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The Bible Breakdown: Daily Bible Reading
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Revelation 01: Jesus Wins
The Book of Revelation stands as perhaps the most misunderstood text in Scripture, often reduced to frightening prophecies and end-times speculation. But what if its primary purpose isn't to scare us or provide a detailed timeline of future events? What if it's actually about hope?
Pastor Brandon takes us on a journey through Revelation 1, establishing crucial context that transforms how we understand this mysterious book. Written during a time when Roman authorities demanded emperor worship, early Christians faced an impossible choice: compromise their faith or face deadly persecution. It was to these struggling believers that John wrote, reminding them that despite their suffering, Jesus reigns supreme.
One of the most eye-opening aspects of this episode is learning that 68% of Revelation contains direct allusions to the Old Testament. This isn't random symbolism or secret codes about attack helicopters – it's deliberate imagery that would have resonated deeply with the original audience. When John describes Jesus with hair like wool, eyes like fire, and feet like bronze, he's painting a portrait of Christ using the colors of Old Testament prophecy to reveal him as the promised Messiah.
Rather than getting lost in debates about millennial timelines or rapture theories, Pastor Brandon invites us to approach Revelation through the lens of its original readers. What would these seven churches in Asia Minor have understood? How would this vision of Christ as "the Alpha and Omega" have strengthened their resolve to remain faithful even unto death?
The magnificent portrait of Jesus in chapter 1 isn't meant to be dissected like a puzzle but beheld like a masterpiece. He stands among the lampstands (his churches), holds the stars (their angels) in his hand, and speaks with the authority of rushing waters. This isn't just interesting imagery – it's a revelation that Jesus is everything God promised and more.
Whether you've avoided Revelation out of confusion or approached it purely as prophecy about our time, this episode offers a refreshing perspective that centers on Jesus himself. Because ultimately, the message of Revelation can be distilled to two powerful words that bring comfort in every age: Jesus wins.
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Well, hello everybody. Welcome back to the Bible Breakdown podcast with your host, pastor Brandon, today. Revelation chapter 1. Many of us have been looking forward to this one for a while, and if we were to sum up the entire book of Revelation into one phrase, it would be this Jesus wins, jesus wins. I hope you are ready to jump into this. We are going to get our Bibles out, we're going to get notes out. I hope that you listen to this on the podcast and then go back and watch it on YouTube, because we're going to have a lot of notes today and we also want to kind of set up what's going to happen over the next couple of weeks as we go through the book of Revelation. So get all of that ready.
Speaker 1:Revelation 1,. While you're doing that, as always, make sure you take just a moment to like, share and subscribe to the YouTube channel and the podcast. Make sure you leave us a five-star review on the podcast it really does help and make sure you're going to the Bible Breakdown Discussion on Facebook. There's an amazing group of people doing a wonderful job, and especially when we get into books like this, where there's a lot of opinions, a lot of things, a lot of questions. That's what the Bible breakdown discussion is all about is where we can go into these places and we can grapple with the scripture, and we're going to talk about that today as we jump in. So Revelation, chapter 1. Now I want to give you a couple of disclaimers. This is going to be probably one of the longer intro videos, because there's just so much to this book of the Bible and there's been so much controversy about this book of the Bible, and so I want to take our time and really kind of set some ground rules that we'll be looking at throughout and just cover a lot of information, and I've really tried to find a way to organize this in some kind of way, but it may be a little bit everywhere, but that's the book of Revelation, right, and so I would encourage you make sure you go into the Facebook group and, if you want to go to my blog, brandoncannoncom, we're going to be trying to release some more information about this, because it's just something I know everybody's interested in, and we just want to make sure we have clarity where there is possible, where it's possible to have clarity. So, once again, the overall idea of Revelation is the fact that Jesus wins, and that's going to be the cornerstone of this entire study through the book of Revelation.
