Revelation 10

Sermon Notes

Revelation 10

Vision        Chapters          Content
1                    1-3                   7 churches
2                   4-8:1                7 seals
3                   8:2-11               7 trumpets
4                   12-14                Battle against Satan
5                   15-16                 7 bowls
6                   17-19                 Downfall of Babylon
7                   20-22                New Heavens & New Earth

“God is a revelational mystery, who has made himself known precisely as a mystery, precisely as a transcendent reality that does not fit neatly into the logical or linguistic categories we use when we think about anything.”
Chris Hall

Revelation 10: 1-11

1. Revelation Belongs to the Lord

“Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend.”
Eugene Peterson

“I have observed the power of the watermelon seed. It has the power of drawing from the ground and through itself 200,000 times its weight. When you can tell me how it takes this material and out of it colors an outside surface beyond the imitation of art, and then forms inside of it a white rind and within that again a red heart, thickly inlaid with black seeds, each one of which in turn is capable of drawing through itself 200,000 times its weight – when you can explain to me the mystery of a watermelon, you can ask me to explain the mystery of God.”
William Jennings Bryan

2. We Can Respond to Delay with Trust

“The absence of God is not a sign of his lack of power or concern. Nor is God’s delay in coming a necessary indication of the wickedness of those who suffer in the interim. God is still God and worthy of worship and allegiance despite the inability of humans to comprehend human suffering fully.”
Gerald H. Wilson

“How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.”
Tim Keller

“God is too good to be unkind, too wise to be mistaken; and when you cannot trace His hand, you can trust His heart.”
Charles H. Spurgeon

3. The Significance of the Scroll

“The sacred page is not meant to be the end, but only the means toward the end, which is knowing God himself.” A. W. Tozer

“The final salvation of the righteous, and the final success of true religion on earth, are engaged for by the unfailing word of the Lord. Though the time may not be yet, it cannot be far distant. Very soon, as to us, time will be no more; but if we are believers, a happy eternity will follow: we shall from heaven behold and rejoice in the triumphs of Christ, and his cause on earth.”
Matthew Henry