Life Talk Devotion 06/24/2023 –
Today I am going to challenge your perspective of Jesus Christ. The contemporary view of Jesus that we hear from pulpits, media and the academics is someone who was a meek teacher of beautiful parables and life lessons we should aspire to live by and who unfortunately got nailed to a cross because of the politics of the day. Within this lop-sided cultural consensus, it is only palatable to acknowledge Jesus as the non-threatening Good Shepard who seeks after the one lost sheep. But the book of Revelation provides a different side of Jesus Christ as the risen Son of God.
Jesus From a Different Perspective:
Then I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. And having turned I saw seven golden lamp-stands, and in the midst of the seven lamp-stands One (Jesus) like the Son of Man, clothed with a garment down to the feet and girded about the chest with a golden band. His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and His eyes like a flame of fire; His feet were like fine brass, as if refined in a furnace, and His voice as the sound of many waters; He had in His right hand seven stars, out of His mouth went a sharp two-edged sword, and His countenance was like the sun shining in its strength. And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead. But He laid His right hand on me, saying to me, “Do not be afraid; I am the First and the Last. I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death. . Revelation 1:12-18
Rarely do many in contemporary culture and modern enlightened churches dare to expound on the Jesus Christ as the God Man described in Revelation chapter 1 and throughout the book. The attributes of Jesus detailed there as the Son of Man threatens their hollowed out view of an ambivalent god who politely nods at sin. And even more rare do those sermons breach the subject of the Jesus who will unleash the Tribulation judgements upon the world and return at His Second Coming to claim the title deed of the Earth. It has become culturally insensitive to consider Jesus more than the emasculated human proclaimed from the woke pulpits today. The very thought of the gentle carpenter from Nazareth as an avenger of righteousness rattles their sensibilities.
The masses laud the Jesus who delivered the Sermon on the Mount but bristle at the thought of that same Savior pronouncing the fury of hell where the worm never dies. However, the Word of God is not describing two different Jesus’. The Bible does not offer us the option to believe in the one Jesus and reject the other. However, it does force each us to wrestle with the objective truth the Bible delivers about Jesus Christ and the salvation plan of God.
The Bible clearly states that the same Jesus who calls those who are weary to come to Him is also the Risen One, the Warrior King who will vanquish His enemies and rule with a rod of iron in the Millennium. The Day will come when you and I will face this bright and shining One described in Revelation. And on that day every knee will bow and confess Jesus Christ as Lord to the delight of some and shocking revelation of others.
“The heart of true faith is rooted in and guided by truth; truth established by God through the essence of His nature and His Word. Without His truth as revealed in the Bible, man can only stumble in his effort to know Him and be redeemed by Him.”
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