We’re back!
After the community Labor Day service
and then a missionary speaker last week,
we now begin our study in Revelation.
- (Revelation 1:1 ESV) The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John.
- The first three words in the Greek NT: Ἀποκάλυψις Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ.
- Transliterated: Apocalypse Jesus Christ.
- Our English Bibles: The revelation of Jesus Christ.
Imagine that. The book of Revelation is a book of revealing, not concealing. We need to see everything through this lens: The revealing of the glorified Christ.
We are given the central idea–the revealing of Jesus Christ, and a stated purpose–make this revelation known to his servants in the first three verses.
Also … amazing comparison and contrast as we look at Jesus, born as an infant boy, coming into this world the first time via a manger and a human birth, hidden from the eyes of the world … TO HIS ENCORE PERFORMANCE as he enters with the clouds where every eye will see him.
And I am just getting started.
Compare the lamb of Isaiah …
- (Isaiah 53:7 ESV) He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth.
… with the revealed Lamb of glory in Revelation …
- (Revelation 6:15–17 ESV) Then the kings of the earth and the great ones and the generals and the rich and the powerful, and everyone, slave and free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains, 16 calling to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, 17 for the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?”
And so much more …
Message: “The Revelation of Jesus Christ!”
Message Text: Revelation 1:1-3
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