The Revelation to JohnWeek 7– Whose Side are You on?

Welcome!Please take one of each of the papers

laid out by the sink!

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(Revela

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The T

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Room

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Cosm

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2-

22)

Nero Redivivus (Returned)

The Sea Beast

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Sea!

The Sea Beast

The Land Beast

The Image of the Beast

The Image of the BeastGod said, ‘Let us make human beings in our image, to be like ourselves…’ So God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them… The LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground. He breathed the breath of life into the man's nostrils, and the man became a living person.

-- Genesis 1:26-27; 2:7 (NLT)

The Mark of the Beast

The Mark of the Beast

The Army of the Lamb

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The Sea Beast• Fathered by the Dragon

• Blasphemous titles (like “Son of God”)

• Slaughtered then resurrected

• Given authority by the dragon

• Wearing 10 crowns on Earth

The Lamb• Birthed (mothered) by the woman

• Son of God

• Slaughtered and resurrected

• Given the Sealed Scroll

• Rules in Heaven

Beast Power vs. Lamb Power

Jesus is “the Lamb that was slaughtered from the foundation of the world.” – Revelation 13:8

Beast Power vs. Lamb Power

The Land Beast• Led by Sea Beast, Sounds like

Dragon

• Bears witness to the Sea Beast

• Does wonders in the Beast’s name

• Shows the world the Beast’s image

• Seals with the Beast’s Mark

The Church• Shepherded by the Lamb

• Bears witness to the Lamb

• Does wonders in the Lamb’s name

• Shows the world the Lamb’s image

• Believers are sealed by God

Whose Side are You on?

1. What false image(s) of humanity does our culture celebrate?

2. How does the Church participate in perpetuating them?

3. What does taking the Beast’s mark look like today?

4. How are we reduced to commodities? How can the Church resist this?

Beast Power vs. Lamb Power

For Next WeekRead chapter 14-16.

• What similarities do you see to what’s already happened in Revelation?

• In light of what’s happening so far in this vision, how does this fit in?

• What’s confusing? What’s clear?

BONUS: What do the two harvests in 14 represent?