"Blessed — happy — to be envied — are they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand" (Rev. 1:3).
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The ONLY book of the Bible that lays claim to a special blessing for having read/heard/understood the book.
Awesome!
"In Christ God has become ALL THAT HE WOULD BECOME! When God came in Jesus Christ He did not speak as He spoke to Moses. He did not say, “I will become…” Oh, how my heart leaps within me today as I hear the lovely Christ of God proclaiming, “I AM!” “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” “I am the resurrection and the life.” “I am the door, I am the bread that has come down from heaven, I am the good shepherd.” “I AM!” “I AM!” “I AM!”
"For Jesus Christ there is no past or future. He lives in a continual present. Therefore He sees the whole history of mankind in one sighting. It all “is” to Him! He knows what will happen a million years from now and shows it to you, as something that happened a thousand years ago. That is why there are prophecies in the scriptures; not because God guesses or because He is a divinator; and it is not simply because He knows all things. Rather, it is because all things are for Him! For Him the future is as the present, or as the past is for us. Everything IS in God’s eternal day, in God’s timeless state of being. That is why His name is, I AM. Sometimes it appears that God makes grammatical mistakes. Jesus says, “Before Abraham was, I AM.” “Lord, you were. You should say, Before Abraham was, I was.” “No, I AM!” He also mixes the future. He said, “Lo, I AM with you till the end of the ages.” “Lord, I will be with you, that’s future.” “No, you don’t understand; I AM with you!”
"The book of Revelation is a prophecy. Prophecy is a Voice — in this case, the voice of God’s Christ. The Lord Jesus Christ is three things — Prophet, Priest and King. Prophets speak, priests reconcile, and kings rule. Prophecy is the word of God — not merely a foretelling, but a forth-telling. The book of Revelation is undoubtedly the hardest book in the New Testament to understand. However, I also believe that once you grasp by the spirit of wisdom and revelation what it’s talking about, it is the most thrilling book of all! Even though the book is puzzling to the natural man and bewildering to the carnal mind, yet the apostle John wrote with blessed assurance to the inChristed these words of divine surety, "Blessed — happy — to be envied — is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand!" (Rev. 1:3)."
All the revelation symbols can be found in the Old Testament prophets. It’s good to chase the symbols through the Bible and gather all the data.
Chuck Missler.