Revelation Chapter 1-Beginning of the End

A bit of background history: The book of Revelation was written by a servent of Jesus, named John, while he was imprisoned on the island of Patmos. One day, John had a vision of the end of days, and God told him to write down EVERYTHING he saw in a book and send them to the seven churches of Asia. Throughout the book of Revelation, the phrase, "I am the Alpha and Omega, the first and last.. the one who was, and is, and is to come." Skipping down to verse 12, John begins writing about his vision of the 7 lamps and how in their midst, the Son of God stood. Throughout the bible, the number 7 is used to portray holiness, and this is especially evident in the book of revelation. Many people do not understand why 7 is so special. Here's why: when man began to analyze and combine numbers, he developed interesting symbols. He took the perfect world number FOUR and added to it the perfect divine number, THREE, and got SEVEN, the most sacred number to the Hebrews. It was earth crowned with heaven -- the four-square, the four corners of earth, plus the divine trinity which then symbolizes COMPLETENESS OF GOD. So we have SEVEN expressing COMPLETENESS through union of earth with heaven. In verse 20, Jesus tells John that the stars represent the 7 angels of the 7 churches of Asia and the 7 keys as the actual churches of Asia.  Now, John descibes Jesus as:

¹⁴His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and His eyes like a flame of fire;

¹⁵His feet were like fine brass, as if refined in a furnace, and His voice as the sound of many waters.

Now here's the tricky part:

¹⁶He had in His right hand seven stars, out of His mouth went a sharp two-edged sword, and His countenance was like the sun shining in its strength.

Now, when people SKIP this verse, they are missing a very important peice of prophecy. That double-edged sword, was not LITERALLY a sword coming out of his mouth. They were WORDS. Yes, WORDS. If you stop and think about what that means you could understand that words are LIKE a double-edged sword. In this context, the sword represented the words of Jesus when he was alive on earth. On one hand, Jesus's words cut through the enemy, Satan. He destroyed his power when he rose from the grave, which He tells John in verse 18, and healed countless people and performed miracles. On the contrast, His words are twisted by the enemy, and the enemy is not nessesarily supernatural. Everyday we see in the news, and in the media, of how Jesus's words are being twisted or ignored by the people. THAT is the double-edged sword that Jesus wielded.

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