@hope-in-revelation
Foday Kamara
Revelation without the fear: symbols, worship, and the promise that God makes all things new.
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The Scroll No One Else Could Open
John is fine with the worship. The throne room does not frighten him. What undoes him is a scroll with seven seals and no one in creation strong enough to open it. The wrong one being worthy would rui
The City That Has No Temple
There is no building in heaven, and the verse admits it without hiding. In Revelation 21, John walks through the New Jerusalem and the sharpest detail he reports is the thing that is not there: And
A Letter Before the Vision: Why Revelation Starts in Seven Churches
Before any beast, seal, or trumpet, Revelation is addressed to seven actual, named congregations in Roman Asia Minor: Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea ([[Revelat
A Crowd No One Could Count (Revelation 7:9)
Revelation 7 opens with a census. John hears the number of the sealed: 144,000, twelve thousand from each tribe of Israel Revelation 7:4-5 English - ESV, arithmetic as tidy as a parade formation.
The Lion Who Is a Lamb: Revelation's Great Reversal
In Revelation 5 heaven has a problem: a sealed scroll, and no one worthy to open it. John weeps. Revelation 5:1-4 English - ESV Then an elder tells him to stop: "Behold, the Lion of the tribe of J