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启示录［第一章］
Book of Revelation 1

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启示录［第一章］|Book of Revelation 1

【绝对可靠的启示】

主讲: 区箴唤实习传道

13/09/2022

引言：

世界上一直不乏号称能够预知未来的人，甚至有好些人曾经尝试预测世界来到结局时的状态和时间点。近年来有名的一个已经失效的预言，就是玛雅人所预言世界末日将会发生在2012年。到底世界的结局会是怎样呢？我们需要从圣经真理里去得着那个绝对可靠的启示！

一、绝对可以保证的启示（V1-3）

使徒约翰表明启示录所写的，乃是神的儿子耶稣基督，这位应验神话语的忠心见证人所赐下的启示，所以这是绝对有保证的启示，书上的预言必定会应验，而且这些预言很快就会实现。

二、主神有绝对的治理权

1.教会的主宰（V4-6）

有关这个末后的启示，神先是让使徒约翰写信给七个教会，表明神的儿子耶稣基督为世人摆上自己的性命，然后就是借着教会让人来领受这个救恩，让进入到教会的人能够成为神国的子民，并天父国度里的祭司！主神必永远掌权在祂的教会中！

2.万有的主宰（V7）

当主基督再来的时候，世人都要见证祂是审判的主，并且不信的人都要为自己的悖逆来哀哭切齿！这位创始成终的神，不仅是教会的主宰，也是全人类并宇宙万有的主宰！

三、基督必先对教会说话

1.教会要听从基督（V9-11）

忠心服事主的使徒约翰，是在他所被流放到的拔摩海岛上，领受到神有关末后的启示，要首先临到亚西亚的七个教会。这表明基督对教会要来听从自己的心意！

2.教会要认识基督（V12-20）

教会要从使徒约翰的亲身经历中看到，主基督不只是那位只有恩典的主，祂也是那位充满公义和威严的神，祂是教会轻慢不得的。也唯有当教会真实地来认识基督，教会才能够成为得胜者，从而进入到主永恒的国度中！

总结：

使徒约翰透过神儿子对神话语的实现，还有众人对着基督所作的见证，来告诫世人《启示录》乃是有关人类末后日子最可靠的启示。

世界虽然动荡，但三位一体的神始终会对着祂所拣选的教会有着绝对的治理权，而且祂也始终对着全人类和宇宙万有有着绝对的治理权！神爱祂的教会，所以祂也要先把这末后的启示赐给教会，来让教会可以因着认识基督真实的身份，就能够在爱中顺服回应神末后的心意！

Revelation 1: Absolutely Reliable Revelation
GK611 Morning Devotion
13/09/2022
Speaker: IP Moses Ou

Introduction:

There has been no shortage of people in the world who claim to be able to predict the future, and several have even tried to predict the state and point of time when the world will come to an end. One famous prophecy that has failed in recent years is the Maya people’s prediction that the end of the world will occur in 2012. How will the world end up in the end? We need to get that absolutely reliable revelation from the truth of the Bible!

1. The Absolutely Guaranteed Revelation (1-3)

The apostle John shows that the book of Revelation is written by the revelation of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the faithful witness who fulfills God's Word, so that it is an absolutely guaranteed revelation, and that the prophecies in the book will certainly be fulfilled, and that these prophecies will soon come to pass.

2. The Lord God has Absolute Authority to Govern

(1) The Ruler of the Church (4-6)

Concerning this last revelation, God first had the apostle John write to the seven churches to show that the Son of God, Jesus Christ, laid down His life for the world, and then it was through the churches that people came to receive this salvation, so that those who entered the churches could become the people of the kingdom of God and priests in the kingdom of the Father! The Lord God will reign in His Church forever!

(2) The Ruler of all creation (7)

When the Lord Christ returns, the world will testify that He is the Lord of judgment, and all unbelievers will mourn and gnash their teeth over their disobedience! This God, the author and finisher, is not only the ruler of the church, but also the ruler of all mankind and the universe!

3. Christ Will First Speak to the Church

(1) The church will obey Christ (9-11)

It was on the island of Patmos, where he was exiled, that the apostle John, who served the Lord faithfully, received God's revelation about the end times, which was to come first to the seven churches in Asia. This shows that Christ has a desire for the church to come and obey Himself!

(2) The church is to know Christ (12-20)

The church will see from the personal experience of the apostle John that the Lord Christ is not only the Lord of grace, but He is also the God of righteousness and majesty, who cannot be mocked by the church. Only when the church comes to know Christ in truth can the church become overcomer and thus enter into the eternal kingdom of the Lord!

Conclusion：

Through the fulfillment of the Word of God by the Son of God and the testimony of the people to Christ, the apostle John admonished the world that the book of Revelation is the most reliable revelation of the last days of mankind.

Although the world is in turmoil, the God of trinity will always have absolute authority over His chosen church, and He will always have absolute authority over all mankind and all the universe! God loves His Church, so He will give this last revelation to the church first, so that the church may respond in love and obedience to God's last will, through the knowledge of the true identity of Christ!