First published Friday, December 3, 2010
The comments are based on Revelation 2
How fitting is it, that the final book of the Bible begins with a plea that we go back to where we started?
But I have one thing against you: you've lost the love you used to have.
Revelation is commonly thought of as a book about the future. But if we do this only, it is like giving ourselves a pass. "Don't get too worked up, unless you see these things happening. When and if you do, then you had better change!"
But John writes to the Ephesians, and to us today - to get back to where we started! I want to focus on it being a call for us not to stop our study of Scripture, once finished with Revelation! We might be tempted to take a break once we have finished this book. But perhaps the point is to look at Bible study as more of a cycle, than a straight-line activity. The One who is The First and The Last says for us to go back to the beginning. There is no ending point - not yet anyway.
The Book that follows Revelation, is Genesis. And indeed, God's view of eternity may be just that. To Him, our time-line is a single point. If you have been through all of Scripture (Which I have been doing, for ten years), then it is time to start all over again.
So go back - your study of the Bible was only a preparation to read it all over again.
And maybe therein lies the secret to us regaining the agape love we had lost along the way.
But I have one thing against you: you've lost the love you used to have.
Revelation is commonly thought of as a book about the future. But if we do this only, it is like giving ourselves a pass. "Don't get too worked up, unless you see these things happening. When and if you do, then you had better change!"
But John writes to the Ephesians, and to us today - to get back to where we started! I want to focus on it being a call for us not to stop our study of Scripture, once finished with Revelation! We might be tempted to take a break once we have finished this book. But perhaps the point is to look at Bible study as more of a cycle, than a straight-line activity. The One who is The First and The Last says for us to go back to the beginning. There is no ending point - not yet anyway.
The Book that follows Revelation, is Genesis. And indeed, God's view of eternity may be just that. To Him, our time-line is a single point. If you have been through all of Scripture (Which I have been doing, for ten years), then it is time to start all over again.
So go back - your study of the Bible was only a preparation to read it all over again.
And maybe therein lies the secret to us regaining the agape love we had lost along the way.
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