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CHRIS: The Book of Revelation.
Just the sound of it brings fear
to some people. You know, the
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Book of Revelation is a
mysterious book by most people's
accounts. In fact, how many
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people handle this book is, they
don't read it because they feel
like you have to have special
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knowledge to understand it, and
others see beasts and judgments,
and they read it so fearfully,
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that it makes them so
frightened, they don't want to
read it, while others see the
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gloom and the doom and the
devastation and they say there's
no way that this book can
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actually be about the same Jesus
who fed 5,000, who
compassionately dealt with the
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multitudes. But I believe there
is another answer. And to help
me find that other answer, I
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have with me today in studio
Pastor Jon-Ross Ennest. Pastor
Ennest, welcome to the program
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today. JON-ROSS: Thanks for
having me. CHRIS: Pastor Ennest,
you're pastoring a church. Tell
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us, where are you pastoring?
JON-ROSS: Yeah, well, I live in
Gander, Newfoundland, which is
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in central Newfoundland, and so
I pastor there, and I also
pastor a company out in Cape
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Frees, Newfoundland. Beautiful
spot. Chris, if you ever have a
chance to come - white beaches;
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it's great. CHRIS: Yes.
JON-ROSS: As well, I do ministry
in Lethbridge, Newfoundland as
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well. CHRIS: That is wonderful.
And you've actually been in
ministry quite a few years. You
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actually did some work in
Alberta. JON-ROSS: Yeah. CHRIS:
Did, actually, some
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creative things. Tell me a
little bit about what you did
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there in Alberta. JON-ROSS:
Yeah, well, we were
church-planting, and in an
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effort to reach our community,
we opened a health food store.
We had a café and organic
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produce co-op, and we also did
lifestyle education programs as
well, like weight loss programs
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and stuff like that. CHRIS:
Well, that is a phenomenal
thing. So glad that you're on
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the program. You have been a
student of the Book of
Revelation for quite some time.
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JON-ROSS: Yeah. CHRIS: Pastor
Ennest, help me now here,
because there are some people
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that just say this book can't be
understood, it's a scary book to
read. Tell me, what are your
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thoughts on the Book of
Revelation? JON-ROSS: You know,
I think it can actually be a
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terrifying book - really, it can
- but if you come at it from the
wrong angle. And what really
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tips us off to what the Book of
Revelation is all about is
actually Revelation chapter 1
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verse 1. Yeah, we'll turn there.
CHRIS: Let's go right to the
Book of Revelation, go to
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chapter 1, and verse 1, to see
what you're talking about here,
Pastor Jon-Ross. JON-ROSS: Yeah.
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And so in
Revelation 1:1, it says:
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JON-ROSS: And so right off, the
Book of Revelation says that
it's a revealing of Jesus
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Christ, which is given. And so
this book is claiming to be
about Jesus, and so we should be
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able to see Jesus. But I think
the problem is, sometimes we
come with preconceived ideas.
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Maybe people have told us things
about Revelation that have
scared us. But the lenses that
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we wear to view what's written
here, I think that makes the.
that's all the difference. And
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what I think we need to do is
maybe have a change of
perspective. CHRIS: Well, it's
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very interesting, you use that
word "lenses," the lenses we
wear. You wear glasses, I wear
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contacts. JON-ROSS: Yeah. CHRIS:
You know, and I don't know how
you are; if I don't
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have my contacts, I can't read.
Things are blurry. And so you've
used this word "lenses." Some
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people use this big word
"paradigm." And I appreciate the
usage of the word "lenses." The
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key piece here that you've
identified is, Revelation 1:1
says, "the revelation of Jesus
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Christ." This book is about the
same Jesus who is talked about
and testified to in Matthew,
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Mark, Luke, and John; the same
Jesus who fed the 5,000; the
same Jesus who ministered
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compassionately to many people.
And this word "the revelation,"
that word, as you pointed out,
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the revealing, can actually be
translated from the original as
"the unveiling," kind of pulling
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back the drapes and pulling back
the curtains to see in. So this
Book of Revelation, what does it
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reveal to us? You pointed out,
it reveals to us the things that
soon must take place. Let's talk
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a little bit about that, and
then we're going to get a little
context and background to help
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us get right into the Book of
Revelation. JON-ROSS: Yeah.
