Before I return to the conclusion of Daniel, I would like to go through the Book of Revelations. I am going to go through Revelation, one chapter at a time. It is not as hard to understand as people try to say it is. It is not a book of misteries. In fact it is a condensed version in places and expanded versions in other places, of scripture in the Old Testiment written by the prophets. It is intermingled with new insight also. I will reflect back to Old Testiment correlations as we go along. The first thing to understand about the Book of Revelations is that is the Revelation of Jesus. Jesus reveals, to His Apostle John, the things that will take place on the earth and in Heaven, just prior to His return and what that means. The human mind can not understand the things that are written in scripture without the Spirit of God living in your soul. In earlier bloggs I explain how that is possible and what that means. You might want to read some of the bloggs about the new creation.
Chapter One
Chapter one starts off saying what I have just said about the revelation given to John by Jesus. It says that it was given to His bond-servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. I guess that is one of the reasons why Jesus trusted John with the revelation. He new that he would not keep it quiet. You have to put John into the right perspective. He was an apostle of Jesus. He was taught by Jesus about receiving Eternal Life. He witnessed the thousands of miracles that Jesus did. John even conlcuded his writting of the Gospel in Chapter 21, verse 25,
" And there are so many other things that Jesus did, which if they were written in
detail, I suppose that even the world itself would not contain books which were written".
John was one of the three apostles that witnessed Jesus transfigured in all His Glory. He was at the foot of the cross when Jesus died. John was with Peter when they discovered Jesus' tomb empty. Jesus was with the disciples off and on for forty days after His ressurection. John experienced the infilling of the Spirit of God, on the day of Pentecost. Which is meant by, born of above. After all of these experiences, John could not help but tell all who he saw about Jesus and all he knew to be true. John was the perfect person to be intrusted with this revelation from Jesus. This is the only book in the Bible that says what is written in verse 3.
" Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and heed
the things which are written in it; for the time is near".
There is a special blessing that comes with reading and heeding the Book of Revelation. It is not a book to fear, as many would think. The truth shall make you free.
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