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A Truth Time listener writes, Does Revelation 22.19 mean that we can lose our salvation if we take away from the Bible?
Okay, let's go to Revelation chapter 22, but let's not only focus on verse 19, let's also include verses 7, 10, and 18.
These verses support verse 19 and will help us in dealing with your question.
Verse 7, Behold, I come quickly. Blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.
Verse 10, And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book, for the time is at hand.
Verse 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.
And now the verse in question, verse 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.
Okay, when looking at these passages, you should notice one common thread.
All four verses, including the one in question, spoke of a prophecy in a book.
Not books, but book, singular.
The Bible is compiled of 66 books, plural.
But here, John speaks of one book.
And something else worthy of our attention is, the book of Revelation doesn't contain doctrine for anyone in the body of Christ church, nor does it speak about anyone losing anything because they take away from the Bible.
What many do here is add the word, Bible, to the context, but it doesn't fit.
Verses seven, ten, eighteen, and nineteen all clearly speak to the prophecy of this book, the prophecy of this book.
John's not talking about the Bible, he's talking about this book, his book, the book of Revelation.
Now, should we add or take away from the Bible?
No, we should not.
But that's what you're doing when you say John is talking about the Bible here.
You're adding to the text and you're in direct violation of verse 18 which says, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book.
John's clearly speaking of the plagues in the book of Revelation, and those today who still violate this verse should be very thankful for God's grace, and that he does not dispense any plagues to anybody today.
And if he were, I know a lot of folks that would be in a heap of trouble.
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