Revelation 6.1-2 – Is it or isn’t it?!

Have you ever waved at someone in the street or in the supermarket or mall before realising, oh, wait, it’s not them? Then you either just go with it and pretend you know them or do some weird back-of-the-head rub as you put down your previously extended waving hand…I did it a while back withContinueContinue reading “Revelation 6.1-2 – Is it or isn’t it?!”

Revelation 5.6-14 – With God, as God

Yesterday we saw that only Jesus is worthy to take the scroll from the right hand of God, the scroll we said could possibly contain the will of God, God’s plan for humanity, God’s plan for redemption. Today, Jesus is described as a Lamb, as though it had been slain. The imagery we get hereContinueContinue reading “Revelation 5.6-14 – With God, as God”

Revelation 5.1-5 – Who is worthy?

Then I saw in the right hand of him who was seated on the throne a scroll written within and on the back, sealed with seven seals. 2 And I saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the scroll and break its seals?” 3 And no one inContinueContinue reading “Revelation 5.1-5 – Who is worthy?”

Revelation 4.5-11 – People and Living Creatures

5 From the throne came flashes of lightning, and rumblings and peals of thunder, and before the throne were burning seven torches of fire, which are the seven spirits of God, 6 and before the throne there was as it were a sea of glass, like crystal. And around the throne, on each side ofContinueContinue reading “Revelation 4.5-11 – People and Living Creatures”

Revelation 4.1-4 – Symbols and reality

1 After this I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice, which I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.” 2 At once I was in the Spirit, and behold, a throne stoodContinueContinue reading “Revelation 4.1-4 – Symbols and reality”