2021/10/25

10. God's Messiah

In the Book of Revelation, we can find the words expressing the work of the Holy Spirit in almost every chapter. It is because it aims that the event of the descent of the Holy Spirit may be imprinted on the unconscious memory of the trainee who reads and listens to Revelation and that the work of the Holy Spirit may be continuously infused in it. As it is written that on the day the Holy Spirit descended, "suddenly a sound came from heaven like the rush of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting"¹, the Holy Spirit brought an exceptional space, the house of God, to the people gathered there in the name of Jesus. The house of God, which appeared concretely in the senses of each disciple and at the same time in the midst of them, is called, as Jesus admonished, the house of prayer for all people.2 The prophecy of Isaiah 56 that Jesus quoted here was then fulfilled. The house of God is a place where God and people come together, and God too has the throne just like "they were sitting." The words, "And there appeared to them tongues as of fire, distributed and resting on each one of them,"³ are a reference to the Holy Spirit connecting with the brains of each individual so that he might take what is of Jesus' and declare it to the disciples⁴. So, when the trainee recites and hears the words like "[B]efore the throne burn seven torches of fire, which are the seven spirits of God"⁵ and "[A] Lamb ... with seven horns and with seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth,"⁶ the events of the day of Pentecost suggested in them will be implanted in his/her sensory memory. The worldview of Jesus Christ blossoms when we experience the events of Pentecost, just like it happened to the disciples of that time.

Reference: 1. Acts 2:2, 2. Matthew 21:13/Mark 11:17/Luke 19:46, 3. Acts 2:3, 4. John 16:15, 5. Revelation 4:5, 6. Revelation 5:6

Maria K. M.