![]() The answer to this query is really very simple. Is there any validity to such assertions? These claims were made when the Book of Mormon was first published and have continued to be made, and are made today. They assert that the Book of Mormon is an attempt to add to the words of the Bible. Nothing more is to be added and nothing is to be taken away. These verses of scripture have been cited repeatedly by those attempting to discredit the Book of Mormon, claiming that God’s revelation to man is closed. “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.” ( Rev. “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: ![]() ![]() Specifically, these are the words he wrote: We remember that at the end of the book of Revelation, the last book of the Bible, the author, John, issues a warning and a curse upon any man who adds to or takes away from the book. And on the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate, until the decreed end is poured out on the desolator.Recently a young friend in the mission field wrote a letter to me regarding a question that had been asked of him concerning the concluding verses of the Bible and how they apply to the Book of Mormon. And he shall make a strong covenant with many for one week, and for half of the week he shall put an end to sacrifice and offering. Its end shall come with a flood, and to the end there shall be war. And the people of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. ![]() And after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall be cut off and shall have nothing. Then for sixty-two weeks it shall be built again with squares and moat, but in a troubled time. Know therefore and understand that from the going out of the word to restore and build Jerusalem to the coming of an anointed one, a prince, there shall be seven weeks. “Seventy weeks are decreed about your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place. Then the Lord my God will come, and all the holy ones with him.ĮSV / 86 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And you shall flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. And you shall flee to the valley of my mountains, for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azal. On that day his feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives that lies before Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to west by a very wide valley, so that one half of the Mount shall move northward, and the other half southward. Then the Lord will go out and fight against those nations as when he fights on a day of battle. Half of the city shall go out into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city. For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken and the houses plundered and the women raped. ESV / 263 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpfulīehold, a day is coming for the Lord, when the spoil taken from you will be divided in your midst.
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