I can hardly realize that this is seriously meant.” (Seiss)ĭ. “Some tell us that what is yet future ought not to be examined into till after it has come to pass. Some would say that we should not be concerned with prophecy, that it is a frivolous exercise – but if God was concerned enough to talk about it, we should be concerned enough to listen. The time is near (Revelation 1:3) for the fulfillment of these things, but the time was not present at the time of writing. It describes things that must shortly take place. Not all prophecy is predictive, but this prophetic book clearly is predictive. It speaks of things that will happen in the future – at least future from the time of its writing. This means that the Book of Revelation is a book of predictive prophecy. Things which must shortly take place : This describes when the events of this book will take place – they will happen shortly, and they must happen shortly. This is an apocalypse – a revelation, not apocrypha (something hidden).Ĭ. God gave this revelation that it might be shown, not hidden. Which God gave Him to show His servants : This is an important reason why God gave this Revelation of Jesus Christ. How we need a revelation of Jesus! “The great fault of many professors is that Christ is to them a character upon paper certainly more than a myth, but yet a person of the dim past, an historical personage who lived many years ago, and did most admirable deeds, by the which we are saved, but who is far from being a living, present, bright reality.” (Spurgeon)ī. If we catch everything else, but miss Jesus in the book, we miss the Book of Revelation. Most of all, it is the Revelation of Jesus Christ to us. This book shows us the Antichrist, it shows us God’s judgment, it shows us calamity on the earth, and it shows us Mystery Babylon in vivid detail. From the outset, we are given the most important truth about the Book of Revelation.

It is also Jesus’ Revelation in the sense that He is the object revealed Jesus is the person revealed by the book. The word simply means “a revealing, an unveiling.” The Book of Revelation is the Revelation of Jesus Christ in the sense that it belongs to Him, He is the one doing the revealing. The Revelation of Jesus Christ : The ancient Greek word translated Revelation is apokalupsis (apocalypse). And He sent and signified it by His angel to His servant John, who bore witness to the word of God, and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, to all things that he saw.Ī. The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants - things which must shortly take place. (1-2) The writer of the Book of Revelation. The introduction and prologue to the Book of Revelation.

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