Jesus - Yahweh Embodied
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Jesus’ outline of Revelation:
What was seen: Jesus Glorified - Revelation 1:9-20.
What is: the Seven Churches - Revelation 2-3.
What will be: Jesus’ judgement in the seven seals, trumpets and bowls. Revelation 4-22.
Who is Jesus?
Who is Jesus?
Does he deserve to be heard and obeyed in worship?
Does he deserve to be heard and obeyed in worship?
4 John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne,
Who is grace and peace from in verse four?
Yaweh, who is and was and is to come.
This unique phrase, is alluding to the Septuagint reading of Exodus 3:14 And Yaweh spoke to Moses, saying, “I am the One who exists.” And he said, “Thus you will say to the children of Israel, ‘The One who exists has sent me to you.’, it focuses on God’s eternal nature of past, present, and future. (Rick Brannan et al., eds., The Lexham English Septuagint (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2012)
The Seven Spirits before his throne. (We will discuss more about this on Wednesday.)
5 and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood
Who is grace and peace from in verse five?
Jesus, the faithful witness
34 I will not violate my covenant or alter the word that went forth from my lips.
35 Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David.
36 His offspring shall endure forever, his throne as long as the sun before me.
37 Like the moon it shall be established forever, a faithful witness in the skies.” Selah
Jesus, the firstborn of the dead
Jesus, the ruler of kings on earth
27 And I will make him the firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.
Jesus, the Lover
Jesus, the freedom-bringer by his blood
7 O Israel, hope in the Lord! For with the Lord there is steadfast love, and with him is plentiful redemption.
8 And he will redeem Israel from all his iniquities.
6 and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
Jesus, the kingdom and priest maker.
6 and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel.”
8 “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”
Who is speaking in verse eight?
Yaweh, the Alpha and the Omega
4 Who has performed and done this, calling the generations from the beginning? I, the Lord, the first, and with the last; I am he.
Yaweh, the Almighty
2 God spoke to Moses and said to him, “I am the Lord.
3 I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by my name the Lord I did not make myself known to them.
12 Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking to me, and on turning I saw seven golden lampstands,
13 and in the midst of the lampstands one like a son of man, clothed with a long robe and with a golden sash around his chest.
Jesus, the Son of Man
13 “I saw in the night visions, and behold, with the clouds of heaven there came one like a son of man, and he came to the Ancient of Days and was presented before him.
14 And to him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him; his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom one that shall not be destroyed.
Jesus clothed in long robe.
Jesus with a golden sash.
5 I lifted up my eyes and looked, and behold, a man clothed in linen, with a belt of fine gold from Uphaz around his waist.
6 His body was like beryl, his face like the appearance of lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and legs like the gleam of burnished bronze, and the sound of his words like the sound of a multitude.
14 The hairs of his head were white, like white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire,
15 his feet were like burnished bronze, refined in a furnace, and his voice was like the roar of many waters.
16 In his right hand he held seven stars, from his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword, and his face was like the sun shining in full strength.
Jesus as the Ancient of Days
9 “As I looked, thrones were placed, and the Ancient of Days took his seat; his clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool; his throne was fiery flames; its wheels were burning fire.
17 When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his right hand on me, saying, “Fear not, I am the first and the last,
18 and the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades.
Jesus died and is alive.
9 For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.
Jesus holds the keys to Death and Hades. (Will talk about this on a Wednesday night.)
Jesus - Yaweh Embodied.
4 Who has performed and done this, calling the generations from the beginning? I, the Lord, the first, and with the last; I am he.
Who is Jesus? He is Yaweh embodied.
Let us hear and obey him in worship.