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Intro
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I’ve been waiting about four years to preach this series.
I love the book of Revelation but we tend to stay away from it because people do some pretty crazy things with it.
Truthfully, we want to read it in ways it wasn’t designed to be read, so we end up with some pretty intense ideas.
It’s not my place to judge those readings, I simply want us to work through these first chapters from the standpoint that I believe they were intended to be read from.
So…oddball questions
Let’s go ahead and boil the book of Revelation down to one word.
Conflict
Conflict is when two competing kingdoms occupy the same space (Tracey and I wanting control over the remote).
It happens in our workplaces, our homes, our hearts, this church.
Revelation is written to encourage individual churches about how in live in an ungodly world.
That message is just as relevant today as it was 1900 years ago.
We’re going to find that the Bible has a bunch to say on the subject.
Particularly in chapters 2 and 3, Jesus speak to 7 real churches.
Transition
I do apologize if you hear me tell the same Israel stories over and over.
I imagine that might happen for a bit.
We drove around in this great big tour bus from sight to sight.
Abu Achmed took us from site to site and Dr. Ziese explained what happened at the place where we were—the good and the bad.
So over the next 7 weeks we’ll sort of “get on the bus” and visit these 7 churches.
Honestly, in some ways it will be like looking in a mirror.
Same Jesus.
Get on the Bus - need introductions
But before we get started there will be someone taking us from place to place and someone doing the commentating.
John
The apostle and brother of James
Son of a wealthy fisherman.
He and his brother left everything to follow Jesus.
But that was a long time ago.
James had been killed.
As a matter of fact, John was the only Apostle that hadn’t been killed.
Because we wouldn’t stop preaching, he was in exile on a small Island called Patmos off the coast of Turkey.
Why wouldn’t they just let him die?
If there ever was a person who could look back and long for the old days, it was John!
Jesus
What do you see when you envision Jesus?
Do you see the Christmas baby?
The teacher?
The bloody servant?
Rarely do I hear someone speak of the Jesus of Revelation who shows up to battle covered in blood!
With Jesus, what we are seeing is what it would look like if the curtain between heaven and earth were suddenly pulled up and there we saw the King in all his glory.
Illustrate with pre-funeral meeting
With Jesus, what we are seeing is what it would look like if the curtain between heaven and earth were suddenly pulled up and there we saw the King in all his glory.
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John the apostle
Brother and companion (fellowship)
partner in affliction?
When things get hard, we have a tendency to look to the past.
Other Apostles all dead.
Jesus had ascended about 60 years earlier.
Yet, he’s not whining or talking about his privilege.
John doesn’t even call himself an Apostle, he’s a companion to other Christians.
Patient endurance - to stay under (active not passive)
In the original language, you pick up that; endurance, affliction, and the Kingdom are linked together.
Patmos
We’re together in this.
It’s a real conflict.
Don’t let anyone fool you.
That’s why I find the prosperity gospel to be so offensive.
We tend to think of guys like John or Paul or even contemporary…bigger target, more pain.
John is writing what he experienced.
It was Sunday morning and suddenly he he a loud voice like a trumpet.
Trumpet blast is very significant.
(; ; Thess 4:16).
Seven churches - mail route
Keep it up and cut it out
We’ll find as we go, that we have much to learn from them.
Then John turns
Standing in the middle of seven golden lampstands (we’ll get to that in a bit) was standing someone like a son of man
All through the book of Mark, Jesus calls himself the Son of Man.
John was there, he knows it.
But really, it goes all the way back to the book of Daniel (circa 585 BC) where this messianic deliverer who is given power and dominion.
The closer you look at the Son of Man in Daniel and the closer you look at Jesus in Revelation, the more you realize that he and the Father are one.
Jesus is the one!
Are you waiting for something to give your life to?
He is the one.
Are you hoping for someone who can make it all make sense?
He is the one.
Do you want security in lost and broken world.
He is the one.
Eight images are drawn from the OT.
While this is the only physical description of Jesus in Scripture, it is not to be taken literally.
He is painting a picture.
He has a robe that goes down to his feet.
He is royalty.
He’s the King.
He has a golden sash around his chest.
The High Priest wore a golden sash.
In the OT, the priest tended to the lamps.
There was never a king who was High Priest.
Only Jesus is qualified.
His hair was white.
In Daniel, the Father is the one with the white hair.
Again, to see the Son is to see the Father.
Remember John 14.
Blazing eyes - stare right through you.
There is nothing he doesn’t see.
Bronze feet.
Back in the day, bronze was a big deal.
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