Monday, April 10, 2006

Good Morning

 

Holy Week is this week.  Here is a link to a page that talks about the days of Holy Week.

 

http://www.cresourcei.org/cyholyweek.html

Today's Reading:  Revelation 7:13-14, pages 33-34, stop at "The Blood of Jesus Christ"

 

-- Short passage today -- the thing that sticks with me today is the point that Barclay makes about translation -- that the elder says the ones in the robes have come through "the" great tribulation, not just "great tribulation".  My Bible reads that way as well.  The point is that there is a very specific time that this is referencing.

 

-- one thing that I was thinking about, based on our conversation yesterday in class, is the idea about the timing of the opening of the seals, and the end times, and what time frame this refers to. The thought that we had yesterday is that the opening of seals up through the sixth seal could refer -- not to the end times per se, but to the march of history up until now from the time of Christ's cruxification.  And actually, the more I think about it, that timing works out, because we need to remember when John was writing this book -- probably 90 years or so after Christ.  All of the things that we discussed as being the possible explanations of the seals -- the great plagues, the World Wars, etc -- were in the future to John at the time John wrote this.  All of history was pretty much in front of John when he wrote this.

 

-- the hard part (actually the impossible part) is to get a sense of what part of Revelation's story is in front of us. 

 

Today's Scripture

 

He said to them, "Then give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's"

Luke 20:25

Today's prayer requests:   Saundra Aaron

Valerie's brother's mother-in-law continues to go through treatment for cancer.  Need to remember her and her family in her struggles.

Today's class member prayer:

Brigitte Severance

Jay