This verse must be carefully kept in connection with the preceding, as the description should go on without pause. He is the living One--not merely one who once was alive, or is now alive--but the One who has "life in Himself, and the fountain and source of life to others, John 1...
Read Revelation 1:12-16. What aspect of this description of Jesus is most meaningful to you now? Why? Close in Prayer Consider the following prompts as you pray together for: The ability to let go of preconceived ideas about Revelation to discover the power of Christ and to know him in ...
Christ, when on earth, foretold what would come to pass in ashort time; adding a brief description of the last things. Here he foretells the intermediate things; so that both put together constitute one complete chain of prophecy. This book is therefore not only the sum and the key of ...
Wisdom to pass through the wise,passion to pass through youth,cares to pass through the prophetic,field harvests to pass through the tillers of the soil,the image of Beauty to pass through youth lass,cruelties and intrigue to pass through rulers, birth agonies to pass through rebels,the crime...
6.How does the description of Jesus as the Rider on the white horse contrast with the images of Christ you usually encounter? 7.The Rider's name is known only to Himself (v.12). What does this tell you about the mystery of God?
Revelation 1:1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John. “Lucifer was the most beautiful angel in the heavenly courts next to Jesus Christ,...
Seven years remain - When will believers be raptured and what happens to those who do not believe in Messiah Jesus as their Savior? Who will be 'The Beast'?
The locusts look like the ancient description of the centaur constellation Sagittarius. In ancient times the Milky Way was identified with the river Styx. Souls would make their way from Hades up the Milky Way to Heaven (p.190). Book of Revelation Monsters...
Yet, the Revelation of Jesus Christ was a letter written “to the seven churches that are in Asia” (Revelation 1:4) to provide for them comfort in the midst of the persecution they were enduring and to strengthen them, as well as give them hope for what was soon to come. So, ...
John’s actual description of Jesus begins in Revelation 1:12. Jesus appeared as the “son of man” walking among the seven lampstands. These symbolized the churches who brought the light of God in Christ to the world still under the tyranny of darkness. The lampstands also would have remi...