Bible study will continue to be one of the loves of my life, until I graduate to Heaven. The website will be available for some time giving the possibility to read other studies that I have written! May God bless you as much or more than He has blessed me.
We must use that privilege to bring others into the family. I have met many believers who say they cannot talk about their faith to others, it is too personal. Yes, it is an extremely personal thing, but nowhere in our Bibles do we read that we must stay silent.
Those who believe in Him will see Him in Heaven in all His radiance. John got a prevue of that too, and his amazing revelations that we can read at the close of our Bibles will not really be understood until we see them in reality!
The world is full of people who are too busy, or tired, or who went to church when they were young and found it uninteresting, boring and not relative to their life. None of them want to learn! What they see through our lives must draw those people to Jesus.
How many of the richer people in our world would be worried if they knew the verse today? We live in strange times, and it seems that so many of the poor are getting poorer and the rich are getting richer, often at the expense of the poor!
During these amazing visions, Jesus dictated letters to John, with different messages for each of seven churches. Interestingly Jesus gives Himself a different name as He writes to each church. Each letter to each individual church is worth reading slowly and meditating on to see how it applies to us.
This verse always makes me smile! John being touched and talked to by what could be a ghost was what was making him afraid! We do not know if John had had visions before, but this one was very real, and the beginning of it caused John to faint.
This is a warning from Paul to Timothy that being a believer in the end times will not be easy. It seems as though all churches since that time in the first century have needed this warning, so many have rebelled in some way against the generation of their parents.
It is very clear that there is no alternative. What God starts He brings to completion. He sent Jesus to begin the destruction of the enemy powers working on the earth under the influence of satan, and Jesus accomplished that mission by destroying death when He rose from the grave.
Many Christians will say that they were not confident to speak to others until Holy Spirit touched them. God is moving across the earth in our day, and we can be encouraged that things are not as bad as the secular news media would have us believe.
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