Difficult and frightening, that is how students describe the book of Revelation year after year, while many Christians avoid it altogether or try to decode today’s headlines in it. Can it be read in a way that does not miss the most important thing? This sermon walks through the first chapter (Revelation 1) and shows that the book is at once a letter, a vision and a prophecy, written to a church that was both persecuted and too comfortable. Listen and see whether, among the beasts, seals and numbers, you can spot the one the whole book revolves around.
Why Do We Need Revelation?
Before It Comes
The Book of Revelation stirs up strong emotions. However, contrary to popular belief, it does not contain a coded blueprint for the future, but rather changes our perspective on the present. It speaks of the problems and challenges that Christians have faced throughout history-and that we, too, are facing. And all of this is so that, as we go through life, we may prepare ourselves each day for the second coming of Jesus.
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