LISTEN! Revelation 8 Complete Jewish Bible 8 When the Lamb broke the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for what seemed like half an hour. 2 Then I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and they were given seven shofars.
The Seven Trumpets
You weren’t expecting it…
never-the-less, the sound of the coming Wrath of the LORD is come!
OR
You listened to those who predicted it, yet the Wrath of the LORD was not revealed.
So since it’s been millennia and the END has not come, it will not …
or so you thought.
Apocalypse of the END
“Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away. But of that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone.
Take heed, watch and pray; for you do not know when the time is.
Mark 13:33 – Caution of the Messiah Jesus to followers
We often associate apocalypse with the dramatic catastrophic events of the Book of Revelation from the Bible. To begin with a definition, note that an apocalypse is not necessarily an unseen disaster (although it may be for some).
laying bare, making naked
a disclosure of truth, instruction
manifestation, appearance
In this case: ‘the revelation‘ or disclosure of Truth, instruction by the Lord Jesus, various appearances of awe-filled scenes taking place in heaven — ALL lay bare to the eyes of mankind the wrath of the Judgement to come upon all the Creation of Almighty GOD!
Revelation
Apocalypse is also the hopeful good word used in the Gospel of Luke by a first century prophet at the Temple of the Jews revealing the child Jesus as their Messiah or the Christ.
A LIGHT FOR REVELATION TO THE GENTILES, And the glory of Your people Israel.”
Luke 2:32 – prophesy of Simeon about Jesus
Christians and unbelievers alike are familiar with it as the title of the last book of the Holy Bible. From the Latin of ancient Rome:
apocalypsis Iesu Christi
Other versions or translations from Greek:
Ἀποκάλυψις Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ
The Revelation of Jesus Christ
The Revelation from Jesus Christ
The Revelation of Yeshua the Messiah
So whatever section of Revelation you read remember this:
Revelation is NOT bad news about the end of Creation, but Gospel GOOD NEWS of Jesus Christ the Lord and Savior sent in the flesh to a world of sinners.
Roger Harned + talk of Jesus {dot}.com
The Apostle John, who witnessed many miracles of the Lord God, falls prostrate is AWE before these visions laid bare to his mortal eyes. John subsequently obediently begins Christ’s disclosure to the saints of the churches, seven specific first century churches & faithful worshipers of this 21st century day:
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show to His bond-servants, the things which must soon take place; and He sent and communicated it by His angel to His bond-servant John, who testified to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, everything that he saw.
apokalypsis of THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST
Blessed is the one who reads, and those who hear the words of the prophecy and keep the things which are written in it; for the time is near.
Our hearts in this year of our Lord 2021 still struggle with the affliction of COVID and restless crowds of displaced people displaced from work. All the world suffers a great loss of normalcy as we cry out, “HOW?”
COVID – the Affliction of Social Distancing – 1 + talk of Jesus .com
We will return to our 21st century lamentations of COVID, but now return to the 6th century B.C. question of the people of Judah:
This prophesy of Jesus Christ may not sound any more encouraging than the affliction of COVID or our isolation in social distancing; but you with ears to hear, listen to this metaphor of the Lord Jesus for the time ahead.
The Gospel of John
“Whenever a woman is in labor she has pain, because her hour has come; but when she gives birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish G2347 because of the joy that a child has been born into the world. – John 16:21 NASB
Does the Lord’s metaphor not apply to these early pangs of pain in these last days?
Jesus continues in His metaphor of labor pain applying it personally to His own approaching Crucifixion for our sins in Jerusalem, which of course is followed by the Lord’s triumphal resurrection!
The Disciples would once again know their Lord in His risen flesh!
COVID may be one cause of our present affliction, but social distancing will not cure the condition of our dejected demeanors of heart and soul.
“Therefore you too have grief now; but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you. – John 16:22 NASB
The Lord assures the Apostles that they will be ALONE.
While Jesus is isolated in death they will think that HE is ALONE. But HE is not.
Jesus will be with the Father.
“Behold, an hour is coming, and has already come, for you to be scattered, each to his own home, and to leave Me alone; and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.
John 16:32 NASB
SCATTERED.. AND ALONE! Sure sounds like our contemporary SOCIAL DISTANCING.
“These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, G2347 but take courage; I have overcome the world.”
John 16:33 NASB– Strong’s G2347 – thlipsis: tribulation, affliction, trouble
COVID – an affliction of God’s Judgment?
Jesus and the Apostles guide the Church to the narrow path along the valley of the shadow of death.
Perhaps the time has come and is now here for Christians to witness Light into the darkness of these foreboding days of COVID’s crumbling impact on the unclean social environment of the world.
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