1. Professor Ranko Stefanovic
When the new Sabbath School quarterly for 2019 came, it looked excellent.
Being an Australian lay member of the SDA church, I hadn’t heard of the principal contributor, Ranko Stefanovic.
Praise God for the internet, it only took a couple of clicks to find out something about him.
There was a couple of videos made by him on the early
and latter rain.
They impressed me so much that I made a short PP video covering some new thoughts from those videos.

2. It was pretty exciting and I wanted to know more.
Then came the PowerPoint presentations for the 13 lessons of the quarter.
It was pretty exciting and I wanted to know more.
Talking to my brother about it, he told me that he had the book ‘Revelation of Jesus Christ a commentary on the Book of Revelation 2nd edition by
Ranko Stefanovic’.
As he was going away for a few days over the Christmas break, he would lend it to me, but wanted it back after that for the next quarters lessons.

3. Then he wanted something to eat, so I ate as well.
Then, working out a plan of how much to cover in so few days, I stated in by prayer for the Holy Spirit to help me to understand and comprehend the material quickly.
Everything went well for the first couple of hours, then a friend rang, an hour and a half later, it was back to the book.
My dog wanted to go out side, so another 10 minutes went by. Back to the book.
Then he wanted something to eat, so I ate as well.
Back to the book, by then a word of prayer as my schedule was going down the drain.

4. Turning to Revelation 22:14,
The First Texts of Revelation 1:1-3 came into view at page 53, after 17 pages of introduction. (There were somethings that needed some research on my part)
As I read them, (Ranko Stefanovic’s Bible translation) something didn’t seem quite right and comparing them to the KJV, there were some small but subtle changes.
Caution beckoned.
Turning to Revelation 22:14,
[which is a verse I test all translations]
Ranko translates it
‘Blessed are those who wash their robes,
that their authority may be over the tree of life…’
The KJV translation reads
‘Blessed are they that do his commandments,
that they may have right to the tree of life,…’

5. He is about to return to earth!
Why can’t Revelation 22:14 be translated
‘God will bless all who have washed their robes.’?
Apart from the fact the text does not have
‘in the blood of the Lamb and have made them white.’ 
In previous verses (11) the fate of all has been decided. Salvation has finished and Jesus has left the 2nd apartment.
He is about to return to earth!

6. In contrast, where it does state ’ and have washed their robes,
in the blood of the Lamb and have made them white.’
Revelation 7:3 (previous verses) Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.’ 
 Jesus was still in the 2nd apartment pleading for sinners.

7. And it contrasts all the saved with all the lost in the next verse
That is why Revelation 22:14 should read ‘Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.’ 
And it contrasts all the saved with all the lost in the next verse
Revelation 22:15 
‘For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whoever loves and makes a lie.’
No mention of not washing their robes, only of breaking God’s commandments.

8. Ranko goes on ‘they have authority over the tree of life’
No, only God has that authority, the saved ‘have the right to the tree of life’
It’s as if he is translating from another Greek NT Bible
And he is!
I suspect he is translating from the Wescott and Hort Greek NT version of 1881
This reintroduced many of the errors held before Erasmus.
Erasmus
‘In 1516, a year before the appearance of Luther's theses, Erasmus had published his Greek and Latin version of the New Testament. Now for the first time the word of God was printed in the original tongue. In this work many errors of former versions were corrected, and the sense was more clearly rendered.’ Great Controversy p.245 (KJV)

9. Without Truth everything
‘God can teach you more in one moment by His Holy Spirit than you could learn from the great men of the earth.
..At an infinite cost, God has provided for every man an opportunity to know that which will make him wise unto salvation.’ TM p119
Conclusion
Without Truth everything
is False
Isaiah 8:20