The Book of Revelation. If any images come to mind when we hear this
phrase, they are images of Armageddon and prophets of the end times carrying placards.
We think of extremes. People either becoming obsessed with end times scenarios
or ignoring the book entirely. But is this all that the Revelation of John has
to say to us? Written in about 90 A.D., this book is probably the most widely
misused and misinterpreted book in the New Testament. The apostle John wrote this
book near the end of his life and ministry, during a time of widespread persecution
of the fledgling Christian movement. John, then in his eighties, wrote to encourage
Christians who were experiencing severe persecution and struggling to understand
God’s role in their circumstances. He relayed to them a vision he had seen
while on the island of Patmos off the coast of modern-day Turkey. This look
at Revelation will draw out lessons for daily living from this important book
of the Bible. For many, it is the most–neglected New Testament book, and
yet it speaks to: questions about God’s justice in an unjust world; God’s
sovereignty; suffering for the sake of Christ; spiritual warfare; and how to live
in the age between the first and second coming of Christ. |
 
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