22:10-12 What do we learn from what is said here?
22:10-12 What do we learn from what is said here?
V12 here refers to the rapture, and highlights the impending doom that awaits the unbelievers and reprobates of V 11. What a man is when Jesus comes back to rapture the church to heaven, is what he will be like in all eternity (cp 2Th 2:7-12).
This teaches that after the church is raptured to heaven, salvation will no longer be available to those still living on earth who have heard the gospel and rejected it. They will be lost for eternity if they do not repent and commit their way to Jesus while the church is still on earth. Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand in Rev 22:10 indicates the imminence of Christ's return and underlines the necessity for believers to hear and obey the teachings of Revelation.
(See also comments on 2Th 2:6-8 and 2:9-12).