Exploring Revelation

About the Book

As significant current events unfold all around us and voices are heard everywhere, saying "look here" and "look there", it is important that we keep our feet firmly grounded on the Word of God. Outside God''s Word there is no stability and it is easy to be alarmed or sidetracked by spectacular forecasts that have very little substance to them. Our primary task as Christians is to know what God''s Word says about the last days and to refuse any information that may be hearsay and which cannot be reconciled with the Scriptures.

Anyone could write a book about last things, and many do, but it''s wise to take much of what is written with a pinch of salt. However, when, as in the case of Revelation, the author is God Himself, it is necessary that the facts be well affirmed. And in the opening verses John takes pains to impress upon his readers the accuracy and reliability of what he is about to write. The information did not originate with him. It came from God the Father to God the Son and was then communicated to John by an angel.

Although our English Bibles record the title of this book as "The Revelation of John", it is not about John, nor his revelation. It is about Jesus Christ in His role as ruler, conqueror and controller of all things, spiritual and temporal. When Jesus said to His disciples, ''''All power is given unto me in Heaven and on earth" that is precisely what He meant, namely, ALL power, total control over all things.

My prayer is that this commentary will help to clarify the immense scope of this book of Revelation to the minds of those who read it.

About the Author

Ashley Day began his career as the Administrator of a college of languages in London''s West End. Called into the ministry during one of Billy Graham''s early London crusades, he and his wife, Edna, left the city and took up an itinerant preaching ministry in the South West of England.

The Days immigrated to the USA in October, 1959, and since then have ministered in Oregon, Missouri, England and Idaho. After returning to England, to pastor the Brookdale Evangelical Church in Devon, Pastor Day was called back to the United States in 1980 to become the Senior Pastor of the Coeur d''Alene Bible Church, where the Days remained until retirement in 2003. He now serves as Pastor Emeritus.

Ashley and Edna Day have been happily married for 53 years and have five children.

Seed-Time Ministries began in 1973 and has been used by the Lord to reach tens of thousands of listeners in the United States, Africa, the Middle East, China and the UK. It exists to provide sound Bible exposition through radio broadcasts, tapes, CDs and printed material.