The Manifestation
We are not a traditional church. I grew up in traditional churches and there was no relationship with Jesus in these churches. One of the reasons we go back to read and study the writings of the Ante Nicene Fathers is because they understood what the end times would be like as taught by the apostles. These men didn’t teach that we’d fly away. In fact, they all taught that Christ would manifest in His people at the end of the age. Scripture says that it has not been made manifest what we shall be like (1 John 3:2). The apostles did not know what it would look like to be in the glory. What they did know is that when Jesus manifests, then we shall be like Him. The book of Revelation starts with “this is the revelation of Jesus Christ.” The apocalypse is not about the end of the world - it is about revealing how we are going to come into the glory to look like Him. The term “manifestation” is similar to the Greek word apocalypse. Revelation, or the term apocalypse, speaks about someth