In Good Times & In Bad Times

Revelation 3:14-22

Introduction

I have said before that many people have the wrong idea about the Book of Revelation. Many people believe that Revelation is about one thing, and there's only one way to look at that one thing. To believe that is to rob Revelation of its true and deeper meaning, which misses the true meaning of Revelation. Like every book in the Bible, Revelation's grand subject is Jesus. That's the topic of every book and the entire Bible. Jesus is the main character, theme, and meaning of all 66 books, including Revelation. 

The book of Revelation was written for these seven churches, which we find in the first three chapters. Chapters 4-22 should not be separated from the three chapters we have been studying. We study the Bible correctly by always keeping it in its context so that God's Word isn't manipulated to say something it didn't intend. The context of this entire book was the beginning and growth of Christian persecution of the first few centuries that these seven churches would f…