REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Four - Jesus Comes With Encouragement

WHAT follows next should be of absorbing interest to everyone associated with the congregations of God's people today. Her is a series of messages .  They have particular application as "the appointed time" draws near. (Revelation 1:3) It is to our everlasting benefit  that we heed those pronouncements.  The record reads: "John to the seven congregations that are in the district of Asia:  May you have undeserved kindness and peace from "The  One who is and who was and who is coming," and from the seven spirits that are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ." - REVELATION 1:4, 5a.

Here John addresses "seven congregations ,"  and these are named for us later in the prophecy.  That number "seven," is often repeated in Revelation.  It signifies completeness, especially in connection with the things of God and his anointed congregation.  Since the number of congregations of God's people worldwide has grown into the tens of thousands during the Lord's day, we can be sure that what is said primarily to the "seven" anointed ones also applies to all of God's people today.  (Revelation 1:10) Yes, John has a vital message for all congregations of Jehovah's Witnesses and all who are associated with them, everywhere on the face of this earth.

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