The Seven Sealed Book (Part1)

Revelation 5:1

And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne

a book written within and on the backside,

sealed with seven seals."

        Try to visualize the picture which John is using to explain what he saw.  It is taken from the vision of Ezekiel: And when I looked, behold, an hand was sent unto me; and, lo, a roll of a book was therein; And he spread it before me; and it was written within and without: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe (Ezek. 2:9-10).  
        We must note that it was a roll and not a book which was in the hand of God.  In the ancient world, down to the second century A.D., the form of literary work was the roll, not the book. The roll was made of papyrus, manufactured in single sheets about ten inches by eight. The roll commonly had a wooden roller at each end. The Revelation itself would occupy a roll 15 feet long.  It was that kind a roll that was in the hand of God.
        When a roll was finished, it was fastened with threads and the threads were sealed at the knots. The one ordinary document sealed with seven seals was a will. The roll may be what we might describe as God's will, his final settlement of the affairs of the universe.  It is more likely that the seven seals stand simply for profound concealment. The contents of the roll are so secret that it is sealed with seven seals. The tomb of Jesus was sealed to keep it safe (Matt. 27:66). The apocryphal Gospel of Peter says that it was sealed with seven seals. It was so sealed to make quite certain that no unauthorized person could possibly open it.  However this gospel of Peter was proposed as an addition to the New testament, but rejected by major canons.
         As John looked at God with the roll in his hand, there came a challenge from a strong angel.  A strong angel appears again in Rev. 10:1 and Rev. 18:21.  In this case the angel had to be strong so that the challenge of his voice might reach throughout the universe.  His summons was that anyone worthy of the task should come forward and open the book.  There is no doubt that the book is the record of that which is to happen in the last times.
     In response to the challenge of the angel no one came forward; none was good enough to open the roll.  And at this John in his vision fell weeping.  It seemed to him that there was no one in the whole universe to whom God could reveal his mysteries.  And, indeed, this was a terrible thing; because  here was a world so far from God that there was none able to receive his message.
        Amen!!

Reading: (Rev. 5:1-4)
Ref: (HGSB; BSB)

May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry

The 24 Elders, And The 4 Beast Of John's Vision

Revelation 4:4,6)

"And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I

saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had

on their heads crowns of gold. And before the throne there was a sea of

glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about

the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind" 

