Revelation chapter 1. The book of Revelation chapter
1. I was asked just a few days ago
by somebody that I have great fellowship with, and love them
in the Lord Jesus. I was asked this question, what
is the book of Revelation about? That's a good question. I find
that a lot of people are kind of puzzled by the last book of
the Bible. they're not really sure what
it means. They know it's the Word of God,
and they know it's beneficial to us, but they don't have any
understanding of it. And of course, we've been going
through the book of Revelation, and the person who asked me this
is not in our congregation. And I told him, I said, well,
I've been preaching through the book of Revelation. And I got
to thinking about that, and of course I gave him a condensed
answer, more condensed than I'm going to give you this morning. I think rather than go right
back to the Scripture where we left off last time, which is
Revelation 19, and we will go back there this evening, because
I want to talk to you about the release of the dragon. But I
thought this is a good question to address. And so I'm being
very ambitious this morning. I want to preach on the whole
book of Revelation. And let's see if we can cover
all 22 chapters now. That's a monumental task, and
so I expect I better get started with it. But I want to read the
first two verses of chapter one, and then I'm going to give you
an overview of the book. I don't want you to be afraid
of the book because all of the Word of God, it's all inspired. The Bible says all Scripture
is inspired of the Lord. And it's good for us. It is very
profitable. for us, and that includes the
book of Revelation. And there isn't any use for the
people of God to be ignorant of this last book of the Bible.
We shouldn't be afraid of it or confused by it. It's a book that, it ought to
be a great blessing to us. And really it should bring us
great joy. What is the book of Revelation
about? That's our subject today. And really the question is answered
in verse 1 of Revelation chapter 1. The revelation of Jesus Christ. What is the book of Revelation
about? It's about the Lord Jesus Christ. Let me read the rest
of this. The revelation of Jesus Christ,
which God gave unto Him to show unto His servants, the things
which must shortly come to pass, and he sent and signified it
by his angel unto his servant, John, who bear record, that is,
John bear record of the word of God and of the testimony of
the record of the report of Jesus Christ and of all things that
he saw. As I think about the book of
the Revelation, I really think it's like a kind of a concise
record of all of the Word of God. Because you see, all of the Scriptures
is the record of the Lord Jesus Christ. Whether we're preaching from
the Old Testament or the New Testament, we know our subject. Our subject is Christ Jesus and
Him crucified. And so in many ways, the book
of Revelation is an abridged version. You know what abridged
means, I'm sure. A brief version of all of the
word of God. Because really, all of the scriptures
can really be said to be the revelation of Jesus Christ. Now, the word revelation means
the appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ, the manifestation of
the Lord Jesus Christ. And since that is what this specific
book is about, and really what all of the Word of God is about,
whenever we're reading the Word of God, we should always be looking
for the Lord Jesus Christ. Because it is a revelation of
Him. It is a manifestation of Him. It is an suffering of the
Son of God. He's got to be revealed to us. Now God has revealed Himself
and He's revealed His only begotten Son in this book. And this book
is in itself a miracle. It is a miracle. Any revelation
of God to men is nothing short of a miracle. You see, God hasn't
left us in the dark as to His identity. We know, as David said
there in Psalm 115, Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but
unto Thy name give glory for Thy mercy's sake and for Thy
truth's sake. And the heathen said to David,
where's your God? He said, our God's in the heavens.
He's done whatsoever He's pleased. You see, the Bible reveals to
us who God is. And He reveals to us the way
that God reveals Himself, manifests Himself to us. Now, He's got
to manifest Himself to us. He's got to make Himself known
to us because by nature we don't know Him. We don't know God. And here's the thing of it. This
is life eternal to know God. to know God and to know the Lord
Jesus. And we don't know Him. If we're
going to get to know Him, He's got to reveal Himself to us.
He's got to make Himself known. He's got to manifest Himself
to us. So He has manifested Himself
to us in the Bible, in all of His attributes, I know
there's some attributes of God you can learn from nature, from
creation, but if you're going to learn of the justice of God,
the righteousness of God, the holiness of God, the grace of
God, the salvation of God, how God can show mercy to folks like
us without compromising His own law and justice. You're not going
to learn that from nature. You're going to learn this from
the revelation that He's given us that's in front of us, the
Bible. And yet, the Bible will be unknown
to us unless He reveals to us the message of the Bible. He's
got to make Himself known to each of us. There's the necessity
of a revelation. That's why in Galatians chapter
1, here's what the Apostle Paul said, the Lord revealed himself
in me. There's been a revelation of
the Lord Jesus Christ unto this man, the Apostle Paul. And you
see, just as the Lord has manifested Himself in the Scriptures, He's
got to manifest Himself from the Scriptures to our heart.
