The Revelation of Jesus Christ: An Open Letter to the Churches from a Modern Perspective of the Book of Revelation

by Lynn Hiles

For anyone struggling to understand John s writings in Revelation, this book provides true, Biblically-based answers. Through detailed insight into the letters John wrote to seven churches of his day, you will learn how to avoid the inherent pitfalls of the first Adam mentality to overcome today's trials and tribulations. The more you understand the Book of Revelation, the more you will be disarmed of the fears, intimidations, rhetoric, and flood of information spewing from the dragon s mouth. This overflow of propaganda has kept the human family afraid to even read the Book of Revelation, when, in fact, it is the only book in the Bible that declares a built-in blessing to those who read and understand it.

261 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2007

Reviews

[Adam Nelson · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Hiles and hearing him speak at two different events. He is one of the leading ministers of the finished work, radical grace movement, and this book represents the heart of that movement. I had personally always struggled reconciling the book of Revelation with the idea of a New Covenant relationship with God through Christ. Hiles doesn't claim to have a complete interpretation of every aspect and nuance of Revelation, but this book and what I've heard him say do offer a good start and at least, for goodness sake, will help you stop being so afraid of the last book of the Bible. Dr. Hiles represents it as a book filled with promise, hope, and blessing, and he doesn't color outside the lines. In other words, he consistently uses the Bible to interpret the Bible, not only in this book but in all areas of his ministry. Other pastors in this movement I have enjoyed listening to like Paul White and Terry Bench also stay firmly in the Word. In so doing, they do not make the Bible sound like the instrument of oppression so many pastors and Christians have made it over the centuries but, instead, they open your eyes to its richness, to the love of God woven throughout Scripture, to beautiful truths that will free you, finally, from the nature of the old man. The constant emphasis in Dr. Hiles' book and ministry is resting in the finished work of Christ and the righteousness of the believer not through his own works but through the unmerited grace and favor of Jesus Christ. Dr. Hiles takes this idea to its logical conclusion--the acquisition and maintenance of our righteousness has nothing to do with anything we do and everything to do with what Christ already did. In this book, Hiles specifically writes about the 7 churches mentioned in Revelation and how the Lord's admonishments to them are meant to encourage them back into a knowledge of the grace that saved them rather than to condemn them, as we have so often been taught. Hiles puts it much better than I can. Give this book and his ministry, as well as the others I mentioned, a try. It's quite revolutionary when compared with the traditional doctrines, but I believe that Hiles and others in this movement are coming much, much closer to what God had originally intended for His church than what much modern theology teaches. And like I said, they stay firmly in the book. No Aesop-like fables for illustration here. None are needed. it's all in the book (the Bible).