purpose to melody

I need some rest. And I'm getting it. Good, good.

Reading through Revelations now. It's quite different than when we read it in grade 9 Bible class. A lot different.

I listened to a sermon last night about the perceived irrelevance of the Bible and how it might seem offensive to some cultures, using the example of how a lot of our heroes of faith had multiple wives or did things that we think are horrible, and all those stories in the OT of that sort of stuff. He explained that all these stories and profiles of these people aren't condoning this stuff, but if you read carefully, all of the time it leads to destruction and bad things happen because of their sin, so it's not condoning it, but showing that it is indeed wrong, and that these people are human too. He then went to talk about how when we read the scriptures, we may not be reading the way we're supposed to. In the story of the Road to Emmaus, he showed us how Jesus explained to the two travelers 'beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.' So everything in the scriptures somehow points to Jesus. Everything from the beginning to the end. I never saw this and I think this will give me a new way of reading and studying and meditating on scriptures. Everything points back to Jesus. It's not just a story or a bunch of rules or poems. It's all pointing to Jesus. Cool beans.