Behold the Lamb: The Meaning of RevelationIf your Bible is open to the Book of Revelation, you need this companion book open at its side. In times of discouragement and depression, the average person likely wouldn't automatically turn to the Book of Revelation as a source of comfort and strength. Yet that's exactly what author James R. Gordon, in Behold the Lamb: The Meaning of Revelation., contends readers are to do. Gordon makes the last book of the Bible seem friendly and unthreatening, as he encourages readers to keep their focus on Christ and the glory they can anticipate when someday, face-to-face, they are in His majestic presence. This introductory guide or survey of Revelation appeals to a lay reader as well as yields excellent preaching points or outlines for a clergymember. Without bogging down in millennial eschatology, Gordon urges readers to live with eternity in view instead of being controlled by the present. He says Revelation urgently steers readers toward thoughts such as, "Am I really trusting Christ for my salvation, or am I just playing a game? Can I truly say my faith in Christ is genuine and real? Am I honestly looking forward to the time when God will make everything new?" Gordon reminds believers that one day all believers will have the Apostle John's thrilling experience of hearing every creature in heaven and on earth singing, "praise and honor and glory and power, for ever and ever " |
