Revelation – heaven & earth
( word cloud )
*Google earth – view from above
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GOD
Started everything
GENESIS 1 “ In the beginning GOD …”
REV – main driver for the ultimate END, and NEW BEGINNING.
EARTH ( SAW ) –
Revelation 12:12
For this reason, rejoice, you heavens and you who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has come down to you with great wrath, knowing that he has only a short time.”
Fixation on things of this earth , this world – all is temporal.
– Mother Earth
– earth day
– environmentalism
International Mother Earth Day was established in 2009, by the United Nations General Assembly
International Mother Earth Day promotes a view of the Earth as the entity that sustains all living things found in nature.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Mother_Earth_Day
Called greatest secular celebration – 1 Billion
Romans 1:25
They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
HEAVEN AND EARTH
- Revelation 20:11
Judgment at the Throne of God
Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat upon it, from whose presence earth and heaven fled, andno place was found for them.In
Revelation 21:1
The New Heaven and Earth
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and there is no longer any sea.In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
The present Heaven and earth “not a fit home for His resurrected and righteous Saints …”
Commentary on Revelation – Brighton
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GREAT
Overview in Revelation:
– of the usage of GREAT
Nothing half-way , nothing unnoticeable about what is happening.
Overview of Book of Acts
– the happenings were “great”
Isn’t that what salvation is all about.
Gods rescue
Gods sacrifice
Gods righteousness for us!
* Should we be bored by this???
Take in stride?
– Bug vs. Buggati
– Sapling vs Sequoia
– Ice cube vs calving glacier….
GREAT!
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BEYOND DESCRIPTION
ALL SINGLE ORIGIN
Heaven
Seven
Like
Things
Saying
Saw
Angel
GOD BRINGING US THIS MESSAGE
The mess will be fixed
The happening will be great
God is giving us opportunity to anticipate what He is about!
God gets the glory!