A thought provoking question before we begin. So many of us are studying the End Times. Many of us believe that we are the generation that will experience the Rapture...do you? If you answered yes ....then I ask myself, and you...."so what?" If we believe that our time here is limited, that the trumpet could blow in the next year or two....how is our life different? Do we act like we believe it? I am going to give some deep thought to that question in my own life....
Now On To Revelation.
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Here is an interesting prayer from Jimmy De Young
“Lord help me to not study Your prophetic Word for knowledge only but for that which helps me to see the urgency of the moment and then to live expecting You to shout today for me to join You in Heaven. Jimmy DeYoung’s Until Newsletter
LESSON 1 – Revelation 1
The book of Revelation was written so that we might have “Jesus revealed” (1:1), so for each chapter we will see what is revealed about Jesus.
STOP!
Read Chapter 1. Look for those special words, “because” “for” when it means because, and “but”….and any other ‘word searches’ you might want to do. (If you are new to our studies, call me and I can explain this)
LOOK!
Read the chapter again.
Here is where we ask questions.
What titles are given for Jesus?
What does Jesus say? What are the words of Jesus?
What does Jesus look like?
Give a short summary of the chapter.
Verse 3 is a blessing….write it out.
Verse 6: what about you and me? Are we kings (queens) and priests?
Verse 7:How is He coming back?
Pick one other verse (besides 7) that you like, or have a question about and write it out. (Writing helps us remember, I will often ask you to write out verses.)
LISTEN!
Read the chapter again….perhaps using a different version. (Here it is ok to use one of the paraphrase Bibles because you have done your deep study already)
What is God trying to teach us in this chapter?_______________________
What if this information had been left out of Scripture?_________________
How does this chapter impact my life today here in TN? ____________________
Bring you notes to class with you. I will try to make the class more interesting and we probably will discuss other aspects of this chapter and not go back over this information in detail.
