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First, it appears that one can fairly easily recover a pre-Christian version of this text, more or less, with very little change to the underlying text itself. What this would then allow is a re-reading of the book as a whole, with its references to the “Beast,” the “False Prophet” and “Babylon” in a pre-70 CE setting.
The elderly man’s response was, “It says in the Book of Revelations [sic] that the angels will stand on the four corners of the earth. The earth couldn’t have four corners if it was round.”. The problem was that the gentleman had made a genre mistake. He though the Book of Revelation was intending to teach cosmology, but it’s not.
The Greek name of the Bible book of Revelation, A·po·kaʹly·psis (apocalypse), means “Uncovering” or “Disclosure.”. This name indicates the meaning of Revelation —it uncovers matters that had been hidden and discloses events that would happen long after it was written. Many of its prophecies are yet to be fulfilled.
1 A revelation * by Jesus Christ, which God gave him, a to show his slaves b the things that must shortly take place. And he sent his angel and presented it in signs through him to his slave John, c 2 who bore witness to the word God gave and to the witness Jesus Christ gave, yes, to all the things he saw. 3 Happy is the one who reads aloud and ...
Revelation—Outline of Contents. A chapter-by-chapter summary of the Bible book of Revelation. TABLE OF CONTENTS. Revelation was written by the apostle John in about 96 C.E. While the book of Genesis tells how Paradise was lost, Revelation tells how Paradise will be regained.
The Book of Revelation tells us “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” Revelation 1:3. Of course being a Doctorate student of the Old Testament you are well aware that the Book of Daniel and the Book of Revelation goes hand in hand.
Revelation. Read the Bible free online. The NWT Study Bible is complete with cross references, maps, and an accurate Bible dictionary.
Perhaps not surprisingly, the church of Laodicea is noted as being wealthy in the Bible (see Revelation 3:17). The Book of Revelation was penned during the Roman emperor Domitian ’s reign (r. 81–96 C.E.). Domitian was notorious for being the first Roman emperor who declared himself a god while still alive.
Is Your Name in the Book of Life? “Keep On Holding Fast What You Have” ... Revelation—Its Grand ...
The Gospels, the first four books of the New Testament, tell the story of the life of Jesus.Yet only one—the Gospel of John—claims to be an eyewitness account, the testimony of the unnamed “disciple whom Jesus loved.” (“This is the disciple who is testifying to these things and wrote these things, and we know that his testimony is true” [John 21:24]).