The "Holy City" described is ETERNAL (Heaven).
LOL...I said Jerusalem is the HOLY CITY...
AND Yet again, YOU DISAGREE with the FACTS, and MAKE UP YOUR OWN scripture.
Neh 11:1
...Jerusalem the holy city...
Isa 52:1
..Jerusalem, the holy city...
Tob 13: 9
...Jerusalem, the holy city...
AS usual, you have Disagreed with Scripture and TRIED to write your own scripture.
Rev. 22:19
States emphatically that: ". . . if anyone takes words away from this book of prophecy, God will take away from him his share in the TREE OF LIFE - not just the Holy City - wherever YOU think that is.
Again per YOUR USUAL, you CAN NOT STAY ON "POINT" and wander off on a Completely different TOPIC!
The HOLY CITY is one thing.
The HOLY CITY "IS" Jerusalem, NOT HEAVEN!
WHAT "IS IN" the HOLY CITY, is another thing.
THE "TREE OF LIFE"...is NOT "A CITY", is NOT Jerusalem!
The "TREE OF LIFE" IS THE "TREE" that "SUSTAINS" a "SOUL THAT IS SAVED".
The "TREE OF LIFE" IS "ALWAYS" WHERE, "UNCORRUPTED SOULS ARE".
FIRST:
The "TREE OF LIFE" was IN Gods Garden of EDEN...WITH ADAM...but Adam's SOUL BECAME CORRUPTED...and ADAM was banished from the Garden, thus he NO LONGER had ACCESS TO the "TREE OF LIFE".
THEN:
The "TREE OF LIFE" was "IN the "COMFORT SIDE OF HELL"...sustaining the SOULS of "FAITHFUL" men, such as ABRAHAM!
NOW:
The "TREE OF LIFE" "IS" "IN HEAVEN"...sustaining the SOULS of CONVERTED MEN, whose bodies are physically DEAD in their graves.
FUTURE:
The "TREE OF LIFE" "SHALL BE" Located "IN" the "RESTORED" HOLY CITY of "NEW" Jerusalem (again ON EARTH)...WHEN Christ Jesus Returns to Earth, and SITS as KING, of His EARTHLY KINGDOM, ON the everlasting THRONE of king David...IN Jerusalem...
AND THE INHABITANTS of Christ Jesus' KINGDOM...SHALL HAVE "ACCESS" TO "EAT" from the "TREE OF LIFE".
A different FRUIT EVERY MONTH..."FOR" Saved SOULS "TO BE" sustained AND Strenghtened....BY CONSUMING the FRUIT "OF" "The TREE OF LIFE".
This verse is about the possibility of a person HAVING eternal Life - and LOSING it.
No, Rev 22:19 is NOT about having RECEIVED SALVATION and then "LOSING SALVATION"!
Scripture is CLEAR;
Salvation IS A GIFT OFFERED TO THE WHOLE WORLD...IT IS A GIFT TO ALL MEN;
AND 'THEIRS' TO TAKE.
IF ANY MAN, Does NOT REACH OUT, CALL ON THE Lord TO TAKE THE Lords OFFERING...
Such a man WILL LOSE his Offering of Salvation.
The WORD of God DOES NOT TEACH, a man WHO HAS reached out to the Lord and RECEIVED the Lords OFFERING OF SALVATION....CAN THEN LOSE his Salvation.
The WORD of God Teaches the COMPLETE OPPOSITE; And you have been TOLD and SHOWN IN THE WORD OF GOD...
THAT:
FOREVER and ALWAYS a man who has received the Lord OFFERING OF SALVATION;
THAT MAN "IS" FOREVER and ALWAYS WITH thee Lord God...and thee Lord God is FOREVER and dALWAYS WITH that man.
Rev. 22:19
States emphatically that: ". . . if anyone takes words away from this book of prophecy, God will take away from him his share in the TREE OF LIFE - not just the Holy City - wherever YOU think that is.
All depends ON WHICH "AUTHORIZED" (lol) VERSION of an official Catholic Bible a Catholic is QUOTING!
Douay-Rheims...Authorized for Catholics
Rev 22:19
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 these things that are written in this book.
King James Version....NOT authorized for Catholics.
Rev 22:19
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 these things that are written in this book.
I do not know what "CATHOLIC" VERSION of Scripture you use....obviously one that the wording has been changed from an OLDER..."official Catholic Version"...lol
Glory to God,
Taken