€XpLoR!n9 ReVeLaTion - 1 1-8

       WeeKly BooK oF Revelation

                paraphrased study

1 - The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to him to show to his servants “what things it behooves (is sure?) to happen in quickness”. And he sent it by his angel to his servant John. 2 Who bears witness to the message of God and to the life and works of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. (John talked about himself in this way also in his gospel account/recollection.) 3 Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy [not everyone has a scripture scroll] and blessed are those who hear it and keep what is written in it, for the time is near. (When it’s understood, the time approaches!? And blessed are those who hear.)

     4 John, to the seven churches that are in Asia —

     Grace to you and peace from he who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits (“seven angels of the churches”?) who are before his throne, 5 and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn from death, and the ruler of kings upon earth. (Rules kings, a repeated theme in both old and new testaments, ‘code’ for it makes no sense to make wars against kings? Instead say prayers.) To he who loves us and has freed us from our sins [hamartia - missing the mark] by his blood (life given) 6 and has made us (who are being saved/rescued, from death and its cause, now) to be a kingdom. A kingdom of priests to his God and Father. (To serve! When? Especially during the latter part of the Lord’s long second advent? The advent a longer and wider version of his first so brief one. Initially some Pharisees, etc? Rich man, Lazarus conditions of inner outside of the light darkness? Even like the outside of the vision narrative of Rev.22 ..But 144,000 plus a great crowd from all nations serving ..called reigning, for to do his works, is surely? to reign.)

     And to him gLory and dominion forever and ever! Amen! 7 Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and EVERY eye will see him (on GWTJ ‘day’) and anyone who pricked/pierced him, and all tribes of earth will mourn because of [epi - on, upon, what fits, on account of] him (regrets, etc? Gut wrenching remorse experienced by some. Think cruel despots, etc.) Even so. Amen. 

     8 “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.” (Who forever was, and who forever shall be.)

     Bookend events of the Lord’s long second advent -

     2Pet.3:10 ->the advent ->2Pet.3:11-12.

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