Examining LSM's Eschatology - Revelation's 7 Churches TOMES

[Thankful Jane]

Originally Posted by awareness

Like Jesus said, the future is in God's hands...and take no thought for tomorrow.

By take no thought I think you mean anxious thought ...

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I really appreciate the article by Nigel. The teaching by Lee on Revelation was all I had ever heard. I bought it hook, line, and sinker.

Some time after leaving the LC, I decided to take this simple position on the interpretation of the details of Revelation: I don't know. I don't know what it all means. Nigel's article is a further confirmation for me of another thing I also decided, which is that Lee didn't know either. He just led us to believe he did. It's a sad state of affairs in the LC today because Lee's teaching combined with the belief in his infallibility, leaves people under a deception that all is well for them if they are in the LC. Sad, because the opposite is the more likely truth.

Overall, as I am reading Revelation I hear the Spirit telling me that there will be a very good end to things when they are done, and that on the way, there will be some very rough times. I also hear that I should take my walk with God seriously because one day I will stand before Him and be judged. I should also take seriously my responsibility to pray for others, because they will do likewise.

My position might seem to have left me fairly uninterested in the book of Revelation, but it hasn't really because of one verse I noted, which I have decided to take literally:

Blessed is he who reads and and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep the things that are written therein: for the time is at hand. (Rev. 1:3)

I like being blessed, so I decided I would just read Revelation for that reason and not try to interpret it. (I don't mind hearing others interpretations, but I just kind of file them away under the "something I heard once" category.) By simply reading the words of the prophecy, I keep them in mind and I am blessed. God can do with them what He likes. The day may come when they come alive for me in some kind of present application and God may give me some understanding, but for now, I simply don't know.

TJ