Revelation - Its Happy Climax

Apocalypse-What Is It?

Is not Revelation also called Revelation?  This is so,  "revelation" being the English translation of a-po-ka'ly- psis in the Greek text.  Many people equate Apocalyse  with world destruction by nuclear warfare.  In Texas, U.S.A., city where great numbers of nuclear warheads were made, religiously inclined people used to say,  "We'll be the first to go." Clergymen in that area were reported to have been "convinced that Armageddon is not only  inevitable but also close at hand, and the final battle between the forcers of good and bad, of God and Satan, will take place as  a nuclear holocaust." 

Note: It will be that way. If they actually read ALL the Bible, they would know the truth of everything, but they don't really want to know. They need to know to be fully prepared. They need God in their lives, because he is our saviour who is the only one who will judge us and can save them. Otherwise,  they are in trouble.

But what really is a apocalypse? Though dictionaries define it by using terms such as "an imminent cosmic cataclysm,"  the Greek a-po-ka'ly-psis basically means   "unveiling" or "uncovering." Thus, the last book of the Bible is properly entitled  "A Revelation."  Here we find not a mere  fatalistic message of world doom, but an uncovering of divine truths that should build in our hearts a radiant hope and an unmovable faith.

True, Armageddon is described as "the war of the great day of God the Almighty." (Revelation 16:14. 16)   But it will be far different   from a nuclear holocaust!  Such a holocaust would likely mean the annihilation of all life on earth.  On the contrary, God's Word give the happy assurance that only wicked opposers  of God will destroyed-by forces under God's control.  (Psalm 37:9, 10; 145:20)  A great crowd of humans, out of all the nations, will survive the climax  of divine judgment at Armageddon.  Christ Jesus will then shepherd these to life everlasting in a paradise earth.  Do you want to be one of them?  Happily, Revelation show that you may be! - REVELATION 7:9, 14, 17.

The huge crowd will be all Jehovah's Witnesses who love God and do his will, studies the Bible, and wants to learn the truth that no one else in other religious leaders do, They skip verses they don't want to know or learn and people believe the bull that they tell them.  Everyone needs to actually read the Bible word for word, page for page, then when you're done, read it again, until you learn what it says, and, at the same time, ask God to give you wisdom and discernment  to know and learn what the words say and mean. But you have to be sincere in asking, because he can read your heart and mind.  Just know that God and Jesus Christ are the ones who can save you from destruction. 

Next time: Revelation-Its Happy Climax - Searching Out Divine Secrets

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