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| Gary Wilson pointed me to Albrecht Durer's woodcuts on the Book of Revelation. |
This coming Sunday morning, March 22, I will give the first of many messages at Redeemer on the biblical book of Revelation. We will go verse-by-verse through this incredible text until - a year or more later? - we finish it.
This Sunday morning I will set the stage and preach from Rev. 1:1-3, which reads:
The revelation from Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants what must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, 2 who testifies to everything he saw—that is, the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ. 3 Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near.
My preaching goals include:
- rightly interpreting the biblical text.
- understanding the meaning of the text as it was read by the early church.
- discerning the relevance of Revelation for the times we now live in.
The commentaries I am using to preach Revelation are:
G.K. Beale, Revelation: A Shorter Commentary (only 562 pages)
Grant Osborne, Revelation
George Ladd, Revelation
Robert Mounce, Revelation
Craig Keener, Revelation: The NIV Application Commentary
Ben Witherington, Revelation
I also recommend two books on Revelation that can be read more devotionally -
- Eugene Peterson's Reversed Thunder: The Revelation of John and the Praying Imagination.
- N. T. Wright's Revelation for Everyone.
If you come to Redeemer I recommend you begin reading and re-reading Revelation to become more familiar with it.
I am excited about taking a long, deep look at this incredible biblical book and what God is going to say to us and do in our church family!
(Note: these sermons will also be online, so you can listen to them and follow along if this is for you.)
