1. The Revelation
The Bible is unique and different from any other book in the world.
It is a book that still stands today after years and years of criticism.
It has been hammered on by all kinds of people for thousands of years.
The hammers have worn out but the book still remains.
The Bible took over two thousand years to write and includes more than forty different authors.
Yet, it is one, beautiful, continuous story of God's love and God's plan for sinning man.
The book of Revelation, written by the apostle John, is the last book of the Bible.
It is divided into three sections or divisions.
In Revelation 1:19 John was told by the angel to "write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be after these things."
In chapter one, John wrote the things which he had seen - the vision of Jesus
Christ.
This is the first section of the book.
In chapters two and three, John wrote the things which are the letters of Jesus to the seven churches of Asia dealing with - things concerning the church, the ministry of the church, and the witness of the church in the world.
These letters are the second section of the book and they describe the various periods of church history.
From Revelation 4 onward, the third section of Revelation, John prophesied those
things which are to take place after the church has been taken out of the world - the future which is about to unfold before us.
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