To be direct, I believe so, yes. Your name won’t be there, but you are in the story – because the story deals with events leading up to and culminating in the present day. Really, the full answer to this question is it is up to you.
Before we begin, please allow me but a moment to pursue a brief tangent. Having graduated from seminary, I have ‘consumed’ academic arguments and commentary about theology. Loved philosophy, but I only took the introductory, secular class. I did not immerse myself deeply into written argumentation, although I did acquire an appreciation of the nature and quality of intellectual criticism. My passion lies elsewhere, still today – you see, I had an ‘experience’ with God, with Christ when I was fifteen.
Well, that’s a statement that is at once concrete yet meaningless to those who don’t believe. Such typifies – no captures really the problem of and with philosophy: one of establishing and communicating vital meaning.
In any debate it is certainly the trained and practiced participant who holds the persuasive advantage. Still, the intellectual reward is not (not for me at least) in scrutinizing any verbal jousting. Again, does it afford a cerebral spectacle? No thank you. I would rather grasp the gem of meaning, not knowledge for its own sake. Value is established, edifies through the uncovering of hidden meaning, in progressing onward to the destination. So let us follow today’s path, as God wills. Let’s trust Him!
The Revelation of Jesus Christ
I can’t help but ask how it is that I fit in? What lies ahead for me, for us?
Given to his servants. Am I a servant? Are you? Needs to be addressed! For God so loved the world (cosmos) that He gave us His one and only son. The genuine Son of God as Jesus perfectly fulfilled the Divine purpose of sonship, that is in being a child of the Creator. Bless as He would have you. Takes a lifetime for any believer, I suppose, to get comfortable in such shoes… a lifetime more, but there is time. ‘Eye has not seen, nor ear heard…’
I should say, my apologies that I do not wish to enter into discussions about the authorship of the text. John who? A servant of Christ Jesus.
Continuing, then, into the text: Jesus addresses the believers in the nations of then Asia Minor, the ‘congregants’ who have answered the call, for however long their pursuit should be. Some he praises, really, and some he … I think it plain to say, simply, he warns them. ‘It is not I who judge you, but the word of truth – which you have refused.’ A petition, then, to hear. So direct your heart and mind as to see and understand, even as proclaimed by the word behold.
Thus we are represented, placed in the unfolding narrative as one in the trial of such circumstances, striving to persist even as the saints themselves are thus presented. So much has changed, but so many things have not – as they cannot in the world of man. So much left to be done …
Well, yes, (to) do the good that you can in the time at hand, within the now. Argumentation can fill pages but actions, they speak louder than words. And yet, often the act is simply to speak: “Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.” Ancient communities in modern day Turkey were about to receive a message, the one they needed.
Are you listening? Am I?
God help us…
He placed His right hand on me and said, “Do not be afraid…”
Addendum: I am motivated to convey my desire that individuals do not read the text and believe I am saying we must give up – to refrain from doing all that Christ has and continues to teach us: love your neighbour. Care for one another. Even now, I repent from frustrated words I speak to my wife asking her to react to what is going on our world. Indeed, rather our reaction needs to be to seek his guidance and his will, not to incriminate ourselves by presuming to be the judge, jury, or executioner. As always, seek Christ. I close with this sovereign and blessed word.
End Times Prophecy 
