Blessed: Experiencing the Promise of the Book of Revelation
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Blessed, by best-selling author and speaker Nancy Guthrie, provides individuals and small groups a friendly yet theologically robust guide to understanding the book of Revelation.
Over 12 chapters, Blessed covers the full text of the book of Revelation, exploring its call to patient endurance as God’s sovereign plans for judgment and salvation are worked out in the world. In this book, Guthrie shows how Revelation is less about when Jesus will return and more about who we are to be, what we are to do, and what we can expect to endure as we wait for Jesus to return to establish his kingdom in the new creation.
With a friendly and engaging tone, Blessed takes the fear, intimidation, and confusion away from studying Revelation, providing a solid and accessible resource that individuals and small groups can use to study this important yet often avoided book.
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- Shows how Revelation is less about when Jesus will return and more about who we are to be, what we are to do, and what we can expect to endure
- Explores its call to patient endurance as God’s sovereign plans for judgment and salvation are worked out in the world
- Covers the full text of the book of Revelation
Top Highlights
“Some interpreters insist that if we don’t read every image in Revelation literally, we’re not taking the Bible seriously. But an important aspect of taking the Bible seriously is recognizing and interpreting each part of it in the literary genre used by the human author as inspired by the divine author. To interpret symbols symbolically is not spiritualizing the text; it is rightly interpreting the text.” (Pages 18–19)
“Revelation is showing us the same scene from different angles, and each angle helps us to see and understand a different aspect of what is taking place during the same period of time. Think of it as similar to watching a sporting event on television. Most major sporting events have numerous cameras covering the same action, and when something significant happens in the game, they often replay what happened from numerous camera angles. As we see it from different angles, the reality of what transpired becomes clearer to us.” (Page 125)
“The most important thing we need to understand about the organization of Revelation is that it retraces the same events from different angles, each with a different emphasis or focus.” (Page 21)
“When you see this picture John presents of God on the throne of the universe holding in his hands this sealed scroll on which he’s written out his plan for history, you can trust that his plans for this world and for your life are precise and complete.” (Page 95)
“Revelation is actually less about when Jesus will return and more about what we are to do, who we are to be, and what we can expect to endure as we wait for Jesus to return to establish his kingdom.” (Page 14)