REVELATION 1 1-8

 BooK oF Revelation

                paraphrased study

1 - This is the revelation of Jesus Christ - which God gave to him - in order for him (Lord Jesus) to show his servants “what things when they happen, will happen in quickness”. {The believers remembered Jesus’ words, Mt.24, Mk.13, Lk.21, and left Jerusalem before the somber day of Jerusalem’s razing by Rome in 70 CE. ‘Smaller’ scope version of the also possible full scope version at the culmination of history and life as we presently know it, this crucible, slow gehenna fading away, and sorry to verbalize it, but corruption, dissolution. Which is why “God is savior of all” because entropy is a process that “doesn’t quit”, the “worm that doesn’t die”. THE - FiRe - that is not put out/quenched.} And Jesus sent it by his angel to his servant John. 2 Who is now bearing 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/happy 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.

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

   Grace to you and peace from he who is, and was, and 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 {to be} ruler of kings upon earth. To he who loves us and has freed us from our sins [hamartia - missing the mark] by his blood {Life} 6 and has made us to be a kingdom. A kingdom of priests to his God and Father - to him be glory and dominion forever and ever! Amen! 7 Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and EVERY eye will see him {if not alive at his return, then upon GWT Judgment ‘day’, great ‘Day’ 0f Review} and anyone who pricked/pierced him, and all tribes of earth will mourn because of him. Truly, 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.}

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