{"id":18124,"date":"2015-02-24T00:33:11","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T07:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=18124"},"modified":"2015-02-24T00:33:11","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T07:33:11","slug":"the-prophecy-of-this-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/02\/the-prophecy-of-this-book.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The prophecy of this book&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18125\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18125\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/02\/640px-15th-century_unknown_painters_-_Vision_of_St_John_the_Evangelist_-_WGA23735.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18125\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/02\/640px-15th-century_unknown_painters_-_Vision_of_St_John_the_Evangelist_-_WGA23735-300x242.jpg\" alt=\"St. John's vision, fifteenth century\" width=\"300\" height=\"242\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18125\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The vision of John the Revelator, as depicted by an unknown fifteenth-century artist<br>(Click to enlarge.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Virtually every missionary, I expect, has encountered Revelation 22:18-19:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"version-KJV result-text-style-normal text-html \" style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<p><span id=\"en-KJV-31099\" class=\"text Rev-22-18\"><b>\u201c<\/b>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: \u00a0<\/span>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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Joe Spencer has written a blog essay in which he reads that passage in the light of the Book of Mormon and Doctrine and Covenants 20:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/peculiarpeople\/2015\/02\/the-prophecy-of-this-book\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/peculiarpeople\/2015\/02\/the-prophecy-of-this-book\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 Virtually every missionary, I expect, has encountered Revelation 22:18-19: \u00a0 \u201cFor 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: \u00a0And if any man shall take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;The prophecy of this book&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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