The Book of Revelations and Proper Worship

Gary Broyles, who according to his profile, "Studied Business Administration & Mind Reading at EWU Cheney Wa"


Asked the following question. "How much of an understanding of the book of Revelation do you have ?"


So I answered:


Outside the context of the Divine Liturgy, which is clearly pictured in the Apocalypse of John, Revelations has little meaning. But understand that I am not diminishing the meaning of "revelations" just freeing it from earthly time and giving it the eternal and heavenly dimension it clearly holds.


When Christians worship properly, as Saint Paul states in the first two verses of Roman's the 12th Chapter, "presenting your bodies" the same word carried across 2000 years of time, where the military commander says, "present arms!" that is STANDING together, our attention focused, "A living sacrifice" this is a Jew talking, invoking the Liturgical language of the Temple, "Holy and acceptable unto God" This is a picture of worship - as all of Revelations is, "Which is your RATIONAL LITURGIZING." (the LITERAL interpretation of the Greek, λογικην λατρειαν ) Saint Paul said that this worship was so powerful, so real that if you are not properly prepared, that if you partake unworthily, that if you come to this altar of worship while holding something against someone that you risked sickness and death by the power of it, but that if you worshiped rightly, properly it was the power of God unto salvation. He siad, "The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?"


Why do we participate in the Divine Liturgy? What the Roman Catholics call "The Mass"? So that we will not be hypnotized by the present common mindset, a false mindset created by Lucifer, (And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind,) and why do we endure this worship, which creates a metempsychosis - a metamorphosis of our minds? that we may prove in our LIVING, in our experience of it, "what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God."


When we are molded to that perfect will of God, we are already living in HIS Kingdom.


Outside of the context of this worship - which is eternal worship - not an event on Sundays, but everywhere, ALL the time, whenever we do this, in "anamnesis" - stepping into eternity with HIM, we join with the Heavenly Host pictured in Revelation, opening the gates of heaven and we actually worship with the Saints of Old (all the saints) and the Holy (opposed to the wicked) Angels who surround HIS throne, saying, Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Sabaoth, Heaven AND EARTH are filled with YOUR Glory. Hosanna, in the highest. Blessed is he who comes in the Name of the Lord."


And who is it that comes, but Jesus himself, inhabiting the bread and wine of our Liturgical Sacrifice, sharing with us, his Divine Human reality, allowing us to consume it. What did John the Beloved quote Jesus as saying? In the 6th Chapter of the Gospel of John, Jesus speaking, "Unless you eat my flesh and drink my blood, you have NO life in you."