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Revelation Purpose Day 10
"The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants what must soon take place." (Revelation 1.1)
In the Old Testament, Moses received the Law directly from the hands of God,1 but twice in the New Testament it is said that the Law was given by angels.2 This "Revelation" is given by God to John. Humans play an important part in the coming of God's revelation and the revelation purpose. God must find a person to whom he can entrust his truth and whom he can use as his mouthpiece.
The "Revelation" is the revelation of "the things which must quickly happen." History is not haphazard, it has purpose. "Revelation", "must soon take place." It is quite wrong to use the "Revelation" as a kind of mysterious timetable of what is going to happen thousands of years from now. As John sees it, the things it deals with are working themselves out immediately. The "Revelation" purpose must be interpreted against the background of its own time which was a Second Century Roman culture.
1 Exodus 19 and 20 2 Acts 7.53, Galatians 3.19
"Revelation Purpose."
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