Mysterious Manuscripts
| Revelation 21:1-6
The book of Revelation is a reference manual for us to pick up and flip through the pages.
The book of Revelation is filled with strange images: A great red dragon, beasts from the sea and land, the bowls of God’s wrath, a great whore, an apocalyptic battle, and the final judgment. When the seventh trumpet blows, we learn of God’s plan “for destroying those who destroy the earth” (11:18).
Hollywood has made many attempts to explore the mysteries of the end of the world. In the movie This Is the End, Los Angeles is destroyed by earthquakes, cannibals eat survivors and the righteous are transported to heaven in beams of blue light.
Jokes about the end-times are included in the comedy Ghostbusters, in which the ghost-busting team warns, “Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling! Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes … The dead rising from the grave! Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together … mass hysteria!”
Yes, the book of Revelation is a mystery. There may not be any...
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