After a long career in public education as a teacher and instructional coach, she and her husband are now retired. Janet has served the Lord in a variety of organized ministries (Habitat for Humanity, No Limits youth group co-leader, prayer and worship groups, Crown of Glory nursing home ministry, and The Table ministry (worship and weekly meal for neighborhood low-income and homeless). Additionally, her writing has appeared in literary journals and anthologies. Janet also maintains a Facebook page on prayer (Prayer Vigil, Jesus’ Sacre Coeur), where one can intercede through written prayers. Her blog (contains her favorite non-fiction, short fiction, and poetry. She has learned firsthand how the goodness of Christ is unveiled through everyday interactions as well as participation in organized ministry. We know you’ll enjoy seeing Christ unveiled before your eyes.A native Coloradoan, Janet Fichter writes to inspire readers to rekindle the flame of passion for serving Christ. It will yield its treasures to the patient and passionate ones. And so the book of Revelation is written in the language of God – pictures! Take time to digest them, to “eat the scroll” (Rev. You must learn the language first before you can read its contents. To read Revelation is almost like reading a book in a foreign language. Yes, there are judgments included, some painful episodes full of loss and death, but it all must be placed on the canvas of an unveiling of Jesus within His people. God wants to lift the veil from our eyes and show us a beautiful Christ, full of glory, coming again, with love over His heart for His bride. It is false advertising for God to give us a book called “The Unveiling” only to have nothing unveiled, but everything confused and unknowable. It is not “The Manual for Coming Events,” or “How to Know When the Anti-christ Comes on the Scene,” or “How to Survive Armageddon.” The title of the last book of the Bible is “The Unveiling of Jesus Christ.” We believe that the best way to read and study this book is to look for Christ on every page. We think you’ll love it.īut perhaps the one key to understanding this cryptic, apocalyptic book is found in its title. So we’ve kept the translation clean, crisp and to the point. It’s almost like he’s saying, “You HAVE to think out of the box.” So you’ll find in our footnotes ample explanations of many Greek words and phrases.Īlso, we working under the assumption that people don’t want to simply read the book they want to understand its meaning. Scholars will tell you that John’s text of Revelation breaks nearly every Greek grammatical rule. So what makes Revelation different as you read The Passion Translation?įirst, we’ve tried to explain the nuances of the Greek text. We are praying that the Holy Spirit drenches us with revelation from God, insights into His holy Word, and passion to live the truth in every aspect of our lives. But if we start with the premise that God indeed brings all things together in Christ, we can step back, take a deep breath, and leave room for differing viewpoints.įor us working on The Passion Translation project, we’ve done our best to keep these multiple interpretations in mind as we finished the monumental task of translating the New Testament, and especially the book of Revelation. It seems we all are divided over how God brings everything together in the end. Many believers hold their own view of the last days as the only valid one. So how does one navigate the “mine-field” of often conflicting interpretations related to Revelation? In a word, carefully. No wonder many believers today don’t even bother to read the summary book of the entire Bible-the Book of Revelation. Then add to that all the multiple interpretive models that may be applied to the book (futurist, historicist, preterist, idealist) with an almost endless supply of variations and nuances that come from hundreds of commentators. He has to use the words “like,” “something similar to” etc. He takes John through heaven’s portal into a realm where he sees things that can’t fully be described. It is one of the most supernatural accounts we have in all the Bible, for Jesus himself appears to John in His glorified state. Why is there such controversy surrounding the book? (By the way, it’s not Revelations, there’s no ‘s’ on the end). We need God’s help to understand it, and we need humility to acquire God’s help. The light shines upon a section and reflects its beauty, so it is with reading the book of Revelation. To read the sacred text is like gazing upon the Grand Canyon. All too often we get dogmatic about a text, sure that we have understood and teach it correctly, only later to realize we only saw but a faint gimmer of His truth. So what would revelation on Revelation look like? I think it would look like humility. That’s right, we really need to have help from God as we study the book of Revelation.
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