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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 Doc, I would like to address the other part of your post, about whether or not God does, or would, speak to us in any other way than what we read from the pages of the Bible. You ask "what more do we need than scripture?" Truly, as Peter wrote, " According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:" we have all we need. We know that not everything God has said, or has revealled to mankind, is recorded in scripture. There are the prophecies of Iddo, and of Saul. There are the words of Jesus as He taught for three years, then over the course of another 40 days. Not everything was recorded. Luke writes in Acts how everywhere they went, the Holy Spirit was warning Paul that chains awaited him in Jerusalem, but these individual words were not recorded. We know that God, in the past, spoke to people with words, dreams, prophecies, visions, not all of which were recorded, yet they were still from God. You mention the closing of the canon. I think (correct me if I am wrong) that you are alluding to the question "Does God have a private word for me that is not a public word for everyone?" Does God speak only though His Word, or does He also speak in other ways? I anm not, of course, suggesting that the Bible is not complete. But let me ask you, why does Paul write in Col 3 "And let the peace of God rule (arbitrate/decide) in your hearts"? If God's intend were for me to read the Bible, and that is the sum total of His revelation to me, why would I be told to look to my heart, to be ruled by God's peace? This is a revelation that God gives which is outside of the pages of scripture. Should it be in disagreement with what the Bible says, I can know it to be wrong, but when I am praying whether to do this or that (scripturally neutral), and my peace lies in this, not that, how can you say that this is not God leading me, He only speaks through the pages of scripture? Romans 2:15 speaks of "the law written in men's hearts" - our conscience. This is a revelation from God that is outside of the pages of scripture. It will agree with scripture - when it doesn't, that's when we know that what we think is God's law in our hearts actually isn't. We test according to the scripture. The Bible doesn't tell me whether to stay in my job or to apply for another. It doesn't tell me if I should be teacher or usher. Do you think that God doesn't care? Or that we have to guess? Or does our Father have ways of speaking to us personally, as He has since the first man was created? Love in Christ, Mark |