Cathryn Howse

Revelation 7:13-17 and 22:12-17
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%207:13-17&version=31
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%2022:12-17;&version=31;;

I have struggled to choose a favourite Bible passage, not only because I haven’t read it all (!), but also because I see the Bible as a ‘living book’ with different message for different situations and often take comfort or seek guidance from various passages.

Thus said, I think my favourite book has to be Revelation because there is just so much in it and such amazing and fantastic imagery of beings and places outside of our imaginings. I think that God is much much greater than our human perception and Revelation is just a glimpse of happenings beyond our human experience. I’ve never managed to read the whole book as it’s so complex with much symbolism and terrific visions of beasts coming out of the sea, but I especially like Chapter 7 where the blood of Jesus has made the robes of the people white, and they are all in God’s care when He “will wipe every tear from their eyes”. What an amazing advert for washing powder this would make – the black robe of sin is washed in blood and comes out whiter than white!

The washing of these robes is mentioned later in Chapter 22 as those who have washed in blood are permitted to enter through the gates. Then Jesus proclaims his message to all, as the bright morning star or indeed the light of the world, “the Spirit and the bride say come……let anyone who is thirsty come.”