Day 27: Revelation

Estimated Reading time: 4 hours
Biblical text (choose the version you like): http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+1&version=NIV
More mystery
Just enjoy reading this book. Let's not try to unpack it :) Enjoy the last leg of your challenge.

Do you hear echoes of what you have read for the past 27 days in this book?
"God's reign is just and delivered with integrity; it is peaceful; everlasting not transient; universally effective; causes rejoicing and eliminates suffering" by Ross Clifford and Philip Johnson

Compare this comment to Revelations. 
"Now more than ever we need Christians leaders who are strong enough in their faith to shine like stars in the universe as they hold out the word of truth. Now more than ever we need Christians leaders who are strong enough in their faith to shine like stars in the universe as they hold out the word of truth. We need Christians who are intent on using all of their resources to live and speak well of Christ – bringing not just transformed lives through people coming to faith – but a transformed society as Christians stand up and make a difference in their workplace. When you think of the thousands of Christians that graduate universities across the nation every year, decade after decade its suprising that we are not making a bigger impact on the nations media, politics, health care system, cinema, music, social care system. Its time to start a good news revolution and I need your help to do it." Krish Kandiah.

Zach says the a similar thing here http://thelocutionaryact.wordpress.com/2013/02/20/what-question-is-christianity-answering/

"Christianity is not, in the first instance, answering any of the questions that people in our society commonly come to it (as a worldview) with. How can I be happy? How can I be a better person? How can I have better/more/any sex? What can I do to make more money? How will I survive through the dark and lonely nights and overcome my existential angst? How can I succeed? What political system should govern our society? Should I pursue career/relationship/education-pathway X? How do I achieve inner peace? Why do I spend so much / so little time reading this blog? Intelligent, fascinating, even ‘good’ questions… But, according to the gospel, not the central one.
Surely, Zach, religion is all about being a better person or achieving some sense of transcendence or purpose … what are you saying here?!? Well, I’m saying that I think the important question is actually something like “what is the nature of reality?” Or “what is most fundamental in this universe?” The key is not even, I note, the popular line “how can I have a relationship with God?” which puts the focus on us and can easily be interpreted as being about fulfilment of felt needs. No – the Christian faith is primarily a claim to having truth about the way the world is, and includes a message that one’s life needs to be ordered in light of this reality. It is eminently relevant to you, but it’s not primarily about you."

So did Tolkien
" The Lord of the Rings suggests that God's victory on earth (or Middle-Earth) is incomplete unless and until victory fills the "small places"....The final battle between good and evil is not some gigantic historic battle--like the destruction of the Death Star--but rather a small fight, followed by a small reconstruction of a very small place. The Good News fills every valley....In their return to the Shire, the Hobbits continue their mission to its proper conclusion. Without their humble work among their own humble folk, evil would have retained a stronghold in Middle-Earth. The global is important, and so too is the local"-Mike Hickerson, 2002.