Chapter Three/Things That Must Shortly Take Place - Channel of Communication

 Revelation 1:1b, 2 continues: "And he [Jesus] sent forth his angel and presented it (Revelation] in signs through him to his slave John, who bore witness to the word God gave, even to all the things he saw." Thus, John received the inspired record through an angelic messenger. He wrote in a scroll, transmitting it to the congregations of his time. Happily for us, God has preserved it for the encouragement of the more than50,000 congregations of his united servants on earth today. 

God had a channel for communicating Revelation in John's day, and John was the earthly part if that channel. Likewise, God has a channel for spiritual nourishment to his 'slaves' today In his great prophecy concerning the conclusion of the system of things, Jesus identified the earthly part if the channel as "the faithful and discreet slave whom his master appointed over his domestics, to give them their food at the proper time." (Matthew 24:3, 45-47) He uses this John class in unlocking the meaning of the prophesy. 

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