Title: Christ Our Overcomer (1)
Series: Seven Churches of Revelation
Author: Tim Melton
Text: Revelation 1:9-20
In World War II Nazi Germany used a device called the Enigma machine. It was used to hide its secret communications, so even if a message was intercepted by the Allies, they would not be able to decipher it. The machine was so complicated that a German soldier would type in normal messages but then the Enigma machine, with its three rotors from a set of five, with 26 positions each rotor, and a plugboard with ten pairs of letters connected, would scramble the letters in a way that could result in almost 159 quintillion different settings of letters (that is 159 followed by 18 zeros). It made it impossible for the Allies to decipher the message.1
That was until the winter of 1932-33, when Polish mathematician Marian Rejewski, figured out the patterns of wiring and rotating wheels that made the codes so difficult to read. Later the Germans would improve the Enigma machine and it would be decoded again, but Rejewski's breaking of the code allowed the Allies to intercept messages and make a difference in the war.
This morning we are going to talk about what many people see as another enigma, it is the final book of the new Testament called the book of Revelation.
Commentator William Barclay tells of how, "The Greek word for revelation is apokalupsis. The word Apokalupsis is composed of two parts. Apo means "away from" and kalupsis means "a veiling." Apokalupsis, therefore, means an unveiling, or a revealing."
It would be like removing a cover from something that was hidden. Like opening a curtain on the stage before a presentation. Or revealing a coded message like had been done by the Allies when they deciphered the algorithm used by the Enigma machine. In the book of Revelation Christ brought truth and knowledge that before would have been hidden. It was a new way of seeing God's perspective of the present with the future in mind.
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Series: Seven Churches of Revelation
Author: Tim Melton
Text: Revelation 1:9-20
In World War II Nazi Germany used a device called the Enigma machine. It was used to hide its secret communications, so even if a message was intercepted by the Allies, they would not be able to decipher it. The machine was so complicated that a German soldier would type in normal messages but then the Enigma machine, with its three rotors from a set of five, with 26 positions each rotor, and a plugboard with ten pairs of letters connected, would scramble the letters in a way that could result in almost 159 quintillion different settings of letters (that is 159 followed by 18 zeros). It made it impossible for the Allies to decipher the message.1
That was until the winter of 1932-33, when Polish mathematician Marian Rejewski, figured out the patterns of wiring and rotating wheels that made the codes so difficult to read. Later the Germans would improve the Enigma machine and it would be decoded again, but Rejewski's breaking of the code allowed the Allies to intercept messages and make a difference in the war.
This morning we are going to talk about what many people see as another enigma, it is the final book of the new Testament called the book of Revelation.
Commentator William Barclay tells of how, "The Greek word for revelation is apokalupsis. The word Apokalupsis is composed of two parts. Apo means "away from" and kalupsis means "a veiling." Apokalupsis, therefore, means an unveiling, or a revealing."
It would be like removing a cover from something that was hidden. Like opening a curtain on the stage before a presentation. Or revealing a coded message like had been done by the Allies when they deciphered the algorithm used by the Enigma machine. In the book of Revelation Christ brought truth and knowledge that before would have been hidden. It was a new way of seeing God's perspective of the present with the future in mind.
Re ...
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