Are there 6 Gospels?

What do we have in Scripture that is a Revelation of Christ?

*4 Gospels

Paul's writings could be considered the 5th gospel

*Revelation can be considered the 6th gospel.

*But Isaiah 53 could be considered the Gospel of the OT, (and is quoted in the Gospels and NT several times)... making the Bible having 7 total Gospels. 😁

In all these books, Christ is revealed.  

Revelation is a prophecy about things which must shortly take place. This book differs from all other New Testament books. 

The gospels tell us what took place. Right? Jesus came and lived and died and rose and ascended. And while there are references to the future, the theme of the gospels is what happened in the past. The book of Acts follows. What is the book of Acts about? It’s the history of the church. What are the epistles of Paul and James and Peter and John and Jude and the writer of Hebrews? Well, they’re all about explaining the meaning of the death and resurrection of Christ and its application to the life of the church. And so they take the history of the gospels and Acts and move them into the present life of the church and the life of the believer.

And so we could say the first five books of the New Testament are about the past, and the next group of books - 21 of them - are all about the present and how we are to apply the realities of the work of Christ now, and the last book is about the future.

The whole theme of it is the unveiling of the glory of Christ in His second coming, as He takes back the earth from the usurper, Satan, and establishes His Kingdom, both the Kingdom in this world and the Kingdom in the world to come. It is Christ who is unveiled. It is Christ who is manifest. It is Christ who is uncovered. It is Christ presented in glory, Christ presented in majesty. Now, in that sense, perhaps you’ll understand what I mean if I tell you it is very much like the gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, only in this great distinction: the gospels unveiled Christ in His first coming in humiliation; the book of Revelation unveils Christ in His second coming in exaltation.

The theme of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John is Jesus Christ. The Gospels are about His humiliation in the first coming. The theme of Revelation is Jesus Christ in His exaltation at his second coming. He is the theme.

Footnotes:

*JMac, Revelation 1 

*Paul, soon 

*Isaiah 53 prophecies