Preaching from the Book of Revelation

Why not?

Ok. It is not so easy.

But if we don’t then…

a) We’ll be ignoring the longest letter in the New Testament (beside Luke-Acts).

b) We’ll be leaving Revelation to the manipulation of cults and cranks and our congregations will have little defence against their teaching.

c) We’ll miss its powerful and much-needed message to the church.

d) We’ll miss the beautiful tying up of all the Bible threads.

e) We’ll miss the blessing promised to the one who reads aloud and the one who hears this amazing book (Rev. 1:3).

So a few Revelation resources:

Revelation overview
Preaching from apocalyptic literature
There’s a brilliant sermon series by the late Mark Ashton available on the St Andrew the Great Cambridge website (describing Revelation as ‘pictures not puzzles’)
My attempt at preaching Rev. 13 (a number of years ago in a UK setting)

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