The Secret Is Out

THE SECRET IS OUT! (REVELATION 1)

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Are you good at remembering passwords? Have you been asked at your job to change your passwords regularly? I’m terrible at remembering passwords. I try to coordinate my passwords for online, e-mails and computers. My memory was so bad with passwords that, one time after I changed my church computer about six months ago for a better online conferencing, I could not get back into my bank account!

After two prompts, I was asked to change my password, which I refused to because it meant remembering another password. The next day I managed to get in. It happened for a few months until last month only six letters were left working after exhausting the keys while I was working on my Grammar Bible, Then I remembered my password incident. It seems that the number 8 has been malfunctioning on and off all along!

It is interesting to know from my IT turned pastor coworker that he had bought a gadget that could remember up to 300 passwords.

The Book of Revelation is the prophesy of prophesies, the great tribulation (Rev 2:22, 7:14) of tribulation, not just commonly the time is at hand but conclusively “for” (gar) the time is at hand (Rev 1:3, 22:10). It is traditionally ascribed to John the apostle, who called himself “His servant” (Rev 1:1), a title claimed by John alone in the epistles, not by Paul, James or Peter. Revelation is without the article in Greek, or “apokalupsis” in Greek and apocalypse in English. It is derived from two words – the preposition “apo-“ means “out” and the verb “krupto” means “secret,” so together it means : The secret is out!

What has God in store for us for the day at hand? How are we to prepare for the last days? Why do we best heed God’s word now before that day?

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1 The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants what must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, 2 who testifies to everything he saw — that is, the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ. 3 Blessed is the one who reads the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near. 4 John, To the seven churches in the province of Asia: Grace and peace to you from him who is, and who was, and who is to come, and from the seven spirits before his throne, 5 and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood, 6 and has made us to be a kingdom and priests to serve his God and Father — to him be glory and power for ever and ever! Amen. 7 Look, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him; and all the peoples of the earth will mourn because of him. So shall it be! Amen. 8 "I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, "who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty."

A customer sent an order to a distributor for a large amount of goods totaling a great deal of money. The distributor, noticing that the previous bill hadn't been paid, instructed the collections manager to contact the customer. The collections manager made the call and left a voice-mail for them saying, “We can't ship your new order until you pay for the last one.”

The next day the collections manager received a collect phone call from the customer who said, “Please cancel the order. We can't wait that long. We don’t know when we’ll payi.”

Revelation is a disclosure, a discovery and a display of the future, of which the coming of Christ is physical, public and personal. It is hard not to feel we’re living in the last days. Besides disease, disasters and death, Big Brother is watching you – CCTV, GPS, Google, IPO and IT companies are all tracking you.

The verb “show” (v 1, deiknuo) appears more times in Revelation than any book in the Bible. The next three occurrences of the verb is inviting:

Rev 4:1 "Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this."

Rev 17:1 "Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute

Rev 21:9-10 "Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb."