Revelation 07: Jesus is Our Shepherd

Jesus is our shepherd. Those words carry profound comfort for Christians facing persecution, just as they did for the early church when the Book of Revelation was first written. What if we approached this often-mysterious text not as a cryptic prediction of distant future events, but as an urgent message of hope for believers suffering right now? When John penned Revelation toward the end of the first century, Christians were being fed to lions in the Colosseum. Peter and Paul had been marty...