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Proclamation of the Word
Introduction
Expectations
There was one clerk in the large candy store who always had people waiting in
line, even when the other clerks were standing around with nothing to do.
The
manager finally asked her why she was so popular with customers.
“It’s easy,” she responded.
“The other clerks always scoop more
than a pound of candy and then start taking away.
I always scoop less than a
pound and then add to it.”
Brothers and sisters, so often we get so intimidated with the book of Revelation because of all the controversy, competing views, and imagery, that we can tend to just avoid it altogether.
I have been guilty of it, to intimidated to preach on it that I may not communicate some part of the prophecy or imagery correctly.
Then I read the beginning of the book over and over and listened to some lessons on its beginning and realized that God gave this revelation or unveiling to John through Jesus and his messengers to bless its readers and hearers.
Revelation 1:3
it is from this very first verse where the book gets its name.
The Greek work “apokalypsis” from which we Get the English word “apocalypse” which is the revelation, disclosure, or unveiling of divine secrets.
Just as some great statue is unveiled for all to see.
Here we have the unveiling of Jesus Christ our Lord in all of his majesty and glory.
The people standing in that one clerks line were waiting expectantly for the blessing of receiving more candy.
We should be running to the book of Revelation and expectantly reading line after line because we cannot wait to receive the promised blessing of the revelation or unveiling of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and his coming return.
When we read the book of revelation there is an expectancy that one feels and remains throughout the whole reading of the book.
It is this expectancy that I want you and I to grasp because I believe it translates to our daily walking in faith and our expectantly looking to our Lords return.
There are three primary ways that the book of Revelation has been interpreted over the ages; the preterist, the futurist, and historicist views of the end times.
Perhaps we can look at these in more detail in future sermons or on Sunday nights.
For right now I would like us to focus on the blessing of the Book of Revelation and what it means for us walking in Faith.
Connection to the Word
We sure had a blessed Holy Week didn’t we?
The services were wonderful and the time of fellowship was just as it is intended to be when the body of Christ comes together.
I don’t know about you, but did you feel like you hit a wall the Monday after Easter?
We were riding that spiritual high of the resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and then we come face to face with our problems and circumstances again Monday morning.
Those financial struggles are still there.
the sickness, the loneliness, the pain, is still there, and in some ways maybe even magnified.
This book was given to John for the persecuted Christians of his day and for all the Christians throughout the ages for encouragement and blessing.
There was a Medieval theologian named Anselm.
Anselm described the process of living with faith as a “continuous quest of seeking to understand.
I believe that this speaks very well to that expectation that the Christian has concerning the return of our Lord and Savior.
That being said if we are on a continuous journey of faith, we also recognize and admit that we have moments of impatience, moments were we just want to know the “hows” and the “whys” to become clearer and more understandable.
Much like the Apostle Thomas in (), we want to be certain of what it is we believe.
Haven’t you felt that way?
There are many that have a craving for the kind of certainty Thomas demanded.
However, when we come to the book of Revelation it seems only to make things worse.
In the first few verses we are introduced to the kind of symbolism that continues throughout the entire book; where the author writes about Christ’s second coming.
Revelation 1:
Jesus began the 15 mile journey from Jericho to Jerusalem.
This is perilous journey, there are many areas along the road where someone could be jumped or robbed.
The Romans had guard posts along this route to keep the peace.
As they neared the top of the Mount of Olives Jesus sent two disciples ahead to get a coltThis is the fulfillment of the Prophecy from the Prophet Zechariah.
​ ESVRejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem!
Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
As he begins his journey down the western slope of the Mount of Olives he gets a glimpse of the City of Jerusalem.
The crowd with him begins to praise Jesus, declaring him Messiah and throwing their cloaks down before him a symbol of respect for royalty.
it would be like a red carpet welcome in our society.
​ ESVAnd as he rode along, they spread their cloaks on the road.
