Eternity Now! Encountering the Jesus of Revelation Quotes

“We are like a patient on an operating table overhearing the Great Physician talk to Himself about our surgery. If that is the case, what should we do?

HOLD STILL.

Surrender, especially whatever is sick or rotten. Don't hide...surrender, trust, hold still, and see the salvation of your God.

Conquering then depends on surrendering deadness and sickness to the Physician.

"Will the Physician conquer? Will the Advocate conquer? Will JESUS conquer?"

The saints conquer by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony. That word is Jesus.

John wrote in 1 John 5:4, "This is the victory that overcomes the world: our faith."

Jesus said we can do nothing apart from Him.

Overhearing the seven letters makes us call out, "Help! I can't conquer!"

Then THE LAMB conquers.”
― Peter Hiett, Eternity Now! Encountering the Jesus of Revelation

“Seven is the number of God's manifold fullness. In Revelation 5, the lamb has seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth. ... the seven spirits of God ARE the seven stars, and the seven stars ARE the seven angels. ... Jesus is writing to His own Spirit resident in each individual church

...the SPIRIT is the Counselor. He is the Advocate.

In 1 John, John says, "If any one does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous" (1 John 2:1)

In the Gospel of John, Jesus says He is sending another advocate. "You know him, for he dwells with you, and will be in you" (14:17)

[Jesus] takes his own rebuke for us and answers His own call IN us.

He not only SAVES us, He also SANCTIFIES us; that is, he does good works IN us;

In these letters we hear our Lord speaking His directions to the Advocate--His Spirit--calling, "Live...live...live!" until "it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the live I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me" (Galatians 2:20).”
― Peter Hiett, Eternity Now! Encountering the Jesus of Revelation

“When I preached through the Gospel of John a couple of years ago, time and time again I was struck by the fact that Jesus does EVERYTHING! He calls people, He chooses people, He saves people, He sanctifies people, He lives His life through people.”
― Peter Hiett, Eternity Now! Encountering the Jesus of Revelation

“Satan's extortion is powerless without the addiction to a good public name.”
― Peter Hiett, Eternity Now! Encountering the Jesus of Revelation

“I'm not so sure we're all that good at telling whether something is dead or alive. Maybe we confuse alive with lots of noise, emotion, and zeal.”
― Peter Hiett, Eternity Now! Encountering the Jesus of Revelation

“Women, every powerful man is becoming weak until he dies. Men, every beautiful woman is becoming less beautiful until she dies. Yet there is a deeper beauty and a deeper power and a deeper love.”
― Peter Hiett, Eternity Now! Encountering the Jesus of Revelation

“Scholars debate whether the new name in [Revelation] 2:17 is a name for God or Jesus or an individual name for each person. There is great evidence for both views, and I am convinced both views are correct. The new name will be your name AND Jesus' name. ... That is, you will each be telling the other something utterly unique and wonderful about Jesus: your story, your song, your name.

You are part of His body, His song of grace. You ... and all the saints sing the same song, the song of the Lamb. But you each have different parts. It's a symphony.

I believe Jesus is beginning to tell you your name in this world so you'll recognize it on that great day when you first hear it.”
― Peter Hiett, Eternity Now! Encountering the Jesus of Revelation

“Satan loves to name you, because names catch people, control people, and shape people. This world love[s] to name us. We're susceptible to names because [we believe] we're orphaned and widowed--we're so desperate, we believe them. But the one we let name us is our idol...our god our father and groom.”
― Peter Hiett, Eternity Now! Encountering the Jesus of Revelation

“In scripture, names work like mirrors that reflect back the essence of a thing. But more than that, they help CREATE a thing.”
― Peter Hiett, Eternity Now! Encountering the Jesus of Revelation

“Jesus said, "The kingdom [of heaven] is like a pearl merchant [not a PEARL, but a pearl MERCHANT], and when he finds the pearl of great price, he gives up everything" (see Matthew 13:44-45). He gives up his kingdom for the pearl.

Jesus gives up His kingdom for His pearl, the church--His inheritance, His riches. A pearl is formed in suffering. It is riches wrapped around a wound. The Church is faith, hope, and love wrapped around the wounded body of Christ.

Lord Jesus, make us rich for you--your pearl of great price, your gold purified by fire, your city decked with jewels, your city in which you dwell.