Speaker 1:But let's get into some nuts and bolts. Very, very basically, who wrote the book of Revelation? Here it is John the Apostle, the same John who wrote the Gospel of John, who wrote 1st, 2nd and 3rd John also wrote the Gospel of John. Where did he write it? Here's already the first controversy. He says he received the vision on the Isle of Patmos and it says in chapter one that God told him to write it down. However, some scholars would say he probably didn't write it on Patmos because he's on a prison camp and that's what Patmos was. It was a political prisoner island for people and therefore it's very possible that he wouldn't have had access to write it down. But he wrote it down. And if he didn't write it down literally while he's in prison, then as soon as he got back to his home, which would have been in Ephesus, he would have written this down not long before his death. Who is he writing it to and when did he write it? He's writing it primarily to seven churches throughout Asia and we're going to get introduced to them actually in chapter 1. And most likely what happened was that John was overseeing these seven churches and he is writing the vision that God gives these seven churches. But now, secondarily, it would have been for the wider church world and then also for us as well. It wasn't written to us, but it was written for us. And when was it written? Most likely around 95 or 96 AD. So this is kind of how this would have worked.
Speaker 1:Jesus died, rose again between 30 and 33 AD. Then over the next several years, the early church was born, the gospel starts to spread and Matthew, mark and Luke were written somewhere between 50 and 60, 65 AD. Well, in 70 AD the temple was destroyed. All this bad stuff happens, the Jewish people are dispersed, everything is happening, persecution is everywhere. And some point after that so around 80 AD, maybe into the 90s AD, john wrote his gospel. And whereas Matthew, mark and Luke were kind of starting with Jesus as Messiah and it ends with him not just as the Messiah but God, john goes up and back down. He starts with he is God and because he is God, he is also the Messiah. That's why it reads a little bit differently. But then also, as he is overseeing these seven churches, after he writes his gospel, somewhere in there he writes the three letters to the different ones and then, after he gets back or while he is on the Isle of Patmos, he writes this revelation that God gives him to the seven churches about Jesus.
Speaker 1:Now, what's the big idea of revelation? And here it is Jesus, jesus, jesus, jesus. It is called the Revelation of Jesus Christ, and so Jesus is the victorious one and he gives victory to his people when they're experiencing suffering. So before it was about the future, it was about a present hope to the church while they're in the middle of great persecution. So there's a lot of things in the book of Revelation. It was not intended to tell them what was going to go on in the 21st century. It was helping them realize that, no matter what bad things happen, jesus is in charge, he's in control. So the primary purpose of Revelation is not to bring us fear or doubt or worry, but it's to encourage us that Jesus is victorious.
Speaker 1:Now, why is it important? I know some people just say hey, you know what. I'm going to leave the book of Revelation to scholars. I'm not going to touch it because I don't understand it. Can I tell you, I sympathize with you a lot, but here are some reasons why it's important for us to take a little time and go through the book of Revelation. Number one it reminds believers that Jesus is Lord over all history, not. It reminds believers that Jesus is Lord over all history, not just political powers and empires. It encourages us to have faithfulness and to persevere in hard times. It assures us that evil will be judged and that God will dwell with his people forever. It confronts cultural compromise we're going to see that in the second and third chapter and it shifts our focus from temporary troubles to eternal triumph.
Speaker 1:Once again, remember this was written during a time of persecution and John is writing this in order to help them be encouraged that God was overcoming. So, speaking of that, what's going on in the rest of the world? Well, at the time, the Roman Empire was the dominant empire in the world and what they started to do is they started to demand emperor worship, like they didn't mind you had other gods, but they wanted you to also worship the emperor, and the emperor needed to be above all your other gods. That's why Christians were getting in trouble. I don't know if you knew this, but the Roman Empire didn't really mind as much that people worship Jesus. It's that they needed to worship Jesus a little bit less than they worshiped the emperor. And they said, no, god is our king, he is our ruler and our emperor. And that's when it became a problem. They started being persecuted and put to death at this time and during this time this would have been like 20 years after Paul and Peter and all those had been put to death for their faith. This is when they're being put in coliseums and all this kind of stuff, and under Domitian's rule, they were increasingly being pressured to worship the emperor, to kind of just go along, get along to go along or go along to get along, however, that phrase works. And they're really, really struggling with this phrase works and they're really, really struggling with this. And the early church is struggling with that, but also with internal compromise, where people are saying, okay, well, what if we just kind of worshiped him a little bit, because I'm really tired of my aunts, my cousins and my friends getting killed for all this? So what if we just, you know, kind of just went along just a little bit? And that's what the book of Revelation is doing is it is helping us elevate our idea of who Jesus is, to realize that, yes, there are earthly kingdoms, powers and rulers, but they got nothing on Jesus, and that's the main idea of Revelation.
