Blessed Are Those Who Read
and Study From the Book of Revelation
 here are a total of 66 books in our Bible, but
there is only Book that promises some kind of a special
blessing for those who will attempt to try and read and
keep the words, revelation and knowledge that is contained
in it - and that Book is the very last book of the Bible,
the Book of Revelation.
Why would God single out the very last
book of the Bible, the Book of Revelation, as the only Book
that He will actually say that "blessed" is he who
"reads" and "hears" the words of this Book?
For those of you are not aware of this profound verse, here
it is, word for word:
"BLESSED is he who reads and those who hear the words
of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written
in it; for the time is near." (Revelation 1:3)
Notice this statement is being made right at the very
beginning of this Book. Right at the very beginning of this
last Book in the Bible, God is officially making the statement
that "blessed" will be the man or woman who will attempt
to try and read and keep what is in this
Book.
If all 66 Books of the Bible are highly anointed by God, and
they are are all coming directly from Him through the Holy
Spirit to all of the authors who wrote all of these Books, then
why is God purposely singling out the Book of Revelation as the
one Book that will cause someone to become blessed in some
way?
When God is purposely making this kind of statement right at
the very beginning of this Book, He is trying to tell all of us
something - and that something is that He is really wanting all
of us to try and read and assimilate what is in this Book.
Otherwise He would have never made this kind of a direct
statement right at the very beginning of it.
Many Christians, including some pastors, are afraid to try
and get into this Book and make an attempt to try and fully
understand it. For some, they feel it is too hard to try and
fully understand.
For others, it is just too frightening and scary to try and
read due to the extreme events that will be taking place in the
end times. They would prefer to
keep their heads buried in the sand due to the severe and
extreme judgments that will be taking place, as God will be
releasing His wrath and His fury on this world in a way that
the world has never seen before and will never see again.
Not even Hollywood, with all of its special effects
capabilities, could even begin to duplicate on the big screen
what is going to happen to this world once we enter into the
Great Tribulation, which will be the last 7 years on this earth
before Jesus comes back to set up His Millennium Kingdom from
the city of Jerusalem.
I believe there are three main reasons as to why God is
really wanting all of us to read this Book, and then make an
attempt to try and fully grasp and assimilate the knowledge and
revelation that is contained in this Book.
1. The first main reason that God is really
wanting all of us to read this Book is due to the fact that it
is the very last Book of the Bible. It is the very last
chapter. It is the climax to our whole story in the Lord. As
such, each and every Christian should know exactly how
everything will eventually play out and exactly what our final
ending is going to be.
Can you imagine reading a good fiction novel, and then all
of sudden you quit reading as you get to the last chapter,
never finding out what the final ending came out to be? Can you
imagine watching an exciting motion picture on the big screen,
and then all of sudden you walk out on the last 10 minutes of
the movie never finding out exactly how the movie was going to
end?
It's the exact same way in our walk with the
Lord. There will be an eventual end to all of the bad
things that keep occurring on this earth on a daily basis.
As Christians, we all should know exactly what our final
ending is going to be in the Lord and how everything will
eventually play out.
Once again, this information and knowledge
should be basic 101 knowledge and revelation that should be
taught in every good Christian Church - especially with the
Lord Himself singling out this Book and the revelation that
is contained in it as something that will cause all of His
own to become blessed in some way.
If you ask many Christians what the final end of their story
in the Lord is going to be, they will tell you that when they
die and depart from this earth, they will go straight to heaven
and live with God, Jesus and all of their saved loved ones
forever and ever up in heaven.
Unless you have read from the Book of Revelation and all of
the other Scripture verses that pertain to these coming end
time events, you will not know that there are two more chapters
that will play itself out after you had already died and
entered into heaven.
After you have died and entered into heaven, the next thing
that will occur is that all of the saints who have been living
with Jesus up in heaven will be coming back down with Him to
rule this earth during His Millennium Kingdom. This Millennium
Kingdom will last 1000 years.
After this 1000 years has passed, the next, last and final
event will be God the Father creating a brand New Heaven and a brand New
Earth where He will then bring Himself and a brand new city
of Jerusalem down upon our new earth where He and Jesus will
then rule this new earth from this new holy city of Jerusalem
for the rest of all eternity.
The Bible tells us that our world is a world that will know
no end. Unless you have studied from the Book of Revelation,
along with all of the other Scripture verses pertaining to
these coming end time events, you would not have been aware of
these two remaining chapters.
The heaven where God and Jesus now live in is not going to
be our final abode. The New Heaven and the New Earth will be
our final abode and resting place with the Lord, and this
information and knowledge can only be found in the Book of
Revelation.
2. The second main reason that each and every
Christian should have basic knowledge on how everything is
going to eventually play out and end up is so they can share
and transmit this knowledge and information to other Christians
who do not have this knowledge and information under their
belt.
Until more churches start to preach and teach on this
subject matter, you are going to have many Christians,
especially in the times we are living at right now, who are
going to be very hungry for information on this topic and they
will seek out teachers who can educate and feed them on this
topic.
