We are in the last few weeks in this series of sermons that we’ve titled “Creation to New Creation.” The passage that I would ask you to read and meditate on before you come to worship is Revelation 19:1-10.
Revelation is often one of those Bible books that are confusing and often overlooked (much like the Old Testament book of Leviticus I referred to a few weeks ago). But Revelation is not a puzzle that we are left on our own to figure out how to put it together; instead it is a bow tied out of a ribbon on a present that is given to those of us who trust in Christ. It is the pinnacle of the message. For these last few weeks in this series, we will spend a good bit of time in the last few chapters of this incredible last book of the Bible, Revelation. Spend some time reading from Revelation 19-22.
Let me give you a thought before we walk into these last few weeks. We have titled this whole year of teaching, “Creation to New Creation.” The Creation story of course comes out of the first couple of chapters in the Bible, Genesis. Frankly, it is often easy to teach the loveliness of Creation and the humility that we feel when we sit on a hillside and watch a sunrise or a sunset. Even in the current world events of the Artemis astronaut/scientist who recently circled around the moon. In that voyage they witnessed a ‘earth set’ then an ‘earth rise, and a ‘solar eclipse;’ those astronauts were in awe of the greatness of God.
But as grand and overwhelming and humbling as these experiences are, let us catch this point that the last few chapters of Revelation point us to… they don’t hold a candle to what is to come! The New Creation with the Lamb of God on the throne is beyond imagination. Heaven and the New Creation is not just a little better version of what we have here now.
That’s our focus for this Sunday and a few more to come as we complete this series of messages, and the conclusion of the book of the Bible.
See you Sunday
