the bible too. As they now say that prophecies cannot be taken literally but only spiritually and allegorically or we should study it as a historical book.
Augustine is the one to be blamed for this for he started this idea of viewing the bible like this. Also he started the idea that the church is the kingdom of God or heaven and that we are to bring this about on the earth ie through our own flesh efforts. That the Catholic church is to be regarded as the Kingdom of heaven and will rule for a thousand years. It has even been taught that the millennium began when Jesus first appeared on the earth. Wrong, Wrong, Wrong.
Some of the things the early church Fathers wrote in their attempts to discredit Israel and say the Gentiles replaced her brought about some really weird beliefs and even sounded more like gnostic and paganistic views than biblical.
I question whether they did believe in the true Jesus or were they following a gnostic one? To me it seems that the church for centuries could have been following a gnostic version of Jesus not the One who is recorded in scripture. Some may have been truly born again that is why only the angels can reap the harvest because they see the difference between the tares and wheat.
Even today the Jesus that is worshipped in many churches is really a false one a gnostic one that cannot save and they are of the spirit of antichrist and Babylon.
As they have now joined back to the harlot of Rome who is modern day Babylon as they have come under her spell her sorceries through Contemplative spirituality. They are the Word of Faith and New Apostolic Reformation cults who are leading this false movement back to Rome followed by the denominations who have been heavily influenced by the false revivals and teachings of these groups.
So if we take Israel out of the equation we end up with error concerning the return of Christ as these following articles will show.
What the early Gentile Church Fathers taught and how this has impacted upon the Jews down the centuries and the church at large.
Replacing The Jews in Early Christian Theology (this site contains cookies)
https://biblesocietyinisrael.com/replacing-the-jews-in-early-christian-theology/
by Ray Pritz
This second article is a very good one re the history of Replacement theology. I don't agree with what he says at the end re Dispensationalism as he is Pre Tribulation rapture supporter. So I discard that part the rest is good to know the history of this theology.
REPLACEMENT THEOLOGY
https://baptistbulletin.org/the-baptist-bulletin-magazine/replacement-theology/
The above article ends with remarks about Dispensationalism with its roots being in the early church's view of eschatology is wrong as the early church Fathers who separated themselves from the Jews had a very skewed view of eschatology.
For their version of eschatology is minus the Jews. God does not have a separate plan for Israel and the church for that will make it to be two houses and not one. Jesus also warned in the gospels that a house divided against itself cannot stand. He war referring to satan's kingdom. If that applies to satan's kingdom, it also applies to God's kingdom too. God does not have a divided house. He has one house and one house alone. That house is Israel, the idea of Israel originated in heaven not on the earth.
God made Israel, He created her see Isaiah 54 God says He is Israel's creator, her Father and her husband. He made Israel, He gave her the laws, the covenants and the promises. We as Gentile believers are grafted into these things through Christ Ephesians 2:11-22.
So it is into this house, this nation that Jesus was born into that knew God, knew His laws and had prophets that spoke to them concerning God's ways.
God is a God who is near to His people and through Jesus He opened the door for whomsoever who wills can enter into an eternal relationship with God and will live forever in the Kingdom of heaven that will one day be centered on the earth in Jerusalem through Jesus and on into eternity.
God does not have a divided house. His house is one house under Christ that is Israel or the Kingdom of heaven which will be ruled over by Christ at His return in Israel ie Jerusalem over the House of Israel and the nations from Jerusalem as His seat of authority.
The Gentile believers are not in heaven when Jesus returns, they are on the earth ruling with Christ along with their Jewish brethren for we will be one new man in Christ as His adopted brethren.
While the author of the above article is looking at eschatology as Jesus and the early church Fathers did teach it before the Jews and Gentiles separated. He is correct to a point in what he is saying.
Where he goes wrong is his holding to the false belief of a Pre Tribulation rapture, by saying that the church will be taken to heaven before the physical return of Jesus.
This belief is wrong because when Jesus comes back everyone will see Him and He will raise the righteous who sleep in Him and catch those who belong to Him up to be with Himself and in doing so their mortal bodies will be changed into immortal bodies those who are resurrected along with those who are alive. He will be doing this to both the Jewish and Gentile believers in Him His saints.
