Post by whatif on Sept 18, 2017 10:56:42 GMT -6
The whole prophecy of the Revelation of Jesus Christ is to Christ's servants!!!
You can do a complete word study of the Bible to discover who servants of Jesus Christ are.
Servants of Jesus Christ are NOT the Jews! In fact, Christ said MUCH WORSE words to describe the Jews in relation to Christ...
Jews had the Romans beat the absolute crap out of Christ, crown him with thorns, and then nailed Him to a cross!
Then after that, they stoned Stephen to death for quoting Isaiah 66! Then went after the rest of the servants of Jesus Christ.
Good morning, uscgvet! I find it fascinating that the Lord used Jews and Gentiles in a perfect coordination to accomplish His purpose at the Cross, so both in fact have His blood on their hands. And when a person becomes a believer, the Lord sees that person as neither Jew nor Gentile, according to Galatians 3:26-29.
"So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise."
To me, it seems the book of Revelation is indeed written to believers in Jesus to give us hope, to show us what to expect as the time nears for His return, and to guide us in keeping a solid walk with Him so we can avoid the traps of this world. It seems to have layers of whom it's addressing--actual churches at the time of the writing, perhaps people living at the time of individual periods of church history through the ages, groups of believers around the world, individual believers, and yes, tribulation period believers. Some of those tribulation period believers will be the 144,000 sealed from the tribes of Israel, so I do feel that the book of Revelation is also calling out to the Jewish people and will someday be understood and used as an important handbook to inform them of what to expect in the days of the tribulation.
