1. What Is My Destiny?

2. Revelation 1. It is a complex book. 2. It is a book given to reveal.
3. It falls within the genre
of Biblical literature
known as apocalyptic.

3. Apocalyptic Literature
It was brought about by “an hour of desperate need.”
Most of this kind of literature was written between 200 BC and 100 AD, when the Jewish nation was struggling for its existence.

4. Apocalyptic Literature
It was always relevant to the historical situation of the day.
It makes use of symbols and visions, which to us might seem odd, but to the first readers would have been understood.

5. Revelation 4. It is written to and for a church under attack.
5. It concerns “what must soon take
place” with respect to its original
hearers.

6. Christ is with His churches and knows their problems.
Revelation
The Big Picture
Chapters 1-3: “the things which are”
Christ is with His churches and knows their problems.

7. Revelation The Big Picture Chapters 1-3: “the things which are”
Chapters 4-22: “the things which must
take place”
Christ’s enemies will make things difficult for His people, but He will defeat and destroy them.

8. What Is My Destiny? But what about in the meantime?
✔ We can know with certainty
our destiny.
But what about
in the meantime?
✔ For those who refuse to come to and follow
Jesus, their destiny is His wrath / judgment.
✔ For those who come to and follow Jesus,
their destiny is eternal life.