As he was drawing near—already on the way down the Mount of Olives—the whole multitude of his disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen, saying, “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord!
Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!”
Before this moment Jesus would not allow public praise or declaration that he is the Messiah---Today is different.
Everyone in Jerusalem knew that this was a welcome of a KingJesus came to another point along the road where he can see the entire city of Jerusalem and he stops and weeps because they did not know the time of their visitation
​ ESVAnd when he drew near and saw the city, he wept over it, saying, “Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace!
But now they are hidden from your eyes.
For the days will come upon you, when your enemies will set up a barricade around you and surround you and hem you in on every side and tear you down to the ground, you and your children within you.
And they will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know the time of your visitation.”
Jesus weeps for Jerusalem because they did not know “the things that make for peace!”
You know I do not think that I realized what a rare and fragile thing Peace truly is.
Did you know:“The Society of International Law, in London, states that during the last 4,000 years there have been only 268 years of peace in spite of good peace treaties.
In the last 3 centuries there have been 286 wars on the continent of Europe alone.”
Orientation: Living the Word
Such imagery of the return of the risen Christ and the Power of God takes language and stretches it to its limits.
However, if we approach our faith walk as a journey, as a continuous quest of seeking to understand.
We are reminded of what the Apostles tell the priests of the temple in ().
The Apostles are challenging the priests to accept that the God of Israel is the God that raised Jesus from the dead.
They are challenging them to accept the claims about God’s redeeming action in and through Jesus Christ based more on faith than on certainty and they did not like it.
What does the testimony of the apostles mean for us today?
The apostles gave their lives to ensure that the gospel message of Jesus Christ was spread throughout the world.
Jesus was killed; but God did not allow death to have the final word.
Revelation
As we, people of faith, seek to live in the power of the resurrection seek to understand what this means.
We hear in Acts the command to trust the testimonies of those ancestors in the faith; to embrace the resurrection reality as God’s gift to us.
To always seek a deeper understanding but until then to trust the testimony of those that came before us, the witness of the Holy Spirit with our spirit that we are children of God, and that we are God’s from beginning to end.
By Aaron Shepard
We see here that this revelation comes from God the Father to Jesus Christ and from Jesus to his servant John through an angel.
My dear sister Janet,It is 2:00 in the morning and most of our men are asleep in their dugouts—yet I could not sleep myself before writing to you of the wonderful events of Christmas Eve.
In truth, what happened seems almost like a fairy tale, and if I hadn’t been through it myself, I would scarce believe it.
Just imagine: While you and the family sang carols before the fire there in London, I did the same with enemy soldiers here on the battlefields of France!As I wrote before, there has been little serious fighting of late.
The first battles of the war left so many dead that both sides have held back until replacements could come from home.
So, we have mostly stayed in our trenches and waited.But what a terrible waiting it has been!
Knowing that any moment an artillery shell might land and explode beside us in the trench, killing or maiming several men.
And in daylight not daring to lift our heads above ground, for fear of a sniper’s bullet.And the rain—it has fallen almost daily.
Of course, it collects right in our trenches, where we must bail it out with pots and pans.
And with the rain has come mud—a good foot or more deep.
It splatters and cakes everything, and constantly sucks at our boots.
One new recruit got his feet stuck in it, and then his hands too when he tried to get out—just like in that American story of the tar baby!Through all this, we couldn’t help feeling curious about the German soldiers across the way.
After all, they faced the same dangers we did, and slogged about in the same muck.
What’s more, their first trench was only fifty yards from ours.
Between us lay No Man’s Land, bordered on both sides by barbed wire—yet they were close enough we sometimes heard their voices.Of course, we hated them when they killed our friends.
But other times, we joked about them and almost felt we had something in common.
And now it seems they felt the same.Just yesterday morning—Christmas Eve Day—we had our first good freeze.
Cold as we were, we welcomed it, because at least the mud froze solid.
Everything was tinged white with frost, while a bright sun shone over all.
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