Day 1 - Revelation drabbles

There’s fifty days from Easter to Pentecost, fifty years from Biblical Jubilee to Jubilee, and fifty steps in Revelation, once you get past the first seven letters. Today’s paper had an article that said how lots of us don’t read to the end of our Bibles, and if we did we’d know exactly what’s coming. Trouble is, that’s my favorite book at the end—the book of Revelation—and I’ve never known. Perhaps it’s the mathematician in me, or the artist; I’d rather rejoice in symbols and mystery than future history. So I don’t know if I’ll ever finish this, but, for what it’s worth, here’s day one of my take on Revelation…

…with thanks to Dr. Jon Garvey, who taught the class that inspired me.

In the beginning, one God made two people and placed them in a garden with two trees. God was father, friend and spirit—three in one—and He gave the people one rule which they promptly disobeyed. Then God scattered them to the four corners of the earth, gave them seven-day weeks to remember Him, ten commandments to show He cared, and twelve tribes to know they were chosen.

One day a preacher called John wrote a book, telling the story of God and humanity, from middle, to beginning, to end.

We live in the middle. The book’s called Revelation.

© Sheila Deeth, April 2009