“Unlike the Roman Empire, which promised peace but delivered brutality and fear, the kingdom of God promises tribulation and delivers peace and confidence and eternal salvation to those who patiently endure.
Jesus will bring hope and change.
Make no mistake about it: your best life is not now. Your best life will begin when the skies are split by the shout of the archangel.
When you patiently endure whatever afflictions you face in your life, you follow in the footsteps of the Old Testament prophets, the Lord Jesus, and his disciples.”
–James M. Hamilton Jr., Preaching the Word: Revelation—The Spirit Speaks to the Churches, ed. R. Kent Hughes (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2012), 43–44. Jim is commenting on Revelation 1:9-11.
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