[ CHAPTER XIII. ]
Word Study—“Blesseds” of Revelation—“Believings” of John—“The Fear of the Lord” of Proverbs—Key Words.
ANOTHER way to study the Bible is to take one word and follow it up with the help of a concordance.
Or take just one word that runs through a book. Some time ago I was wonderfully blessed by taking the seven “Blesseds” of the Revelation. If God did not wish us to understand the book of Revelation, He would not have given it to us at all. A good many say it is so dark and mysterious that common readers cannot understand it. Let us only keep digging away at it, and it will unfold itself by and by. Some one says it is the only book in the Bible that tells about the devil being chained; and as the devil knows that, he goes up and down Christendom and says, “It is no use your reading Revelation, you can not understand the book; it is too hard for you.” The fact is, he does not want you to understand about his own defeat. Just look at the blessings the book contains:
1. “Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.”
2. “Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord. . . . . Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors.”
3. “Blessed is he that watcheth and keepeth his garments.”
4. “Blessed are they which are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb.”
5. “Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection. On such the second death hath no power; but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.”
6. “Blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.”