REVELATION IS NOT A SCARY BOOK…IF YOU ARE A BELIEVER…CHRIST REVEALS TO US WHO HE IS…IN ALL OF HIS GLORY…HE REVEALS TO US HOW IT ALL ENDS…AND WE WIN! IT WAS GIVEN TO THE CHURCH TO BE AN ENCOURAGEMENT
PLEASE UNDERSTAND, CHRIST DOESN’T ARGUE WHEN HE REVEALS TRUTH TO HIS FOLLOWERS…HE SIMPLY SAYS, “HE WHO HAS EARS, LET HIM HEAR.”
THROUGH HIS WORD, CHRIST REVEALS TO US WHAT HE EXPECTS US TO APPLY
Deuteronomy 29:29 ESV
"The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Revelation 10:1-7 ESV
Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow over his head, and his face was like the sun, and his legs like pillars of fire. [2] He had a little scroll open in his hand. And he set his right foot on the sea, and his left foot on the land, [3] and called out with a loud voice, like a lion roaring. When he called out, the seven thunders sounded. [4] And when the seven thunders had sounded, I was about to write, but I heard a voice from heaven saying, "Seal up what the seven thunders have said, and do not write it down." [5] And the angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven [6] and swore by him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and what is in it, the earth and what is in it, and the sea and what is in it, that there would be no more delay, [7] but that in the days of the trumpet call to be sounded by the seventh angel, the mystery of God would be fulfilled, just as he announced to his servants the prophets.
Isaiah 55:8-9 ESV
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD. [9] For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
WHAT CHRIST REVEALS TO US TO APPLY, HE ALSO EXPECTS US TO SHARE…KNOWING THAT IT IS A BITTER SWEET TASK TO SHARE THE WHOLE COUNCIL OF GOD
“If you really long to save men’s souls, you must tell them a great deal of disagreeable truth.” Spurgeon
Revelation 10:8-11 ESV
Then the voice that I had heard from heaven spoke to me again, saying, "Go, take the scroll that is open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land." [9] So I went to the angel and told him to give me the little scroll. And he said to me, "Take and eat it; it will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be sweet as honey." [10] And I took the little scroll from the hand of the angel and ate it. It was sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it my stomach was made bitter. [11] And I was told, "You must again prophesy about many peoples and nations and languages and kings."
THROUGH HIS WORD, CHRIST REVEALS TO US WHAT HE EXPECTS US TO APPLY
WHAT CHRIST REVEALS TO US TO APPLY, HE ALSO EXPECTS US TO SHARE…KNOWING THAT IT IS A BITTER SWEET TASK TO SHARE THE WHOLE COUNCIL OF GOD
HE WHO HAS EARS, LET HIM HEAR
