Some "Christians" just don't believe

The book of Revelation is the only book in the bible which tells the reader he is blessed if he reads it. Rev. 1:3 says: "Blessed [is] he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keeps those things which are written therein: for the time [is] at hand."

We just completed a study of Revelation in our Wednesday night service at church. One member, an older member, vehemently objects to the parts in which God describes how He will cast many into the lake of everlasting fire at the end of time. She is very vocal about not getting a "blessing" from this passage. (Rev 20:15)

I'm sure she has never thought of the philosophical implications of her position, since most Christians do not think along these lines. However, by stating she is not blessed when she reads Revelation, she is in fact taking a position diametrically opposed to that of God. Her position is, essentially, "I don't like some portions of scripture, therefore I do not believe all of it in contradiction to my stated beliefs in the Holiness, Truthfulness, and Sovereignty of God." Psychologically she suffers from cognitive dissonance, a diagnosable mental illness. 

Her problem arises from the fact we are told "blessed" is he that reads the prophecy, hears the word, and keeps the commands in it.  Her autonomous pride asserts itself against God and His Sovereignty by her statement that she is "not blessed." 

She, like too many Christians today, has taken a position which is antipodal to what God has ordained and revealed to us. Scripture tells us our purpose for existence is to worship the Holy God, but this lady has twisted her belief into the opposite which is a total concern for man's feelings and not what God declares. She, unintentionally, I think, believes that the God who has revealed Himself in Scripture is not fair. (Is 55:8)

Fairness is a man-made concept which has nothing to do with God. God is God and does many things humans cannot understand so in our rebellion we say they are "unfair." Is it "fair" that you and I are sinners because we inherited that status from Adam and Eve. On the human level, of course it isn't fair. But, then, we aren't God are we? So what has fairness to do with anything? (Eze 18:25)

This lady is more concerned with her sentimental human belief concerning the agony of creatures held in an eternal torture chamber than she is in attempting to understand God's purposes for the chamber.  Scripture explains we can't know all of God's purposes, but it does demand that we Worship Him and accept everything He has done or is going to do simply because He is God. As his created beings we are to bow and conform our minds' to His for no other reason than He said so. 

We will never know His mind fully, therefore when we tell Him "I'm not blessed, even though You said I would be,"  we might as well tell him "buzz-off, you don't know what your talking about."

When God says to us, "blessed is he that readeth...," and we say "I am not blessed," does it take a rocket scientist to figure out this lady has serious issues with God's authority? Revelation is the book which explains that our time being stuck in bodies that are conflicted with sin and goodness - knowing good and evil - is just about over. That thought should make every human jump up and down, sing and dance, in praise to God. But, no, there are some who say "I'm not blessed" all because they never really believed in the first place.