Certain books in the New Testament feel like documentaries. Take the Gospels for instance, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John contain firsthand accounts on the life of Christ. Written in narrative form, the Gospels flow easily from one story to the next.

The last book in the Bible isn't like that.

Revelation contains challenging and mysterious references.

Well today on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall helps us unravel some of the complexity as he

continues his study in revelation. Most of us would welcome some clarity on this

book. Chuck titled today's message, the curtain rises, the drama begins.

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Scripture speaking of itself tells us that the word of God is alive and active

and sharper than a two-edged sword.

And it is written so that it pierces

to the division of the soul and spirit as well as the joints and the

marrow and it is the Greek word is critic costs We get our word critic from it, translated discerner.

Word of God is a discerner of the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

No surgeon, no matter how skilled,

no matter how high-tech the instrument she or he may use,

no surgeon can do surgery on the soul.

No surgeon can touch the spirit.

God's word goes deeper than the most radical of surgeries.

And no person is able to know the intention of the heart.

God's word knows that as well.

So when we open the scriptures to the first chapter of the last book of the Bible, we're

turning not simply to ancient literature, we're turning to that which reveals us as we really are, tells us about ourselves, even

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