Reading the Book of Revelation:
Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
Recently we read the chapters in the book of Revelation and it was so uplifting to me and such a delight to focus daily on the individual chapters, getting a glimpse from God into heaven itself. And we saw the mighty working of angels through these chapters.
It is important to re-read scripture. Paul told us repetition is important for us. (I Cor. 13:1) This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established. Paul was showing us that when he spoke the same things multiple times the word was established. It is not that we need new words all the time as the flesh desires. Rather we need to establish that which we have heard from God.
It is a great pleasure to read the book of Revelation if you do not try to pick it to pieces with interpretation.
When I read Revelation, I just read, not trying to figure it all out.
In the book of Revelation, we see an end to evil and the establishment of good forever.
Revelation 1
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to
shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he
sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: 2 Who bare
record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of
all things that he saw.
Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein:
for the time is at hand.
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John to the seven churches which are in Asia:
Grace
be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is
to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne;
5 And
from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness,
and the first begotten
of the dead,
and the prince of the kings of the earth.
Unto him that
loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
6 And hath made
us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and
dominion for ever and ever.
Amen.
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7 Behold,
he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which
pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him.
Even so, Amen.
8 I am Alpha and Omega,
the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was,
and which is to come, the Almighty.
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9 I John,
who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the
kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called
Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.
10 I
was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice,
as of a trumpet, 11 Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last:
and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven
churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto
Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and
unto Laodicea.
12 And I turned to see
the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden
candlesticks; 13 And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto
the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about
the paps with a golden girdle. 14 His head and his hairs were white like
wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; 15 And his
feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his
voice as the sound of many waters.
16 And
he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp
twoedged sword:
and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his
strength.
17 And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead.
And
he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me,
Fear not; I am the
first and the last: 18 I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I
am alive for evermore,
Amen;
and have the keys of hell and of death.
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19 Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter;
20 The
mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the
seven golden candlesticks.
The seven stars are the angels of the seven
churches:
and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven
churches.