The Revelation of Jesus Christ
Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
The last great book of the Bible opens with the
words: “The revelation of Jesus Christ,” and from these words it
derives its title: “The Revelation.” In this book St. John deals
largely with the return of Christ in glory to judge and reign.
II Thes. 1:7,8 tells us that one day “the Lord
Jesus shall be revealed from heaven… in flaming fire taking
vengeance on them that… obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus
Christ.” This is what the book of the Revelation is basically
about. But this phraseology is also used in Paul’s epistles, for in
Gal. 1:11,12 he says:
“I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not after man, for I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.”
Surely this is not the same “revelation of Jesus
Christ” of which John wrote. St. Paul refers not to “the
revelation of Jesus Christ” in glory, but to “the revelation of
Jesus Christ” in grace while He delays the judgment; not His
revelation to the world in person, but His revelation to the world
through Paul the chief of sinners, saved by grace. In Verses 15,16 of
Gal. 1, the Apostle says: “…it pleased God… to reveal His Son
in Me.” What a revelation of grace to a sin-cursed world when God
saved Saul, His bitter, blaspheming enemy! He tells about it in I
Tim. 1:13-16, where he says:
“[I] was a blasphemer, and a persecuto, and injurious… Howbeit, FOR THIS CAUSE I OBTAINED MERCY, THAT IN ME FIRST JESUS CHRIST MIGHT SHOW FORTH ALL LONGSUFFERING, FOR A PATTERN TO THEM WHICH SHOULD HEREAFTER BELIEVE ON HIM TO LIFE EVERLASTING.”
This is why Paul says: “…it pleased God… to
reveal His Son in Me.” By saving the chief of sinners (as Paul
calls himself in I Tim. 1:15), God would show us that He is willing
to save any sinner, “for whosoever shall call upon the name of the
Lord shall be saved” (Rom. 10:13).
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