Think Wink.

For most of my posts on this site, I have dealt with eschatological issues. One reason being that many radio teachers/preachers have been teaching dispensational premillennialism. Let me quote Henry’s response to my “musings” because many people have given a similar response

Ever since I got out of my hal lindsey phase around the end of high school, there has always been a ten foot poll attached to that book.

This breaks my heart. It does so for two reasons. John writes the following verses in Revelation,

1:3, Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near.
13:18, This calls for wisdom: let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is 666.
22:7, Blessed is the one who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.
22:10, And he said to me, “Do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is near. (cf. 22:10 with Daniel 12:4 where he is told to seel up the words of his book until the end.)

When a person does not study Revelation, they miss out on the blessings of God! We must study because we can understand this book and God wants to bless us with this book.

Secondly, we are ignoring parts of God’s word. We aren’t comfortable with it so we stay away. What message does that send to God? It says, “I don’t understand parts of your word so instead trying to make sense of it, like any other passage, I will just leave it alone. I only want to read and study those parts that I can understand.” It is because we don’t read Revelation and study it exegetically that we get crazy interpretations from Hal Lindsey and John Hagee.

One of the reasons I am on this horse, besides wanting to teach a view other than what is in Left Behind is because too many people ignore this book and miss out on seeing Christ in his glory as revealed through John’s writing. I do pray that all of the Church will begin to read all of God’s word for all its worth. Every book has something to say to us.

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