Bible Studies in Revelation

I trust and hope that all of you are doing great!! This week I spent 3 days studying God's word at the famous Tea Hotel in Kericho, Kenya. I was in the Bible class with senior pastors from the churches here in Kericho and it was exciting to get to interact with them and get to know one another better. I loved getting to know other people who are fighting the good fight. It seems that I was the youngest of the group.

Our teacher, Miles is from Calvary Church in Sonora, California (http://www.ccsonora.com/). He was teaching on the books of John and Revelation. I loved studying about the 7 churches in the Book of Revelation. What I found interesting is that of the 7 churches mentioned in the Book of Revelation, only the churches of Smyrna and Philadelphia were not condemned. We need to try as much as we can to reflect on the characteristics of these churches and aspire to be like them. We also learned about the interelationship of these churches and the 7 great parables of Christ in Matthew 13.

It was a great time of study in God's word and I count it a great joy that I could sit under this great teacher and learn from him. I really admired his grasp of the word of God though I was not able to spend much one on one time with him. I was also delighted and blessed to be able to to stay at the tourist hotel...for a while!!, I loved it so much since it is very hard to stay in such a place as it is expensive for us here in Kenya. That is my update for now. God bless and we covet your prayers. Brother Jonah