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The Revelation of Jesus Christ to John

  • Apocalypse 2 – Good News Unsealed

    Apocalypse 2 – Good News Unsealed

    ἀποκάλυψις

    apokalypsis or apocalypse

    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).

    1. laying bare, making naked
    2. a disclosure of truth, instruction
    3. 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:

    Revelation 1:

    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.

    To be continued...
  • Apocalypse – a mystery of Good News Unsealed

    Apocalypse – a mystery of Good News Unsealed

    Good News & Bad News

    Which would you like to hear first?

    Invitation

    ‘Apocalypse? How can Good News come out of inescapable consequence,’ you ask?

    I’ll answer this mystery as our series progresses, but first please accept my invitation to subscribe to my February 2021 series for Scripture’s answers to some of our most difficult questions.

    The END in the beginning

    Those enticed by mysteries will sometimes peek at the end of the book for clues of the unraveling of its plot. Rather than beginning this brief series from Chapter 1, Verse 1, or simply summarizing a ‘Sparks Notes’ approach to one of Scripture’s most important books; allow me to quote just part of one verse from an early section to encourage you (perhaps) for now.

    Then the kings of the earth and the eminent people.. and the wealthy and the strong.. hid themselves…

    Revelation 6:15 excerpt NASB

    I did not want to go there — to this Book of Revelation. For after enduring the heated discussion of this month in SHAKEN! and I wanted nothing to do with recent controversary or judgment because I’ve had enough of it already. (How about you?)

    The current crises [yes, plural, i.e. COVID, Political unrest, etc.] seem to hold yet more bad news, not good; yet somehow a verse from Revelation comforted me. NO, I claim no special insight into the great mysteries of this Book, but as I read this verse my spirit settled in peace with the promised punishment of the wicked.

    The END Revealed + Fear of the Judge!

    I’m no king and certainly not eminent in any way — not wealth or strong — hardly fit to judge Kings, Premiers, Presidents, Popes, Prime Ministers, Senators, Representatives, Governors, or any others of the rich and powerful of this land or nations beyond our shores. NO, I do not expect ANY of these to send solutions only the Lord God can accomplish.

    Yet I take comfort in Christ Jesus, that HE will return in the end and judge those who have taken what they want for the most part from your life and from mine.

    Before we move on though, you’d better read the rest of this verse so that you will know why I was so SHAKEN to reveal it to you.

    Revelation 6:

    15 Then the kings of the earth, the nobles, the generals, the rich, the powerful, and every slave and free person hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.

    Note that WE THE PEOPLE, those ruled also will want to hide from the Lord on the Day of Judgment!

    And they said to the mountains and to the rocks,

    “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one seated on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb,

    because the great day of their wrath has come! And who is able to stand?”

    The Revelation of Jesus Christ to the Apostle John 6:16-17 CSB
    To be continued...

  • From This World to the Next – Sanctification

    From This World to the Next – Sanctification

    Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.

    John 17:17 CSB – Jesus’ prayer for disciples

    Between life & Eternal Life

    As Jesus intercedes for disciples our Master has just prayed:

    “I am not praying that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one.“

    Jesus, the Eternal One, has completed His work in the world as the Son of Man, only Son of God the Father. He is about to experience the very death of mortals condemned by sin!

    So as a Perfect High Priest the Lord intercedes for sinners in prayer in an upper room in Jerusalem, a Holy of Holies before our Father God, the Most High Creator of the world and Author of all life.

    John 17:

    13 “But now I come to You; and these things I speak in the world so that they may have My joy made full in themselves. I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

    The Lord speaks clearly to the Father and before the Apostles that He has this one more thing to say ‘in the world’ before His Disciples.

    The world hates God! Jesus gave them God’s true word and now the world hates them.

    Why?

    They are no longer condemned by their sin, as the world is condemned to death along the the evil one. So the departing Messiah prays for God to keep them from the temporary but real power of evil.

    • 17 Sanctify them in the truth;
      • Your word is truth.
    • 18 As You sent Me into the world,
      • I also have sent them into the world.
    • 19 For their sakes I sanctify Myself,
      • that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.

    Jesus prays for them and us and clearly states why.

    What He will do next?

    The Lord will sanctify Himself so that His disciples will become like Him as they are sent also into the world.

    Sanctification

    “Sanctify them…”

    “I sanctify myself…”

    What do these formal and holy words mean to a casual worshiper of these last days?

    Perhaps the time has arrived for us to receive this truth as was near for a soon-to-be crucified Savior and His Disciples.

    ἁγιάζω – hä-ge-ä’-zo – sanctify

    Jesus prays: Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

    John 17:17 KJV
    • to make ἅγιον, render or declare sacred or holy, consecrate. Hence, it denotes:
    1. to render or acknowledge to be venerable, to hallow: Since the stamp of sacredness passes over from the holiness of God to whatever has any connection with God, ἁγιάζειν denotes
    2. to separate from things profane and dedicate to God, to consecrate
    source: Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 37: ἁγιάζω - blueletterbible.org

    Sanctify them, as in “hallowed by Thy name.” ‘Father make these Holy by Your own holy Name,’ He could well have prayed.

    The Apostle John has already testified in his gospel [John 6:69],

    “We have believed and have come to know that You are the Holy G40 One G40 of God.”

    Be holy, for I am holy, says the LORD.

    וְהִ֨תְקַדִּשְׁתֶּ֔ם וִהְיִיתֶ֖ם קְדֹשִׁ֑ים כִּ֛י אֲנִ֥י יְהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶֽם׃

    Leviticus 20:7 & many other scriptures

    Jesus IS the only High Priest with the Authority to sanctify any flesh of sinful man who He sends out into the world. The Lord can make you or any He chooses to be ‘a holy vessel of the LORD.’

    “I have sanctified them..

    Jesus continues to pray for those the Father has given Him:

    And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.

    John 17:19 KJV

    You cannot see the face of God, O man of flesh tainted by sin!

    Gaze far into the distant heavens beyond the vast sea for a light of truth, the paradise of Eden, the glory of the living Temple of the LORD. You will not enter it any more than you may enter the Holy of Holies constructed by man and destroyed by disobedience.

    Jesus our High Priest prays to sanctify you through the truth.

    To be continued...