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Jesus Revelation Word Day 6
"The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants what must soon take place." (Revelation 1.1)
This last book in the Bible is sometimes called the "Revelation of Jesus Christ", "The Apocalypse" or as I have called it "Jesus' Revelation word." It is the word of Jesus. The opening words are "The revelation of Jesus Christ," and these words at the first page of the scroll give the Book of Revelation its name, just as Genesis is named for the opening words of its scroll "In the beginning." It is not "the revelation about Jesus Christ" but "the revelation given by Jesus Christ." It is "Jesus Revelation Word." Jesus himself gives it to John and to us.
The Greek word for "revelation" is "apokalupsis."1 "Apokalupsis" is made up of two other words. "Apo" meaning "away from" and "kalupsis" meaning "a veiling." "Revelation" therefore, is an "away from a veiling" or an "unveiling or a revealing." The Book of Revelation is "an unveiling" of truth about God given by Jesus Christ. "revelation" was not originally a particularly religious word in the Second Century AD, it meant simply "the disclosure" of any fact, "the uncovering of secrets," or even "the interpretation of dreams."
1 Barclay's Daily Study Bible (NT)
"Jesus Revelation Word."
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