He's got to make Himself known to us. When He said to those
people, to His disciples, who do men say that I, the Son of
Man am? And he said, who do you say that
I am? And Peter said, thou art the
Son of the living God. Thou art the Christ, the Son
of the living God. And the Lord Jesus said, flesh
and blood didn't teach you that, but my Father in heaven revealed
that to you. There's been a manifestation
of grace. This is what we need. We need
a revelation of the grace of God, a revelation of the person
of the Lord Jesus Christ unto our hearts. He's got to make
Himself known unto us. Do you know the Lord? You know
the Lord if He's been revealed to you. Otherwise, you won't
know Him. You won't know Him. And here's
the thing, He doesn't have to reveal Himself to any of us. He doesn't have to make Himself
known from the Word of God by His Holy Spirit to our hearts.
He doesn't have to do that. That's His own prerogative. It's up to His sovereign will
and pleasure. And so, there is a need of Revelation. Revelation. We have the revelation
of His Word. We have a revelation of the glory
of God in the face of Christ Jesus. We have a revelation of
grace to our own hearts. And I say this to you, if you
rest and watch Jesus only, if you see the necessity of His
bloody death, If you see your own unrighteousness,
your own wickedness, and you've been made to realize only in
the Lord Jesus, am I righteous before God? and that He established
this righteousness. He made this righteousness. He
brought in this righteousness for us by His substitutionary
death. If you understand that and the
Lord Jesus is your all in all, and He's the one you rest in,
you hope in, you look to, you trust in, you believe Him, there
has been a revelation of the Word of God, the Gospel of God's
grace, and a revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ to your heart. And you see, the book of Revelation,
if you'll think along those lines, it is the Lord Jesus being revealed
to His people. Now keep in mind the circumstances
under which the Lord gave these words to John. Now we know this
about the book of Revelation. It consists of seven visions.
And from the very get-go, since we know it's the revelation of
Jesus Christ, we know that each of these visions is going to
be about the Lord Jesus. Listen, there are lots of things
that we need to know and learn about the Son of God. And He
is being revealed to us in the book of the Revelation. Now keep
in mind the circumstances under which John wrote this when the
Lord Jesus gave it to him. This is a time when Roman persecution
was raging. It was raging. People were being
butchered for the gospel's sake. In fact, as you read through
the book of the Revelation, you'll often read about that within
Babylon, was found the blood of the people of God. You see,
there were enemies of the gospel then, even as they are now, but
to fulfill God's eternal purpose, He did not curtail the enemies
of the gospel back then as He does now. And those who were
brave enough to confess their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ
in the waters of baptism and were willing to say, made willing
in the day of His power to say, Christ is my Lord, Christ is
my Savior, Christ is the one I believe, He's the one I worship.
Those people put their lives in jeopardy. You see, today it's
an easy thing to say, hey, I believe in Jesus. Back then, if you said,
I believe in Jesus, it might cost you your life. People weren't
so readily willing to say that. This was a time when people were
being massacred. Massacred. They come around and
say to you, do you believe the Emperor is Lord? No, I believe
Jesus of Nazareth is the Lord. They stone you to death. They come around to your job. You believe Caesar? You worship Caesar? No, I worship the Lord Jesus
Christ. He's my Savior. You're fired. You'll never get a job in this
city again. And they took men, they took
husbands away from families. They put them to death. People
were stoned to death. They put in amphitheaters and
wild beasts were released. You still believe in Jesus of
Nazareth? You still worship Him? Yes, I
do. Release the lions. This was the environment of the
day. And so, understanding then the
background, because we know this about rightly dividing the Word
of Truth, of interpreting the Scriptures, you've got to consider
who it was written to, the circumstances under which they were written.
And this is the way it was in the days when John wrote this.
