Behold - Week 8 - Standing in the Right Place, Part I

Standing in the right place helps us observe unfolding events but also to understand how God's judgment fits into His good, redemptive plan in Christ.

- We've long known God's wrath is real and imminent, but we sometimes forget that, for those who believe, it's Jesus who has already endured it.

- When God wanted to show us what He is like, He took on flesh, sent Jesus Christ.

- Everything we read in Word of God must be interpreted through Word who IS God.

- Everything we think about God's judgment must be interpreted in the light of Jesus.

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Behold - Week 7 - Hear the Lion, See the Lamb

An important reality emerged as John hears the Lion and sees the Lamb. Jesus has become the place where heaven and earth come together. Where the temple had served as that liminal space, now Jesus the Lamb who was slain has become the nexus, the place where God's place meets our place. The bridge between divine and human, between Lion and Lamb, is built by Christ. Seeing the Lamb and hearing the Lion brings together the hope of all creation. Heaven and earth are being united and restored through the work of Jesus Christ.

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