Speaker 1:Some interesting facts about Revelation. Here's one of them, and that is this it is the only book of the Bible that promises a blessing for those who read it. Did you know that? It says those who read it are blessed when they do it? The next one is there are more Old Testament allusions in the book of Revelation than in any other book of the New Testament. 68% of the book of Revelation is a direct allusion back to the Old Testament. That's why and this study is going to be full of controversial statements I don't mean it this way, but a lot of people have taken the book of Revelation and they've really taken God out of it and really just made it a horoscope on how they're going to predict the future. So can I tell you, if any of your favorite prophecy preachers try to talk to you about the book of Revelation and they don't immediately go to the Old Testament, be careful, because that's what John is drawing from. He is assuming that this audience that he's writing to is very well versed in the Old Testament.
Speaker 1:The next thing is that Revelation was nearly excluded from the canon due to its mysterious symbolism. So if you struggle sometimes with understanding how some of these symbols work, don't worry, you're not the only ones that when they were recognizing which books of the Bible were inspired and weren't inspired, the thing is is they knew it was inspired, it met the criteria, they knew there was something holy about this book, but it was weird. And so they were like we know it's inspired, but it's weird. And then finally, people were like it doesn't matter if it's weird, god made it that way and so let's put it in there anyway. And then here's a couple more, and that is that it is the most debated book in the Bible, and the reason why is because, if you look at the future events, it hasn't happened yet, which opens, you know, context not context, but opens debate and possible ideas. And then here's one more Jesus is betrayed as both the lion and the lamb, which is the ultimate paradox of power and sacrifice.
Speaker 1:Now a couple more things, and then we're going to get into chapter one. First thing is I want to go ahead and address some controversies. That's going to happen, and I think we have to figure out if we can do what I like to call the three hill theology, and if you've been around RLC very long, you know what I'm talking about, and that is that in everybody's life we have to make sure we put what we believe on three different hills. We have one, which is the hill I'm willing to die for. It's like listen, jesus is the Son of God. The Bible's in there, word of God. He's the only way to heaven. I'm willing to die for that. Like hills I'm willing to die on. The second hill has got to be the hills I'm willing to argue about, debate over.
Speaker 1:I'm interested in, but my faith is not based on this. Like, let me give you an example. Like were dinosaurs on the ark? That's interesting, but my faith isn't built on that. Right, and a matter of fact, those kind of things I put in the third category, which is I simply don't care. Like that's great, you want to give me a two-hour seminar on why dinosaurs were on the ark, that's wonderful. Don't care. Like, I'm okay with not knowing that.
Speaker 1:And can I tell you, I've been in environments where people put their interpretation of the book of Revelation on the you know, the hill they're willing to die for. And can I tell you don't do that. Don't put your interpretation of the book of Revelation right next to the salvation power of Jesus, like they're equally important, because they're not Like. You and I can completely disagree about the book of Revelation and still go to heaven. If you and I completely disagree about salvation, one of us is probably not going to heaven because one of us is right and one of us is wrong. So make sure that you die on the hill of Jesus, not on the hill of your opinion about scripture.
Speaker 1:Okay, two more, and that is there's four ways to see how the book of Revelation kind of ends out. And we're going to use this idea of mill or millennial to do this, because later on the book of Revelation there is this moment where Jesus comes and defeats the armies of the world and ushers in a thousand years of peace, millennial, millennial timeframe of peace. And to use that, there's four different ways, or, excuse me, five different ways. Actually I did that wrong. There's five different ways that people look at the book of Revelation as it fits into time and want to make sure that we kind of address those and then we're going to move forward. Here's five different ones.