This now leads me to my next point that of my thoughts concerning the Pre Tribulation rapture that so much of the evangelical and some Pentecostal churches hold onto as a theory.
What about the Pre Tribulation Rapture how will this impact upon the Jews?
On the other hand there are those who support Israel but they too are in error concerning the return of Jesus for they hold to the theory called the Pre Tribulation Rapture based on Dispensationalism which is not scriptural.
In this next section I will focus more on how Pre Tribulation beliefs will impact upon the Jews.
They in fact are just as guilty as those who are Preterists, Amillennialists, who don't believe in the catching up of and the resurrection of the believers at the return of Jesus to the earth to rule.
They the Pre Tribbers believe that Jesus will come back to rule and reign on planet earth but believe in two second comings which is not scriptural.
They support Israel and say that God has plans for her but teach erroneously that God has separate plans for the church and Israel. Not so. They say that God will take up the church to heaven and Israel will remain on the earth and will be punished by God for not believing in His Son to make them turn to Him. They believe all Israel as a nation will be saved again wrong.
Only a remnant will be saved and they will not be punished by God they will be weakened brought to the end of themselves so that they cannot rely on the arm of flesh or the nations to help them.
For the nations will be coming up against them to invade the land and city of Jerusalem. God will allow this to take place to make them cry out to God to save them. Ezekiel 20:33-38. God will come back and in fury and wrath poured to be king over them again and will cause them to enter into the unbreakable covenant of His Son.
This belief they have about a Pre tribulation rapture is evil too as it leaves the Jews to fend for themselves and the church is in heaven. The marriage of the lamb to Jerusalem takes place on the earth at the end after Babylon is judged and Jesus comes back to earth at the call of His people to save them Revelation 19:1-10 and Isaiah 25:6-10a.
This belief that the church will be in heaven married to Jesus is wrong because they twist the scriptures and force them to be pushed into the shape they want to have to fit their erroneous beliefs about two comings of Jesus. They try to explain away the visible second coming of Jesus in Matthew 24, they explain away what 2 Thessalonians 2 says about the apostasy and even the saints in Revelation they call them Tribulation saints not saints as belonging to the body of Christ. By doing this they try to make out the church is not on the earth during the time of the Great Tribulation.
In fact Jesus's message to the Seven churches is a warning to them to endure, to learn the lesson of His patience, to overcome.
This message was not just for those churches at that time, it is also for the church that will be in existence at the end times. When all these things that John sees in Revelation will take place. Jesus is warning His true saints to awake, to watch and to endure, to learn the lesson of His patience, let no man take their crown and most importantly to overcome the evil that is coming upon the earth, to put their trust in Him. He is saying that those who overcome will inherit His kingdom. Why would He go to great lengths to say these things if the believers are in heaven with Him and to encourage them to overcome?
If the believers are in heaven there is no need for them to overcome or be patient or to endure but they will be free from all of these things rejoicing in the Lord in peace and safety.
The true believers are in the book of Revelation, for indeed the true believers are there they are called saints. They are the ones the beast wages war against. The beast is not waging war against the harlot system made up of the apostate church and world religions which is forming today. No the beast is going against the bible believing saints both Gentile and Messianic believers who have to go into hiding to survive.
Yet they twist the scriptures and add and take away from them to make their theories fit based on two men who started this in the 1800s those two men are Scofield and Darby. It is interesting to note that when the Jewish people were thinking of finding a physical homeland all this false stuff about the Lord's return started coming about ie the Pre Tribulation rapture theory.
Also when Israel became a state in 1948 another false movement arose the Latter Rain movement which has now morphed into the NAR (New Apostolic Reformation) movement and they have white anted Israel with their lying false teachers and prophets and they have helped bring the church back under the evil yoke of Rome.
Here is a link written by a Messianic Jew in Israel to show you who these people are in Israel today and what ministries to avoid supporting because they are heavily Latter Rain - NAR - based and linked to Rome through Contemplative Spirituality.
