Resisting Trump with Revelation (03)
Revelation 1:1-3 (03) We begin our journey with Revelation as a “Resistical” Worship service by treating the first three verses of the book as the “Welcome and Announcement of a Guest Preacher” at First Church of Patmos. [1] The first section is a reading of the text as this “resistical” worship service. The comment afterwards deals with issue(s) of our resistance. The notes deal with some textual and contextual issues in relation to the texts. Welcome and Announcement of a Guest Preacher Good day, friends. Welcome to worship here at First Church of Patmos. Today we have a guest preacher – none other than the risen Christ himself [2] (along with his interpreter John). Jesus will lead us in worship this morning. His sermon title is “What Must Soon Take Place.” The Seer John who received the vision Jesus unveils [3] for us this morning with be Jesus’ interpreter. None of us “speak” Jesus naturally, you see. We all need help to grasp what he says to us, and John is that ...