meditations for an everyday relationship with Jesus

And they will reign

Revelation 20:6 Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection! The second death has no power over these, but they will be priests of God and the Messiah, and they will reign with Him for 1,000 years.

For most the question of first and second resurrection is a moot point. For those who are students of the Book of Revelation it is a different understanding; though it is one which should not distract us from Christ as the source of all that is, was, and will be.

Academics is great as a sideline, maybe even a life’s work for the called, but it should never take the place of those irrefutable truths that are truly “life and death.”

My take: there are two deaths, the physical and the spiritual; as well, there are two lives or resurrections. My Bible says that the passage speaks into the resurrection of the martyrs and the faithful … I assume in spirit and in new eternal bodies. But, since there is no time frame for reference in eternity, the 1000 years will have little to no effect. For those who remain alive in the flesh, should that be the case, it will be a different story.

Patience and understanding

Proverbs 14:29 A patient person [shows] great understanding, but a quick-tempered one promotes foolishness.

I do love it when a passage speaks so loudly that it doesn’t require the bullhorn of apologetics or exegesis …

So it is when Wisdom proclaims herself in the public square and at the city gates!