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NASB | Revelation 22:18 ¶ I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues which are written in this book; |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Revelation 22:18 ¶ I testify and warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book [its predictions, consolations, and admonitions]: if anyone adds [anything] to them, God will add to him the plagues (afflictions, calamities) which are written in this book; [Deut 4:2] |
Subject: Does God speak to us in dreams today? |
Bible Note: Hi, Serras... Thank you for relating your experiences. Please understand, however, we are a Study Bible Forum, rather than a Study Experience Forum. Experiences are notoriously misleading and, as often as not, are misinterpreted. Satan can and does cause experiences. However, "the supreme judge, by which all controversies of religion are to be determined, and all decrees of councils, opinions of ancient writers, doctrines of men, and private spirits, are to be examined, and in whose sentence we are to rest, can be no other but the Holy Scripture delivered by the Spirit, into which Scripture so delivered, our faith is finally resolved. (Matthew 22:29, 31, 32; Ephesians 2:20; Acts 28:23)"* Furthermore, "the authority of the Holy Scripture, for which it ought to be believed, dependeth not upon the testimony of any man or church [or dream or vision], but wholly upon God (who is truth itself), the Author thereof; therefore it is to be received because it is the Word of God. (2 Peter 1:19-21; 2 Timothy 3:16; 2 Thessalonians 2:13; 1 John 5:9)"** You see, to say that our experiences, dreams, or visions affirm the Scripture, is a repudiation of veracity of God. In essence, when we say such things, we are deriving Scriptural authority from those human experiences. Think of it this way: Would the Word of God be less true if our experiences, dreams, or visions contradicted it? "God forbid! Let God be true, but every experience a liar!" In Him, Doc *LBCF 1689, chapter 1, paragraph 10. **Ibid, chapter 1, paragraph 4. |