This talk is part 2 of a 3 part series on the Revelation.
There is an inevitable tension between the world’s way and the way of Christ. We feel it in our personal lives (see Romans 7). It can also manifest as a societal tension.
Established power easily becomes threatened by the alternate frame of power and meaning that the way of Christ represents. Not the threat of being overthrown by brute force. It is the threat that love and truth pose to deception and intimidation.
Any attempt to stamp out this threat makes the existing fragile power more transparent. The more force is applied… the more those in power reveal their ultimate powerlessness in the face of the eternal kingdom.
The way of Christ stands through and beyond time. There are seasons of tribulation. Yet, the way of Christ prevails.
