The blessings of the book of revelations (Part 3)
Welcome to another edition of Empowerment for Living with Rev F B Obende on this 27th day of the month of August 2020. Today we will continue from where we stopped yesterday on the blessings of the Book of Revelations. Kindly open your Bible the Book of Revelations 4:1-2 = “After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter. 2 And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.”
2) I want to say that it is a privilege and blessing to know the mind of your Father and God especially in the area of the events of the rapture of the saints and the Second Coming of Christ which is well captured in the Book of Revelations and which we will take time to treat in greater details on a much later date if Jesus tarries to come. The rapture of the saints (where the church/believers would have been taken out of the earth) will usher in the tribulation which will be a time of world-wide distress and suffering.
3) Although no one place in the Bible gives us a complete picture of the events of the 2nd coming of Christ seeing that the book of Revelations which looks complete does not mention or provide any details of the rapture stage, but just immediately after the revelation of the things that have happened – I mean the things John has seen (Chapter 1) and the things which are happening – letters to the seven churches (Chapter 2 & 3); John looked and he saw a door opened in heaven; rapture had taken place and events of chapter 4-22 are events both on earth and heaven after the rapture of the church. No wonder the word church which is mentioned about 19 times in chapters 1-3 was never mentioned until chapter 20 when Jesus would have returned with the church to judge the world.
4) So, from chapter 4 of the Book of Revelations, we see what the raptured saints were doing in heaven and events of tribulation, great tribulation, antichrist, Christ glorious appearing from heaven to judge the world, the millennium, the final judgment and the unveiling of new heaven and the new earth. The last days of history will commence with the events of the pre-rapture stage which will heralded by increase of false prophets and religious compromise within the church; increase of wars, famines and earthquakes; more severe persecution of God’s people and increase of crime and disregard of God’s law amongst others which we are experiencing today. What an interesting chronicle of events for all who love the Lord and are eagerly awaiting His appearing. It is worth reading, learning and knowing and they are all available in the word of God. We will stop here today and believe God to continue from here tomorrow by the grace of God.
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