The attempt to distinguish what the thousand-year reign might mean have been and not very fruitful. Are there ways in which you can see in the life of the church or in the movements of history something of God’s reign, not fully consummated, but on the way? What would such signs of God’s reign be?
John’s vision is of a new heaven and a new earth… not of earth dissolving into heaven. How does this challenge or affirm the way you think of God’s sovereignty over the creation, or how you think about death and new life for Christians?
From early in the church’s history and at particular times like the Protestant Reformation some wise Christian leaders have thought that Revelation should not be included in the Bible. It is too complicated and tends to make trouble. Now that you have spent these weeks studying this book, what is your understanding of its role in the scripture and in Christian life?