Well, if I'm understanding you
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correctly, Chris, is, this book
is helping us to get a grasp of
how the flow of history is going
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to go and how God is involved in
that history, how God is
invested in that history. And
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when we come to the Book of
Revelation and we look. we see
doom and we see gloom and it
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scares us, I think the key is to
step back and say, "Well, who
wrote the book?" Well, we
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believe God inspired this book
and He's preserved it down
through the ages; but God used a
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human being to pen it. And that
one who penned. the person who
penned the Book of Revelation is
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the one that we call the apostle
of love, the apostle John.
CHRIS: Yes. JON-ROSS: And I
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think that's something that
should, again, tip us off. It
should be a clue to say, "Well,
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wait a minute. If people are
saying this book is terrifying,
it's frightening - the apostle
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of love wrote this book. That
seems kind of incongruent, you
know. So how do we understand
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this?" CHRIS: Yeah. And just to
help our viewers, you're talking
about the apostle John, the
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apostle of love. This is the
same apostle who wrote the Book
of John and wrote the epistles
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of John: First, Second, and
Third John. This is the same
John who, at this point in his
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life, when he's writing the Book
of Revelation, when the Holy
Spirit has inspired him to write
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these words, he has been
imprisoned on the rocky island
of Patmos. And this is after he
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had been persecuted by the
Romans. In fact, there's a story
told in history that when John
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would not worship the emperor,
they were going to punish him by
burning him alive in a cauldron
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of boiling oil. JON-ROSS: That's
right. CHRIS: And the story goes
that they threw John in that
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oil, and nothing happened to
him. JON-ROSS: Nothing happened.
CHRIS: So they've got this
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apostle of love who is spreading
the love of Jesus; they can't
control him, so they do
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something that can stop the
message. JON-ROSS: Yeah. CHRIS:
They isolate him on this
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rocky island. So Pastor Ross,
it's probably important for us
to kind of understand who John
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is and what John's intentions
were to help us understand what
this book really is getting to
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the heart of. JON-ROSS:
Absolutely. CHRIS: So where can
we go to get a little
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context of where John's writing
from, his approach? JON-ROSS:
Yeah. Well, you know,
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for sure, you could go to the
Gospel of John. I really value
the epistles. I feel like John's
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really pouring out his heart.
He's writing this as a letter to
those who are followers of
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Christ. So let's head over to
First John. I think that's going
to be a great place for us to
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start. CHRIS: Okay, we'll go to
First John. And I will tell you,
as we go to First John, I will
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tell you personally - and it's
hard to say you have a favourite
book of the Bible - you know, I
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love the entire Word of God. But
I have always said that, you
know, if somehow, someway, I was
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being chased from my home and I
could only grab one book of the
Bible, it would be First John,
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because I feel like First John
is the encompassing of the
entire gospel - in fact, the
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encompassing of the entire story
of the Bible - in five short
chapters. In fact, I tell people
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who are becoming new Christians,
"Get right into First John
because it's going to give you
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the whole story, and then go
back." So where are we going to
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go in First John? JON-ROSS:
First John chapter 2, second
chapter, and we're going to look
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at verse 28. And here, John is
making a statement. And I love
the. sorry, I value the love
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that he writes with
towards his audience. He says:
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JON-ROSS: I think that that's
such a beautiful verse. Here,
he's saying, "Christ is coming
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again," and that's something
that the Book of Revelation is
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very clear about. CHRIS:
Absolutely. JON-ROSS: And he
says that we can have confidence
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that we can rejoice, that we can
have hope when Christ returns.
CHRIS: This is actually
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incredibly key to our study in
the Book of Revelation, because
that's where Revelation 1:1
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starts. It says, "The revelation
of Jesus Christ," and eventually
says, "to show us the things
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that will shortly take place."
JON-ROSS: Right. CHRIS: And when
we understand that in the
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context of being written 2,000
years ago. and we understand it
in the context of God's time,
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because God is infinite; God
knows no beginning and no
ending. So 2,000 years, well,
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that is almost an impossibility
for us to imagine. In God's
timing, that is a very short
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time. If the Book of Revelation
says these things are taking
place shortly, we need to engage
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in such a way that we understand
it. And then you point out here
- which is beautiful - we can
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have confidence and not be
fearful, not be ashamed.
