Revelation 1:1–3 Part One — The Revelation of Jesus Christ

Rev­e­la­tion 1

¹The Rev­e­la­tion of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his ser­vants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and sig­ni­fied it by his angel unto his ser­vant John:

²Who bare record of the word of God, and of the tes­ti­mony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.

³Blessed is he that read­eth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are writ­ten therein: for the time is at hand.

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Strong’s

Rev­e­la­tion — 602. apokalup­sis ap-ok-al’-oop-sis from 601; disclosure:–appearing, com­ing, lighten, man­i­fes­ta­tion, be revealed, revelation.

The book of Rev­e­la­tion is the Rev­e­la­tion of Jesus Christ but what does the word rev­e­la­tion mean?

Word — 3056. logos log’-os from 3004; some­thing said (includ­ing the thought); by impli­ca­tion, a topic (sub­ject of dis­course), also rea­son­ing (the men­tal fac­ulty) or motive; by exten­sion, a com­pu­ta­tion; spe­cially, (with the arti­cle in John) the Divine Expres­sion (i.e. Christ):–account, cause, com­mu­ni­ca­tion, X con­cern­ing, doc­trine, fame, X have to do, intent, mat­ter, mouth, preach­ing, ques­tion, rea­son, + reckon, remove, say(-ing), shew, X speaker, speech, talk, thing, + none of these things move me, tid­ings, trea­tise, utter­ance, word, work.

Why is it reveal­ing Christ?

When we get into the book of Rev­e­la­tion you will begin to see that it is all about Christ, not as He was on the earth, but as He is and was from the foun­da­tion of the world.

When Christ came to this world, it is impor­tant to under­stand who He was and why He was here.

When we think about the son of God, we are think­ing about Christ as a lit­eral son.

I am not here to shake up any­ones view of who Christ is, but I do believe that this is impor­tant for us to look at. We are not going to jump to any con­clu­sions however.

Let’s go to the Word and see who He is accord­ing to scripture.

John 1

¹In the begin­ning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

²The same was in the begin­ning with God.

³All things were made by him; and with­out him was not any thing made that was made.

⁴In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

This is very clear that Christ is the Word of God that was MADE flesh.

This is an impor­tant point because it reveals who Christ is in His orig­i­nal form.

Let’s go back to the begin­ning and see the Word in Action.

Gen­e­sis 1

¹In the begin­ning God cre­ated the heaven and the earth.

²And the earth was with­out form, and void; and dark­ness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

³And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

⁴And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

⁵And God called the light Day, and the dark­ness he called Night. And the evening and the morn­ing were the first day.

⁶And God said, Let there be a fir­ma­ment in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

⁷And God made the fir­ma­ment, and divided the waters which were under the fir­ma­ment from the waters which were above the fir­ma­ment: and it was so.

⁸And God called the fir­ma­ment Heaven. And the evening and the morn­ing were the sec­ond day.

⁹And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gath­ered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

¹⁰And God called the dry land Earth; and the gath­er­ing together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

¹¹And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yield­ing seed, and the fruit tree yield­ing fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

¹²And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yield­ing seed after his kind, and the tree yield­ing fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

¹³And the evening and the morn­ing were the third day.

¹⁴And God said, Let there be lights in the fir­ma­ment of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for sea­sons, and for days, and years:

¹⁵And let them be for lights in the fir­ma­ment of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

¹⁶And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

¹⁷And God set them in the fir­ma­ment of the heaven to give light upon the earth,

¹⁸And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the dark­ness: and God saw that it was good.

¹⁹And the evening and the morn­ing were the fourth day.

²⁰And God said, Let the waters bring forth abun­dantly the mov­ing crea­ture that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open fir­ma­ment of heaven.

²¹And God cre­ated great whales, and every liv­ing crea­ture that moveth, which the waters brought forth abun­dantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

²²And God blessed them, say­ing, Be fruit­ful, and mul­ti­ply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl mul­ti­ply in the earth.

²³And the evening and the morn­ing were the fifth day.

²⁴And God said, Let the earth bring forth the liv­ing crea­ture after his kind, cat­tle, and creep­ing thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.

²⁵And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cat­tle after their kind, and every thing that creep­eth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

²⁶And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our like­ness: and let them have domin­ion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cat­tle, and over all the earth, and over every creep­ing thing that creep­eth upon the earth.

²⁷So God cre­ated man in his own image, in the image of God cre­ated he him; male and female cre­ated he them.

²⁸And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruit­ful, and mul­ti­ply, and replen­ish the earth, and sub­due it: and have domin­ion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every liv­ing thing that moveth upon the earth.

²⁹And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bear­ing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yield­ing seed; to you it shall be for meat.

³⁰And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creep­eth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.

³¹And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morn­ing were the sixth day.

Christ is the Word of God accord­ing to John and if we go back to the begin­ning and look at who Christ is, we must draw the con­clu­sion that HE is God. He is one with God and is God because by Him all things were made.

This is AWE­SOME when you think about it. The Rev­e­la­tion of Jesus Christ is the Rev­e­la­tion of who Christ is. Christ is the Word of God. The Word of God IS GOD…

See you in the next post…