     Question: Who is the Bible talking about when it says
"Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have a
right to the tree of life"?

     Answer: Turn to Revelation chapter 22. All right, Revelation
22, and begin at verse 1: "And he shewed me a pure river of water
of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God
and of the Lamb. In the midst of the street of it, and on either
side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve
manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the
leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations." Verse
14: "Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may
have a right to the tree of life."

     What do you get from the tree of life? Let's go back to
Genesis chapter 3 and see what you get from the tree of life.
Genesis chapter 3:22: "And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is
become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put
forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and
live for ever." Somebody gets eternal life from eating the tree
of life.

     Let's go back to Revelation 22. It certainly is nobody here!
Revelation 22:14 is certainly not a Seventh-day Adventist!
Revelation 22:14: "Blessed are they that do his commandments,
that they may have a right to the tree of life." Now that verse
has been changed in all the new bibles. One of the most famous
fundamental leaders in America said, "You couldn't believe that
verse the way it stood and be a Christian." He's a liar.

     All the new bibles change that thing and make it, "Blessed
are they that wash their robes." You put these fundamentalists
down on a stand and ask them about it, I'll bet they come out
with a dumb, stupid answer like this; they say, "Well, that verse
there is teaching salvation by works. But if you say, 'Blessed
are those that wash their robes,...and of the tree of life,' then
you make it salvation by grace, because they washed their robes
in the blood of the Lamb."

     Which is a crock.

     Now, I know you sing, "Have you been to Jesus for the
cleansing power?" But you sing, "Are you washed in the blood of
the Lamb?"

     There is nobody in this building whose "robes are washed" in
the blood of the Lamb; you're washed!

     You don't believe that? Turn to 1 Corinthians. Boy, some of
you sure look skeptical! First Corinthians 6, verse 11; it won't
do you any good to "wash your robes." That's a Tribulation
passage; in Revelation 7 it says, "These are they that are come
out of great tribulation and have washed their robes and made
them white in the blood of the Lamb."

     First Corinthians 6, verse 11: "And such were some of you,
but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in
the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God."

     So the passage in Revelation means this; in the Book of
Revelation, people who are saved out of the Tribulation and the
Millennium do not get eternal life the way you get it! And, once
you say that, then a lot of the brethren throw up their hands and
say, "Brother Ruckman's a heresy; he's taking five plans of
salvation, and they're always saved by grace, blah, blah, blah,
blah, blah..." And they say, "Blah, blah," because they're
ignorant in stupidity and infidelity.

     The verse says, to get the tree of life you have to keep His
commandments. Go back and look at it; Revelation 22:14. And a
Seventh-day Adventist is right on that. Now, of course, he's got
the verse in the wrong place; that's how it goes. Every heresy in
this age, brethren, is a Tribulation truth. And, boy, you ought
to remember that! Every heresy in this age is a Tribulation
truth.

     All right, Revelation 22:14: "Blessed are they that do his
commandments, that they may have a right to the tree of life."
Have you kept all Ten Commandments? How many people have kept all
Ten Commandments? Well, then, you don't have a right to the tree
of life! So what are you going to do?

     Well, who cares?

     I don't care anything about the tree of life. Do you?
Doesn't the Bible say that "he that hath the Son hath life"? Do
you have Christ? You have eternal life! That isn't aimed at you.
That's aimed at somebody else. Whoever that's aimed at, there's
an element of works mixed with the salvation. Let's see where
they are; Revelation chapter 14. Revelation chapter 14, verse 12-
-right in the middle of the Tribulation. Revelation 14:12: "Here
is the patience of the saints: here are they..." here we go!
"...that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus."

     Let's try it again; Revelation 12:17--right in the middle of
the Tribulation. In the Tribulation, there's an element of faith
and works. There's no element of faith and works in your
salvation. You don't have to work to get saved; you don't have to
work to stay saved. You work because you are saved. Revelation
12:17: And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make
war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of
God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ." So people who get
their eternal life off the tree of life are people out of the
Tribulation who keep the commandments; there's an element of
faith and works connected with their salvation; it has nothing to
do with you at all.

     Therefore, the King James reading is correct, and E.
Schuyler English and Gaebelein and the fundamental scholars at
every Christian college in the world are just as wrong as if they
were Roman Catholics. And they have no business changing the
verse at all. They changed it because they were stupid and didn't
understand. And ignorance is no excuse for breaking the law.





