Thy Kingdom Come – the Book of Revelation

Class 1 - December 7 & 14, 2025

Many months ago, we began a lengthy series about God’s future kingdom upon the earth. We started in Genesis and saw that Adam was given dominion over the earth as God’s mediatorial [mediator] ruler, until he sinned. With the coming of the Lord to the earth centuries later, we saw that the Lord Jesus Christ was presented as the Last Adam, offering the kingdom to Israel. Upon Israel’s rejection of His rule as King, the nation was ended and the Jewish people were scattered around the world until the re-formation of Israel as a nation in 1948.

You may recall that when we started this series I said one of the major themes running through the Scriptures is that of Jesus Christ’s ultimate earthly kingdom ruled by Him. I stressed the importance of studying the kingdom, because in doing this, we bless and praise God, as David said in Psalm 145:10-13:

Psalm 145:

10 All thy works shall praise thee, O LORD; and thy saints shall bless thee.

11 They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, and talk of thy power;

12 To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, and the glorious

     majesty of his kingdom.

13 Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion endureth       

     throughout all generations.

Notice, we actually bless God as we “speak of the glory of” His kingdom. We, as the future bride of Jesus Christ, need to glorify our God by learning about His kingdom as it is presented in the book of Revelation.

Therefore, we now have come to the capstone of the pyramid of God’s prophetic Scriptures, the book of Revelation.

John the Apostle recorded it on the isle of Patmos, known at the time as the Alcatraz [inescapable prison] of the Roman Empire, in approximately 90 ad, as the last written word from God to us.

The Capstone of Prophetic Scriptures

1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to show unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and

    he sent and signified it by his angel unto his  servant John:

2 Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ,

    and of all things that he saw.

The Book of Revelation is a record given by God the Father to all believers living during the Church age, Pentecost Acts 2 to the catching up of the Church, 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18, in order to encourage us by giving us a preview and an understanding of the “things” that will lead us to our destiny as Christ’s Bride.