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Applied Revelation, 2of2 ~
7-Step
Progressive Revelation
~ The word revelation essentially
means revealing. God has, is, and will,
reveal Himself to man in seven distinctive stages. This progression occurs during three distinct
major categories: General (or Natural) Revelation, Special Revelation, and Applied Revelation. This series will focus on this unfolding seven
step progression.
Applied
Revelation ~ First we had General Revelation and later
Special Revelation. Finally we have
Applied (or Implemented) Revelation. The
knowledge gained from General and Special Revelation is applied in a practical
and intended way.
7—God’s
Law Fully Functional (eternal
rejoicing) ~ There is coming a
future time when everything is complete.
At that time God’s order will be fully operational. “And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and
judgment was committed to them. Then I saw the souls of those
who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who
had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their
foreheads or on their hands. And they
lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. But
the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were
finished. This is the first
resurrection. Blessed and holy is he who has part in
the first resurrection. Over such the
second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and
shall reign with Him a thousand years” (Revelation
20:4-6).
“Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the
first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea. Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from
God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying,
‘Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and
they shall be His people. God Himself
will be with them and be their God. And
God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death,
nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be
no more pain, for the former things have passed away’” (Revelation 21:1-4).
“But I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God
Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. The city had no need of the sun or of the
moon to shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it. The Lamb is its light. And the nations of those who are saved shall walk in its light, and the kings
of the earth bring their glory and honor into it. Its gates shall not be shut at all
by day (there shall be no night there).
And they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it. But
there shall by no means enter it anything that defiles, or causes an abomination or a lie, but only
those who are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life” (Revelation 21:22-27).
Comment ~ Applied
Revelation was partially fulfilled since Christ’s First Coming. The complete and functional fulfillment will
be realized following His Second Coming.
~ Robert Lloyd Russell, ABUNDANT LIFE NOW
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