Revelation: The Unveiling Of Jesus ChristIsampula

Not a book meant to unveil the anti-christ, but to unveil Jesus Christ 

A joyous blessing rests upon the one who reads this message and upon those who hear and embrace the words of this prophecy, for the appointed time is in your hands. – Revelation 1:3 The Passion Translation

Wow, a blessing is waiting for you as you read through the Revelation of Jesus Christ!

It doesn’t say, “Stressed are you when you read,” but “Blessed!” If you read the book and don’t get a blessing, somehow you’ve missed the entire meaning of the book. It is not a book meant to unveil the anti-christ, but to unveil Jesus Christ before your eyes!

“A joyous blessing” can also be translated, “Happiness to one who reads,” or “To be envied the one who reads this message!” The book of Revelation is the only book in the Bible that promises a rich blessing to those who read and obey what it states. The word blessing can mean “happiness.” There are six other “blessings” found in Revelation (14:13; 16:15; 19:9; 20:5; 22:7, 14). It doesn’t say “Scared and filled with fear will be the one who reads.” 

The word for “read” is a special word in the Greek, which is anaginosko. Ana is “re” or “again” and ginosko means “to know.” The meaning is simply this: Happy is the one who remembers or by reading knows again the message of this prophecy! It’s almost as though the book of Revelation is already recorded within you, for you are in the Christ! It is not enough to say that we are called to sonship and that God is today giving us great and wonderful revelations of His purposes. We must also recognize by the wisdom of the eternal Spirit that we were chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world (Eph. 1:4). 

The word translated “to hear and embrace” can also mean to keep, to guard, or “to tend (a garden).” Adam was commanded to dress the garden of Eden and to “keep” it. Obviously the book is written to a people who will “keep” its sayings, who will have fulfilled within themselves its message, who will be enabled to experience in their very own lives the things it proclaims! How else could those who read and hear be said to “keep” all the things that are written in the book? If the panorama of events that unfold within these pages are only external events, historical events, or future literal world events, then how can those who read “keep” or “fulfill within themselves” all those things? 

So read Revelation until it yields its inherent blessing to you! Happy is the one who reads this book!