A Commentary on the Book of Revelation by David Pawson

Author:David Pawson [Pawson, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Anchor Recordings
Published: 2013-07-17T00:00:00+00:00

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Revelation 8:6 – 9:21

The book of Revelation is a very good test as to whether you believe the Bible to be the Word of God or not. It has a strange effect. If you are living an easy, comfortable life, this is a book that you do not like. It shakes you up, it disturbs you inside. At the time of writing, it can be nice and easy and comfortable to live in much of Britain. So this disturbs us; we do not like to think things like this could happen here. On the other hand, if you are suffering and going through it, this book becomes a comforting book and a helpful book. The Christians in China love this book of Revelation, it is the most comforting book to them. So if we have a reaction against it, this may be because we do not like to be disturbed. Nevertheless, we need to read it. It is not an easy book and we are into the most difficult chapters. We are getting into some very complicated symbolism — some of which I do not profess to understand. But one of the things that I have found helpful to understand these chapters is this: here we are hearing about things that have never happened before, so it is not surprising that we find it difficult to understand or imagine these unprecedented events. So what I ask myself is this: even though I do not understand the details of some of these disasters, what is the effective result of them? When you ask that, it becomes utterly plain. I may not understand these locusts with their weird faces and hair and tails that sting and so on, but when I ask what is the result of that (that a third of mankind dies) then I do understand, it is clear enough. I may not understand this great army of horsemen and the sulphur and the sapphire and the fire and so forth, but when I ask what the result is I understand the result, which is that even though men suffer appallingly they still do not turn back to God.

Therefore, what I would suggest is hold on in the book of Revelation to what you do understand, and work back from that to what you do not, and you will find that it becomes clearer. Just bear in mind that until these events happen nobody quite knows what they will be like. John is trying to describe for us what is indescribable because it is beyond our experience, but the results are utterly clear. This book was written not to give you an academic exercise in trying to understand all the symbols, it is to tell you what the outcome will be, and if you read the book of Revelation with any attention at all you will be left in no doubt as to what the results of all this are.

Let us turn to these seven trumpets. John sees the end of history as a series of tragedies.

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