Let me begin this week with a biblical word association test. You know how these work. I say a word,

and you say the first word that comes to mind. Ready? Revelation.

Now, if you're not a Christian, revelation might prompt you to think of all kinds of things.

I remember a friend of mine getting a suitcase for her 21st birthday, which had the manufacturer's

name embossed on it, revelation.

So I could imagine somebody might remembering that think suitcase,

or somebody with a guilty conscience might think, hide.

Or if you're a Christian, you might think of all kinds of things.

You might think of Jesus. You might think of all kinds of things. You might think of Jesus.

You might think of the book of Revelation.

The word millennium might come to mind.

But if you study the Bible for any length of time and know anything about theology, you know

that Revelation is a word that describes the way in which God has

made himself known to us. And he's done that right from the very beginning. I mean the beginning.

Genesis chapter 1, verse 1, in the beginning, God. I wonder if you've felt, as I have in recent years,

that while scientists want to explore the nature of the cosmos,

there are some scientists in particular who seem to want to get right back to the beginning of things,

to the alpha point, and then go over the border of that

alpha point in order to prove that there is absolutely nothing there. And their deep motivation

actually is to deny the existence of God. And of course, not all scientists have that kind of disposition, but some of them are,

like I remember as a youngster, Yuri Gagarin, the first Russian cosmonaut going up into space and

coming back down and saying, I went there to the edge of the universe, which of course he didn't,

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