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Why Revelation and why now?
We are entering a time that comes around every four years when our nation becomes preoccupied with voting for our next president. This is an important part of our Christian calling as citizens. As Christians, we love our neighbors by prayerfully considering the positions held by each candidate in light of biblical teaching and evaluate their experience and abilities in light of biblical principles. Then we vote according to our conscience and trust God with the results.
As simple as that sounds, weighing a candidate’s fitness for office is often complex. Navigating the court of public opinion is far more so. Discussing these matters Christianly, that is with courage and conviction as well as peace and respect, is increasingly difficult. We all to varying degrees live in the echo chamber of the online world, which feeds us information according to our biases and is financially incentivized to enrage us in the process. More rage equals more clicks, which equals more money, to perpetuate more biased news…and round and round we go.
It all reaches a fever pitch in our country with the arrival of the presidential election.
What are we to do? We can’t bail on the process. But we also can’t give ourselves over to the rage culture of the media that desperately wants to snatch our attention and our joy, if not our faith.
We’ve decided to stage a competing spectacle. We will spend every Sunday morning this Fall studying a portion of scripture that is so weird and so wild, it just might get us unglued from the screen so we get ourselves reoriented to Christ.
The book of Revelation calls us to reckon with the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. It gives us a perspective on our lives that is transcendent. It shows us that God is in control and he has an end in view. It challenges us to live our lives in light of Judgment Day, not Election Day.
It's a message we need to hear, loud and clear, so that Christ gets our most focused attention, our highest allegiance, and our loudest praise.