Sharper Iron From Kfuo Radio

Rev. Peter Ill, pastor at Trinity Lutheran Church in Millstadt, IL, joins host Rev. Timothy Appel to study Revelation 1:9-20. St. John is a brother and partner with all Christians in the suffering of the Church. While he was suffering under exile on the island of Patmos, he was with the Church on a Sunday. In the Spirit, John heard the voice of Jesus behind him commanding him to write to seven congregations in Asia Minor. When he turned to see who was speaking, John saw the risen and ascended Lord Jesus Christ, appearing with the full glory and more of the Son of Man in Daniel 7. Each detail John describes reveals who Jesus is, and John fell at Jesus’ feet with great fear. Jesus touched John and took away his fear, for Jesus has conquered as the Crucified and Risen Savior. Jesus repeats to John the command to write what he sees, and Jesus begins to reveal to John how to understand the things that he sees by identifying the seven stars as the seven angels of the churches and the seven lampstands as the seve