Today I started studying for a message series on the book of Revelation. We will begin this series on October 4th. This is an incredible book of hope and healing. It is the only book in the Bible that claims that those who read it will be blessed.
Unfortunately this book is most often ignored or perverted because of the imagery that is used. This is a grave tragedy because this letter was written to those who are suffering. In the first chapter alone Jesus is given these titles:
- Who is, and who was, and who is to come
- The faithful witness
- The firstborn from the dead
- The ruler of the kings of the earth
- The Alpha and Omega
- The Almighty
- The First and Last
- The Living One
Jesus is identified as loving and freeing people from their sin. Jesus has made his people to be a Kingdom of priests to serve God. Jesus holds the keys of death and Hades.
Anybody that is suffering, anybody who needs hope will be comforted by this book and seeing as the faithful witness, the Almighty, the First and the Last, the Living One, the ruler of the kings of the earth.