Speaker 1:Number one is more of your preterist view. Now, there's a lot of different people who kind of do this, but it's very predominant, like your churches of Christ, different ones like that, and what they believe is that everything that happened in the book of Revelation has already happened, like it happened in the first century. It was all very allegorical, very symbolic, and so it's all over with and we're just moving forward. And for all of you preterists I know that's oversimplified, just work with me, right? The second one is what's called amill or amillennialist view, and amill means not, and that is they think that almost everything up to chapter 19 of Revelation has already happened, but Jesus is ruling and reigning right now in heaven, and so it's not about what's going on on earth, but he's ruling and reigning on heaven and one day he will come again and make everything right. So really, they think that everything up to 19 is just an allegory. It's just what they call a recapitulation, just a cycle of history and showing it and how every time Jesus overcomes.
Speaker 1:The third one is what's called the pre-trib pre-mill. This is in a lot of evangelical churches and if you've ever watched the Left Behind series or anything like that, that's what these people believe and that is that they believe that the book of Revelation, beginning from Revelation, chapter 4, all the way to chapter 19, all of this and then beyond hasn't happened yet, that there'll be a moment when there's a rapture of the church and they think that it is symbolized in chapter 4, and we'll talk about that when we get there but then at that point everything else is happening in the future and while that is happening there's a rapture of the church. That followed by seven years of tribulation and then on the end, chapter 19 happens and then he ushers in a millennial reign on the backside of that. Then you have people who are not pre-trib but they're considered pre-mill, I know right, this is why this is so confusing, right. Pre-mill are people who believe that Jesus will come again, but they don't see there being a rapture, a secret catching away of the church, then seven years of tribulation. So they see that there is a time as history continues on, and then the second coming and the rapture are the same event. Then, finally, you have the last ones, that's your post mill, and these people are the absolute glasses half full kind of people. They think that all of this is allegory and that the world is going to slowly get better as the church evangelizes the world and eventually there will be a second coming, but it will be us ushering in Jesus into a world that has already been saved by the salvation of spreading the gospel to the world.
Speaker 1:So here's the thing this is why this is so controversial is, these are just some of the four or, excuse me, five main ways that people look at the book of Revelation. So how are we going to? Which one of these lenses are we going to use to look at it? And that is this. We're going to look at none of them. You're not going to look at any of these, because here's the reason why Every one of these views, every one of them, in some kind of way cheat. I know I just offended everybody, but think about it.
Speaker 1:There are certain places where, if we were to start breaking these down, where you would have to tell me you can't prove that through Scripture, like, at some point you have to take a little bit of a leap, a little bit of a jump and all of that. And so here's the thing I am going to just trust that there are great podcasts out there that's going to go deep into the weeds on a lot of these, and one of these days we're going to come back and we're going to get into a lot of the weeds on a lot of these. But this is how I want us to read the book of Revelation, and that is this we want to look at it through the lens of how the early church would have read it, because here's the thing it cannot mean to us what it did not mean to them, because it was primarily written to the seven churches in Asia. Now it's for us, but it wasn't to us, and the main goal of Revelation is to show us that Jesus reigns supreme. So primarily, it is a revelation of Jesus Christ, not of the future, primarily Now. Secondarily, there's some things in there that are very interesting and we'll talk about them as we get there, but primarily it is a revelation about Jesus and how he overcomes in the middle of persecution. So we're going to look at it like that. And then the one more thing we're going to jump in is the genre.
Speaker 1:Now, just like you wouldn't read a nonfiction book and a fiction book the same way you wouldn't read a manual, the same way you would read a poem, there's different genres of literature and you handle them differently. Well, there's different genres of literature within the New Testament. So you have the Gospels, which is a narrative. You have the letters of Paul, which is considered a didactic, so it's just a. It's a conversation where he is telling you, do this, don't do that. But then you have what's called apocalyptic literature, which is that the writer will use imagery. He will.
Speaker 1:Apocalyptic literature, which is that the writer will use imagery, he will use allegory, he will use symbolism, he will use all these different things in order to make a point. So, instead of talking about something very directly, he will use symbols to make the point. And that is what the book of Revelation is. It is symbols and when we understand them, we will be able to understand. So the lenses we're going to look through as we get ready finally to jump into Revelation. We're going to look at it through the lens of how the early church would have seen it, what's going on in their world, and then look at it through the lens of the Old Testament, and when we do that, I feel like it's going to help us to get our minds around this a lot.
