Pay Attention! I Am Coming Soon
22: 6-21
Here John, the human author under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, brings the book of Revelation to a close. Although falling into a number of short sections, it emphasizes two major themes: first, the authenticity of the book as a divine revelation, or coming from God Himself, and secondly, the imminence of the return of Yeshua Messiah. Having taken the reader through the amazing sweep of future history all the way to into the Eternal State, all that’s left for John to record is this divine ending. By this point in the book all the glorious purposes that God commanded before the foundation of the world will have been accomplished. The devastating judgments of the Great Tribulation will have been carried out and their memory long forgotten. The Lord Jesus Christ will have returned in blazing glory, executed His enemies, and reigned over the earth for a thousand years. All rebels, both angels and humans, will have been sentenced to their eternal punishment in the lake of fire. The present universe will have been “uncreated,” and the eternal new heaven and the new earth created, in which the KING of kings and LORD of lords will be reigning with His Father. Believers from all the ages, both Jew and Gentile, will live in the light of the Sh’khinah glory. Absolute and unchanging holiness will characterize all who live in the capital city of the New Jerusalem. They will constantly praise, worship, and serve the Trinity throughout all eternity in an environment of perfect peace, joy and fulfillment.516
Dear Heavenly Father, How wonderful it will be to live worshipping You forever! I declare to you, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed – in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.” “Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?” The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ (First Corinthians 15:50-57). We delight in the thought of praising Your glorious name forever! In your holy Yeshua’s name and power of His resurrection. Amen
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