         We now approach one of the difficult passages for which the Revelation is notorious. In it we meet twenty-four elders and then four living creatures; and we have to try to identify them. The likeliest explanation is that the twenty-four elders are the symbolic representatives of the faithful people of God. Their white robes are the robes promised to the faithful (Rev. 3:4), and their crowns  are those promised to those who are faithful unto death (Rev. 2:10). The seats around the throne are those which Jesus promised to those who forsook all and followed him (Mat. 19:27-29). The description of the twenty-four elders fits well with the promises made to the faithful. We must remember that this is a vision, not of what yet is, but of what shall be; and the twenty-four elders stand as representatives of the whole Church which one day in glory will worship in the presence of God himself.
        The voices are the voices of the thunder; and thunder and lightning are often connected with the manifestation of God. In the vision of Ezekiel lightning comes out of the fiery haze around the throne (Ezek. 1:13). The Psalmist tells how the voice of the thunder of God was heard in the heavens, and the lightnings lightened the world (Ps. 77:18). The seven torches are the seven Spirits of God. We have already met the seven Spirits before the throne (Rev. 1:4; Rev. 3:1). The "glassy sea" has exercised a strange fascination over the minds of many people. There was something which was beyond all description, but which could be only like a great sea of glass.
        It appeared like a sea - stretching afar. It resembled, in its general appearance, glass; and this idea is strengthened by the addition of another image of the same character; that it was like a crystal, perfectly clear and pellucid. This would seem to be designed to represent the floor or structure on which the throne stood. So Maybe what we see in John's vision is that the empire of God is vast, as if it were spread out like the sea; or, it may be symbolic of the calmness, the satisfied complacent of the divine administration; like an undisturbed and unruffled ocean of glass. Perhaps, however, we should not press such circumstances too far to find a symbolical meaning.
        Here we come to another of the symbolic problems of the Revelation. The four living creatures appear frequently in the heavenly scene: So let us begin by collecting what the Revelation itself says about them. They are always found near the throne and the Lamb (Rev. 4:6; Rev. 5:6; Rev. 14:4).   From all this one thing emerges clearly; the cherubim are angelic beings who are close to God and the guardians of his throne.  They have six wings and they are full of eyes (Rev. 4:6; Rev. 4:8). They are constantly engaged in praising and in worshiping God (Rev. 4:8; Rev. 5:9; Rev. 5:14; Rev. 7:11; Rev. 19:4).
        They have certain functions to perform. They invite the dreadful manifestations of the wrath of God to appear upon the scene (Rev. 6:1; Rev. 6:7). One of them hands over the vials of the wrath of God (Rev. 15:7). There can be little doubt that we find the ancestors of these living creatures in the visions of Ezekiel. They are clearly part of the imagery of heaven; and they are not figures whom the writer of the Revelation did not create.
        The lion symbolizes the powerful and effective working of the Son of God, his leadership and his royal power. The ox signifies the priestly side of his work, for it is the animal of sacrifice. The man symbolizes his incarnation. The eagle represents the gift of the Holy Spirit, hovering with his wings over the Church.
        Here is the sleepless praise of nature; "Man rests on the Sabbath, and in sleep, and in the end in death, but the course of nature is unbroken and unbroken in praise." There is never any time when the world God made is not praising him.
        It praises his omnipotence:  God is the Almighty. The people to whom the Revelation was written are under the threat of the Roman Empire, a power which no person or nation had ever successfully withstood. Think what it must have meant to be sure that behind them stood the Almighty. The very giving of that name to God affirms the certainty of the safety of the Christian; not a safety which meant release from trouble but which made a man secure in life and in death.
        It praises his everlastings:  Empires might come and empires might go; God lasts for ever. Here is the triumphant affirmation that God endures unchanging a midst the enmity and the rebellion of men. We have seen that the living creatures stand for nature in all its greatness and the twenty-four elders for the great united Church in Jesus Christ. So when the living creatures and the elders unite in praise, it symbolizes nature and the Church both praising God.  
        The elders cast their crowns before the throne of God. In the ancient world that was the sign of complete submission. The picture looks on God as the conqueror of the souls of men; and on the Church as the body of people who have surrendered to him. There can be no Christianity without submission. God is The Creator!  It is through his will and purpose that all things existed even before creation and were in the end brought into actual being. Man has acquired many powers, but he does not possess the power to create.  He can alter and rearrange; he can make things out of already existing materials; but only God can create something out of nothing.  Everything in the world belongs to God, and there is nothing a man can handle which God has not given to him. God Is The Almighty.
         Amen!!


 Reading: (Rev. 4:4-12)
Ref: (HGSB, BSB)
        (C. Larkin)

May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross life Ministry

The Throne Of God

Revelation 4:1a, 2

"After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the

first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking to me;

And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne 

was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne."

         In Rev. 2:1-29; Rev. 3:1-22;  Christ was walking in the midst of his churches upon earth. And now the scene changes to the court of heaven. When John entered the door into heaven, he fell into an ecstasy.  John saw One seated upon the throne, we know that to be God! There is something very interesting here.  John makes no attempt to describe God in any human shape.  He describes God in "the flashing of gem like colors," but he never mentions any kind of form.  It is the Bible's way to see God in terms of light. The Pastorals describe God as "dwelling in the light that no man can approach unto" (1Tim. 6:16). And long before that the Psalmist had spoken of God who covers himself with light as a garment (Ps. 104:2).
        John sees his vision in terms of the lights which flash from precious stones. We do not know what exactly these stones were. But the three names we have are the jasper, the sardine and the emerald. One thing is certain; these were typical of the most precious stones. It is possible that the jasper stands for the unbearable brightness of the purity of God; and the blood-red sardine stands for his avenging wrath; and that the gentle green of the emerald stands for his mercy by which alone we can meet his purity, and his justice.
        The presence of God which John saw, was like the blinding flash of a diamond in the sun, with the dazzling blood-red of the sardine; and there flashed through both the more restful green of the emerald, and due to the brightness of the light through the stones, a human eye could not bear to look upon the rainbow that surrounds God's Throne.
        Amen!!

