Knowing Christ today—but He’s not like what you think

Confessions of a Greater Jesus

Knowing Christ today—

but He’s not like what you think

· To get to know someone, anyone, it’s important we learn about their past—what they were like and what they did. But what is more important is what they are like and doing today. Why? Because people change. Something similar is true if we really want to know Jesus as He is today. (The immutability of his Personhood, notwithstanding—Hebrews 13:8).

· The fact is, no longer is Jesus the earth-bound, historical Jesus we have learned to know and love. No longer is He the sleeping baby in the manger we celebrate every Christmas, or the boy who played in Galilee, or the man they hung at Calvary, or even the lamb who died for you and me. No, He’s not like that anymore.

· The only place to find out about what Jesus is really like today is to the greatly misunderstood and abused book of Revelation. Here, in the Bible’s last book, Jesus is unveiled in his present, exalted, glorified, and transfigured reality. And we can discover some amazing things about Him, such as: He looks differently than we picture Him; He’s not just sitting up in Heaven waiting to come back; He’s in our midst all around the globe in the realm of the spirit; And He comes and goes in and out of the spirit realm in many, different, and wondrous ways; He rides a horse; He fights against people in the world and in the church; He conquers some awesome creatures; He hosts a banquet; He judges people and nations; He lives in a new earthly city; and He wants you and me to enter and reign with Him on earth, here and now. This is the living, active, and contemporary Christ—a greater Jesus—Who is in the world today and functioning in a much greater and broader capacity than we have been led to believe.

· Unfortunately, the book of Revelation confuses most readers. Yet its first five words make it clear that the book’s purpose is to reveal Jesus Christ, and not to satisfy our intellectual curiosity about distant, future events. It’s “the revelation of Jesus Christ.” The Greek word translated “revelation” is apokalypsis, which simply means an “unveiling” or “uncovering.” Hence, the Bible’s last book unveils Jesus in his present, resurrected, ascended, glorified, and transfigured form. It further details his past, present, and future activities—i.e., his involvement and interactions with humankind and spirit-realm beings around the world.

· Mistakenly, most current teachings on the Revelation focus on Satan and his cohorts and what they are supposedly going to be doing to our world at some future date. No wonder people are frightened by this book and have missed its stated purpose. They also miss out on its seven promised blessings in this life. No more. In John Noē’s new breakthrough book, readers will discover that the Jesus we thought we knew is a much greater Jesus than most have been led to believe, as we come to know and more greatly appreciate the present reality of the contemporary Christ and his many countless comings.

While Confessions of a Greater Jesus is written in a popular style for a broad readership, it is based on a requested theological article titled “An Exegetical Basis for a Preterist-Idealist Understanding of the Book of Revelation” by this author. This article was published in the December 2006 issue, vol. 49.4, of JETS – Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society.

Contact the author John Noe at jnoe@prophecyrefi.org