REVELATIONS OF OUR SALVATION
The Bible gives different revelations of Jesus Christ. But the biblical Word of God encourage you to prayerfully study and search the Scripture to “correctly” understanding the things concerning the revelations of Jesus, our Savior of the world (2 Timothy 2:15; John 5:39). For all Scripture is “inspired” by God (2 Timothy 3:16).
JESUS IS REVEALED AS THE MESSIANIC SAVIOR OF THE WORLD.
Great is the mystery of God’s revelation of his Son Jesus Christ as Savior of the world: “He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory” (1 Timothy 3:16).
Believing in Jesus as your Savior and Lord causes you to be born of the Holy Spirit and have eternal (John 3:5, 16)
Being born of the Spirit gives you other rights as a child of God: “to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God (John 1:12).
“Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God!. Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is” (1 John 3:1-2).
Being a child of God also makes you capable of understanding other mysteries of God. For “the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God…nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned” (1 Corinthians 2:14).
The revelation of Jesus as God’s Messianic Savior of the world, the one who redeems us to God, is evidently his most important revelation (John 14:6; Ephesians 1:7).
THE SCRIPTURE REVEALS THINGS CONCERNING OUR SAVIOR BEFORE HIS FIRST COMING
DANIEL In this book of the Bible God gave Daniel some symbols that represent events in history leading up to the coming of the Lord. God gave him symbols representing four successive great world kingdoms that would exist prior to God’s “Anointed One” first coming to “atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness.” And God gave understanding of the symbols: A lion symbolized Babylon. A bear represented Media-Persia. A leopard emblemized Greece. And a terrifying and very powerful beast symbolized what later came to be recognized by many as Rome (Daniel 7). Other symbols of some of the same kingdoms were also given (Daniel 9).
During the time of the Rome empire: “But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship. 6 Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, “Abba, Father.” 7 So you are no longer a slave, but God’s child; and since you are his child, God has made you also an heir” (Galatians 4:4-7 NIV).
THE LORD REVEALED MANY THINGS TO BELIEVERS DURING HIS FIRST COMING.
During the first coming of Jesus into the world, he spoke many parables to his followers about the kingdom of God, including “ the parable of the sower.” When his disciples were alone with him, they asked him why he spoke in parables
… He answered and said to them, “Because it has been given to you to know the ]mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given…
18 “Therefore hear the parable of the sower: 19 When anyone hears the word of the kingdom, and does not understand it, then the wicked one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is he who received seed by the wayside. 20 But he who received the seed on stony places, this is he who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy; 21 yet he has no root in himself, but endures only for a while. For when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles. 22 Now he who received seed among the thorns is he who hears the word, and the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful. 23 But he who received seed on the good ground is he who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and produces: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.” (Matthew 13:1-23).
JESUS REVEALS THINGS TO US THAT HAPPENS BETWEEN HIS COMINGS.
REVELATION. The Bible reveals that the gospels were written that “you might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that by believing you might have life through his name” (John 20:31). However, Revelation was written through John to those who already believe, about “things which must shortly come to pass” (Revelation 1:1). In reading Revelation, these things seem to involve things that were to happen after Jesus’ first coming and lead up to his second coming.
What might the blasphemous woman riding a beast (Revelation 17:3) and other things of Revelation convey to believers following Jesus’ first coming?
Recent writers have written on their understanding or interpretation of things in Revelation. These writing might be seen as being more symbolical or more literal interpretations. An example of books that renders a more symbolic interpretation may be seen in the book titled The Revelation Explained, by F.G. Smith. An example of books which offers a more literal interpretation may be seen in the book titled Revelation Expounded, by Finis Drake.
However, in considering what anyone says who claims to be representing God, we are advised to follow the biblical example of the early Berean Church. “They searched the Scriptures day after day to see if Paul and Silas were teaching the truth” (Acts 17:11). Paul was a chosen apostle and had been caught to the third heaven and given “surpassingly great revelations” from the Lord (2 Corinthians 12:2); yet Paul commended the Bereans for searching the scriptures for themselves. For the apostle said: “now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known” ( 1 Corinthians 13:12)
In any event, if we have repented and believed in Jesus Christ as our Savior and Lord, we will be caught up to live with him forever at his second coming (1 Thessalonians 4:17)..
