Monday, March 19, 2012

The Big Picture - Revelation 1:19


Rev 1:19 “Write, therefore, what you have seen, what is now and what will take place later
Before John is a view of things that are now and coming.  His vision speaks to the present reality and the reality of things to come.  The words are for the Church.  It might be understood that we are in the “later” or latter days, that span of time between the first and second coming, the time of the Gentiles, of you and me.
The Spirit of God speaks with spirit on man.  Therein lies understanding and salvation.  It is the Spirit that lifts us from the grave and enables us to live as we draw the breath of God.
Revelation 1:11 which said: “Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea.”
Habakkuk 2:2 -3  2Then the Lord replied: “Write down the revelation
and make it plain on tablets so that a herald may run with it
3 For the revelation awaits an appointed time; it speaks of the end
and will not prove false. Though it linger, wait for it;
it will certainly come and will not delay.
Joel 2:28 “And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people.
Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams,
your young men will see visions
Acts 2:19-21  19 I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below,
blood and fire and billows of smoke 20 The sun will be turned to darkness
and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord
21 And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. ’
2 Peter 1:21 For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
Hebrews 1:1 In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways,
Job 32:8 But it is the spirit in a person,
the breath of the Almighty, that gives them understanding.

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