Revelation

Heavenly Father, as we meet now in your presence, we ask that you would open our ears to hear your voice, to open our hearts to love you more and more, to open our souls to receive your word in all of its fullness, that your Son Jesus, who is the word made flesh, that he would be glorified and he would be honored in our lives. For it is in his name that we do pray. Amen.…

The one sitting on it was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war. His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on his head are many diadems, and he has a name written that no one knows but himself. He’s clothed in a robe dipped in blood, and the name by which he is called is the Word of God. And the armies of heaven, arrayed in fine linen,…

Revelation 15 and 16. We come to the end, sort of. The cycles of judgment are culminating in these final judgments, but ahead is still the description of the world systems falling apart and the marriage supper of the Lamb. But here are presented the final judgments in the 7 bowls of God’s wrath. And as we look to the reading of God’s word, if you please join…

Revelation 14, see the triumph of Jesus both in joy as well as in judgment. Revelation 14, as we look to the reading of God’s Word, if you would join with me in prayer. God of all mercy, you’ve promised never to break your covenant with us, and so amid all the changing words of our generation, Lord, we ask that you would continue to speak your eternal words…

—For the reading of God’s word. Revelation chapter 12. It’s the center of the book, literally, but it’s also considered a key and a pivotal vision for the entire message of Revelation. So we look to the reading of God’s word. If you join with me in prayer. Our great God, we do ask that you would guide us by your word and by your spirit, that in…

Revelation chapter 11. If you came from a more dispensational background, maybe something like the Left Behind series is familiar to you. Know that this morning is going to be very different from that, and I recognize what I’m saying may not be as familiar to you if you’re from that background, but hear me out. As we begin, if you would join with me in prayer.…

Revelation chapter 9 and 10. One writer reminds us that Revelation is a picture book and not a puzzle book. It’s not an allegory that must be decoded before we can understand it, but the experience itself tells us what it means. So with that in mind, we’re going to look to the experience of what is being said to us. That we would be able to understand and to…