The Time is Near

Revelation 1:3 “Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written in it; for the time is near.”

Pastor Kyle started a new Sunday Sermon series on the Book of Revelation last week. Many flock to the books on eschatology (the biblical study of the end times), the branch of theology and the doctrine that deals with the last and final things, as death, the judgment by God, heaven and hell, the end of the world and the events therewith connected. The Holy Word of God was written to and ancient world with a modern background and application for today. These Holy Scriptures communicated truth then, and truth now to you and I. After all, both either lived or live in a “fallen” world in sin and in need of a Savior. The Apostle John wrote of what he saw and hear, not to bring fear, but to bless to us in the message from Creator God and the kingdom of Heaven.

Revelation 1:4-6 “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, and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood,6 and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen."

The book of Revelation was written to challenge the apathetic Follower and to draw the church (the body of Believers) closer to Jesus Christ; to produce a greater sense of holiness, obedience to the Lord and heartfelt worship of God. We need this foundation to stand on and to build upon. The Christian life (including the reading of the book of Revelation) should fill us with true blessing, passionate worship and create the feeling of being “alive in Christ” as He offers and provides the abundant live to the redeemed, regenerated and restored spirit and soul. The time is near; the time is right.

Revelation 1:7-8 Behold, He is coming with clouds, and every eye will see Him, even they who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. Even so, Amen. “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,” says the Lord, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”

In Christ, Brian