Introduction to John's Revelation

This book, as it clearly states, is the revelation of Jesus Christ, but it is the revelation of Himself to the Jews!   The church, or us "gentiles," have all ready received this full revelation of Jesus Christ! 

When Christ came 2000 years ago, this was his primary intention.  He knew full well that he would be rejected by the Jews, as a nation, both spiritually and/ politically. True, there were untold countless thousands of Jews who accepted Jesus Christ as their Messiah, but the nation, as a whole, rejected the "Son of Man" choosing to stay tied to the "Old Covent" and the law of Moses. 

In his prophecy in the Old testament, Daniel plainly states, that at the end of his "70 weeks" the "Messiah would be anointed the most holy."  While at His first coming, the believing Jews and subsequently the believing Gentiles; aka, the church, DID ACCEPT JESUS as the "most holy," nevertheless THE NATION OF ISRAEL DID NOT!!!

To more fully understand this whole "Jewish rejection" attitude, one needs to comprehend two statements.  the first was made by  Jesus Christ Himself,  "Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved."  (Luke 8:12,KJV)Here Christ was referring to the /Jews who did not accept him.

them later in Romans, Paul says, " For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in." (Romans 11:25, KJV)

Therefore, the purpose of the book of Revelation is two fold:  on the one hand,  it is to the Church, as a warning of attitudes, but more importantly, it is for the nation of Israel, revealing to them their Messiah who they had previously rejected who now they accept!!!  It is also an explanation to the rest of the world just how this "life" ends: and "eternity" begins.