Jesus’ face appeared as “the sun shining in its strength” (Rev. 1:16).
END TIMES CALENDAR. The end times have not yet begun. We see the clearest end times timeline in the Book of Revelation.
In Revelation chapter one, John saw Jesus in His awe-inspiring glorified state, and fell as a dead man at His feet.
Jesus laid His right hand on John and told him to “write the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will take place after these things.”
The “things which you have seen” were the wondrous features of Jesus in His glorified state. The “things which are” were the current state of the seven churches in Revelation 2-3.
What Jesus says about these seven churches applies to all churches during the present church age. For after each of the seven messages, He says, “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”
This present church age began on Pentecost after the apostles led prayer for ten days (Acts 1:3,14; 2:1-4). On Pentecost for the first time God poured out His Spirit on a gathering of people from every nation known at that time. The Spirit gave them power to “be My witnesses…to the ends of the earth” (Acts 1:8).
We live in the church age. The church age will not end until the churches finish preaching the gospel of Christ to every nation in the whole world. Christ said, “This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come” (Mt. 24:14).
At the end of the church age
“Come up here…” (Rev. 4:1)
In Revelation 4-21, John writes the “things which will take place after these things” (Rev. 1:19)—that is, at the end of the church age. Jesus repeats that phrase twice in Revelation 4:1.
“After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven, and the first voice which I had heard, like the sound of a trumpet speaking with me, said, ‘Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after these things.’”
Jesus shows John a scene of worship in heaven. There God on His throne holds a book with seven seals. Only Jesus is found worthy to open the seals. The book “will show you what must take place after these things” in the end times.
The opened seals reveal seven end-times events. But the opening of the seventh seal does not end the end times. Instead, it begins another series of seven end-time events called the seven trumpets. And the seventh trumpet initiates still another series of seven end-times events called the seven bowls of wrath.
These 21 events are only some highlights among many more events to occur during the end-times. As of now, the end times have not yet begun. But they are drawing near…
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