JESUS In Revelation!

 

JESUS In Revelation!

 

Recently I heard Pastor Robert Morris say, “If you read Revelation and didn’t see JESUS you missed it.” The fact is that JESUS is in all of Revelation but we usually read looking for the end-times stuff. The Book of Revelation starts before the beginning of creation and goes way past the end. We look at Revelation as being about a specific period of time in human history that is yet to happen. But like the rest of the Bible it is not chronological, it does not follow a beginning to end format of information. The fact is that the books of The Bible were not written to be a chronological history of events (with the exception of Samuel, Kings and Chronicles). Each book was written for a specific purpose with a specific message that we are usually trying to fit together historically for our own understanding. But that is not how GOD has chosen to reveal Himself. Every Book of The Bible is about JESUS and all the significance we find in The Bible should be JESUS CHRIST. Everything else is excess information. If we are not seeing and therefore preaching JESUS in every passage of the Scriptures then we are the goats who don’t know it; the five virgins who are not prepared or those in Matthew 7:21-23 who think they are doing GOD’s will but are lawless! in 2011 Matthew 7:21-23 scared me from my 20 years of  lawlessness and 14 years of rebellion against GOD.

 

JESUS was clear, too serve Him we must abide in Him, to abide in Him we must live our life for Him, to live our life for Him we must lay down our will, our desire and do His (take up our cross daily and follow Him)! This is how JESUS lived His life in the flesh and how we must live our life in the flesh. Thankfully He gave us the Gift of His SPIRIT and His Word!

 

Everything we learn from The Bible should be based on JESUS’ teachings in the Gospels; everything in the Old Testament points to JESUS' birth, life, death and resurrection. JESUS told us everything we need to know to live in obedience to The Father. The writings of the Apostles are reaffirmations of what He taught to them.

 

“'Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is no other name under Heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved'...But Peter and John answered and said to them, 'Whether it is right in the sight of GOD to listen to you more than to GOD you judge. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.'" Acts 4:12, 19-20 “The only source of Life is The LORD JESUS CHRIST.” Oswald Chambers