Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
Each new year the car factories put out new models and their advertising lures us into thinking that our old model must be replaced with the new. We are even embarrassed to be seen driving the old models.
There is a similar trend in books that “explain” Daniel and the Revelation. New “models” are produced with new methods of interpretation. And of course, anything “new” is intriguing; everybody admits that the church is “lukewarm,” “in a rut,” in need of new ideas. In the process of new interpretations, of course, the old “historicist” understandings of these prophetic books are cast off. Yet those are the understandings that God’s people have cherished for some two centuries. There is involved some precious history of God’s leading of His people that is being abandoned.
The apostle John in writing the book of Revelation cried tears: “No one in heaven or on the earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll, or to look at it. So I wept much......” (5:3, 4). It was then that John was introduced to the Hero of the book: “a Lamb [stood] as though it had been slain” (vs. 6). The book of Revelation was not written without tears, and neither will it be understood except with tears. The story of the crucifixion of Jesus is paramount in this last book of the Bible; that Lamb is mentioned some 25 times. The book is a profound exploration of the heavenly love that led Him to “empty Himself” (Phil. 2:5, 6), to “pour out His soul unto death” (Isa. 53:12), to “taste death [the real thing] for every man” (Heb. 2:9), to endure “the curse” of God (Gal. 3:10), to die when He felt the indescribable pain of His Father forsaking Him (Matt. 27:46).
The book of Revelation traces through history the footsteps of this Lamb.
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