Reading: (Rev. 4:1-3)
Ref: (HGSB; BSB)

May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry

Laodicea, The Church Condemned

Revelation 3:15

"I know thy works, that thou art neither

cold nor hot: I would thou wast

cold or hot." 

        The church of Laodicea portrays the apostate church of the last days (A. D. 1900---present).  Laodicea has the grim distinction of being the only Church of which Christ has nothing good to say. The words of Christ comes directly from the prosperity and the skill in which Laodicea took so much pride in.  In their minds the citizens, and even the Church, eliminated the need for God. Of all the seven Churches Laodicea is most unsparingly condemned; because in it there is no redeeming feature. 

        The condemnation of Laodicea begins with a picture of almost crude vividness; because the Laodiceans are neither cold nor hot, they have about them a kind of nauseating quality, which will make Christ vomit them out of His mouth. The one attitude which Christ unsparingly condemns is indifference. The problem is that to so many Christianity, and the Church have ceased to have any relevance to social issues, and men regard them with complete indifference. This indifference can be broken down only by the actual demonstration that Christianity is a power to make life strong and a grace to make life beautiful.
        The one impossible attitude to Christianity is being neutral.  Jesus Christ works through men; and the man who remains completely detached in his attitude to Him has by that very fact refused to undertake the work which is the divine purpose for him. The man who will not submit to Christ has necessarily resisted Him. Amen!!
        The tragedy of Laodicea was that it was convinced of its own wealth and blind to its own poverty.  Humanly speaking, anyone would say that there was not a more prosperous town in Asia Minor.  Spiritually speaking; Christ declares that there was not a more poverty-stricken community.  The Church of Laodicea was not burden with debt, but it was burdened with Wealth.  
        The trouble with the Church of Laodicea was that it's "Gold" was not the right kind, so they were told to buy of the Lord "gold tried in the fire" (v-18. What kind of gold is that?  My friend, it is a gold that has no taint upon it, and was not secured by fraud. They were not only poor , but blind and naked as well.  They were "near sighted," they could see their worldly prosperity, but that were "short sighted" as to heavenly things, so Christ told them "and anoint their eyes with eye salve, that thou mayest see" (v-18).  However; they possessed no salve that would restore impaired Spiritual Vision, only the Unction of the Holy One can to that.    
         Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth; therefore, despise not the chastening of the Almighty" (Job. 5:17).  "We are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world" (1Cor. 11:32).  "For the Lord disciplines him whom he loves and chastises every son whom he receives.  It is for discipline that you have to endure.  God is testing you as sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?  If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons" (Heb. 11:6; Heb_11:8).  It is, in fact, God's final punishment to leave a man alone.  "Ephraim is joined to idols; let him alone" (Hos. 4:17).
        In Rev. 3:20, we have one of the most famous pictures of Jesus in the whole New Testament.   "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock:  We see the pleading of Christ. He stands at the door of the human heart and knocks. The unique new fact that Christianity brought into this world is that God is the seeker of men. No other religion has the vision of a seeking God. The promise of Christ is that the victor will sit with Him in His own victorious throne. We will get the picture right if we remember that the eastern throne was more like a couch than a single seat. The victor in life will share the throne of the Victorious Christ.
        Every letter finishes with the words: "Let him who has an ear hear what the Spirit is saying to the Churches."This saying does two things.   It individualizes the message of the letters. It says to every man: "This means you." It generalizes the message of the letters. It means that their message was not confined to the people in the seven Churches nineteen hundred years ago, but that through them the Spirit is speaking to every man in every generation. We have set these letters carefully against the local situations to which they were addressed; but their message is not local and temporary. It is eternal and in them the Spirit still speaks to us.  My friends, this is the most startling thing recorded in the New Testament; that it is possible for a church to be outwardly prosperous, and not have Christ in it's mist, and be unconscious of the fact. This is a description of some of our churches today;  "A Christ-less Church." 
        Amen!!

Reading: (Rev. 3:14-22)
Ref: (HGSB; BSB)
        (C. Larkin) 

May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A.  Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry

Philadelphia, City Of Praise

Revelation 3:8

"I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door,

and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and

hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name." 

