I had a recent conversation someone expressed his doubts about the true relevancy of Bible revelation. The book of Revelation says of itself in 1:3: " Blessed is the one who reads, and those who hear the words of the prophecy and keep the things which are written in it; for the time is near."
He seemed to take the same position that people ages ago took, which was noted by the Apostle Peter in 2 Peter 3:3-4: “Know this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come with their mocking, following after their own lusts, and saying, ‘Where is the promise of His coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue just as they were from the beginning of creation.’”.
What can we who believe what the Bible literally says is truth? All things do appear to have continued just as they were from the beginning of creation, and Jesus has not yet come down “with a shout, with a loud voice, with the trumpet of the archangel”. This is where we apply faith, just as we did when we believed in Jesus as our savior. We believe He is who He said he is. We believe He did as the Bible says he did. We believe he will come again for Christians, and we forever will be with him.
The problem is: if the book of Revelation is somehow wrong and written by out-of-touch old time zealots years ago, what other books of the Bible are wrong?
We are free to believe whatever we choose, but should we quake with uncertainty every time some other doubter raises an objection? There will always be those who will not believe all that the Bible says. There is no reason to take the word of a man over the word of God. They can, but we won't.
