:alyptic LITERATURE '
IN THE BIBLE' ( S
Uonal Sunday School Lesson
.' for December 26 ,
. I Temory Selection j "The kingdom I
c" :he world has becbme the kingdom!
t our Lord and of his Christ, and he f
I 1 reign forever and ever." Reve
1. it 11:15., - , !
Lesson' Text':
22:1-5, 17.
Revelation 21:1-7;
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During the past quarter we have
-keen studying' the different types of.
Inerature found in the' Bible, includ-J
ing biography, ; law, history, drama,
prophecy, poetry, parables, and the
U tters or epistles. . For this lesson j
we study a type of literature which-
has received the difficult- name of
;. Apocalyptic, and the book which best
' illustrates this type of literature is
the Book of Revelation. The first
verse of, this Book, in the Greek
language, contains the 'word Apo
calypse The Book of the Apo
calypse of Jesus Christ.
. In the Greek,- the word Apocalypse
means unveiling or revealing. Our
word Revelation is from the Latin
equivalent, Apocalypses the charac
terized by certain ' peculiarities of
form and content. They are cast in
the shape of visions crowded with
Symbolic figures. The content of the
Apocalypses centers around the end
: of the world, the final judgment, and
" the emphasis is always on the direct
intervention in human history of God
himself, the heavenly King, who
' comes to destroy the kingdoms of
this world, to rescue his people from
their-tyranny, and to replace the
' sorry scheme of things in which they
suffered by a new heaven and a new
''''earth.
In the early days of the church, as
reported in the Book of the Acts, the
v Roman government was tolerant in
. its attitude toward the Christian
: church. As you remember, Paul was
.proud to assert his Roman citizen
ship. However, with the growing
strength of the new faith, this atti-L
- tude of friendly tolerance changed to I
hostility andr. during the reigns of
Neroi Domitian, Diocletian, the
! church was severely persecuted and
Christians were imprisoned and many
. suffered martyrdom.
The Bpok of Revelation, arises put
f of this changed situation. The Em
:. peror Domitan demanded homage on
f the part of all people and permitted
himself to be called "the Lord God"
and temples were erected to him in
( Rome and in the colonies. One of
, the Christians who refused to bow
his knee to the Roman Emperor was
John, the writer of the Revelation,
and for his disloyalty he was ban
ished to the island of Patmos. From
his prison he wrote this mysterious
book. It is written in a sort of
l ''code," which was easily, understand
able by Christians, but non-Chris-4
tians would not make any sense out
of it What could they do with such
phrases as "The Lamb that was slain
, from the- foundation vt the world" or
"I saw the New Jerusalem coming
i, down from God out of heaven." This
' Symbolic language is often difficult
tfor4 us to follow and even scholars
are baffjed to Interpret some of its
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These are the wise men who came to Bethle
hem to worship the infant Savior.
They came from far-off Persia, where they
worshipped the principle of light as manifested
in the sun, moon, and stars. Led by a gleaming
star which shone above the Khan at Bethlehem,
they brought gifts of gold and frankincense and
myrrh. . ,
The Magi were representatives of an ancient
faith faith which went back to the days when
man first looked up at the stars and wondered
and worshipped. In this adoration, the lights of
an old world faded in the brightness of a new
revelation.
Men no longer have to look td" the stars for
the light of faith. It has come down to earth
and shines in human hearts. It brightens man's
pathway and gives his life a meaning and a pur
pose. This is the significance of the wise men's
journey to Bethlehem.
Wisdom, in all ages, has taught men to seek
the light of life in God. We need that light now
to dispel the shadows of these dark and danger
ous days.
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