the Revelation of Jesus Christ

I am beginning a 81 part series on the exposition of the Revelation of Jesus Christ by Arturo Azurdias. He begins with going through 1 Corinthians 13 in order that we may prepare our minds and hearts for understanding the book of Revelation. Here is a true story to introduce you to the book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ:

"During Oliver Cromwell’s reign as Lord protector over all of England, a young soldier was sent to die as a result of some egregious offense but the young woman to whom he had been engaged pleaded with Cromwell to spare the life of her fiancé, all to know avail. The young man was to be executed when the curfew bell sounded. At the appropriate moment as he had done for many many years, the sexton of the church grabbed the rope and pulled on it repeatedly. But unlike anytime before, the bell made no sound. The young woman had climbed into the bell tower and wrapped her body around the clapper so that it could not strike the bell. With every tug of that rope, her body was pummeled and smashed against the sides of that giant bell but she refused to let go until the clapper stopped swinging. When the sexton finally stopped tugging on the rope, the young woman managed to climb down from the bell tower and stopped out to meet those who had gathered to observe the execution. She was bruised from head to toe, she was bleeding terribly, when she explained what she had done, the overwhelmed Cromwell commuted the sentence.

A poet who was there that day gathered with the crowd to observe the execution captured the scene with these words:
At his feet she told the story
Showed her hands all bruised and torn
And her sweet young face still haggard with the anguish it had worn
Touched His heart with sudden pity
Lit his eyes with misty light
“Go your love lives” said Cromwell
“Curfew will not ring tonight”

This is the very thing that we will see from the Revelation. It will point us to a savior who has purchased our victory in his death. In a world that is filled with such hostility against the things of God, we of all people need not fear the future, come what may, because curfew will not ring for us. Jesus Christ has wrapped himself around the clapper of God’s judgement. Again and again we will see the love of Jesus Christ for us thereby making it altogether incongruous for us to manifest any other kind of disposition to our brothers and sisters in relationship to the truth we learn from this book. "