Speaker 1:Okay, so, if you're ready, revelation, chapter 1, verse 1 says this this is a revelation of Jesus Christ. Boom already. What did he say it was? Let's read it one more time. This is a revelation from Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants the events that must soon take place. He sent an angel to present this revelation to his servant, john, who faithfully reported everything he saw. This is his report of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ. So once again, you notice how, in the first two verses, he's just saying over and over again this is about Jesus. Verse 3, god blesses the one who reads the words of this prophecy to the church, and he blesses all who listen to this message and obey what it says, for the time is near. Now one more thing, and that is if it is only about the future, then what are we supposed to be obeying? Right, so you always keep that in your mind. I think that it had a lot to do with the time they were living. Okay, here we go.
Speaker 1:Verse four this letter is from John to the seven churches in the province of Asia. Grace and peace to you from the one who is, the one who was and the one who is still to come, from the sevenfold spirits of God before his throne and from Jesus Christ. He is the faithful witness to these things, the first to rise from the dead and the ruler of all kings of the world. All glory to him, who loves us and has freed us from our sins by shedding his blood for us. He has made us a kingdom of priests for God, his Father. All glory and power to him forever and ever. Amen. Look, he comes with the clouds of heaven and everyone will see him, even those who pierced him, and all the nations of the world will mourn for him. Yes, amen.
Speaker 1:Jesus says I am the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, says the Lord God. I am the one who was, the one who is and the one who is still to come, the Almighty One. Now pause, now. What does that mean when it says the Alpha and the Omega? By the way, in Greek that is, I am the Alpha, which is A Omega, which is Z. So he's saying I'm everything. I'm the beginning, I'm the end and I'm everything in between. I am the beginning and the end. All right.
Speaker 1:Verse nine I, john, am your brother and your partner in the suffering and in the kingdom of God and in patient endurance, to which Jesus calls us. I was exiled to the island of Patmos for preaching the word of God and for my testimony about Jesus. Pause again. So notice. What he's saying is he is identifying with their suffering, he's identifying with the patient, endurance, and so remember that's. Who he's writing to is people who have been dealing with a lot of this. Verse 10,. It was the Lord's day, sunday, and I was worshiping in the spirit. Suddenly I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet blast and it said write in a book everything you see and send it to the seven churches that are the cities of Ephesus, smyrna, pergamum, thyatira, sardis, philadelphia and Laodicea. And when I turned to see the one who was speaking to me, I saw seven gold lampstands. Now pause.
Speaker 1:Now already we're about to get into where John is going to be confusing. He's going to describe Jesus in a way that makes him look weird, unless you understand the Old Testament. And so, once again, the people who would have been listening to this, they would have understood their Old Testament. And remember, jesus. He has just described Jesus as the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords, the Messiah, and there's a lot of scriptures in the Old Testament. And remember, he has just described Jesus as the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords, the Messiah, and there's a lot of scriptures in the Old Testament that talk about what the Messiah was going to look like, and they had been waiting for the Messiah to come, and now he's here. And so what John is going to do is he is going to describe Jesus and he's going to say he's everything we hoped for in the Messiah. That's what he's saying, so let's watch how he does it.
Speaker 1:Verse 13,. He says I standing in the middle of the lampstands with someone like the son of man. Remember that, daniel seven. That's what this, that's what God, was going to be called. He was wearing a long robe with a gold sash across his chest. Pause, that's what the high priest wore in the old Testament. So he's saying he is God, but he is also the one who made a way for us.
Speaker 1:Verse 14, his head and his hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were like a flame of fire. Now, his hair being white like wool was from Daniel, chapter 7, which was a mark of the king of kings, and his eyes being like a flame of fire is from Daniel 10, and it means that he sees everything. It means that he sees everything and he can look into everything. Nothing escapes his glance. So once again, he's not describing how he looked physically as much as he is describing his characteristics. Verse 15,. His feet were like polished bronze, refined in a furnace, and his voice thundered like mighty ocean waves. Now the polished bronze is from Daniel 10 as well. That means that he had stability and strength. And then the voice like mighty waters is from Ezekiel, chapter 43. Verse 16. He held seven stars in his right hand and a two-edged sword came from his mouth. That is a symbol of authority from Isaiah 49. His face was like the sun in its brilliance. That's from Exodus 34, which was the glory.
