REVELATION 22:16-21 - Technology Ministries

6 REVELATION is NOT a Mystery—TEACHER’S GUIDE THE FUTURE3) Church Age believers, who serve as the light of the world while thetrue Light of the World is absent, receive the Morning Star Award at theBema Seat in heaven. (A more complete description of “morning star”in Revelation 22:16, incorporating all the Greek meanings, is “thatstar…the bright one, the one belonging to the morning”.)Point to the Morning Star Medal symbol.Picture of theCongressionalMedal ofHonor.AmericanNavy.THEORDEROF THEMORNINGSTARSketch,representingthe Medal forthe MorningStar Award.4) The celestial morning star appears in the sky at the darkest time ofnight, right before dawn. The time of its appearance pictures JesusChrist’s return as the original Morning Star. Spiritual darkness aboundsbefore Christ calls His Church home and the world is at its darkest atthe end of the Tribulation before the Lord returns to rule. The light ofthe world, Jesus Christ (the Morning Star) pierces the most intensedarkness.B. COMFORT IN JESUS CHRIST1. ...IN WHAT JESUS CHRIST IS DOING, NOWa. Christ’s titles as “Root and Off-Spring of David” and “MorningStar” reflect His personal relationship with two groups of people.1) The title “Root and Offspring of David” reflects Christ’s OldTestament relationship to Israel as their God and as future King onDavid’s throne.2) The title “Bright and Morning Star” reflects Christ’s New Testamentrelationship with His Church which includes both Jews and Gentiles(I CORINTHIANS 12:13; EPHESIANS 2:13, 14). There is comfort