In one of Fanny Crosby’s more famous hymns, we hear the line, “Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine! O what a foretaste of glory divine!” Foretaste is a good word to describe what John receives on our behalf in the book of Revelation: a foretaste of Christ’s divinity and majesty, a foretaste of heavenly worship, a foretaste of things to come. As we will learn in our lesson this week, this vision that John receives is also an assurance to us of Christ’s victory over death and our victory through Him, and we can live this life with confidence because Jesus is the first and final word, and the one who holds all the cards.
