 THE
FIRST FIVE WORDS
by Michael W. H.
Holcomb
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ISBN:
1598721682
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"What are the first five words of the
Book of Revelation?"
That's the
question I ask people wherever I go to minister, and 95% of the time
I get either a wrong answer or an "I don't know." What makes the
question important (and the answers so shocking) is, that opening
phrase is the very theme of Revelation! So what are those words and
what is that theme? "The revelation of Jesus Christ."
I say, it's time to get back to that
theme!
Something is wrong when a book of the Bible produces fear -- in
Christians!
Did you know that most
people stay away from reading the book of Revelation? Why? because
of fear.
As I've traveled
and preached The First Five
Words, church members and
pastors alike have confessed to me that they do not read Revelation
regularly -- and many have not read it in years. Wow!
The main reason most people study the Bible's last book is to figure
out who the bad guys are (the Antichrist, the Beast, the False
Prophet, etc.) and when they will be coming. Well, that is wrong.
Yes, there are bad guys and bad things in Revelation, but they are
not who and what the book is ultimately about. If God says this is
"the revelation of Jesus Christ," then shouldn't we be going to
Revelation to study Jesus Christ?
By ignoring those first five words, we, as the Church, have
developed a spirit of pessimism which has seriously affected our
outlook on the future. We constantly gravitate toward negative
predictions and we feverously eat up bad news -- all because we have
a lopsided view of Bible prophecy.
It's time to get
biblically
correct!
Not one time in the
Bible does God's Spirit direct us to focus on the devil and his
crowd. Everywhere in the Scriptures we are told to keep our eyes on
the Lord. Remember, God has not given us a spirit of fear! In
order to be biblically correct, we must exchange the popular stigma
of horror produced by guessing and gloom for the spirit of faith and
fervor that God intended believers to grasp.
For
the Christian, Revelation should be a book of victory, the climax of
history where we discover how Jesus wins and His enemies loose.
I believe that God gave me the message of
The First Five Words
for "such a time as this," a time when you and I need godly hope and
biblical vision like never before. For those who study Revelation,
The First Five Words will give you God's perspective of John's
Vision and will enrich your understanding of the End-times.
Ministers will find this book especially useful behind the pulpit.
Rediscover the Book of Revelation -- the revelation of Jesus Christ
-- today!
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