Of course, we're well past the martyrdom of Stephen, the martyrdom
of James. John wrote this book. His own
brother, he lost his head. Herod had his head cut off. John's one of the two sons of
thunder. His brother's been dead now for
years. And the Apostle Paul, he's been
martyred and countless others as well. And here were the people
of God troubled, anxious, afflicted, persecuted, troubled, tried. And the Lord knows afflictions
of His people? Because He brings them. And He who brings the afflictions,
He knows how to soothe us. And He knows how to comfort us.
Now listen, it's through His Word. It's through His Word. Here were people who refused
to burn incense before a pagan priest under the emperor. They were put to death. All of
these cases, they needed cheering up, they
needed some words of comfort, some words of instruction. John
himself, he's in prison because of the testimony of Jesus Christ,
He believed the record, he believed the report, and he bravely gave
forth the record. And therefore he was exiled to
Patmos. And perhaps his spirits were
low. So here are the conditions of people who were being severely
persecuted, afflicted, multiple deaths, families ripped apart. And the Lord, as He always does,
He comes to His people just when we need Him. Just when we need
Him. And He reveals Himself to John,
and He gives to John these seven visions. First of all, John sees
the Lord Jesus glorified in the midst of his people. I don't know of anything, and
by the way, this is chapters 1, 2, and 3, the first vision.
I don't know of anything that will quite cheer the heart of
the people of God than to remember this. that One who loved us and
who redeemed us, He is always with us. He'll never forsake
us. John writes to a people, to the
church of our Lord Jesus Christ. Of course, there are seven churches
mentioned there in chapters 1, 2, and 3, but that's typical
of the full body the saints of God, all of those chosen in grace,
redeemed by the Lord Jesus, called by the Spirit of the Gospel. The Spirit of God who uses the
Gospel to effectually bring the people of God to a knowledge
of the Lord Jesus. He writes to these people and
he says, remember this, our Lord Jesus glorified, magnificent,
He's always in the midst of His churches. Where will you find
the Son of God? Well, you'll find Him in the
Scriptures. You'll find Him in heaven upon
His throne. You'll also find Him with all
of His saints. John reminds us in the very first
chapter, unto Him that loved us and washed us from our sins
in His own blood. John begins right at the start
of the book. He reminds afflicted believers
of the everlasting love of the Lord for them. Children of God
bask in the Lord's love. There is no measuring His love. This is a love that is everlasting. This is a love that is dateless. There has never been even one
moment that our Lord did not love you with all of the love
of His infinite heart. Can you grasp that? I know you
can't. He has loved us and because He
loved us, He washed us. He washed us from our sins in
His own blood. What did it take to make us filthy,
vile sinners? What did it take to wash us and
make us beautiful in the sight of God? It took the bloody death
of the Son of God. It took His sacrifice. And this
is what John says. And in this first vision, the
Lord is seen in the very midst of the seven golden candlesticks. I think about what the Lord said
to Joshua. Joshua is just beginning his
ministry. And the Lord said to him, as
I was with Moses, so I will be with thee. I will not fail thee,
nor forsake thee. To you who are God's children,
may that word fill your heart with hope and joy. I will not
fail thee, forsake thee. This is what the
first vision is about. The Lord is with His people.
And then we have a second vision. The second vision is chapters
4 through 7. And in this vision we see, now
in the first vision there's a revelation of Christ Jesus with His people. He's here this morning by His
Spirit. And He's with each of His people He said, I'll never
leave you and I'll never forsake you. When Nebuchadnezzar put
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the fiery furnace, he said,
didn't I put three men in there? I see a fourth one. Who's that
fourth? He's talking to the Son of Man.
Listen, wherever you are, whatever fiery furnace you may find yourself
in, rest assured, you're not in there by yourself. The Son of God is with you. Listen,
He redeemed you. He bought you. He has refined
you. He has purified you. You're His
silver and His gold. You're a special treasure. You're
His. He will never desert you. He'll
never forsake you, not in the hour of your joy and absolutely
not in the hour of your grief. And you can imagine when the
saints of God here in this first century, when they received this
letter, this letter, each of their pastors brought the letter
back to the individual congregations and they began to read that.
