WHEN DEATH STALKS THE EARTH (ROK-19)

Why Would God Want Every Church of Every Generation to Study the Revelation of Jesus Christ?

The Book of Revelation has always been regarded by all who have taught it as unlike any other of the books in the Bible.

Revelation is not only the ending to God's Word. It is also an invitation from God.

To prepare us for our overview of all 17 verses of Revelation 6, look with me again at the first 8 verses of Revelation 1. Right from the opening words of this book, God explains to us:

Why Would God Want Every Church of Every Generation to Study the Revelation of Jesus Christ?

As we read these eight verses, we will see the purposes of God for culminating the Bible with this Book called Revelation. Please stand with me and listen to why God has sent the book of Revelation to us, Christ's church:

These first 8 verses show us where God is going with this message He wanted every generation of Christ's church to hear, to read, and to do. What exactly are we to hear and read?

To Emphasize the Glory & Power of Christ

• So we can see, follow, and trust Jesus Christ as the Almighty God, the Son: that is the message of chapter 1’s immense description of the Risen, Glorified, and now Unveiled Christ.

That is who Jesus really is. God wants the Risen Christ unveiled to our understanding. He is no longer humbled and in the form of a servant. He is Omnipotent & Almighty. Think of Jesus as: ” The Alpha & Omega, The Beginning & the End, Who was and Who is and Who is to come, the Almighty”.

That is whom we love, serve, and trust today.

• So we can know that Almighty Jesus Christ is watching and working with His churches: that is the message of chapters 2 and 3’s amazing seven letters.

That is why Paul said that Jesus can do exceedingly abundantly above all we can ask or think. Jesus is the Almighty Savior of the Church. Nothing is too hard for Him in our personal, family, and ministry lives.

That is who we pray to Almighty Jesus. That is who we abide in: Almighty Jesus. That is what God wanted us to see, know, and be blessed by in Revelation.

• The message of chapters 4 and 5 is to show us what happens when Almighty Jesus Christ Returns: for His bride, the church, to bring them around God’s Throne. God wanted us to see and understand the immensity of what that means.

Almighty Jesus, the Judge, comes to the world as King to pour out His wrath upon sinners and to rescue Israel. That is the message of chapters 6-19. Jesus has designed each stage of His return. First, people are allowed to be as bad as they want to be, and the world goes crazy, and ¼ of them die. Then Jesus begins to unleash the wrath of God. Then the world shakes, people cringe, and Jesus returns in a blazing fire, taking vengeance on rebels.

That is what God wanted us to see, understand, and be blessed to know: that all sin will be dealt with, and no one will escape the Great White Throne of Christ's Judgment.

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