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1 | When was Revelations written. | Revelation | Tamara Brewington | 203840 | ||
Revelation not Revelations there is only one Revelation not several, that is first. Next, Johnn wrote Revelation about 95 AD, after the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple in 70 AD to the seven churchs listed in chapters 2,3. He was giving them prophetic warning of what would happen directly to their churchs in chapters 2,3, the rest of Revelation was referring to the distant future, contrary to some commentary. The warning contained in the rest of the book apply to the distant future. Some commentaries like to see Revelation as a duoble prophecy like some that occured in the OT, but it's not that. Their reason is that because Rome did fall they see the great harlot of Babylon as being both Rome then and Rome now. The other theory these theologians have that dove tails with this idea that it is mostly about Rome as a world power falling twice is because of the rise to power of the Catholic church through the centuries and they see this as the world wide political and religious machine that the great harlot Babylon represents because in chapter 17 this is talking about the destruction of the religious Babylon world system and chapter 18 is talking about the destruction of the economic Babylon world system which are both run by the Anti-Christ and then both ancient Rome and the Catholic church are seen by them as being the Anti-Christ. They see the Anti-Christ as being Ceasar of ancient Rome and the Pope of modern Catholicism. This overlooks that not enough of the prophey ever came true in the time of Ceasar when Rome fell and that the Anti-Christ must fulfill certain prophecies that have not yet come to pass, like dying for real and raising from the dead by the power of Satan, like the False Prophet arising and doing miracles in order to testify of the Anti-Christ by making an idol that speaks, like the absence seen in Revelation of the church no longer being spoken of as being on the earth after chapter 3, like smome of the seals of judgment falling to earth. But these commenators get around this by saying it has not yet occured to the Pope and the Catholic church that they have risen to this height of power and that the judgment has not yet fallen down to earth. The predictions are more about the destruction of the entire world before and during the rule of the Anti-Christ who is a real person and the False Prophet who is a real person and about the desctruction of the religious and economic system they will create and rule over and it is also about the desctruction of whichever actual city that the Anti-Christ rules from and about the destruction of all the unbelievers in chapter 19 than it is about the destruction of Israel. Israel has yet to rise to power as the Bible predicts it will in Revelation and then the Anti-Christ will desacrate a new temple that will have been built there. A lot of people see Israel as well on its way to having been risen to power already, but they miss the fact that God has not yet called all the Jews back to Israel in the way the Bible described it. People don't like to hear this neither Christians who are in favor of Israel at present nor Jews who revere their holy land. But the fact is Israel is going to be re-set up by the Anti-Christ and given back as a false gesture to the Jews who will flock to the holy land enmass in a way we have not yet seen. And it won't be accomplished by taking Palestine by force from the Palestinians. The destruction of Israel will be accomplished by the Anti-Christ who is the one who will turn on them and pour out his wrath because the Jews will refuse to worship him and he will defile their newly built temple. And this is why the Israel we see now is not the Israel that will come to power, the Anti-Christ is not yet on the scene and the temple has not been rebuilt yet. | ||||||
2 | When was Revelations written. | Revelation | remorse2 | 203924 | ||
Thanks Tamara. | ||||||