Revelation 6-11 tells us not necessarily of a world to come so much as the way the world is.
Revelation 6-11 offers us a great temptation to open the newspaper and decipher the times. Resist the temptation. Revelation 6-11 is not about a timeline telling us of precise dates and times in which Jesus will return. Revelation is not written so we might decipher the times and calculate the return of Jesus. Instead, the book is written to those who names and stories make up the newspapers. It’s written to people who are caught in the crosshairs of a world ravaged with death, war and famine to give them hope in the victorious Lamb.
As we will see in this sermon, there is no point in the last 2000 years in which the four horses haven’t been riding in the world. Their destruction is prevalent, the church is often in the mix, but we are victorious in Jesus!
Revelation 6-11 offers us a great temptation to open the newspaper and decipher the times. Resist the temptation. Revelation 6-11 is not about a timeline telling us of precise dates and times in which Jesus will return. Revelation is not written so we might decipher the times and calculate the return of Jesus. Instead, the book is written to those who names and stories make up the newspapers. It’s written to people who are caught in the crosshairs of a world ravaged with death, war and famine to give them hope in the victorious Lamb.
As we will see in this sermon, there is no point in the last 2000 years in which the four horses haven’t been riding in the world. Their destruction is prevalent, the church is often in the mix, but we are victorious in Jesus!