by Margaret Radisich Sleasman

Created on: September 15, 2009

First, it is the Book of Revelation (singular) and not Revelations (plural); it is the final letter from God revealing what is to come. The Book has a promise as well as a curse to the readers and we should be aware of these. Rev. 1:3 says, "Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand." and then in Rev. 22: 18-19 says, "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."

We all like the blessing, but we have a tendency to ignore or gloss over the curse. This is a very serious curse made by the God of Heaven to warn us not to change anything in His Holy Word, and especially in the Book of Revelation. Back when the scholars put the books of the Bible they were very careful in their study and interpretations of the Greek and Hebrew when translating into English. The OLD King James is the most accurate translation of the scholars' works. The problem lies in the English language where; for example "if" means maybe. In Greek and Hebrew "if" has several meanings including "if, and it is so. When the scholars translated to English, they had footnotes as to the origins of the "if" word in that particular verse and what it meant. Most of the other translations we have today, do not take this into consideration and so we find ourselves in a very messy situation. I know many who have become Christians with other versions and who use other versions, they are still Christians and their version is still God's Word, but they are missing many blessings in the translation meanings. Unfortunately, some of these versions leave out important scripture or make changes in a verse because it may sound better or shed more light on a verse. This is changing God's word and carries the curse of Revelation 22:18-19 and is very dangerous territory to tread.

I am by no means an expert in Greek or Hebrew and actually know very little, but I do know that the Old King James is as close as we can be, so I would not want to trust any other version. Many say "truth is relative", this is true; what I believe is true may not be what you believe is true. The

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