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Sermon: Rev 6 The Opened Scroll

Revelation Ch 6


The Opened Scroll


We come tonight to the opening of the sealed scroll.
We discovered last week that it contains the final act in
God’s dramascript of history -the events that John is
told in Ch 4 must take place ‘later’.


‘Later’ we saw refers in the first instance to events that
would happen in the lives of the C1 Christians. It is the
future they could expect. It describes also, however,
events that would be part of the world of every
successive generation of Christians right up until the
final generation, the generation on earth when Jesus
returns, for whom these events would have the most
complete and comprehensive fulfilment of all.


The point is of course that each generation of Christians
is encouraged in Scripture to think of themselves as
potentially the last generation. To look out on their
world with the focus of this chapter and from what they
see derive the hope that ‘the Coming of the Lord is at
hand’.


Well, what is John’s vision of the future. What kind of
world can Christians expect to live in before the Lord
returns?


Well, it is a world under judgement. A world marked
by chaos and destruction and death.
 

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