Revelation
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THE BOOK OF REVELATION: M. M. NINAN<br />
contrast to the royal priesthood of all believers. This essentially is the difference of opinion of evangelicals<br />
with the orthodox and Roman Catholicism.<br />
1 Pet 2:9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that<br />
you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.<br />
Jesus reminds them of their honey moon period, when all was sunshine and joy and exciting. Return and do<br />
the first works was his advise.<br />
Rev 2:5 Remember the height from which you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first.<br />
The reinstatement consists of three parts:<br />
Remember<br />
Repent<br />
Do<br />
All conversions have these three parts.<br />
Remember your past.<br />
Repent of your mistakes.<br />
Turn around and actively practice.<br />
In the conversion of a sinner to saint these three steps are necessary.<br />
Know you are a sinner.<br />
Repent of your sin.<br />
Accept Jesus as savior and actively confess him with your lips.<br />
The reinstatement of broken family relation is likewise comes in three steps.<br />
Remember your honeymoon period<br />
Repent or desire to get back<br />
Change your ways.<br />
This is the prescription of Jesus for today’s broken relationships not only with him but also within the<br />
family and the community as a whole.<br />
If you love Jesus promises life and paradise.<br />
Rev 2:7 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes,<br />
I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.<br />
The Tree of Life - What is the Tree of Life?<br />
The phrase occurs only 11 times in the Bible out of which 4 are from Proverbs and 3 from Genesis and 4<br />
from <strong>Revelation</strong>s.<br />
(Gen 2:9 NIV) And the LORD God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground--trees that were pleasing<br />
to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge<br />
of good and evil.<br />
(Gen 3:22 NIV) And the LORD God said, "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil.<br />
He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever."<br />
(Gen 3:24 NIV) After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and<br />
a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.<br />
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