JON-ROSS: Yeah. CHRIS: So this
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is an amazing thing. Now, help
me out with. as we move forward
in that passage. JON-ROSS:
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Mmhmm. Well, when we see that -
we just looked at verse 28 -
later on, as we jump into the
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early parts of chapter 3, we see
here. firstly, I'm just going to
mention in verse 1:
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JON-ROSS: I really appreciate
that. That's something that's
always been very encouraging to
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me in my walk with Christ.
But then he says, verse 2:
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JON-ROSS: So here, John is
saying, "We should be hoping in
that return. That's something
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that we should be longing for,
desiring." And the fact that
he's saying this - and that the
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Book of Revelation is all about
that coming - tells me, John has
a very different perspective.
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CHRIS: Yes. JON-ROSS: He has a
very different perspective.
CHRIS: Absolutely. And we're
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going to pause for a moment,
because we're trying to give a
context to the Book of
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Revelation to help us understand
the Book of Revelation. And
we're going to talk a little bit
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about the Second Coming. We
don't have a lot of time to
unpack all the different issues
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of the Second Coming, and so I
want to say to our viewer, I did
an entire series called "Hope
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for a Helpless Planet" where I
unpack the signs of Jesus'
coming, how Jesus will come. And
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I would encourage you - you can
go to our website,
itiswrittencanada.ca - there you
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can watch archives of the
program. Or you can call in to
our phone number which will be
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shown at the end of the show and
you can ask them to send you a
copy of "Hope for a Helpless
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Planet." Now, Pastor Jon-Ross,
Jesus is coming again, and so
just to give a brief, very brief
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synopsis of what the Second
Coming means, why is the Second
Coming - and again, we could
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spend a multitude of shows - but
in brief synopsis, why is the
Second Coming important to us?
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JON-ROSS: Well, I'll just share
why it's important to me. CHRIS:
Yes. JON-ROSS: The Second
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Coming is important is because
when Jesus comes back, He's
going to be restoring all that
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sin has damaged. He's going to
be reconciling all that sin has
separated. It's going to be a
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re-creation, a renewal, of a
close - and really, truly, a
near, physically near-to-God
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relationship. And so this Second
Coming is - I believe John is
saying he hopes in this -
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because this is the time when,
for him, he's on an island, he's
isolated, he's separated. He's
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excited about that Second Coming
because that's a time when
there's no more separation.
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CHRIS: Yes. JON-ROSS: You know,
he lived three-and-a-half years
with his Lord. He's going to be
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with Him again. CHRIS: Yes. And
I think you've pointed out
something. You've used this word
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"separation" which I think is
such a key word, both for John
and in our modern time. We have
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to understand, John is on the
island of Patmos, and John had
come from Ephesus, his home, and
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he was separated by a vast
expanse of water, which is kind
of interesting - when John is
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concluding the Book of
Revelation, he talks about
"there will be no more sea." And
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sometimes people think, "Oh,
there's going to be no more
water in heaven." No, no, no,
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that's not what it's saying.
John is emphasizing this point
of separation. So not only will
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the separation between us and
God, us and Jesus, be reconciled
or brought back together, fixed,
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mended, but in addition to that,
broken relationships, broken
families - separated by whatever
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the case may be, whether it be
death, whether it be anguish -
none of that will exist ever
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again when Jesus comes again. So
the Second Coming is absolutely
critical because it is a
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cataclysmic event that changes
everything, which is why John -
and I don't want to get too
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ahead of us - but which is why
John concludes the Book of
Revelation - we're going to
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spend a lot more time at the
beginning of the Book of
Revelation - but John concludes
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the Book of Revelation by saying
there will be no more pain, no
more sorrow, no more death, no
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more dying. It is impossible,
actually, for us as human beings
to even imagine that, because we
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function in a finite world.
