ROBERT@kontu.utu.fi (Robert W. Johnson) (03/09/91)
Ye behold me: because I live, ye shall live also. John 14.19. John's Gospel reflects everywhere the fact that he is writing for the last days. His burden relates to the life of the eternities and to your right relationship therto. If you look back to that, he implies, all else will follow. He is not occupied with outward and temporal things; his whole concern is that you should get behind those to the Life. Everything now is in dis- repair. Go back to the Life that "came down from heaven," and when you get back there, all that threatens to be lost will be preserved. In a sense John has nothing new to offer us that the other New Testament writers have not given us already. He does not take us further, for the furthest point has already been touched by God. The object of the revelation entrusted to John is to bring people back again to that original purpose by bringing them into a fresh touch with the risen Lord Himself. ----- Robert W. Johnson Computer center, The University of Turku, Turku Finland robert@kontu.utu.fi (InterNet) robert@firien.bitnet (BITNET) The preceeding is my opinion and may not express the opinion of my employer and furthermore has nothing to do with my employment.