An "essay" The Stones of John

Hey People,
I just wanted to share this with you all. I wrote this about a year and a half ago. I know that it is very raw, so I ask that you forgive me for that. I simply found this and felt the need to share it with you all.
Have a great day.



The Stones of John
One of the problems that I have with the Bible teachers and Theologians of today is the business with the book of Revelation. Most people have a problem with the final book of the Bible. Quite a few people usually hide behind the thoughtless belief that John, the man who wrote the book, wrote using code so that the Romans would not know what he was writing about. They say that John didn’t want the Romans to read his Revelation for fear that they would misinterpret the images as politically inciting.

My answer for this is that John is commonly believed to be the same as John the Apostle, the Discipline. This is the same John who was brother to James and a son of Zebedee. James and John were the two disciples whom Jesus called the “Sons of Thunder”. These were the two men who went to their mother and got her to ask Jesus if they could sit on his right and his left in the Kingdom. Are you trying to tell me that the same man who had balls enough to ask God, “Can I sit next to you in Heaven?” In other words, “Can I be your Number One guy?” This is JOHN. You mean to tell me that this guy was worried about what the Romans thought of his ideas.

We have Paul, who wrote all his letters in Greek, a language understood by many at the time, and he wrote about the same things. He wrote several letters while in Jail. A Roman jail, no less. Peter, also, wrote without care of what Nero thought. There is a story that Peter, while being nailed to a cross was still preaching the gospel. How can you think that John, cut from the same cloth as Peter and Paul would try to hide his message. Why?

Another thing, John was part of the group given the Great Commission by Jesus. Go out, and make disciples of the World. Why would he try to hide anything from a group of people. That would have gone against the Commission. And as much trouble John could cause and cook up, he would not have betrayed his commission. He was made of sterner stuff than we are.

I am sorry, people. John would not have worried about what the Romans thought. John used plain language. He spoke about what his saw. And what he saw was horrific. We know that God used symbols in his revelations to men. Read Daniel, who interpreted dreams and had visions that needed to be interpreted by no less a figure than Gabriel. John told us what he saw. He saw symbols that were used by God, and these symbols have been misinterpreted for centuries.

Another point I want to make is this. Revelation is not a book for solitary study. It should studied in groups because of the images that God showed John, and the ease with which we can misinterpret the message.

Revelation is the book describing the End of THIS World. It is the end of the Bible. And John was not being cryptic in his relating the Revelation. John didn’t need to be.