One of the first things that God showed me was that the seven seals were opened during the age of the Church, or the age of grace. I once again began to read the Revelation and it was as if slowly piece by piece God started unveiling the gift that He had given me. There was far too much information for me to process all at once.
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The only way I can begin to describe this encounter is that it was as if God had downloaded directly into my spirit a compressed mega-file full of His instructions.Īlthough God’s instructions were in my spirit my carnal mind still could not grasp the truths contained in this mega-file. Could you please help me to understand what it is I am reading?” As I sat there for a moment in silent contemplation I abruptly got the answer to my prayer. I prayed, “Lord, I really know nothing about the book of Revelation, but it was you who wrote the book and you know it better than anyone. I had set my mind to study and I had forgotten to invite the Ruach Spirit of the Living God to study with me. I then realized that I had forgotten something very important. I started to read it through, but by the time I finished the book I was more confused than ever.
One day I was feeling especially adventurous and set my mind to studying and really understanding the book of Revelation for myself. I was soon to find out that the carnal mind could never truly understand the Spirit of God. Little did I know how literally uplifting the book of Revelation could be. I always tried to avoid the book of Revelation during my daily devotional Bible reading focusing more on the books and scriptures that I deemed more “uplifting”. God was a loving father who rejoiced over me when I returned from my prodigal ways.Įven though I understood this wonderful difference, still some of this fear about apocalyptic events accompanied me into my Christian walk. He was not just some sort of cosmic landlord that would evict me from my life at a whim. I immediately went from one side of the fence to the other and I could see how wrong I had been about God. Then by the grace of Jesus Christ I was saved at the age of twenty-three. The way I saw it I would be front row, center at the Great White Throne judgment and God’s fierce countenance would mandate my destiny in the lake of fire. I thought about the judgments and the plagues mentioned in the book of Revelation and I feared knowing deep inside of myself that I was on the wrong side of the fence. Prior to my conversion apocalyptic movies and sermons frightened me more than I can say. Why should I bother with studying the book myself when there were so many scholars who had spent lifetimes in the pursuit of the truth of end time events?
The way I looked at it, other people had studied the book and I could just ride off of their observations. As is the case with many people the book of the Revelation used to be a complete mystery to me.
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