These first eight verses show us where God is going with this message. He wanted every generation of Christ’s church to hear, read, and do it. 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 & working with His churches: that is the message of chapter 2 & 3’s amazing seven letters.
That is why Paul said that Jesus is able to 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 lives, family lives, 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, to know, and to 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, 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, and people cower, and Jesus returns in blazing fire, taking vengeance on rebels.
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.
A picture has been said to be worth a thousand words. What images can we draw from these verses to help us understand and do what He desires us to do?
God’s Plan Pictured for Us
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