THE ORIGIN OF THE BOOK OF REVELATION

"The Revelation of Jesus Christ,which God gave Him to show His servants things which must shortly take place.And He sent and signified by His angel to His servant John,who bore witness to the word of God,and to the testimony of Jesus Christ to all things that He saw.Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy and keep those things which are written in it ;for the time is near"(Revelation 1:1-3)

The book of Revelation is the canon book of Jesus Christ to His Church,the saints.It is the prophetic revelation of Jesus,given by God the Father after His ascension to heaven.John the apostle and prophet wrote down all the things that  he saw while being revealed by Jesus to him.An angel of God was assign to assist John to make sure that he receive God's end time revelation.The word "Revelation" here is being translated from the Greek word " apokalypsis " which means "an unveiling."and the word 'Unveiling' means ' to show or expose to view '.Jesus is unveiling the divine mystery of the future.

This is why it is also called "the words of prophecy"(Rev 1:3) because this book is a prophetic revelation in nature.Every child of God must read this book,for it shows the future events of this world where we live in and how the life of all mankind  is determine by God.I'm so thrilled whenever I read this book.I called the book of Revelation as  a book of' blessing' in disguise because with the many fury Judgments and outpouring wrath of God being seen,the future life  of God's people are prosperous and victorious.

Great reward await for all saints.Indeed this is the book of blessing in disguise and blessed is he who read,hear and obey those things which are written it it.Talking about being bless, let me share the first beatitude of blessing being promise to them who read this book.
Revelation 1:3 says "BLESSED is he who read and hear the words of this prophecy and keep those things that are written in it for the time is near...."

'Blessed' is being bless by God and being bless is the condition of being happy.Such is the mental state of happiness produced by the experience of God's favor and especially conditioned by the revelation of His matchless grace. When we open the Book of Revelation and start to meditate upon it,God will pour out His favors to us while reading it,hearing it and keeping it.This verse tells us that:

1.Blessed is he who READ the words of this prophecy
2.Blesses is he who HEAR the words of this prophecy
3.Blesses is he KEEP those things which are written-(Be the doer of God's word)

Another translation of being bless is: "spiritually prosperous in that state in which the born again child of God enjoys His favor and salvation.It is the condition of being spiritually prosperous with life-joy and satisfaction in God's favor and salvation,regardless of their outward condition"

I love the Bible translation of the Amplified version.It says :"Blessed (happy,to be envied) is the man who read aloud the word of this prophecy and bless are those who hear it read and who keep themselves true to the things which are written in it (heeding them and laying them to heart) for time (for them to be fulfilled) is near"(Rev 1:3)

And so,blessed is he who read God's word aloud.Just by reading it loud to yourself or to the church,God's favor and blessing will come upon you.What a revelation indeed! Whenever I read the bible and especially the book of Revelation,I will read it loud and when I hear my own vocal voice,its like hearing  the voice of Jesus Himself.At one time,I was reading aloud privately the fourth chapter from the book of Revelation .Hearing God's word being read was so powerful that it engulfed my whole emotion to the point where I was literally crying and sobbing  endlessly while reading the whole chapter .

Many complained that this book is very hard to comprehend because there are so much of symbols and hidden mysteries.I believe that the book of revelation can be understood because it is an open book to every Spirit filled saints and not sealed that we may not see.The angel of God said "Do not seal the words of the prophecy of this book,for the time is at hand"(Rev 22:10).The book of Revelation is not sealed and thus its literature can be understood to those who diligently read it.
Jesus said that the the Holy Spirit in us will "teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you "John 14:26.He also said that "He will tell you things to come"(John 16:13b)

Holy Spirit come to " tell things to come" means He will reveal somethings in the future .The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of prophecy and thus it is closely related to the book of prophecy which is the book of Revelation
Understanding the book of revelation requires diligent searching,praying and knowledge from the Holy Spirit.There are many good commentaries being written by good bible prophecy teachers out there as reference .We also need constant reference to know the root word and such apocalyptic biblical vocabulary.New testament bible was originally written in Greek and thus at least we need some basic Greek .I have my Greek interlinear bible as my cross reference and  it has help me a lot in my study on   the book of Revelation.I am so happy to know that many are following my blog posting closely.Out of curiosity,I checked my visitor's traffic  today (12/03/2011) and found out that there were seventy one visitors checked and read  my blog posting on-line.This figure might be small to some,but I am satisfied with such number.It has made my day.