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Revelation John's Revelation of Jesus
Revelation may come to us from around A.D. 90 - 95. It speaks of those ancient times but it also reveals today's truth and tomorrow's destiny. God shows himself to John in a spectacular and mysterious vision. John was not attempting to predict the future, but to obediently describe the wonders he had been shown.
John was a prophet and was bound by his oath to write down only what he saw, nothing more and nothing less. He was faithful in that task, even though most of the time he obviously did not understand what it was that he was seeing. Through graphic word pictures, we are shown a radiant Jesus in all his glory speaking to his church in the heavenly realm.
Sensational and Incomprehensible
Unfortunately the Book of Revelation has been presented to us by many writers as "sensational and incomprehensible." It is, I believe, on the contrary very much based on the customs and ethos of the times in which John wrote i.e. the early part of the second century A.D. It may be a vision of splendor but it is also written to people like you and I, ordinary working folk, for our edification and blessing. This is the approach I have taken in the hope that you, like those early Christians, might learn and be built up in the Faith as you see Jesus of Nazareth in a new light as the eternal One in glory. He is still our Savior but we see him in Revelation as he will be in the future.
I owe a debt of gratitude to the many scholarly works I have consulted in the preparation of this eBook. A special thanks is due to the late Dr William Barclay 1 When I started my ministry in 1970 as a young man at the Bible Training Institute on Bothwell Street in Glasgow, Scotland, William Barclay was an old man finishing his ministry in the same city.
He wrote for the ordinary working person. Though I never met him, he more than anyone else I know, made the Scriptures come alive. He drew on scholarship but wrote in a highly accessible style. His aim was "to make the figure of Jesus more vividly alive, so that we may know him better and love him more." 2
"There are two great days in a person's life," wrote William Barclay, "the day we were born and the day we discover why."
Notes
1St Andrew's Press. See Wikipedia link (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William Barclay_) 2"The Mind of Jesus"(1960)
John and his Revelation of Jesus
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