The Message of Revelation
March 2019 Revelation is one of the books Christians are most curious about, and yet so many preachers are reluctant to approach it. I was one of those reluctant preachers for many years. Two years ago I moved to Cyprus and since that time I have been thinking deeply about Revelation. John was a teacher and theologian living as an exile on an island because the government wouldn’t let him live in Anatolia any longer. I think I especially identified with John because we have those things in common. I now live as an exile in Cyprus since I am no longer able to live in Turkey. I am glad to be where we are and God has used this season to broaden my vision and shape my soul for new things. As a kid Revelation seemed scary and mysterious. Some of the people around me read it as if it were full of secret codes to be solved as a way of piecing together a picture of the future that was supposedly presented in scattered passages throughout the Bible and culminated with the book of Revelatio...