Pastor Percipia

  To see the full message, scroll to the bottom and click through. There are four big 'scenes' in the book of Revelation. We're going to pause in each one, standing in John’s sandals, and look around. To see what John saw in those landscapes. To hear what he heard.  Got your travelling shoes on? Let’s go visit the Island, the Temple, the Wilderness, and the Mountaintop.    ______  John, a man in his 80s, stood trial under Emperor Domitian, and was found guilty. He was torn away from everyone he knew. He was chained and (literally) shipped to an isolated island in the Mediterranean called Patmos, with no expectation of ever going home. Leaving behind the people he loved to possibly face the same kind of trial.   He had been a child, growing up playing and working on a lake—a circle of water—surrounded by the green and the gold of the hills of Galilee.  He was now an old man, praying and working on a circle of stone and trees entirely surrounded by ...