And the twelve gates were twelve pearls, each of the gates made of a single pearl, and the street of the city was pure gold, transparent as glass. (Revelation 21:21)”
― Peter Hiett, Eternity Now! Encountering the Jesus of Revelation

“Things and riches of this world aren't evil in themselves; what is evil is that we USE people to love THINGS instead of using THINGS to love PEOPLE.”
― Peter Hiett, Eternity Now! Encountering the Jesus of Revelation

“The tribulation and poverty weren't the riches. They EXPOSED the riches: faith, hope, and love. Although this world burns away, writes the apostle Paul, these three will remain.

Faith in Jesus, hope in Jesus, love that IS Jesus--this is treasure.

The jewel exposed by the fire, the gold refined by the furnace, the treasure unearthed by the storm--treasure is found in people, and it is exposed by suffering.”
― Peter Hiett, Eternity Now! Encountering the Jesus of Revelation

“Maybe we're born not knowing what is and isn't valuable.

Tribulation and poverty expose need, which forces the disciplines of relationship.

Relationship opens the door for love and communion (great riches).

Tribulation and poverty force us to rely on people.

People are like a field of dirt that contains treasure.

Storms wash away the dirt and expose the treasure.”
― Peter Hiett, Eternity Now! Encountering the Jesus of Revelation

“Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, every one who pierced him; and all tribes of the earth will [mourn] on account of him. Even so, Amen. 'I am the Alpha and the Omega,' says the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty" (Revelation 1:7-8).

That word "Almighty"--PANTOKRATOR in Greek--can be translated "omnipotent, all powerful." This isn't some abstract, philosophical concept; it means actual control over everything. The Lord God "who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty (v. 8) is a reference to the Hebrew YAHWEH SABAOT--absolute and unrivaled power and control over...all time, all space, all history; for every time, every place, and everyHOW.

He accomplishes all things according to the counsel of His will (Ephesians 1:11). He never loses control; He only surrenders it to Himself, the Son surrendering it to the Father. It is according to plan, and what appears to be His greatest loss--crucified in shame on a Friday--we find out is his greatest victory come Sunday.”
― Peter Hiett, Eternity Now! Encountering the Jesus of Revelation

“Worship is the opposite of the scientific method. It's not conquest but surrender. In an experiment, a scientist tests things to comprehend them. In worship God tests us and comprehends us.”
― Peter Hiett, Eternity Now! Encountering the Jesus of Revelation

“Maybe it's not just a metaphor, and maybe mystery...paradox...wonder...aren't LESS real than this world, but MORE real than this world.”
― Peter Hiett, Eternity Now! Encountering the Jesus of Revelation

“Satan took Jesus to the top of the temple and said, "Let's run a little test. Throw yourself down, and we will see if Scripture is true, if Angel's will come and bear you up." And Jesus said, "Thou shalt not put the Lord your God to the test!" (see Luke 4:9-12).

This last century argued that the only things you CAN believe are things you can put to the test. And Satan smiles, for that means we cannot believe in God, who is truth.”
― Peter Hiett, Eternity Now! Encountering the Jesus of Revelation

“Guy Chevreau writes: [quote] In biblical Greek there are two words for "time": the first is CHRONOS, from which we get English words such as chronometer and chronology. CHRONOS is clock time, calendar time: 1 o'clock, 2 o'clock, 3 o'clock; January February, March...all marching right along. The second Greek word, KAIROS, means "special time." [Mothers] know the difference between CHRONOS and KAIROS. About nine months or so into a pregnancy--chronos time--many soon-to-be mothers shake their husband by the shoulder and say..."It's time!" He opens a bleary eye, looks at the clock, and says, "It's 3:17 in the morning; go back to sleep!" She's on KAIROS time, he's talking CHRONOS. So he gets shaken again; "It's time!!" This time he gets it. "IT'S TIME!!!" [end quote]

All reality is now pregnant with "the time," with "eternity." All CHRONOS is pregnant with KAIROS. All times are pregnant with meaning. All reality is pregnant with the Plot, the meaning, the Word, the Logos...Jesus.”
― Peter Hiett, Eternity Now! Encountering the Jesus of Revelation

“In the Bible we've been given the Gospel according to Matthew, to Mark, to Luke, and to John. But there is also a Gospel according to Jesus: the Revelation. In other Gospels, Jesus was incarnated (in-fleshed) in our space and time, speaking our language. In the Revelation, John is out-carnated (out-fleshed) from our space and time so that Jesus can reveal the eternal gospel in the language of heaven.”
― Peter Hiett, Eternity Now! Encountering the Jesus of Revelation

“Story--plot--gives meaning to each page. If you could number all the pages so that you knew their exact sequence and which page was yours, life would still be meaningless if you didn't know what the book was about.”
― Peter Hiett, Eternity Now! Encountering the Jesus of Revelation