{"id":3338,"date":"2014-09-24T08:29:09","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T13:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp\/?p=3338"},"modified":"2014-09-24T08:29:09","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T13:29:09","slug":"revelation-chapter-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/?p=3338","title":{"rendered":"Revelation Chapter 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3339\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/revelation-300x200.jpg?resize=300%2C200\" alt=\"revelation\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>We are going to read through this amazing book as a book of victory to encourage us.\u00a0 We are not going to spend time analyzing each word or verse.\u00a0 The theme for this book is \u201cWe Win!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jesus is the first and the last, the alpha and omega, the beginning and the end.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jesus was before all things and will be here after all things are done.\u00a0 Jesus was before time and lives outside of time and His creation.\u00a0 Only the omniscient one can give a vision of how things are going to be.\u00a0 Think about this, God already knows our <span data-term=\"goog_871053838\">tomorrow<\/span> and we can trust Him.\u00a0 There is no way to know why God allows sin to affect our lives.\u00a0 This side of time we will never know the whys of why some wicked crime was permitted to happen.\u00a0 But rest assured, God is in control.\u00a0 He was in control when all things were created.\u00a0 He is in control as creation plays out through its allotted time.\u00a0 He will remain in control as Christ comes to rule and reign in the new heaven and new earth.\u00a0 As we start this wonderful book of scripture rejoice that Jesus is on the throne.\u00a0 Rejoice that in the end we get to reign and rule with Him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"excerpt","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3340,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3338\/revisions\/3340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}