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Revelation cannot be summed up in one simple answer or post. It takes years of study. I tried to share a study on Revelation a while back, but it turned into a preterist free-for-all. If you are sincere about it, there are many, many good in-depth studies available from most every evangelical known.
A couple that come to mind........
Perry Stone (amazing gift to bring it all together, and not just Revelation)
John Hagee
David Reagan
Take LT with you and get involved in a Bible study!!! Revelation is really fascinating, and the more you learn, the more you want to know.
I believe it applies to today, but then again I like the endtimes scriptures. The biggest thing we all must know is that anything we come up with conscerning Revelations is that everything we think we know is merely theory.
Many believe there will be a rapture while many do not. Many believe that certain signs have been fulfilled while other believe they have all been fulfilled.
Me, I am still searching and believe there are alot of good theories out there.
What we must remember is that there are plenty of connected scriptures throughout the Bible that support and clarify Revelation.
I've done minor research on the book and to me it just doesn't jive with me.
I tend to take the Thomas Jefferson approach to the Book of Revelations (i.e.. most likely the dreams of a crazed maniac).
What am I missing? Why should I believe it?
Hi bigthirsty,
Quite simply it is an apocalyptic poetic description of the destruction of Judea in 66-70 AD. It lasted 3 and 1/2 years, involved the known world(Roman) and the tribes of the earth(actually land) were brutally crushed. The Beast was Rome. The ***** was Jerusalem and I can logically prove this if you wish.
For example the ***** was a depiction of the corrupt Judean priesthood in Jerusalem. This is just some of the evidence. There is plenty more.
Exodus 28
5 “They shall take the gold, blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and the fine linen, 6 and they shall make the ephod of gold, blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and fine woven linen, artistically worked. 7 It shall have two shoulder straps joined at its two edges, and so it shall be joined together. 8 And the intricately woven band of the ephod, which is on it, shall be of the same workmanship, made of gold, blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and fine woven linen.
9 “Then you shall take two onyx stones and engrave on them the names of the sons of Israel: 10 six of their names on one stone and six names on the other stone, in order of their birth. 11 With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, you shall engrave the two stones with the names of the sons of Israel. You shall set them in settings of gold. 12 And you shall put the two stones on the shoulders of the ephod as memorial stones for the sons of Israel. So Aaron shall bear their names before the LORD on his two shoulders as a memorial. 13 You shall also make settings of gold, 14 and you shall make two chains of pure gold like braided cords, and fasten the braided chains to the settings.
Revelation 17
4 The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication.[
Exodus 28
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36 “You shall also make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it, like the engraving of a signet:
HOLINESS TO THE LORD.
37 And you shall put it on a blue cord, that it may be on the turban; it shall be on the front of the turban. 38 So it shall be on Aaron’s forehead, that Aaron may bear the iniquity of the holy things which the children of Israel hallow in all their holy gifts; and it shall always be on his forehead, that they may be accepted before the LORD.
Revelation 17
5 And on her forehead a name was written:
MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
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You can see my view of Revelation 16 and the bowl judgments here
Revelation cannot be summed up in one simple answer or post. It takes years of study. I tried to share a study on Revelation a while back, but it turned into a preterist free-for-all. If you are sincere about it, there are many, many good in-depth studies available from most every evangelical known.
A couple that come to mind........
Perry Stone (amazing gift to bring it all together, and not just Revelation)
John Hagee
David Reagan
Take LT with you and get involved in a Bible study!!! Revelation is really fascinating, and the more you learn, the more you want to know.
Thanks, I appreciate the insight. I've taken a class on it.
It just seems to me so different than everything else in the NT and thus doesn't fit in for me.
I had no idea until recently that people think that everything in Revelations has already happened. I'm wondering...if everything has already happened, then surely Jesus came back? Why don't we hear of that?
I had no idea until recently that people think that everything in Revelations has already happened. I'm wondering...if everything has already happened, then surely Jesus came back? Why don't we hear of that?
I don't think people believe everything in Revelation has happened, but that everything except His return has happened.
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