“The Spirit and the bride say, ‘Come!’” - Revelation 22:17
This final message is based on the epilogue, “Maranatha: Live Now in That Hope,” from Lift Up Your Eyes to Heaven.
What Remains After The Final Page?
We have reached the end of Revelation and the end of this series. The throne has been opened before us. We have heard the letters to the churches, watched the seals break, listened to the trumpets, and stood beneath the bowls. We have seen a dragon thrown down, beasts rise, Babylon glitter and collapse, the King appear on a white horse, the dead stand before the throne, and the holy city descend.
What should remain after so many images? Not a crowded mind filled with symbols but an unchanged life. Not fear of tomorrow but loyalty today. Not pride in possessing an interpretive system but worship of Jesus Christ.
The epilogue of Lift Up Your Eyes to Heaven begins with humility. The author describes hesitating before Revelation because the book has so often been distorted. Fear-driven preaching, cultic claims, speculative schedules, and careless certainty have left residue in the church. Anyone who writes about Revelation should ask whether inherited assumptions are obscuring the Lamb.
That humility is appropriate for every reader. Revelation does not reward arrogance. Its visions are too large, its warnings too severe, and its center too glorious. We approach as servants asking the Lord to uncover what is true and remove what we merely assumed.