I see your points about end times and Christmas. I can agree with those, even though I know that Hebrew Roots and my own research influenced me about Christmas. I still celebrate Christmas with my parents and if it was celebrated more in the Mr. Penge style (BBC's Victoria) with no trees brought into the house, I'd prefer it. I see the commercialism and the Hallmark holiday of it all. It's more cutesy animals and snowmen and nutcrackers than Jesus. Jesus gets maybe a nativity scene or a few ornaments on the tree. I get your frustration with this and even share it.
However, there is a warning at the end of Revelation 22 about adding to and taking away from the Word of God, the Bible. Please take that seriously.
Thank you. The Bible is a compilation of Books all combined into a single bundle. The quote in Revelation makes sense as it refers to the prophecy that is given "in this Book" (Christ's Prophecy, in Revelation - see 1:3) and it also makes sense that it refers to all of the prophecies that came before it, through all of the previous prophets that have been sent by God.
Christ Jesus said, in Matthew 5, that He did not come to destroy The Law or the Prophets but to fulfill them. And that nothing in The Law will pass away until all (including ALL of the Prophecies) have been fulfilled. So, adding the Koran to the Bible is NOT a case of adding anything to the prophecy of the Bible (inc. the Revelation Christ gave to John) because The Koran given to Muhammed is just
reconfirming what came before it (the Bible) and it doesn't add anything new (when correctly interpreted - which JAH has done) i.e. there is
no new prophecy after Revelation.
There is no "new" prophecy after that. The Koran that was given to Muhammed is not new prophecy, because it only reconfirms the Gospel (Injeel) and Torah (The Law) which is what it says in many places. That's why it calls Mohammed the "seal of the prophets" because what he was given only reconfirms what came before it (the Bible) and there is no new prophecy (after the prophecy of Jesus Christ that was given in Revelation). The Koran, if you have read it, you will see also says this to be the case, and it says it over and over and over again.
It of course, also only makes sense (perfectly) that it would be
Christ Himself (God's Son
), Who would be The One chosen by God to bring the final Prophecy (Revelation) from God to us.
P.S.
@Dalit If you've never read the Koran and have a Christian background, then I would strongly urge that you consider reading it in the
King of kings' Bible by JAH (correctly translated and interpreted). Reading JAH's version will save you a lot of trouble.
(
@Claire Rousseau - not sure, but thought perhaps you may also find JAH's interpretation of the Koran to be useful and of help, in your contacts with Muslims and to be able to help explain some of these things to them - to help lead them back to accepting and reading the Bible.)
Also, I don't want to give fellow Christians any grief for having trees in their house once a year just because I personally don't. I got rid of mine and probably $1000 worth of ornaments. It's like getting so hung up on church steeples that you won't go in a church because there's a phallic symbol on top of it. A friend of mine is like this and I totally laughed for 30 seconds when a mutual friend said "Sheila (not her name) won't come to church here on Sunday because of the phallic symbol on top of the church."
Good for her. Jesus said don't. It's what the hypocrites do to be seen by and receive honour from men. Anyone can own their own Bible today and be able to get to know and follow Jesus's Teachings, by reading it on their own, without the distractions of so-called "pastors" (pastor means shepherd - Matt. 10:8-13).
Matthew
6:5 And when thou prayest, thou shalt NOT be as the hypocrites [ARE]: for they love to pray standing in the churches and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
6:6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and WHEN THOU HAST SHUT THY DOOR, pray to thy Father in private (
Enoch 56:5;
Sura 7:55); and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
6:7 But when ye pray, use NOT vain repetitions, as the heathen [DO]: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
6:8 Be NOT ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, BEFORE ye ask Him.