1.   The Subject:

·         Revelation: unveiling, disclosure, uncovering

·         It is Jesus Revelation

·         The book is about what unveiled/disclosing truth God has given Jesus, not so much about Jesus Himself.

·         God wants us to understand this book:

·         Jesus has been given this so he can reveal Gods future plans for the church and the world, which God gave Him to show/revel to His servants—things which must shortly take place. 

 ·         Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written in it; for the time is near. Ver 3

2.   The Source:

Ver: 1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants—things which must shortly take place. And He sent and signified/or it was a sign given to His angel to His servant John,

      a. God gave to Jesus 

      b.  He sent and signified/or gave as a sign to His angel

     c.  to His servant John,

3.    We see God respects the “chain/ladder of authority/leadership”

Genesis 1:26-28 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion/(to rule, dominate, tread down) over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue/(to bring into bondage, make subservient) it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

     a. Adam & Eve were appointed by God to a place of authority, due to they were  created in the image of God.

     b. Not just Adam & Eve, all mankind

4.   We lost our authority through the fall and turned our dominion over to Satan:

·         2 Corinthians 4:4: whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.

 5.   Jesus through his death was found worth to take authority: 

 Matthew 28:18 And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.

 Revelation 5:1-7 And I saw in the right hand of Him who sat on the throne a scroll written inside and on the back, sealed with seven seals. Then I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the scroll and to loose its seals?” And 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, because no one was found worthy to open and read the scroll, or to look at it. But one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep. Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has prevailed to open the scroll and to loose its seven seals.” And I looked, and behold, in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as though it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent out into all the earth. Then He came and took the scroll out of the right hand of Him who sat on the throne.

6.   Then Jesus delegates authority to the church, which is anyone that has accepted Him:

           Colossians 2:6-15: As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so wa

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