        Philadelphia was the youngest of all the seven cities.  It was founded by colonists from Pergamos under the reign of Attalus the Second, who ruled in Pergamos from 159 to 138 B.C. for there was little danger there.  It was founded with the deliberate intention that it might be a missionary of Greek culture and language to Lydia and Phrygia; and it did it's work so well that by A.D. 19, the Lydians had forgotten their own language and were all but Greeks. 

        Philadelphia was  "the center for the diffusion of Greek language and Greek letters in a peaceful land and by peaceful means."  That is what Christ means, when He speaks of the open door that is set before Philadelphia. Three centuries before, Philadelphia had been given an open door to spread Greek ideas in the lands beyond; and now there has come to it another great missionary opportunity, to carry to men who never knew it the message of the love of Jesus Christ.
        Of all the cities Philadelphia receives the greatest praise and it was to show that it deserved it.  For centuries it was a free Greek Christian city a midst a pagan people.  It was not till midway through the fourteenth century that it fell; and to this day there is a Christian bishop and a thousand Christians in it. With the exception of Smyrna the other Churches are in ruins, but Philadelphia still holds aloft the banner of the Christian faith.
        There had been one definite act in Philadelphia's past time; and the implication is that there had been some kind of trial, out of which the Church had emerged triumphantly true. They may have only a little strength; their resources may be small; but, if they are faithful, they will see the dawn of the triumph of Christ. That which must keep a Christian faithful is the vision of a world for Christ, for the coming of such a world depends on the fidelity of the individual Christian.
        Christ Say's, For those who have kept, I also will keep.  When we are called upon to show endurance, the endurance of Jesus Christ supplies us with three things. First, it supplies us with an example. Second, it supplies us with an inspiration. We must walk looking to Him, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross despising the shame (Heb. 12:1-2). Third the endurance of Jesus Christ is the guarantee of his sympathy with us when we are called upon to endure. "Because he himself has suffered and been tempted he is able to help those who are tempted" (Heb. 2:18).
        In Rev. 3:12, we come to the promises of  Christ to those who are faithful.  The faithful Christian will be a pillar in the Temple of God.  A pillar of the Church is a great and honored support. Peter and James and John were the pillars of the early church in Jerusalem (Gal. 2:9).

        Jesus Christ will write on the faithful Christians head the name of His God.  It is just possible that we have an Old Testament picture. When God told to Moses the blessing which Aaron and the priests must pronounce over the people, he said: "They shall put my name upon the people of Israel" (Num.6:22-27).  It is the same idea again; it is as if the mark of God was upon Israel so that all men may know that they are his people.
        On the faithful Christian the name of the new Jerusalem is to be written. That stands for the gift of citizenship in the city of God to the faithful Christian.  According to Ezekiel the name of the re-created city of God was to be The Lord is there (Ezek. 48:35). The faithful ones will be citizens of the city where there is always the presence of God.
        Amen!!

Reading: (Rev. 3:7-13)
Ref: (HGSB; BSB)

May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry

 

Sardis, A Lifeless Church

Revelation 3:2

"Be watchful, and strengthen the things which

remain that are ready to die: for I have not

found thy works perfect before God." 

        Sardis stood in the midst of the plain of the valley of the River Hermus.  To the north of that plain rose the long ridge of Mount Tmolus; from that ridge a series of hills went out like spurs, each forming a narrow plateau.  On one of these spurs, fifteen hundred feet up, stood the original Sardis, prior to the earthquake in A. D. 17.  Clearly such a position made it almost impossible to breech, and only where the spur met the ridge of Mount Tmolus was there any possible approach into Sardis and even that was hard and steep.  It has been said that Sardis stood like some gigantic watch tower, guarding the Hermus valley.  

        The wealth of Sardis was legendary.  Through the lower town flowed the River Pactolus, which was said in the old days to have had gold bearing waters from which much of the wealth of Sardis came.  However; the greatest of the Sardian kings was Croesus, whose name is still commemorated in the proverb, "As rich as Croesus."  It was with him that Sardis reached its splendor, and it was with him that it plunged to disaster. The Sardians thought themselves too safe to need a guard; and so Sardis fell.  A city with a history like that knew what Christ was talking about when he said: Watch!"   

