Almighty God has never failed to give clear directions to His people by sending His messengers, the servants and prophets, with His special Word for their time. If the people, in their abundance, forgot the Lord and didn’t walk in His ways, God sent a message of warning to them before judgement was to strike, “Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto the Lord; and they testified against them, but they would not give ear. … Thus saith God: Why transgress ye the commandments of the Lord, that ye cannot prosper? Because ye have forsaken the Lord, he hath also forsaken you.”(2 Chr. 24: 19 + 20b). God’s judgements are pending once again. What is the message now, before they will strike?

I would like to draw your attention to the book of prophecy — the Revelation of Jesus Christ, in which the Lord promised, “to show unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass …” (1:1). These prophetic messages were sent to correct the people and bring them back to God. The success or failure of your own spiritual life depends on how you determine and value the Word of the Lord. The Holy Spirit in you will always cause you to say ‘Yea and Amen’ to the promised Word.

The word ‘servants’ is in the plural and points primarily to the seven messengers in the right hand of the Lord, who were to receive the prophetic revelation of the Word by the Holy Spirit during the seven church ages.

The fact that the Lord sent His angel to John shows the importance of the contents of the last book of the Bible. “… and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant, John” (v. 1b). God has His angels in heaven and His messengers on earth to declare the things which must come to pass.

Not every member of the body of Christ can be such a servant of God, to whom the Word of the Lord comes and whose ministry is directly attributable to the voice of God, but everyone must hear the voice of His Word. God takes someone of His own choosing to give witness to what he has seen and heard. John “… bore witness of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.” (Rev. 1: 2). Like the servants and prophets of old, so did he see visions and receive the Word by revelation. There is a vast difference between having the knowledge of the Word, which can be accumulated, and the revelation of Jesus Christ, which can only be received by the Holy Spirit. Only then will the Word become Spirit and life to us.

There is a great difference between someone speaking about Christ, or Christ speaking through a prophet, who has the “thus saith the Lord!” Paul, the great apostle, confesses, “For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.” (Gal. 1: 12).

Almighty God has never failed to give clear directions to His people by sending His messengers, the servants and prophets, with His special Word for their time. If the people, in their abundance, forgot the Lord and didn’t walk in His ways, God sent a message of warning to them before judgement was to strike, “Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto the Lord; and they testified against them, but they would not give ear. … Thus saith God: Why transgress ye the commandments of the Lord, that ye cannot prosper? Because ye have forsaken the Lord, he hath also forsaken you.” (2 Chr. 24: 19 + 20b). God’s judgements are pending once again. What is the message now, before they will strike?

I would like to draw your attention to the book of prophecy — the Revelation of Jesus Christ, in which the Lord promised, “to show unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass …” (1:1). These prophetic messages were sent to correct the people and bring them back to God. The success or failure of your own spiritual life depends on how you determine and value the Word of the Lord. The Holy Spirit in you will always cause you to say ‘Yea and Amen’ to the promised Word.

The word ‘servants’ is in the plural and points primarily to the seven messengers in the right hand of the Lord, who were to receive the prophetic revelation of the Word by the Holy Spirit during the seven church ages.

The fact that the Lord sent His angel to John shows the importance of the contents of the last book of the Bible. “… and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant, John” (v. 1b). God has His angels in heaven and His messengers on earth to declare the things which must come to pass.

Not every member of the body of Christ can be such a servant of God, to whom the Word of the Lord comes and whose ministry is directly attributable to the voice of God, but everyone must hear the voice of His Word. God takes someone of His own choosing to give witness to what he has seen and heard. John “… bore witness of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.” (Rev. 1: 2). Like the servants and prophets of old, so did he see visions and receive the Word by revelation. There is a vast difference between having the knowledge of the Word, which can be accumulated, and the revelation of Jesus Christ, which can only be received by the Holy Spirit. Only then will the Word become Spirit and life to us.

There is a great difference between someone speaking about Christ, or Christ speaking through a prophet, who has the “thus saith the Lord!” Paul, the great apostle, confesses, “For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.” (Gal. 1: 12).