The Book of Revelation

Soon after I became a Christian I began reading the dramatic Left Behind series. This is a series of novels about the end times, the rapture, the tribulation, etc.

Since that time, I have become more and more unsure about the events of the last days. One thing I have become more sure about is that it's not going to be anything like those novels depict. They ae full of bad interpretation methods and they seem to miss the entire point of Revelation as apocalyptic literature.

That being said, I am currently reading through Revelation in my personal Bible reading time, trying to study and grasp as I go along. Today I was doing a little research on a question I ran into in my reading today, and I came across this quote from Vern Poythress' book, The Returning King.

A group of seminary students finished playing basketball in a gym. They noticed the janitor in a corner, reading a book.

“What are you reading?”

“The Bible.”

“What part of the Bible?”

“Revelation.”

We’ll help this poor soul, they thought. “Do you understand what you are reading?”

“Yes!”

They were astonished. “What does it mean?”

“Jesus is gonna win!”

I like that janitor! I think he was on to something. I'll keep digging in and wrestling with the imagery of the book of Revelation, but one thing I'm not unclear about: Jesus is coming back to have complete victory over sin, death, and Satan, and he will usher in the final Kindom of God for all eternity.

Amen, come Lord Jesus!