Jesus Christ: In The Midst Of His Church

The first chapter of the Book of Revelation is the highlight chapter of the whole Bible. The Son of God is the theme and there are 41 titles or descriptive terms that apply to Christ. It is the absolute proof of His ascension to the Father’s right hand. There are 22 descriptive terms of Christ before His death and resurrection and 19 terms of His glorious resurrected person after He ascended back to the throne. Anyone that doubts His eternal Sonship has not come to the faith in His Resurrection that we see in this chapter. Revelation is the “DRAMA” of the whole Bible. Every doctrine in the first 65 books of the entire Bible is clearly seen in this Book of Revelation. First, we know that Our Lord Jesus Christ is at the Father’s right hand, because we see it so clearly in these Scriptures. But, He is not only there; He is here. That’s the beauty of Revelation chapter one. John said it beautifully, “I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea. And in the midst of the seven candlesticks (THE CHURCH) one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle” (Revelation 1:10-11,13). The Church is His Body and He is in our very midst. No true believer can ever be happy without a church to which they can be faithful.