JON-ROSS: That's right. CHRIS:
We have a beginning, we
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have an ending. Both of us are
pastors, and I know sometimes
there are jokes that, you know,
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about when people attend church,
you know; we attend church when
we're birthed; we attend church
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when we're married; and we
attend church when we die, you
know. And so there is going to
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be no more separation. JON-ROSS:
I just want to throw out there
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is, I think it's ironic that
people view Revelation
fearfully, when in reality, the
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one thing that - I think it's
one of the biggest things that
separates us from others - is
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fear. CHRIS: Yes. JON-ROSS: And
so I think it's ironic that the
Book of Revelation is about the
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restoration and the removal of
that fear, and that yet, people
view this book with fear.
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CHRIS: Absolutely. And it's
interesting. You have the
apostle John who, by the way,
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the apostle John sitting on the
island of Patmos is, you know,
he's not a young 25-year-old. I
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mean, he's probably in his 90s.
And Patmos was a penal colony,
meaning that the Romans had
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brought him there for hard
labour. I mean, he's probably
breaking rock, and just imagine
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that. But we find all of the
apostles, all of the saints
throughout time - and I use the
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word "saints" more
metaphorically speaking - those
patriarchs. You know, Paul finds
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hope in the Second Coming.
Abraham looked forward to the
Second Coming. Moses looked
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forward to the Second Coming.
And it was not in fear, but a
great deal of hope.
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JON-ROSS: That's right,
absolutely. CHRIS: Now, let's
understand a little bit more
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about the apostle John and his
hope in this Second Coming, and
giving us a little of the
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context of the Book of
Revelation. And we could read,
you know, the whole Book of
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First John, but there's some
other verses in First John that
might help us in our journey.
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JON-ROSS: Yeah, in chapter 4,
actually, we can jump over,
chapter 4. Really, you know, we
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don't have time for it all, but
verses 7 to 19 are really
getting into just a beautiful
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description of Who God is.
That's where we find that
wonderful statement, "God is
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love." CHRIS: Absolutely.
JON-ROSS: It's in that section,
in First John 4. CHRIS: Pastor
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Jon-Ross, why don't you go ahead
and read verses 7 to 9, that
gives us this love aspect that
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John's really going to get at
here? JON-ROSS: Sorry, 7 to 9?
CHRIS: Yeah, verses 7 to 9.
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JON-ROSS: Okay, perfect, yeah.
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CHRIS: What a powerful passage.
Powerful passage. And I think
it's an important passage, you
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know. We live in a society that
has become increasingly
polarized, especially when it
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comes to the issue of
Christianity. Unfortunately,
there have been a number of
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Christians, both on television
in the public eye, but even in
the private eye, who have been
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very bombastic in how they treat
others. And we find this amazing
passage here in First John, and
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this is. again, it's giving us a
little context. I don't want to
get too far off subject, but I
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think it's important to
understand, John's talking about
Who God is. God is love, as
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you've pointed out. And in
addition to that, he's saying,
if you don't love, you're not
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really from God. And so, it lays
this foundation of, really, what
the Book of Revelation is all
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about. The Book of Revelation
is about helping us have hope in
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the love of God. JON-ROSS:
That's right. You know, I hear
people say, you know, your true
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character is revealed - who are
you, deep down inside, you know
- when you're at home alone by
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yourself. And I think about, you
know. what people are really
saying when they say that is, at
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those times when you're
vulnerable, when you let your
guard down. And when I think
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about Christ putting on flesh
and coming and living among us,
that's letting your guard down.
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That's being vulnerable. And
John's reflecting on that life
that he witnessed and he's
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testifying of that life in First
John. And so we see that God. He
says He sent His only Son into
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the world so that we might live
through Him, that that
separation from God, that brings
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death. And John's saying we can
live through Christ. CHRIS: And
what's key to that, as we -
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again, we're kind of laying the
foundation to dive into the Book
of Revelation - is that that is.
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that's actually what that word
means: the revelation of Jesus
Christ. It's the pulling back of
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the curtain, so to speak, on
that love that God has for us.
JON-ROSS: Yeah. CHRIS: So let's
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get. in the end of that passage,
I think there's some verses that
are going to help us as we kind
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of move forward. They're verses
16 to 19. Why don't you point
out some things about those
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passages there, Pastor?
JON-ROSS: Absolutely. I'll read
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them for you here. JON-ROSS: I'm
just going to pause there. I
just want you to catch, we can
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have confidence for the day of
judgment. CHRIS: Absolutely.
