Tonight was week 3 of our weekly home Bible study with our teens that can make it. We are studying the book of Revelation. Alot of our kids have questions about the end times, and especially about the picture that emerges in Revelation.
So, we have spent the last three weeks doing some ground work and exploring the highly symbolic world of Revelation.
The basis story line of the Book of Revelation that I want our kids to walk away with is the image that we are presented of God in chapter 4. Here John is taken to a holy place, to a place we enter when we pray. John was standing before the throne of God. It is the image of God on his throne that would certainly have comforted first century Christians in the midst of intense persecution. The image of God on his throne is still today an image that should offer encouragement to us. We don’t have to be in control of our lives, he is.
I also want my kids to see Revelation in its historical context. A letter written to the churches of Asia Minor, and certainly by the time of the mid to late 90s, to the church universal has as its central thrust, a message of hope and encouragment to weary believers caught in the cross fire of some of the worst religious intolerance in the history of man.
The next major concept I want my kids to see is that while their freinds may perscribe to the Left Behind theology made popular by Jenkins and LaHaye, the message of Revelation is that Jesus Christ has won the victory and Satan and all his minions lose.
I don’t want my church kids to see Revelation as a scary, unrelevant book. Its message is one of the most beautiful and grand in the entire New Testament.
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