<TITLE>08. Par 70-80</TITLE>L-70 Historians agree (This is John's life.) John lived the last of his years in the city of Ephesus and died there. He was on the Isle of Patmos at the time he wrote the Book Revelation. It was not the story of his life, but the story of Christ in future ages. See, It was a prophecy. Not the life of John, not the life of Christ, but prophesying of a age to come. It was not his prophetic utterances; but the Lord's exaltations, solemnly. It was not the Revelation of Saint John the Divine, but the Revelation of Christ the Lord.
It is the last Book of the New Testament. Yet it tells the beginning and the end of the dispensation of the Gospels. Got Bible scholars agreeing...
The letters to the seven church ages were written prophetically to the future ages. Paul wrote of the life and glory of the seven churches present in his day. John wrote of the life and glory of the seven churches in the future, that John was addressed to the seven pastors or messengers as directly--all Christians under these seven different angels.

L-73 Now, the Book of Revelations. Now, we're going to take, as we break this down for this morning and this evening, and we'll try to let out about eleven o'clock and eleven-thirty, something like that, and then begin again tonight at seven.

L-74 And now, the contents of this 1st chapter:
The 1st verse, it is really speaks for Itself because it is the Revelation of Jesus Christ.
2nd verse: Saint John the Divine is the scribe and servant.
3rd verse: the blessings pronounced.
The 4th through the 6th verse: the salute to the church.
The 7 verse: the announcements.
The 8th verse: the supreme Deity of Jesus Christ.
The 9th to the 20 verse: the Patmos vision.
And also the 14th and 15th verses describes His sevenfold glory of His Person. Oh, it's beautiful when we see Christ in His sevenfold Personages of His--sevenfold Beings of His Personages in His glorious resurrection.

L-76 Now, the title describes the character.
The Revelation of Jesus Christ,...
Not the revelation of Saint John the Divine, but the Revelation of Jesus Christ the Son of God...
Now, the Greek word for revelation is the "apocalypse," which means "the unfolding." And I was taking that word and searching it; it means... The "apocalypse" is to... Like a sculpture has made a great statue, and he's got it covered by a veil. And then he goes and tears back this veil and reveals what he has behind the veil. It's an uncovering.
And this Book is not the uncovering of, so much, the Person of Jesus Christ (yet it certainly speaks of His Deity and His sevenfold Personage, and also of the things that He is, like Priest, King, and so forth), but it is the revealing of the future of His works in His seven church ages that's coming on. It...

L-80 When our Lord was on earth, the disciples asked Him and said, "Master, will You at this time restore the kingdom back to Israel?"
And Jesus said that, "It's not for you to know this hour or time." And no one would know, said even the Son, as yet, did not know." But after His death, burial, and resurrection, and ascension into glory, He receives from God the future of the church. Then He returned back to bring this Message to the church, and this message of His coming and the condition of His churches down through the age.
He could not do it before His death, burial, and resurrection, because He had not yet knew it. But did you notice how the Scripture reads here?
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him... (Christ),...
How that God the Father gave the revelation to His Son Jesus Christ. And He sent His Angel to John to signify these things which was--which was, which is, and which shall be. Oh, it's set beautifully.


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