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Netscape: JESUS: the ALPHA and OMEGA JESUS: THE ALPHA AND OMEGA SERIES: JESUS: LORD OF HIS CHURCH by Ron Ritchie We who live and work in the modern industrial nations are becoming more and more familiar with the terms "evaluation," "down-sizing," and "change." As commercial markets become more competitive, doing business the old-fashioned way, while it sounds wonderful, is not very profitable. With the Cold War over, our government has been forced to take a hard look at our military forces, and we have watched it evaluate, down-size, and change. Then on a more personal note, now that summer has arrived, many of us find ourselves standing before a full-length mirror dressed in last year's swim wear thinking, "It's time to evaluate, down-size, and change!" But the concept of evaluation is not new for Christians. Since the church first began on the Day of Pentecost (33 AD), our risen Lord Jesus has been evaluating the body of believers with words of encouragement, correction, and comfort in every generation up to this present moment. This spiritual evaluation will continue until our glorified Lord Jesus comes again as the bridegroom to take his bride to himself "...in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but...holy and blameless" (Ephesians 5:27). To encourage your hearts, we want you to know that our Lord Jesus is currently evaluating this church, the elders, and the staff by his Spirit and his word. Two years ago the elders began to study together our Lord's evaluation of the seven churches of Revelation. We then studied several passages that helped us evaluate our role as elders and shepherds. Subsequently we began an evaluation of ourselves, our families, our ministries, our doctrinal statement, our vision statement, our programs, and our financial setup. At the same time, our staff has been studying the early chapters of Acts in order to evaluate our ministries against the Biblical background of the early church. We are praying that this time of evaluation will bring glory to the Lord of the church and spiritual health to his people. It will help us to stay on the same page with our Lord Jesus during this time of spiritual evaluation if we study together the first three chapters of the book of Revelation. The book as a whole is an unveiling of Jesus as the risen and glorified Son of the one and only living God. It is also an unveiling of many mysteries of the future. In chapters 1-3 we will see Jesus fully revealed as the glorified Son of God and his personal relationship with his church. In chapters 4-19 God uncovers the mystery of several events that will occur in heaven and on earth during the time of "the last days," or "the great tribulation." In chapters 20-22 God uncovers the mystery of Christ's second coming and his thousand-year reign on this earth, followed by the unveiling of the new heavens and earth and the joy that all believers will experience in eternity with our Lord Jesus Christ. Revelation is a book filled with hope for Jewish and Gentile believers alike. Our hope is based on the resurrection of Jesus Christ and his sovereign rule over the political and social events occurring around the world, especially in relationship to Israel. Revelation is also a book filled with encouraging instructions to believers on how to live out their faith, as fallen humanity rapidly slips into moral darkness. Finally, it is a book written to warn unbelievers that the day of judgment is coming for all who refuse to bow their hearts to Jesus as King of kings. Our goal in this series will be to focus on our risen and glorified Lord Jesus and his words of encouragement, correction, exhortation, and promise to the seven churches that were located in Asia Minor (Turkey) at the end of the first century. If we take away just one thing from this study in Revelation 1-3, it should be the overwhelming truth of seeing our risen Lord Jesus in his full glory. At the same time, we will discover many spiritual truths that we will need to apply to our church in general and our own hearts specifically. Eugene Peterson, in his commentary about revelation entitled Reversed Thunder, wrote, "The intent of revelation is not to inform us about God but to involve us in God." (1) The first thing that will help us become involved in God Page: 1 is to come to a deeper understanding of his glorified Son Jesus Christ. Jesus is unveiled Revelation 1:1-3: The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants what must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who testifies to everything he saw---that is, the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ. Blessed is the one who reads the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near. The apostle Paul and his disciples entered the city of Ephesus around 53 AD (see Acts 19). Ephesus was a major Roman city, albeit of fading glory, located on the western coast of Asia Minor. Within a period of some two years, through the teaching of the word of God, not only was the apostle able to establish a church ruled by a group of elders, but "...all who lived in Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks" (Acts 19:10). Out of that ministry several new churches were planted in the surrounding area and watered over the next forty years by Paul, Peter, Timothy, and finally John. Revelation 2-3 addresses seven of those churches. In 90-96 AD, John, by then the last living apostle, was ministering to the second generation of Christians in the city of Ephesus. Around the same time, the Romans elected their ninth Caesar, Domitian (81-96 AD) and gave him the title "Our Lord and God." He was a vicious and cruel man who continued the persecution of the Christian churches that had begun under Nero in the sixties. John and many other disciples refused to bow their hearts to Caesar as God, so many were either killed or placed in prisons. The Romans took John aboard a ship in chains and sailed some fifty miles from Ephesus to a small island in the Aegean Sea called Patmos. This island, only eight miles long and four miles wide, had been turned into a penal colony where poorly fed and clothed prisoners were forced to work in the rock quarries. But this imprisonment did not stop our risen Lord from communicating with his beloved apostle. "The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants what must soon take place." When the disciples were with Jesus on the Mount of Olives (see Matthew 24), he gave them many "unveilings" of the future based on the prophets Daniel, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Amos, and others. But when they heard Jesus speak of the future, what they saw was his being declared the Messiah and setting up his kingdom on earth at that time. It appears that they went into some form of denial when he spoke of his death and resurrection. Even after the resurrection, shortly before his ascension back to heaven, they were still hoping he would then set up his kingdom. After the coming of the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost, they slowly began to understand the near view and the long view of prophecy, the double interpretation by which some events occurring in their lifetime were but a shadow of the same kind of events that were to occur sometime in the future, more intensely and on a grander scale. For example, the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus in 70 AD was but a shadow of the coming destruction of Jerusalem in the great tribulation. Sixty years after the resurrection and ascension of Jesus, God the Father gave him some new revelations to give to John on the island of Patmos. These revelations were of events that were to take place soon, before Jesus' second coming. John was to show these new "unveilings" to Jesus' servants on earth. "He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who testifies to everything he saw---that is, the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ." The unveiling of Jesus Christ was made known to John by an unnamed angelic being who served Jesus. The apostle then gave witness to everything that he saw, to the word of God, which is the testimony of his Son Jesus Christ. Not one word of this vision originated from John the apostle. Jesus is the center of the whole revelation as he relates to his Father, his church, Israel, the nations, Satan, the great tribulation, and the new heavens and earth. "Blessed is the one who reads the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near." The Greek word for blessed (makarios) means happy. Since John was Jewish, he may have also been thinking of the Hebrew word for blessed (ashar), which is used of "one who finds the right path in light of the wrong path" (2) as stated in Psalm 1:1: "How blessed is the man Page: 2 who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked...but his delight is in the law of the Lord." How blessed, then, is the one who not only hears but takes to heart what is written in this prophecy, because it is always the right path in the face of the many wrong ones.
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