Bible Question: how do you understand rev. the last book in the bible i dont understand the concept of it |
Bible Answer: The word Revelation is Apocalypse in Greek, which means to unveil. John received this unveiling from an angel who received it from Jesus Christ. Revelation is broken into 7 parts; The Vision chapter 1, The Message To The Churchs chapters 2,3, A Revelation of Heavenly Vision chapters 4,5, God's Judgment on the Earth chapters 6-19, The Second Coming of Christ chapter 19, The 1,000 Year Millenial Kingdom chapter 29, The New Heaven and New Earth chapters 21-22. The characteristics of apolaypitic literature is that it includes synbolic discriptive language. Verse 1:19 gives us a picture of how the book is to be viewed,past; chapter 1-John writes about having been spoken to about the announcement of the revelation, present chapters 2,3 John writes to literal churchs a message for each in his present time, future chapters 4-21 John writes about events to happen in future. Next comes a book, actually a scroll, that no one can open except Jesus and in it are contained 7 seals of God's judgment on unbelievers sybolized as 7 trumpets that will be blown for real by angels at the beginning of each judgment to come; war, famine, death, martyrs, terror, the bottomless pit, army from the east, and the angels gathered to begin blowing the 7 trumpets of judgment, this is chapters 5-11. There is the woman who represents the bride of God the church and the baby is Jesus, there is the red dragon who is Satan, and there is the war in heaven between Arch-angel Michael and Satan the dragon and Satan is thrown down to earth for the second time forever(the first was in Daniel where he is described as the highest Cherubim)in chapter 12. There is the dragon, Satan on the sand of the sea (the multitudes of people on the earth) and the beast, the Anti-Christ comes up out of the sea (all the nations) and the Anti-Christ has all the characteristics of the nations (he was like a leopard and so on), and Satan gives the Anti-Christ his throne of power on earth and authority to rule the earth, then the Anti-Christ is killed and actully rises from the dead as a miracle to mock the power of Christ and the whole world is amazed and begins to worship the Ant-Christ, then the next beast arises on earth and this is the False Prophet who will testify of the Anti-Christ as God and he has all the authority and power of the first beast, this is chapter 13. There are the 144,000 real sealed human servants of God who are going to proclaim the gospel to the unbelivers. Then there are the 7 bowls of wrath; the giving of the mark to those who worship the Anti-Christ, the destruction of the sea by blood, the destruction of the rivers and springs by blood, the scorching of men on the erath by the sun, darkness over everything in the earthly kingdom of the Anti-Christ, the drying up of the river Euphrates to make way for the nations to come through for war against God, the greatest earhquake to ever come upon the earth, in chapter 16. Then comes the destruction of a real place on earth symbolically named Babylon where the Anti-Christ rules the earth from in chapters 18,19. Then comes the angels worshiping in heaven about the victory Jesus and God against the Anti-Christ and the whole world and there is the war that Christ will wage by Himself with all the raputured glorified saints from heaven looking on against the Anti-Christ, the False Prophet and the unbeleivers and the Anti-Christ and the False Prophet get thrown in the eternal lake of fire, in chapter 19. Satan gets bound for real and thrown in a pit for a thousand years for real and Christ sets up His 1,000 year Millenial Kingdom until He lets Satan out after 1,000 years, then Satan deceives the unsaved children of those who got saved during the Great Tribulation and wages war against Jesus and the saints (this includes regular people who got saved during the 1,000 years and the glorified raptured saint who come back to earth to rule with Jesus), Satan loses the battle and is thrown along with his followers into the eternal lake of fire and whoever's name is not found in the one book of life, but whose name is found in the many books of the damned will be thrown into the lake of fire at the Great White Throne Judgment, in chapter 21. Then God destroys the old earth and universe and remakes everything using what is left of what He destroys and there is a new heaven and a new earth, then a real city, New Jerusalem comes down to earth to replace the one that He destroyed and Jesus glory is so bright that it is the light of that city, consider the USA is 3,500 miles across, this new city is 1,500 miles across both width and breadth inside the city is the tree of life from the garden of Eden and the river of eternal life, then there is a parting message from John. |
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