Let’s say, you were on a vacation, high up in the mountains of Peru. Your family is having the time of your lives. You have explored Machu Picchu and were just wowed. You and your family are headed out on a trail, and you decide to take a look at the trail map, when you notice a warning that the trail you are on leads to a sheer drop of hundreds of feet. You look up from the map to see your child running down the trail and disappearing around the corner, and, based on the map, it will only be a short distance beyond that, they will encounter the cliff. There is some doubt in your mind that if you yell, “Stop!” they will take you seriously enough to stop in time. But you know they have an unrelenting, passionate interest in butterflies. So, in your best attempt at saving your beloved child from certain death, you call their attention to a butterfly. They immediately respond and are saved. The book of Revelation is the call to point us in the direction that will save us. It’s not a butterfly that the book reveals; it is One who has loved you from before the foundations of the world. He came once to this world, died to claim the right to save you, and is coming back again. Welcome to our study of the end of the trail, the cliff, and the One who will save us from it all.
