Revelation chp 10-11 Heralding Christ's Eternal Reign (BSF Global Lecture - local lecture posted Thurs morning)

Revelation in these chapters shows us the telescopic work of judgment and redemption as God seeks to rescue those who will repent under His judgments against sin and humanit's alliance with wickedness. Here are some thoughts for us to take away: What’s your little scroll? What do you have to say? You are a constant witness of God’s redemptive, saving love. Even as you are facing your own life difficulties, you show the world through Hope, this brief life and temporal world is not everything, not the end. What does your “little scroll” of witness have to say to someone needing to hear words of hope and salvation? What are you hanging on to? Where does your hope reside? When people lose their security, their whole belief about what reality and life means is shaken to the core. They ask a lot of questions about God, His purposes and plans, they never thought to ask before. How ready are you to speak the Truth about darkness and God’s Light and Truth into their broken visions? What enslaves your priorities? What keeps you busy? The world has a way of entangling us deeper into the senseless, meaningless preoccupations. How can we live so we are not “majoring the in minors?” What is your Love Song? What are you most passionate about? God cares about about our witness. Because all of life and eternity is about describing to others the goodness of God that we experience and see. If we cannot speak and witness of His glorious redemption, can we say we really understand it and that we really understand God? How can we grow and expand our communication about God’s yearning for humanity to repent and receive the Life He desires to give us.