Revelation Chapter 1 – 5 Witnesses to Revelations – First Witness
Revelation Chapter 1 – 5 Witnesses to Revelations
One of the first things I noticed about the Revelation of Jesus Christ is that God reveals five
witnesses in the first verse of Revelations. These witnesses are the Father, Jesus Christ, angels, the servant John, and all Christ’s redeemed servants.
- Revelation 1:1, “The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass, and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:”
Revelation Chapter 1 – 5 Witnesses to Revelations: Spiritually Discerned
The Revelation is specifically sent to the redeemed servants of Jesus Christ. Those who don’t know Christ cannot possibly understand these revelations because these things are spiritually discerned.
- I Corinthians 2: 14, “But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.”
Revelation Chapter 1 – Witnesses to Revelations: Greatest Witness
The Revelation of Jesus Christ is a culmination of the revealing of Jesus Christ throughout the Bible. But to understand the Revelation is to realize that the Revelation of Jesus Christ is sent from the Father himself; the Greatest Witness of all.
- Revelation 1:1, “The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him…”
Although the Father is invisible and can’t be seen or heard by men, it the Father who sends this message to mankind that reveals his only begotten Son, Jesus Christ as Savior of the world and Creator of heaven and earth.
- John 3:16-17, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.”
- Colossians 1:13-16, “Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: In whom we have redemption through his blood; even the forgiveness of sins: Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature. For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him and for him.”
It is the will of the Father that sent Jesus and bears witness of Jesus.
- John 5:37-40, “And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, not seen his shape. And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not. Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.”
Revelation Chapter 1 – Message From the Father: Why Can’t We See Father?
Why can’t we see the Father?
The Father is the very soul of God. He is pure light which no man can approach. He is also a consuming fire. Only through Jesus can we know the Father.
- I Timothy 6:14-16, “That thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukeable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ: Which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.”
- Hebrews 12:28-29, “Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: For our God is a consuming fire.”
Revelation Chapter 1 – 5 Witnesses to Revelations: Father Ordains Jesus
It is the Father that sent his only begotten Son Jesus Christ into the world to give man repentance, faith, salvation, and eternal life through the blood of Jesus…and it is the Father that ordains the Revelation of Christ.
- John 3:16, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
Revelation Chapter 1 – 5 Witnesses to Revelations: Rejecting God’s Witness
To reject the message of Jesus Christ presented throughout the scriptures in the Bible, including the Revelation, is to call the Father a liar.
- I John 5:10-12, “He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son. And this is the record, that God hath given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.”
Revelation Chapter 1 – 5 Witnesses to Revelations: Seek the Face of Jesus
Let us prayerfully and diligently seek the face of Jesus through all the scriptures of the Bible so that we might share them with the lost that they may be saved.
In Christ
J-me
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