Visit of the Beast
For the grand finale games of the regular season, yesterday I was super-primed for two long, long overdue CFB victories, one of which came to pass as UF trounced FSU 41 to 14. The other was a visit to every horror of the NT book of Revelation as OSU the Beast tossed Michigan into the Lake of Fire, though at 39 to 62 neither defense has bragging rights. Next year in Jerusalem and all that. Clemson, Alabama and Georgia did as expected.
Today in church is the last Sunday of the church year, now set as "Christ the King", (put the comma where you will, I don't care) before next week we go into church year C with the First Sunday of Advent. A chief identifying feature of Year C is that most of our gospel readings will be from Luke.
Our second reading this morning is from Revelation John's introduction to his bizarre book, The Apocalypse (scroll down). Revelation is one of my favorite Bible books, because it makes for such fascinating Bible study in group seminars. Nothing is set in stone, but my plan for adult Sunday School this morning is to take advantage of today's lectionary reading and introduce Revelation.
Revelation 1:4b-8
Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth.
To him who loves us and freed us from our sins by his blood, and made us to be a kingdom, priests serving his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
Look! He is coming with the clouds;
every eye will see him,
even those who pierced him;
and on his account all the tribes of the earth will wail.
So it is to be. Amen.
“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.
Today in church is the last Sunday of the church year, now set as "Christ the King", (put the comma where you will, I don't care) before next week we go into church year C with the First Sunday of Advent. A chief identifying feature of Year C is that most of our gospel readings will be from Luke.
Our second reading this morning is from Revelation John's introduction to his bizarre book, The Apocalypse (scroll down). Revelation is one of my favorite Bible books, because it makes for such fascinating Bible study in group seminars. Nothing is set in stone, but my plan for adult Sunday School this morning is to take advantage of today's lectionary reading and introduce Revelation.
Revelation 1:4b-8
Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth.
To him who loves us and freed us from our sins by his blood, and made us to be a kingdom, priests serving his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
Look! He is coming with the clouds;
every eye will see him,
even those who pierced him;
and on his account all the tribes of the earth will wail.
So it is to be. Amen.
“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.