In the pre TikTok days before men lived for likes and posed for popularity biblical revelation left it's human authors exposed not to fame and fortune but infamy, poverty and death. Men spoke even when the burden they had was deeply unpopular or just bizarre and outlandish in the social and economic context in which it was revelled. These men spoke not to gain followers nor build a religion but they signed their own death warrants at times because they were utterly convinced that through them God spoke. This resulted in many recorded revelations which at the time seemed contradictory and implausible. Revelation chapter 9 contains a prediction of global military conflict involving armies totalling 200 million men! At the time this was written the world population was short of this by about 20 million! Today however it is reckoned that the world could mobilise about 1 billion people to participate in a war effort and China alone could muster an army of at least 200 million!
In retrospect these ancient impossibilities have crystallised into fully fledged realities. A child born of a virgin (Isaiah chp 7), a ruler born who has always been (Micah 5) and God pierced and gazed upon (Zechariah 12) all make sense to us now with the birth, death and saving resurrection of God's Son Jesus Christ. These deep mysteries find their answer in the deepest mystery of all; Jesus Christ! Do you know Him? God's message is a person. God's salvation is in a person; Jesus Christ!
Dr J Stewart Gillespie
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