Revelations – Come Again?

The weekly men’s group that I’m a part of has recently decided to study the book of Revelations…

This is very interesting as about half the group have only been following Jesus for about two years. Yet, they are willing and ready to tackle one of the “hardest” books of the Bible.

I say “hardest” as, well… let’s face it; Revelations isn’t the easiest book to understand. It is similar to Ezekiel in its visions – yet, it also has a bit of Daniel and the letters of John.

In a nutshell: no one really knows what John was writing about.

Sure, folks have ideas and thoughts – which makes it all the more confusing. Especially when those “folks” get so set in their ways that they run over or condemn all who don’t agree with them.

Sigh… as you can see, I’m not too excited about the prospect of studying this book. Undecided[@more@]

Of course, on the flip side – we have a really good group of men. If I was to study the book (which, just so you know, I have studied the book off and on through out the years in different academic settings), this would be the place to do so.

The group is set up where we read a chapter or a portion of a chapter out loud and then discuss it. Everyone is free to ask questions, comment about or general say whatever comes to mind. There are no wrong answers as we all are on the journey to know our Lord more and more.

It seems that the Lord is drawing the church into this study as the ladies have recently decided to do a similar study. Only they will be using some videos in addition to the Biblical text.

We shall see that the Lord is doing.

In the mean time, I better get to studying as there are some sharp guys in the group who know more then I do!! Cool