I started off my day by plugging in my MP3 player to listen to some Christian music as I drove. The first song up was called the Revelation song. The title didn’t ring any bells but once it started, I knew what it was. It’s closer to contemporary than traditional, but I really enjoy it. It goes through a lot of heavy doctrine as the girl sings. Wonderful song.
That got me off, thinking about Uncharted Revelation. And that made me think about what would I do if I were preaching a sermon, entitled, Uncharted Revelation? It would be an introductory sermon so it would have to be general and scope.
I would have to start with some disclaimers. My mind went down the path of pointing out that Revelation is a part of scripture. That was important to say because I’m not sure I would be praising the book as I went on and people might get the wrong idea. Wrong ideas are easy to get when you’re talking about Revelation.
From there, I went to II Timothy 3:16 where it talks about all scripture being inspired,
(2Ti 3:16 KJV) All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:Revelation is clearly a part of the Bible, which makes it scripture, so this declaration by Paul applies to the book written by John. Well, no matter how much of my speculations may be harebrained and off the cuff that is a statement of truth.
From there my mind kept traveling down past what for other people might be bizarre. I recognized that there was no mention of eschatology or end times in that verse. I don’t know if that is significant. It wouldn’t be important if we were talking about the creation story in Genesis or possibly even the love chapter in Corinthians, but for Revelation that might be important.
I also noticed that it doesn’t mention anything about salvation. Curious. I guess both of those topics could be considered doctrine or as modern translations say, teaching.
So keep in mind that no matter how unusual my comments might be, I still think this is scripture.
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