the Bible's last prayer (revelation 22:20b)

This sermon was preached at New Testament Christian Fellowship in Claremont, NC on February 19, 2023. The focus of this message is the LAST PRAYER found in the Holy Scriptures: “Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.”

This last prayer begins with an AMEN, an affirmation to Christ’s final words in the first half of the verse (the last promise found in the Bible) and an affirmation that opens John’s petition for Christ to simply do as He hath said. The first prayer of the Bible can be found in Genesis 4:25-26 when men began to CALL upon the Lord. Such is the essence of the Bible’s last prayer, John calling upon the Lord to do what He said He is going to do.

Let us not pray as the heathen, using mantras and vain repetitions (see Matthew 6:7). Let us call upon God; let us call upon the Lord Jesus; let us call upon the Name of Messiah. We don’t need another election here in America, another President, another political solution. We need the Messiah to come and rescue His Church from this madness. Interestingly, John’s prayer in Revelation 22:20b can be summed up in one single word found in I Corinthians 16:22—MARANATHA. We should make this cry a regular part of our discourse, a regular part of our prayers. “Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.”