They said, oh brethren, let us rejoice! The Lord is with us! The Lord is with us! I know we've
wept at the funerals, we've grieved because this has happened to
our loved ones, and because distress, and disappointment, and persecution,
and trouble, and tribulation, and all of these things. But
oh brethren, in all of this, our God is with us. Our Savior
is with us. And I can almost imagine upon
the faces of the afflicted children of God, as they met perhaps in
caves or in some secret meeting spot, when this was read to them
and said, you know, the Son of God is in the midst of the candlesticks,
they began to smile. They said, oh brother, isn't
that an encouragement to me? He's with me. Secondly, Christ
is revealed. in chapters four through seven,
as that one who opens the book of God's predestination and executes
the purpose of God. What a revelation, what a revelation
this is. The one who is with us, the one
who meets with us, the one who will never forsake us, is the
one, is the Lamb of God who was slaughtered for us, and was found
worthy to take the book of God's predestination and then begin
to open the seven seals and to bring to pass everything that
God has ever purposed to be done. Who's doing that? Who's ruling
the world? Who's reigning all things? Who's
executing the counsel of God? Our Savior is. Our friend. Our Redeemer. That One who loved us. That One
who bought us. That One who will never forsake
us. He's revealed there in chapter
5 as being the Lamb of God. You know, in that second vision,
the first thing John saw was a throne. and one who sat on
Him. And indeed, that's a significant
word in the book of Revelation. It's a significant word throughout
the Bible. In fact, in the book of Revelation, it's used 39 times. How many books in the Old Testament?
39 books. And our Lord Jesus is revealed
as the Lamb in Revelation. Revealed 27 times. How many books
in the New Testament? 27 books. 27 books in the New
Testament, 27 times our Lord Jesus is spoken of as being the
Lamb. He's the Lamb and whenever you
read of the Lamb, you must never read that without thinking of
His substitutionary death. You must never read of the Lamb
of God apart from remembering He's the sacrifice for us. What
did it take to save us from our sins? The bloody death of the
Son of God! The Lamb of God had to die. No
wonder John said, Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away
the sin of the world. How did He take away all the
sins of the world of those for whom He came to save? The world
of His elect. How did He do that? By His death. By the sacrifice of Himself. So John sees the Lamb of God. Our Redeemer, He takes the book
of predestination out of the hand of the Father, and then
one by one, He begins to open the seals, to execute the counsel
of God. Now, children of God, don't be
in despair. You look around the world, To
us, there's quite a bit of turmoil and sinfulness, and there is
a lot of wickedness in the world. There's no question about that. But don't despair. The One who
governs everything is our Savior. Our Savior. He's sovereign over
all things. There's nothing that lives, moves,
or exists apart from the will of Christ Jesus. And then we get to the next vision,
the third vision, chapters 8 through 11, how is Christ revealed then?
Now remember, this is a revelation of Jesus Christ. First of all,
He's revealed as being with His people. He's in the midst of
the seven golden candlesticks. And then He's revealed in chapters
4, 5, and 6 and 7, as the Lamb of God executing
the will of God. And then thirdly, we get to chapters
8 through 11. He's revealed as that one who
answers all the prayers of his people, who protects us from
our enemies, and who warns, who warns people by what we call
trumpet judgments, or what the scriptures call trumpet judgments. This is in his providential rule
of the universe, chapters eight through 11. Our Lord warns men
by trumpet judgments throughout this gospel age, and these trumpet
judgments, they're announcements of a future judgment, the great
judgment that is to come. Let us remember those of us who
love the Lord Jesus. No matter how severe life in
this world may be for you or for me, no judgment can ever
come to us. Because all of the judgment that
was due our sins, and listen, that was infinite, just judgment.
There's infinite wrath. I can't imagine the measurement
of the wrath of God for our sins. Because I don't know the measurement
of all of our sins. But whatever our sins were, all
of our sins, whatever they deserved, the fullness of that wrath and
judgment fell on our substitute. We believe in substitution and
satisfaction. The Lord Jesus took our place. He died our death, and we'll
never die that death. There is no condemnation to them
who are in Christ Jesus. And though there are, throughout
this age, trumpet judgments going on around us, there's no judgment
for the people of God. And the storms that God sends
even your way, are not storms of judgment and are not storms
of wrath. You say, why don't the Lord's
people suffer? Well, I can't give you all the
reasons. But I will tell you this, when we suffer, something
about suffering, something about troubles and trials and these
sorts of things, they drive us to the Lord. That's what they
do. All of a sudden, the things of
this world become kind of insignificant to us. And we flee to the Lord. We run to Him. Knowing that He is the one who
governs all things for the good of His people. And they teach us to remember
We're citizens of another country. A heavenly one. We're just here
for a short while. And then we're going home. And
while we're here, we need to remember that Christ, as he's
revealed in the third vision, he's answering the prayers of
his people. He's protecting us from our enemies.
He's governing all things for the good of His people to fulfill
His eternal purpose. Then we get to the fourth vision.
The fourth vision is chapters 12, 13, and 14. And here we have Christ Jesus
coming into the world. John speaks of Him as being the
man-child. The man-child. For unto us a
Son is given. A child is born, a Son is given,
a man and child. And He came to defeat the evil
one, which He did. It's in this vision that we see
that our Lord Jesus is the Redeemer of His people. He's the Savior
of His people. And He again is always with us
as that one who defends us from the evil one. Because it is in
Revelation chapter 12 that we're finally introduced to the dragon. The red dragon, and he's a hideous
monster. And he's the enemy of the Son
of God, but the Son of God has defeated him. And since our Lord
Jesus has defeated Satan, and in that 12th chapter we hear
the saints of God crying out, salvation to our God! Salvation
happened at the cross of Calvary! That's where salvation took place.
Now we experience, I know we experience the grace of God in
our hearts, and we say God has saved us, It's okay to express
it that way, but really now is salvation been made manifest
when Christ Jesus died for us. That's when we were saved. And our Lord Jesus defeated Satan. Satan had led one third of the
angels of God in rebellion against the Lord. And he rose up against
Christ Jesus, but our Lord defeated him. And our Lord Jesus has gone
back to heaven And then we see in chapters 12, 13, and 14, Satan
is persecuting the people of God. Satan didn't take his defeat
as it were lying down. And I'll tell you, he's a thorn
in the side of the people of God. And he seeks the destruction
of the church of our Lord Jesus But he will not succeed. And I'll give you this. I'll
go back to the passage that Joe read to us in Romans chapter
8. If there is a verse of Scripture
that really beautifully kind of summarizes the book of Revelation,
it is that passage he read to us from Romans chapter 8. We
are more than conquerors. through Him that loved us. Listen,
children of God, in the Lord Jesus, we've already conquered.
He's the victor. And we're in Him. We're united
to Him by everlasting covenant grace. God gave us to Him before
the world began. And as Satan really cannot do
anything with the Lord Jesus Christ, so he cannot ultimately
harm the people of God. And this is the message to the
redeemed of the Lord in chapters 12, 13, and 14. Our Lord Jesus,
He governs all things. He governs the pagan leaders
of the world. And He governs false religion.
And we're more than conquerors through Him. The fourth vision,
chapters 12 through 14. Then we get to the fifth vision,
chapters 15 and 16, and here we see our Lord Jesus again.
Remember, it's a revelation of Christ Jesus. And he is revealed as sending
forth his angels to pour out seven golden vials of wrath upon
the earth. Judgment is certain to come.
And I say to you who are in unbelief, flee to the Savior. There's no
safety anywhere else except in Christ Jesus. May He draw you
unto Himself. May He effectually pull you in
because that's what's gotta happen. Because you'll never come to
Christ Jesus. You will not be made willing
unless you're made willing in the day of His power. You will
not come unless the Father draws you. Oh, may He draw you. May you be brought by effectual
grace to the Son of God. and find in Him everlasting salvation. It's in this vision that we hear
the saints of God singing the song of Moses and the song of
the Lamb. What was the song of Moses? Redemption! Redemption! Freedom! Liberation! That's the song of Moses and
the saints. And that's our song today. It's
the song of the Lamb of God as we sing, marvelous are thy works,
Lord God Almighty, true and just are thy ways. And it's in this vision we hear
the Lord saying to the seven angels, go and pour out the vials
of the wrath of God on all those who have the mark of the beast.
the mark of the beast, who have the mind, the mind that is set
against God. Oh, may the Lord invade our minds
and our hearts and overcome our ignorance and give us a knowledge
of the true gospel. May He reveal Himself unto us
and we'll find out salvation is of the Lord. John in this vision is once again
taken up to the very end of time. And he hears the Lord say, it
is done. It is done. When our Savior died
upon the cross of Calvary, He said, it is finished. What's
finished? Redemption was finished. And
then we hear it said here, Toward the end of this vision, it is
done. What is done? Judgment is done. And then we get to the sixth
vision. Remember, this is a revelation of Jesus Christ. He is being
revealed in His various characters. And now He's being revealed in
chapters 17-19 as the one who will finally conquer Babylon
the beast, and the false prophet. Listen folks, there is but one
true religion. That's the religion of God. It's
the message of grace. It's the gospel of God's salvation. It's the gospel of it is done
by the Lord Jesus in His sacrificial death. But there are lots of
counterfeits. Be careful who you listen to. Be careful the message that you
take heed to. Whenever you listen to any preacher,
it doesn't matter who it is, me, Bill, anybody, you should
always approach that message this way. Who's getting the glory
from his message? Who is this man exalting? I listened yesterday. I've been
waking up early. It must be a sign of getting
some age on me. I wake up really early in the
morning and I turn on the television. I listen to this guy. I listen
to what he said about salvation. And he said, if you'll just believe
God, you'll release God's power. Oh, wow! You mean I've got that
kind of authority? I can release God's power? Don't
take heed to what men like that say. They're fools. They're fools. There are lots of lying voices
out here. And everybody who comes carrying
the Bible is not telling the truth. There's false religion, which
is really anti-God, anti-Christ, anti-grace, anti-Bible. Though they use the Bible, they
use it deceitfully. And they transform themselves,
they masquerade themselves as angels of darkness, as angels
of light, but they're really angels of darkness. They pretend
they're sheep, but they're really wolves. And our Lord here in this vision,
He sets forth Babylon, And then our Lord Jesus is revealed as
that one who's going to bring about her destruction. And He's
going to shut every lying mouth. And even the saints of God will
praise Him and say, Alleluia! For the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth. True and righteous are His judgments. He's judged the great whore which deceived the whole world. And John in this vision, he sees
the end of Babylon. A millstone hung around her neck. She's cast into the middle of
the sea as it were. And all of the saints erupt in
hallelujahs. And then John sees the joy of
the people of God. Who are these people dressed
in fine linen? Lo, it's the wife of the Lamb.
You see, John sets before us two cities, two groups of people,
and really there are only two, the wicked and the righteous.
And he sees the bride of Christ Jesus, and she's pure. She's
been washed. She's been robed in the righteousness
of the Son of God. That's us, brothers and sisters. That's us. You see, we're more
than conquerors through Him that loved us. This is what the book
of Revelation is about. It's revealing to us the beauties
of, the glories of, the powers of our Savior. And we should rejoice. We should
rejoice. And then John sees the destruction
of the false prophet. The beast, all pagan governments,
he hears a voice, all you fowls of the air, come to the supper
of the Lord. What does that mean? There's
gonna be a great destruction. Every enemy, our Lord Jesus is
gonna trample him under his feet. And John sees him coming back,
riding on a white horse. What does that mean? Coming back
in victory. And look! There's a bunch of
people with Him. And they're still robed in white. Dressed in His righteousness
alone. And then there's the last vision.
Chapters 20 to 22. Where we see Christ's destruction
over His destruction over the dragon, the final judgment, and
then the everlasting glory of the city of God. When you get
to the last vision, this is the revelation of Christ
Jesus as the one who forevermore puts the dragon in the lake of
fire. That's the end of him. As we
shall see tonight, for a little while, during this age, our Lord
has bound him. That is, He has limited his sphere
of activity. But toward the end of the age,
the Lord is going to, in some way or manner, He's going to
release him. so that Satan can bring all of
the enemies of God together. But ultimately, it's not Satan
bringing them together, it's the Lord bringing them together
for the final Armageddon. And then suddenly, they will
meet their defeat. And then John introduces us to
a new heaven and a new earth. And he sees the new Jerusalem
coming down from heaven. And he sees somebody with him.
Who's been with him all along. The Son of God. This is what the book is about.
It's the revelation of Jesus Christ. Nothing to be fearful
of? This is not a book to be puzzled
by. Oh, granted, there are some things
in it that are beyond our understanding. But let's understand the gist
of the book or the message of the book. We are more than conquerors
through Him who loved us. The book is about the victory
of Christ Jesus and His followers over the dragon. and His followers. Oh, thank You, Lord, for the
gift of the Son of God, our Savior. And thank You for the gift of
this last book of the Bible, which reveals Him to us in so
many different ways, in so many different characters, and reveals
to us He's the omnipotent Savior, who is ever with His people,
and who will himself usher in eternity and then receive from
us everlasting hallelujahs and praise and thanksgiving. Well, let's sing a song.