Speaker 1:Now I want to pause there for a second, because I said that so much that we kind of lost, probably, what he was saying. So I'm going to tell you what he was saying by all the symbolism. What he was saying is is, when he turned to Saul to see Jesus, he saw God. He saw God who was dressed as a high priest, which meant he had made a way for us that he was everything I hoped he would be and he could see all things. He was strong and he was stable and he was pure and his voice was powerful and when I looked at him, I saw authority and glory radiated off of him. That's what he was saying, Verse 17,.
Speaker 1:When I saw him, I fell at his feet as if I were dead, but he laid his right hand on me and said do not be afraid, I am the first and last. I am the living one. I died, but look, I'm alive forever and ever and I hold the keys of death and the grave. Write down what you have seen, both the things that are now happening and the things that will happen. This is the meaning of the mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand and the seven gold lampstands. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches and the seven lampstands are the seven churches the angels of the seven churches and the seven lampstands are the seven churches. Wow.
Speaker 1:So, as you can see, there's a lot happening here, john, at this point, because he is writing to people, and he's writing to people who are struggling, who are dealing with all of this oppression because they don't want to serve the emperor, they do not want to worship the emperor and they are being told that the emperor is greater and all this, that the very first thing he does is he describes Jesus as beautiful and glorious and as the true king. And can I tell you, as we get ready to finish up chapter one, this is one of the reasons why, I will admit, I get a little frustrated when I hear people talking about the book of Revelation, because I hear them talking about it. I hear them talking about the mark of the beast and the millennial reign and the battle of Armageddon and all these kind of things. I don't hear them talk about Jesus. I hear them talking about, like, literally, like they have, like it is their holy horoscope, that they're going to figure out the future and all this stuff. And there's, you know, comanche helicopters and all this kind of stuff, and that is so interesting and so not the point.
Speaker 1:The point is there were seven churches who were struggling with their faith because they were being killed, slaughtered, and they were being told over and over and over again if you'll just admit that our emperor is greater than your Jesus, we'll leave you alone. We don't mind you having Jesus. He just can't be greater than our emperor is greater than your Jesus. We'll leave you alone. We don't mind you having Jesus, he just can't be greater than our emperor. And they were trying to remember that Jesus was greater, but it was hard. And so, as we're going to see in chapter 2 and chapter 3, they're dealing with compromise, a lot of them, and they're trying to find a way to love Jesus but kind of go along as well. And John is writing to them and he's saying Jesus is greater.
Speaker 1:And let me show you and we're going to see, throughout the book of Revelation it's constantly pointing back to the justice of Jesus, the salvation of Jesus, how he is for them in every way. And my encouragement to you is, if you're one of these people, that you see it all as future symbolism, okay, that's great, enjoy that. But spend time with me through this and let's see how great Jesus is. If you're somebody who's never read this before because you've tried and it has just scared you because of what people have said can I encourage you, read it with us and let's see how we can find Jesus in every single chapter and come away with realizing that he truly is greater than we can imagine. Let's pray together right now. God truly is greater than we can imagine. Let's pray together right now.
Speaker 1:God, thank you so much for today. Thank you that this book of the Bible is not intended to scare us or frighten us. It's intended to be exciting and encouraging to realize that in this world we will have trouble. But, jesus, you've already overcome the world and in the book of Revelation you show us how you do it and we always want to remember that. In Revelation 22,. It is an excited expectation because you reign supreme. I pray over us, as we read through the book of Revelation, that we will come away feeling encouraged, feeling excited and feeling full of joy. In Jesus' name, we pray Amen, amen. What God's word says? Revelation 1, verse 7,. It says look, he is coming in the clouds of heaven and everyone will see him. My prayer for you is that by the time we're looking at the finish, looking at the book of Revelation, you will say that you will say I see Jesus more clearly. I love you. I'll see you tomorrow. For Revelation, chapter two.