3. The third main reason that every Christian
should be fully armed with knowledge on this topic is because
we will never know which generation will be the one to start to
really live through these end time events. And once these end
time events start to take place, your knowledge on this
subject matter and your faith in the Lord will be
the only two things that will help get you through some of
these horrific events.
You will need to know how everything is eventually going to
play out. If you do not, you could easily lose your faith in
the Lord due to the extreme activity that will be occurring
during these times. This is why the Lord goes more than
overboard in the Bible on this entire subject matter. He wants
to give all of us more than enough fair warning on exactly what
will be coming down the road so we can properly prepare
ourselves to be able to handle all of it once it does start to
come our way.
Many teachers who are anointed by the Lord to be teaching
and preaching on this subject matter in this day and age
believe that there is a very good possibility that our current
generation may be the generation that will see the return of
our Lord back to this earth.
No one obviously knows the exact date of our Lord's return
back to this earth, but there is no question that the end time
events prophesied to occur from our Bible are all starting to
form out. Only time will tell if our generation will be the one
to see our Lord's visible second coming back to our earth.
But sooner or later, all of these end time events will
eventually occur because our Bible tells us so. As such, each
and every Christian should have some basic and fundamental
knowledge on this part of their walk with the Lord so that they
cannot only have it for the themselves and their own knowledge
base in the Lord, but so they can also have it to be able to
teach and educate others about it.
Recommended Authors and Teachers
In the End Times section of our
site, we have 15 good, basic articles giving you the basic
information and knowledge on all of the main end time events
that will be occurring leading up to our Lord's second coming
to this earth, and then all of the events that will take place
after He sets up His Millennium Kingdom from the city of
Jerusalem.
We have tried to keep all of these articles very basic,
simple and straight-to-the-point so that you can fully grasp
and fully understand what specific events will actually be
taking place, along with the possible chronological order of
all of these events.
For those of you who would like more detailed information on
this topic, below is a list of what I believe are highly
anointed authors and teachers on this subject. You simply
cannot go wrong with most of their teachings on this topic.
Though there are some minor differences between some of them on
the possible order of some of these events, most of them are
all on the same page in their interpretation and understanding
of these end time events.
I believe that Hal Lindsey's best seller book, "
The Late Great Planet Earth," published
back in the seventies, was the door opener for the Body of
Christ to being able to fully understand this part of our
Bible.
The prophet Daniel was told by an angel of the Lord that
this part of our Bible would eventually be opened up at the end
of time so that the flock could fully understand what the Lord
was trying to tell all of us with this specific information.
And I believe that Hal Lindsey was one of the first ones that
God really anointed to be able to teach on this particular
subject matter in this current day and age.
From there, God has raised up and anointed many of the
following men to be able to teach on this subject matter to the
rest of the Body. Again, I believe these great men of God are
some of the best of the best in being able to teach on this
subject matter to the rest of the Body. I simply cannot
recommend these men highly enough.
- Tim LaHaye
- Perry Stone
- Jack Van Impe
- Grant Jeffrey
- Mark Hitchcock
- Hal Lindsey
- John Hagee
- Ed Hindson
- Thomas Ice
- J. R. Church
- Hilton Sutton
- David Breese
- John Waalvord
Many of these men have their own websites. They have
different books, CD's, DVD's and audio tapes that you can order
from their websites or from Christianbook.com or Amazon direct. Some of them also have their
own radio and/or TV ministries. Below is a list of some of
the better books that some of these men have written to
date.
Recommended Books on End Times
Here are some of the better books written to date by some of
the above authors and teachers. Again, you cannot go wrong with
some of their solid teaching on this subject matter.
-
Are We Living in the End
Times?
By Tim LaHaye / Tyndale House
-
Revelation Unveiled, softcover
By Tim LaHaye / Zondervan Corp.
-
Understanding the Last Days: The Keys to Unlocking
Bible Prophecy
By Tim LaHaye
-
The End Times Controversy
By Tim LaHaye & Thomas Ice
-
The Popular Encyclopedia of Bible Prophecy:
Over 150 Topics from the World's Foremost Prophecy
Experts
By Edited by Tim LaHaye & Ed Hindson / Harvest
House Publishers
-
The Late Great Planet Earth
By Hal Lindsey / Zondervan Corp.
-
Planet Earth: The Final
Chapter
By Hal Lindsey / Oracle House
Publishing
-
Prince of Darkness
By Grant Jeffrey / Random House, Inc
-
From Daniel To Doomsday: The Countdown Has
Begun
By John Hagee / Thomas Nelson / W
-
Jerusalem Countdown
By John Hagee
-
Prophecy at Ground Zero: From Today's
Middle-East Madness to the Second Coming of
Christ
By William James / Faithworks Publications
-
101 Most Asked Questions about the End
Times
By Mark Hitchcock / Multnomah Publishers
Inc.
-
The Second Coming of Babylon: What the Bible
Says About the End Times
By Mark Hitchcock / Multnomah Publishers Inc.
-
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (End Times
Answers-Book #7)
By Mark Hitchcock
-
Is America In Bible Prophecy
By Mark Hitchcock / Multnomah Publishers
Inc.