        When John wrote his letter to Sardis, it was wealthy but degenerate.  Even the once great city was now only an ancient monument on the hill top.  There was no life or spirit there.  The once great Sardians were soft, and twice they had lost their city because they were too lazy to watch.  In that  atmosphere the Christian Church too had lost its vitality and was a corpse instead of a living Church.
        In the introduction Christ says,  He is he who has the seven Spirits of God and who has the seven stars.  There are seven Churches, yet in each of them the Spirit operates with all his presence and power.  The seven spirits signifies the completeness of the gifts of the Spirit and the universality of his presence.  The stars stand for the Churches and their angels.  The Church is the possession of Jesus Christ.  Many a time men act as if the Church belonged to them, but it belongs to Jesus Christ and all in it are his servants.  In any decision regarding the Church, the decisive factor must be not what any man wishes the Church to do but what Jesus Christ wishes to be done. 

        The terrible accusation against the Church at Sardis is that; although it has a reputation for life, it is, in fact, spiritually dead.  The New Testament frequently compares sin to death.  In the Pastoral Epistles we read: " But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth" (1Tim. 5:6).  Sin is the death of the will, and the death of the feelings as well as the death of all loveliness.  A Church which is so sluggish as to fail to produce a heresy is mentally dead; and a Church which is so negative as to fail to produce opposition is dead in its witness to Christ.  If anything is to be rescued from the impending ruin of the Church in Sardis the Christians there must wake from their deadly sluggishness and watch.  No commandment appears more frequently in the New Testament than that to watch.  The Christian must be on the watch against the wiles of the devil (1Pet. 5:8). The history of Sardis had its vivid examples of what happens to the those whose watch is slack. The Christian is under continual attack by the powers which seek to seduce him from his loyalty to Christ. Often these attacks are subtle. He must, therefore, be ever on the watch.

        Christ says: "Remember how you received and heard the gospel."Christ is telling the lazy minded Sardians to remember the thrill when they first heard the good news. Christ says: "Repent!" In the Christian life there must be a decisive moment, when a man decides to be done with the old way and to begin on the new.  Christ says, keep the commands of the gospel, and watch.  There is an old Latin saying that "the gods walk on feet that are wrapped in wool."  Their approach is silent and unobserved, until a man finds himself without warning facing eternity. But that cannot happen if every day a man lives in the presence of Christ; he who walks hand-in-hand with Christ cannot be taken unaware by his coming.  

       It is said of the faithful that they, "have not soiled their garments."  James spoke with respect and admiration of the man who kept himself "unstained from the world" (James 1:27)
The man who is faithful to his pledge will, beyond a doubt, some day hear God say: "Well done!"  To those who have been faithful.  They will be clothed with white raiment.  It is said of the righteous that "they will shine forth like the sun in the Kingdom of their Father" (Matt. 13:43); and it is said of God that he covers himself with light as with a garment (Ps. 104:2). What do the white robes signify? No one knows for sure, but in the ancient world white robes stood for festivity. "Let your garments be always white," said the preacher, "and let not oil be lacking on your head" (Eccl. 9:8). The white robes may stand for the fact that the faithful will be guests at the banquet of God. And also in the ancient world white robes stood for victory, and in any land, and in any time white is the color of purity.

        The names that are written in The Book of Life; will not be wiped out of The Book of Life. In the time of judgment those who are written in the book will be delivered (Dan. 12:1).  He who is not written in the book of life is cast into the lake of fire (Rev. 20:15); only they who are written in the Lamb's book of life shall enter into blessedness (Rev. 21:27). To have one's name written in the book of life is to be numbered among the faithful citizens of the Kingdom of God.  Jesus Christ will confess their names before his Father and the angels.  It was Jesus' promise that, if a man confessed Him before men, He would confess him before His Father; and if a man denied Him before men, He would deny him before His Father (Matt. 10:32-33; Luke 12:8-9).  Jesus Christ is for ever true to the man who is true to Him. 

        Amen!!
 

