JOHN THE REVELATOR SAW JESUS CHRIST IN ALL HIS GLORY (40 Revelation Word Pictures Of Christ)
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THE SINGLE GREAT TRUTH THAT WILL REVIVE THE CHURCH IS THE GLORY OF JESUS CHRIST REVEALED. Above all else, that is what the Book of Revelation is all about. No wonder the devil hates this “Masterpiece Book”. Jesus Christ lives in this Book in all the Glory of His Eternal Person as well as the Glory of His Father. Any man that will ever understand this great “Masterpiece” must learn to stand on his spiritual tiptoes and walk through its dramas like walking on rose petals. Revelation is a Divine sunrise and sunset together, given by the Father to finish the Redemption of all things.
It is His most intimate communication to His beloved Jewels, His Saints. Great was everything He said as the Son of Man. Now He is the First Begotten from the dead and has been rewarded by the Father. The Father has given Him a name above every name, and He manifests the glory of all those names in this Revelation. This book is the mountain peak, and this chapter is the first summit. The last summit will be seen in the last two chapters when He takes His abode in the city of New Jerusalem with His Bride.
Chapter One is clothed in Christ’s Glory and that Glory shines brighter as this revelation unfolds. First, John describes the Lord’s prophecy as it is spoken to him. Twenty-two picture words are employed in revealing Jesus Christ as the source of this Book. The eternal revelations of Jesus Christ must show the transcending facts of His Person. While these twenty-two descriptions only deal with His Incarnation among men, the next part of the First Chapter takes us into the realm of the Glorified. Here are the Word Revelations of Jesus Christ – Messiah, Son of man, Son of God.
1. The Faithful Witness – Truth Incarnate
2. The Faithful Martyr – Unto death
3. First Begotten of the Dead – First resurrected eternal body
4. Prince of the Kings of the Earth – Every king shall bow
5. That loved us – Took upon Himself the form of a servant
6. Washed us from our sins – His blood has made us holy
7. His own blood – Divine blood that is eternal
8. He cometh with clouds – His promise is never forgotten
9. Every eye shall see Him – Soon He will be recognized by all
10. They also which pierced Him – His beloved kin are not forgotten
11. All kindred shall wail – Judgment will touch every living thing
12. Amen – He is the finality of life
13. I Am – The first title God gave of Himself
14. Alpha – The first word of all words ever spoken
15. Omega – The last word to ever be spoken
16. The Beginning – Time starts with Him
17. The End – He is finality, the end of everything
18. The Lord – His words are final – He is over all
19. Which is – Self-existing and without beginning
20. Which was – Came out of eternity to be known by all
21. Which is to come – Will come again to finish all things
22. The Almighty – Without Him was not anything made
John hears the first description of the Lord but then he sees the finished picture as a Heavenly drama and His excellent Glory dazzles him until he falls upon his face. John is in the Spirit and beholds a priestly Christ that actually sits at the Father’s right hand. This description includes eighteen additional picture words. This drama leaves no doubt that the Son of God has total Lordship over everything of His Church and is manifesting the fullness of the prophetic future. Look at this revealing description.
23. I am Alpha and Omega – The A to Z
24. One like unto the Son of Man – The Christ we loved
25. Clothed with a garment down to the foot – Readers will remember the Priestly robes
26. Girt about the paps with a golden girdle – This attire can only describe the High Priest
27. His head and hair were white like wool – Eternal
28. His eyes were as a flame of fire – Awesome Holiness
29. His feet like unto fine brass – Omnipotence
30. His voice as the sound of many waters – Omnipresence
31. In His right hand were seven stars – Angels charged to defend holiness in His churches
32. Out of His mouth a sharp, two-edged sword – The Word of God incorruptible and unfailing
33. His countenance was as the sun shineth in His strength – The glory of His Father
34. I am the first and the last – And everything in between
35. And the last – The end of all things
36. I am He that liveth – This is life evermore
37. And was dead – He was the Master of His own death
38. Behold, I am alive forevermore – Death is defeated
39. Amen – The work of God is finished – It’s time to settle the last war
40. Has the keys of hell and of death – The valley of the shadow of death is now a sun-kissed highway to Glory.
This is a picture of Divinity that walked the pathways of human flesh until He could die with the pain of every human care. As He lived in our midst, He robbed our enemy of his weapons. Now, this Victor has stepped right back into the Father’s presence and taken His seat at the Altar of Grace wearing the robe of the High Priest and possessing all the rights of our Redeemer. He has all the possessions and appearances of final victory. He is the “Amen” of a new world soon to come.
John leaves no question about the people to whom this book is written. This book is the property of the church. Not only is it their property, it is their future and their responsibility. No treasure of great value is ever given to the saints to sit on, to hoard up, or to be put on the library shelf. This treasure is given to enrich the saints and to fill them with a hope that fills every day with expectation.
“Blessed” are those that “read, hear, and keep” the things written. Prophecy is history written in advance. God’s people are the only people in the world that have the future in their hands. Most of the world grieves over what they cannot know about tomorrow, the next day, the next year, or the next decade. We have all of that and the next one hundred years and the next one thousand years and the next ten thousand years; yet we ignore it. We are blessed because we have nothing to worry about. The future is just as sure as was the past. So, John got the truth from the Maker of truth and has it all written in stone. He says to read it, hear it, obey it, and be happy.
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jaimie
Dear Pastor
That was a fascinating review of our Lord Jesus’s attributes. As one of the Disciples pointed out; there may have been more books than this world could hold if everything Jesus had said was written down. O how we hold to the Hem of his garment, In his word our life!
He is also the Way, The Truth & The Life.
Then our Lord Jesus spoke these words
John 20:22 ….And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them “Receive the Holy Spirit.
When from a former time He called our life from the Ground (Adapa)
gen 2:7 …. And breathed into his nostrils the the breath of life; and man became
a living being.
And with a great breath shouts “Come up Here!
God Bless
jaimie
Sandra
As one of our oldest members in church says:
“Say Glory!!”
Ed Wood
And I [John] fell at his feet to worship him [the messenger, probably the mighty angel of Revelation 18:1, speaking to him]. And he said unto me, See thou do it not. I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. (Revelation 19:10, bracketed sections added.)
And if any man shall take away from the words of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book. (Revelation 22:19)
Most of us think prophecy is the revealing of events future to their time, but this is only one part of it. Prophecy is actually any message from God to humanity. That means it encompasses the ENTIRE Bible. I believe therefore that anyone who knowingly tries to add to or ignore anything in it will be subject to the curse of Revelation 22:19.
That includes denying the divinity of Jesus, the fact that he is the only way to the Father and the only means by which we are forgiven. It also includes ignoring the disclosure of the future found throughout Scripture and the moral standards of God as well. In my opinion, most of the “modern church” is willfully guilty of doing all these things. It is also my belief that anyone who belongs to such a church does, by their attendance, condone this behavior and perpetuate its error.
God gave us his “Survival Manual” to guide us along the path through this fallen and dangerous world and shown us the way we can one day meet him face to face and receive his blessing and not his judgment.
It continually baffles me why so many people – especially those who claim to be Christians – can ignore and even disrespect this treasure for the doctrines of men whose tenure in this universe is merely a flicker compared to that of God who always was, is, and will be. Seems to me the only thing impressive about humanity is its colossal pride and arrogance – which is exactly what caused Satan to fall in the first place (Ezekiel 28:12-19), and will likewise doom most of the human race as well.
Garry Dougherty
unless I would have been led astray – the bride of Jesus would be the holy spirit, mother loving nature,spirit of God- that was removed from, taken from the bible as the dead sea scrolls in order that Roman Emperor Constantine could build his Army, worshipers of his man to be idolized greater, pride. Thereby came into play the $$$$ world man power pride self vanity god churches – and the holy spirit, along with the little loving child spirit to truly be alive in us was, we could say buried at sea.
It is not the revealing of Jesus rather the revealing of his Bride that will awaken us as a little loving spirit child of God and she will bring us before Jesus to begin of our seeing ourself in Becoming A Masterpiece at the hands of God our creating creator.