What is a Father to Do | Revelation 15
Series: Revelation: The Best is Yet to Come
Title: “What is a Father to Do”
Scripture: Revelation 15
(Main commentary helps listed at the end)
Intro/Opening story:
“Jesus didn’t give the Church the book of Revelation so we’d build ourselves bigger bomb shelters, but so we’d would build longer dinner tables” - @RayOrtlund
Everybody is talking about the apocalypse like there’s no tomorrow…
Other thoughts wrt joy and circumstances and Jane / Nightbirdie
“Sow a thought, you reap an action;
Sow an action, you reap a habit;
Sow a habit, you reap a character;
sow a character, you reap a destiny.”
-E. Stanley Jones
Conclusion
Other Illustrations:
Keep your eyes on the clouds and the crowds.
Live in light of his imminent return.
“Jesus didn’t give the Church the book of Revelation so we’d build ourselves bigger bomb shelters, but so we’d would build longer dinner tables” - @RayOrtlund
The Framed Picture of Revelation 11-16
144,000 sealed—6 trumpet plagues (7-9)
True Prophet John (10:1-11)
Persecuted Church (11:1-14)
Christ is King (11:15-19)
Persecuted Church (12:1-13:10)
Satan’s False Prophet (13:11-18)
144,000 sealed—7 bowls of wrath (14-16)
Notice the symmetry and how it purposefully points to the most important truth in the book of Revelation. Just another way God reinforces the idea that he’s purposefully revealing himself to us for our good and his glory.
Other notes:
Main commentary help:
Exalting Jesus in Revelation by Daniel Akin
Revelation by Jim Hamilton
Revelation by Paige Patterson, New American Commentary series
Breaking the Code by Bruce Metzger
2020 Sermons by Matt Chandler
ESV Global Study Bible
Bible in One Year by Nicky Gumbel
Bible Knowledge Commentary
The Book of Revelation, NICNT, Robert Mounce
The Outline Bible, Wilmington
Bible in One Year reading plan, Nicky Gumbel
Exalting Jesus in 1 Kings by Tony Merida