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Part 1 - The Things Which Thou Hast Seen (Chapter 1) The Revelation (αποκαλυψιs) of Jesus Christ is the "unveiling" to John on the Isle of Patmos of “things which must shortly (suddenly) come to pass”. The Father revealed these events to Christ for “his servants”, and Christ communicated them to John by His angel. The book begins with a vision of the Lord Jesus Christ in his full Deity as follows: a) He is the second person of the Godhead with the Father and the Holy Spirit. He is equal and eternal, without beginning and without ending (vs.4-5). b) He is"the faithful witness" - perfect in His earthly testimony (v.5). c) He is"the first begotten of the dead"- nobody could rise in resurrection power before Him (v.5). d) He is "the prince of the kings of the earth" - He now reigns on the throne of heaven, and one day will come as King of kings and Lord of lords to reign over the earth (v.8). e)He is "the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending" - Creator and final Judge of all creation. f) He is the Eternal God, "which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty" (v.8) - there is none greater in heaven or earth. The above description leaves us in no doubt about the absolute Deity of our Lord Jesus Christ. Any lesser description of Him would be "another Jesus"(2 Cor.11:4). The ultimate triumph and climax of God’s plan is the victory of Christ over all the forces of wickedness, be they human or demonic, and so John exclaims: "Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen" (Rev.1:7). At Christ's second coming every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess that He is Lord to the glory of God the Father! (Phil.2:10-11). He will come visibly in the clouds of heaven, as declared by the angel (Acts 1:9-11), and as Jesus Himself said (Matt.24:30). Israel, who pierced Him, will be repentant when Jesus comes again; they "shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son"( Zech.12: 10). At that time one will ask,"What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends" (Zech.13:6). 143 The Book of the Revelation
The Basics of Bible Prophecy Behold, He is coming in clouds of the sky, Every eye shall behold Him, exalted on high; Israel who pierced Him will cry out aloud, Remembering the cross, the grave, and the cloud. The Alpha, Omega, beginning and end, For His elect nation His angels will send, And Gentiles, now bending before Him, will fall, As Jesus, at last, is crowned LORD OF ALL! The Lord's Day and the Day of the LORD John says, "I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day". This refers to the first day of the week when the early Christians met together for fellowship. We should remember that the Lord rose on the first day of the week at the feast of Firstfruits. He was the "firstfruits of them that slept" (1 Cor.15:20-23). The Church was born on the day of Pentecost, which was also the first day of the week. Christians do not keep the sabbath, which God said was "a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever"(Exod.31:15-17; Col.2:16). The Day of the Lord is quite different from the Lord's Day. Throughout the Scriptures the Day of the LORD refers to that period of time at the end of the age when God's wrath will be poured out on the nations, during the 70th week (seven years) of Daniel’s prophecy (Dan.9:24-27). The Day of the LORD is called by Jesus "a time of great tribulation" (Matt.24:21-29); by Jeremiah,"the time of Jacob's trouble" (Jer.30:7); by Daniel,"a time of trouble" (Dan.12:1); and by Joel "a day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness..." (Joel 2:1-2). The Day of the LORD occurs immediately before the second coming of Christ to the earth (Matt.24:29-31), and cannot begin until the Church Age is terminated by the Rapture of the Church. Paul says, "That day (the Day of the LORD) shall not come, except there come a falling away first (literally "the departure first"), and that man of sin be revealed" (2Thess.2 :1-9). After the Church is removed, Antichrist will be revealed and the last 7 years of Israel's history will begin. The Day of the LORD begins with the sound of the trumpet of God. (1Thess.4:16; 1 Cor.15:51-54). The trumpets were used in Israel to call an assembly of God's people, to sound an alarm of war, and for Israel to mobilize. When the trumpet of God sounds the Church will be assembled to the Lord in the air, an alarm will be sounded to the Gentile nations of the impending Tribulation, and Israel will be mobilized to become God's testimony during during the Great Tribulation! 144
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