All the Saints (Revelation 6:9-11) - The International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church
To see the full message, scroll to the bottom. When I was looking at scripture s that are relevant to t alking about our brothers and sisters around the world who are dealing with a kind of oppression and a kind of persecution and a kind of suffering that we do not know , Revelation 6:9-11 jumped out at me. The book of Re velation is complicated. It has a lot of different layers of meaning and I am not going to try to explain that scripture passage this morning. What I will do is ask us to consider the picture that is painted there. John was lost i n a vision , trying to describe things that he was seeing . H e doesn’t a lways seem to find the words to really express what it is that he saw . In this scene, what we do see , is God acknowledging suffering, God seeing suffering and pain , God hearing the voices of those who have suffered and who have gone through hard times because of their faith in Jesus . God hearing their empathetic prayers on beh