02 C. All He Saw

All He Saw

 

Revelation 1:2 “Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.”

 

            This verse tells us that the message given to John the Revelator, to which he became a witness, was the Word of God.  That is, the Scriptures are the testimony of Jesus Christ.  The Scriptures are to be interpreted as the testimony to Jesus as the Messiah, the Anointed One.

            We are therefore, from the meaning of this verse, to expect that the book of Revelation is to contain a verification of the Scriptures in their role as a testimony of Jesus Christ.  The book is to corroborate, substantiate, confirm, prove, make certain, and establish the Scriptures.

            The book is also to contain an eye witness account.  John has already stated in the Gospel of John and in the book of 1 John, that he is an eyewitness to the life and ministry of Jesus Christ:

That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life; 2  (For the life was manifested, and we have seen [it], and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;) 3  That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship [is] with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. (1 John 1)

 

Now in the book of Revelation he is giving his eye witness account of the spiritual realities revealed to him while “in the Spirit.”

 

The Genizah

            The genizah, (translated ‘hiding place’ or ‘treasury’ see Ezra 6:1), is a closet or room in the synagogue where damaged or tattered scrolls were relegated and which served also as a storeroom for the sacred scrolls.  One of the secrets of the Hebrew priesthood was the ways in which the starry heavens are the original genizah or storeroom for the Torah.  The Heavens declare the glory of God.”  Here, John is looking into the original, prototypic genizah.

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