DAY 806 - Assurance of The Great Rescue (請按此處收聼廣東話Cantonese podcast click here)

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                               Today's Reading: Revelation 7:9-17

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Bible Study

     John gives the assurance of protection for God's faithful servants during great trail and suffering in yesterday's passage.  Here in today's passage, John promises the great rescue for those who would lose their lives. They will be in God's throne room. Do you accept that as the great rescue? That means you might have to die. 

Let's take a look at what Bishop N.T. Wright says (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._T._Wright ) :

     The reality is that the creator God and the lamb have already won the victory, the victory which means that those who follow the lamb are rescued from harm.  The reality is that the people who claim the lamb's protection may well have to come through a time of great suffering, but they will then find themselves in the true reality, in God's throne room, worshipping and serving him day and night with great, abundant and exuberant joy. 
     
N.T. Wright. Revelation for Everyone. Louisville,KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2011, p.73-74.

      Do you think John's message is an assurance? Do you accept that assurance?      

Let's have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passage we have just read. Offer this time up to Jesus as you listen to him, while listening to "Gabriel's Oboe":  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmax47l2hLU

Spiritual Journal

    The title I heard from Jesus today is: Assurance of the great rescue

    What I got from Jesus today is a reality check of our readiness to die if it really happen. No one wants to die! But, a true Christian should not afraid of dying, right? 

     Are you able to accept the scene of John's description today as how glorious it is in heaven, worshipping God with the angles and archangels? Or, you do not believe that is a reality when you die and everything in the Bible is just a lie.

     So, the question and challenge from Jesus to you is that is it a promise, an assurance or just a lie? 
     
Dear Lord Jesus,
Open our eyes to be able to see that glorious scene in heaven so that we do not afraid of dying know that the great rescue will happen to us in your time.  In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

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