JON-ROSS: And I'll keep reading
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here. I don't want to
pull too much out of context.
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CHRIS: Okay. So, Pastor
Jon-Ross, we've got people
viewing right now that have a
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view of Christianity and have
had a view of Christianity that
is a view of fear, judgment,
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trepidation. JON-ROSS: Yes. My
heart breaks at that. CHRIS: And
John basically just. I mean, he
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throws that completely out the
window and says. JON-ROSS:
Removes all doubt, any
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questions. CHRIS: You don't need
to fear. In fact, you need to
hope. JON-ROSS: That's right.
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CHRIS: Because this is really
what love is, that God first
loved us. JON-ROSS: Absolutely.
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And that word there, for
"confidence" could be literally
translated as "boldness." And
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when you think about boldness,
most people don't think, "I'm
bold? With God? Boldness in the
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judgment?" CHRIS: Yes. JON-ROSS:
Again, John's perspective is not
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the average perspective, like,
you know, in society today when
we look at the Book of
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Revelation. He's looking at
Christ's return. He's looking at
Christ's judgment, and he's
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saying, "Let's get excited.
There's something big happening,
something good happening. Let's
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rejoice." CHRIS: Absolutely,
let's rejoice. Now, Pastor
Jon-Ross, we only have a few
00:21:52.44\00:21:58.08
minutes left, and to the viewer
who's saying, "Oh, but there's
so much more," we're going to
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spend a few shows dealing with
this subject. But in these few
moments that we have left, let's
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go back to the Book of
Revelation. Let's go back to
Revelation 1 and let's talk
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about, in verses 5 and 6, in
Revelation chapter 1 verses 5
and 6, it brings us back around
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to these same thoughts that John
has been sharing with us. Why
don't you go ahead and read
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verses 5 and 6 of Revelation 1?
CHRIS: So Pastor Jon-Ross, the
Book of Revelation is an
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unveiling, the peeling back of a
curtain, on the love of Christ.
And then we have this passage,
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right in the first few verses of
the Book of Revelation. Tell me,
what does that mean? What's the
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context that that gives us?
JON-ROSS: Yeah, yeah. And I
think the context, we can
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actually find, in First John
chapter 4, verse 10. There, it
talks about how Christ is our
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propitiation, which is a word we
don't use very common, you know,
our everyday language. And there
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- we can turn there if you want,
just quickly. We can leave a
finger there in Revelation. But
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in First John 4:10, it says:
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JON-ROSS: And we ask ourselves
the question, you know, "What is
propitiation?" You know, again,
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this is a word we don't use very
often. What we have to first
note is that it's for our sins.
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And when we compare that with
another passage that uses that
same expression, "for our sins,"
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First Corinthians 15:3, there,
it says that Christ died for our
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sins. So this word
"propitiation" essentially - and
we break down the original Greek
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language - it is the atoning
sacrifice. In the culture in
which John wrote this, a
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propitiation was a gift or a
sacrifice to appease. Here,
Christ has stepped in as our
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sacrifice. It's in the emphatic
language; the Greek is in the
emphatic. He himself sacrificed,
00:24:13.31\00:24:18.39
died, for your sins, my sins,
everybody's sins. CHRIS: And
Pastor Jon-Ross, it's so hard to
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believe we're out of time. But
this is powerful. The Book of
Revelation is all about drawing
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back the curtains on the one who
died, gave his life for us, to
help us understand and not to be
00:24:29.06\00:24:36.64
afraid, but to find hope in
Jesus. JON-ROSS: Amen. CHRIS:
Let's pray together. Heavenly
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Father, we are grateful that you
gave us this Book of Revelation.
We don't have to be afraid, but
00:24:41.91\00:24:46.65
we can have confidence in
knowing that Your Son Jesus died
for all of us. We pray in Jesus'
00:24:46.75\00:24:54.86
name, amen. JON-ROSS: Amen.
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CHRIS: The Book of Revelation is
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CHRIS: Pastor Jon-Ross Ennest,
thank you so much for being with
us today. JON-ROSS: Yeah, thanks
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so much for having me, Chris; it
was a lot of fun. CHRIS: You
know, friend, you can find hope
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bread alone, but by every word
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