Reading: (Rev. 3:1-6)

Ref: (HGSB; BSB)

May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry  

Thyatira, The Church Of Compromise

Revelation 2:20

"Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou

sufferest that women Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess,

to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication,

and to eat things sacrificed unto idols." 

        The longest of the seven letters is written to the least important of the seven cities. The problem which faced Thyatira, and the danger which threatened it were those which were universally involved in the position of the Christians in Asia. Thyatira lay on the road which connected Pergamos with Sardis and went on to Philadelphia and to Laodicea, than linking up with Smyrna. That was the road by which the imperial post traveled; and it was crowded with the commerce of Asia, and to the east of Asia. Therefore, first and foremost Thyatira was a great commercial town. Thyatira lies in the long valley connecting the valleys of the Hermus and the Caicus rivers through which the railway runs today; and it was its geographical position which gave it its importance.
        Thyatira had no special religious significance. It was not a center of either Caesar or of Greek worship. What, then, was the problem in Thyatira? We know less about Thyatira than about any other of the seven cities and are, therefore, seriously handicapped in trying to reconstruct it's situation. The one thing we do know is that it was a great commercial center, specially of the dyeing industry and of the trade in woolen goods. It was from Thyatira that Lydia, the seller of purple, came (Act. 16:14). Here was the problem at Thyatira; the threat came from inside the Church. There was a strong movement, led by the woman addressed as Jezebel, which plead for compromise with the world's standards in the interests of business and commercial prosperity, maintaining, no doubt, that the Holy Spirit could preserve them from any harm, from such things which the Christian must have nothing to do with.
        The letter opens with a description of The Risen Christ which has a threat in it. His eyes are like a flame of fire and his feet like burnished bronze. The description is taken from that of the angelic messenger in Dan. 10:6 ; "His face was like the appearance of lightning, and his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and legs like the gleam of burnished bronze." The flaming eyes must stand for two things, blazing anger against sin and the awful penetration of that gaze which strips the disguises away and sees into a man's inmost heart. The brazen feet must stand for the immovable power of The Risen Christ. A message which begins like that will certainly be no soothing tranquilizer. The letter goes on to terms of the highest praise. The love and loyalty and service and endurance of the Church at Thyatira are matters for congratulation. We must note how these great qualities go in pairs. Service is the outcome of love and patient endurance the product of loyalty.
        Then comes the condemnation of the woman Jezebel and all her ways and teaching; and one can hardly avoid the conclusion that she had very considerable influence in the Church at Thyatira. This woman is called Jezebel and, therefore, her character must be discovered in the original Jezebel than whom few women have acquired such a reputation for wickedness. She was the daughter of Ethbaal, king of Sidon, and the wife of Ahab (1 Kgs. 16:31). When she came from Sidon, she brought her own gods and caused Ahab and his people to worship Baal, and she left behind her a name for "harlot's and sorceress" (2 Kgs .9:22).
         All this must mean that Jezebel of Thyatira was an evil influence on the life and worship of the Christian Church. It must be clearly understood that she had no wish to destroy the Church; but she wished to bring into it new ways which were, in fact, destructive of the faith. The letter to Thyatira finishes with a series of great threats and great promises. Jezebel has been given all the latitude the divine mercy can give her. If she does not repent, she will be cast into a bed of sickness and her 
lovers, and followers will share her fate. This will prove to all men that indeed The Risen Christ,  "triest the reins and the heart." (Jer. 11:20). In Jeremiah the prerogative of searching the inmost thoughts of men belongs to God; but in the Revelation, as so often, the prerogatives of God have become the prerogatives of the Risen Christ.
        The promise from Christ; "I will give him the morning star. Could that be; that the morning star is the glory which will come to those who are righteous and have helped others to walk in the paths of righteousness? That is a soul stirring thought, and there is probably more involved in this promise; but we are quite certain that the correct interpretation is this. The Revelation itself calls Jesus "the bright morning star" (Rev. 22:16). The promise of the morning star is the promise of Christ himself. If the Christian is true, when life comes to an end he will belong to The Risen Christ forevermore.
        Amen!! 

Reading: (Rev: 2:18-29)
Ref: (BSB; HGSB)

May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry