Friday, June 15, 2007

Studying Revelation Vital For Our Happiness

The book of Revelation is the only book where Jesus Christ claims to be its author.
It is the only book promising a blessing for those who read in the opening and the closing chapter. When I was young, my father who was a minister of a charismatic church in Indonesia warned me that reading too much of the book of Revelation will make me crazy. I have been reading and studying the book of Revelation for more than fifty years and I am still sane and quite intelligent. I have been working as minister, teacher, tertiary college lecturer and writer in five different countries, learned 16 languages and can speak fluently in 8 or 9 of them.
The book of Revelation can be understood better if we compare it with the book of Daniel.
Jesus says about the book of Daniel: 15 “Therefore when you see the ‘abomination of desolation,' spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place” (whoever reads, let him understand) Matthew 24:15.
Seeing how Jesus put a great emphasis in studying and the book of Daniel and Revelation in connection with the signs of the end, it will be well for us to start doing it.