The Non White List
https://www.narwatchisrael.info/the-non-white-list.html
Our filing cards on the stuff we can't commend
https://www.narwatchisrael.info/dossiers.html
Rome is now linking all religions to Islam see link below on this.
One World Religion: Pope Francis Signs Historic Covenant With Islam
One World Religion
POSTED BY: MICHAEL SNYDER FEBRUARY 11, 2019
http://www.technocracy.news/one-world-religion-pope-francis-signs-historic-covenant-with-islam/
The Pope And Islam’s Most Important Imam Just Signed A Covenant That Pushes Us Much Closer To A One World Religion
POPE MAKES SOCIAL CALL TO IRAQ
https://www.chick.com/battle-cry/article?id=Pope-Makes-Social-Call-to-Iraq
Issue Date: May/June 2021
This Latter Rain now known as the NAR movement teaches falsely that they will rule on the earth and take dominion over the 7 mountains of education, sport, business, religion, family, government which includes military, media.
This is New Age and it is now being pushed today. That is why I am writing blogs on the real Seven Mountain Mandate that it is of the devil not of God. The second blog on religion and politics mountain which are becoming one is in the pipeline and will be published when ready.
These people don't believe in a rapture they don't believe that Christ will come back at the beginning of the Millennium but at the end of the thousand years reign.
They believe and teach that He will manifest Himself spiritually and the church will become a second Christ or it will become Christ Incarnate. They believe that when this happens the church who has become Christ will become immortal somehow and rule over the earth having dominion over everyone making the earth Christian this is Catholic going back to Augustine.
This is not happening they are under a very strong spirit of delusion and they are worshipping the Pope and are joined with him. They think that they will become immortal and do great signs and wonders and that they will fight the antichrist and will hand the world on a plate to Jesus at His second coming at the end of the church's thousand year reign on the earth. They believe that He is coming back for a triumphant warrior bride aka the church. They too are replacing Israel with themselves for they see themselves as Israel too.
So replacing Israel with the church leads to error and replacing Jesus with Israel leads to error for they have inter faith dialogue with the Jews not sharing the gospel. They think that we are in the millennium now and they are trying to act like this that they have authority to prophesy or decree or declare things that only God has the authority and power to do, and those two witnesses when they appear in Jerusalem will have His authority to bring judgments on the earth Revelation 11.
So they too will end up fighting against Jesus when He returns to Jerusalem.
article on this are found here.
The NAR’s Obsession With Israel
http://www.spiritoferror.org/2013/04/the-nars-obsession-with-israel/2915
April 12th, 2013 Posted in C. Peter Wagner, Dominionism/ Kingdom Now, International House of Prayer (IHOP), Miscellaneous
Items on how the Pretribulation mob are teaching error are found here:
Christian Zionism and the Pre-Tribulation Rapture
Does some Christians' belief in the Rapture contradict their Zionism?
By BRIAN J. HENNESSY JUNE 26, 2010 17:55Email Twitter
14 The Lord of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying, Surely I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillers; and they shall lift up a shout against thee.
15 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his understanding.
16 When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens; and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth: he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.
17 Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
18 They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
19 The portion of Jacob is not like them; for he is the former of all things: and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the Lord of hosts is his name.
20 Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;
21 And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider;
22 With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the maid;
23 I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers.
24 And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, saith the Lord.
25 Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the Lord, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain.
26 And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith the Lord.
27 Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers.
28 Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion.
29 And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the Lord shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.
4 And these are the words that the Lord spake concerning Israel and concerning Judah.
5 For thus saith the Lord; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.
6 Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble, but he shall be saved out of it.
8 For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him:
9 But they shall serve the Lord their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them.
10 Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the Lord; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid.
11 For I am with thee, saith the Lord, to save thee: though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet I will not make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished.
9 And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.
10 And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;
11 Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.
10 Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people.
11 Behold, the Lord hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.
12 And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the Lord: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.
6 And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.
7 Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.
8 And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things.
9 Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God.
10 And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.
11 He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.
12 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
16 I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.
17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
18 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:
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.
20 He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
21 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