-
The Truth Behind Left Behind: A Biblical View of the
End Times
By Mark Hitchcock & Thomas Ice / Multnomah
Publishers Inc.
Every single one of these books will provide you with
up-to-date solid teaching on this subject matter for those of
you who would really like to further your education into this
specific area.
Conclusion
Over the years there have been many pastors, churches and
Christians who have argued that they simply could not even
begin to understand what God was trying to reveal to the
apostle John when he was given these incredibly profound and
powerful visions on what would eventually be coming our way in
the end times.
But the prophet Daniel was specifically told by an angel
from the Lord, when he was receiving his own visions and
knowledge on specific end time events that would eventually be
occurring, that this part of our Bible would eventually be
opened up so that God's people could fully understand what He
was trying to convey not only to the apostle John, but also to
some of the other Old Testament prophets who were also given
visions and information on these end time events, such as
Daniel, Ezekiel, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Joel and Zechariah.
In order to be able to piece together what the Lord is
really trying to show us from His Word on this subject matter,
what you really have to do is search for and locate all of the
specific Scripture verses pertaining to these end time
events.
God has purposely scattered all of these end time verses
throughout the Bible. The Book of Revelation puts much of it
together for us, but in order to be able to get a very clear
and concise view into all of these end time events, you really
need to put all of these verses together on this subject matter
just like you would pieces to a jigsaw puzzle. And many of
these verses are located back in the Old Testament, especially
with some of the above named Old Testament prophets.
But once you put all of these Scripture verses together, and
then match them up with the visions and revelation that was
given to the apostle John in the Book of Revelation, then you
can see quite clearly see what the Lord is trying to show us.
And all of the above authors and teachers have done a very good
job in putting all of these puzzle pieces together for you.
Any Christian, and any Christian pastor can quickly educate
himself in a very short period of time on this subject matter
if they will just take the time to read and study from some of
the above anointed teachers and authors. These men and their
teachings on this subject matter can save you years of trying
to find and match up all of the Scripture verses on this topic
for yourself.
The other reason that many Christians are afraid to try and
tackle this subject is because of what I call the "fright
factor." I have personally met many Christians who have told me
that they are simply too scared and too afraid to try and read
the Book of Revelation due to the intensity and severity of all
of the action described in it.
The Book of Revelation tells us that there will be three
sets of 7 judgments released upon this earth. These three sets
of judgments are called the Seal, Trumpet and Bowl Judgments. What will occur in
these 21 judgments is so horrific, so intense and so
catastrophic, that many Christians can hardly even begin to
read what is going to happen in these judgments, much less
really meditate and assimilate this specific knowledge into
their minds.
But the above verse from the Lord tells us that not only
must we "read" and "hear" the words in the Book
of Revelation in order for us to be blessed, but that we must
also "keep" these words in us.
To "keep" these words in us means that we have to
grasp the full meaning of these words, and have committed the
basic facts of this revelation into our minds so we cannot only
keep it for our own storehouse of knowledge in the Lord, but so
we can also use it to help educate others in this area.
As frightening, as scary and as intense as this revelation
and knowledge really is, God is still wanting all of us to
really make an attempt to try and understand it. We not only
need to know what the final outcome is going to be, and all of
the specific events that will be leading up to this final
outcome, but we also need to know exactly why all of this is
going to happen in the first place, and exactly why God is
going to release such severe judgments on this earth.
At the beginning of my article on the 7 Seal judgments, I give you the
specific reasons as to why God the Father will be releasing His
fury and His wrath on this earth with these 21 judgments in a
way that the world has never seen before and will never see
again. There are specific reasons for everything that will be
occurring, and you need to know exactly what those specific
reasons are so you can perfectly understand why all of this has
to play out the way it has been prophesied to occur from our
Bible.
Once you know what the final chapters are going to be in our
walk with the Lord, it will just help give you deeper insight
and deeper knowledge into this awesome God of ours.
The Book of Revelation is without question, the icing on the
entire cake. This Book will tell us exactly what is going to
happen in these 21 specific judgments, what exactly is going
happen to Satan and the rest of his demonic horde, what will
happen to all of the unsaved who have ever lived on this earth,
and then what the final glorious end will be for all Christians
who have stayed true, loyal and faithful to the Lord.
This information and knowledge is so vital and
so important for all of us to have, that the Lord Himself
has promised that "blessed" will be the man or woman who
will take the time to try and read from this powerful final
Book of our Bible.
It is my own personal belief that we are at the
beginning of many of these end time events starting to form
out. And sooner or later, there will be some incredible end
time events that will start manifesting on this earth. And
when it does, you will have hordes of both the saved and
the unsaved coming after Christians who will have knowledge
and understanding of this subject matter.
If you will allow the Lord to help build up your
knowledge base in this area, then He will be able to use
you to help educate these other people once they start
looking for answers to help explain all of the incredible
end time events that will start occurring on this
earth.
The Lord has now officially opened up not only the Book of
Revelation, but also the rest of the Scripture verses
pertaining to the end times. Many of the puzzle pieces have now
been put together. It is now all there for the taking for those
of you who want to dive in and further your education into the
Lord and all of His incredible ways.
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