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NASB | Revelation 1:1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show to His bond-servants, the things which must soon take place; and He sent and communicated it by His angel to His bond-servant John, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Revelation 1:1 This is the revelation of Jesus Christ [His unveiling of the divine mysteries], which God [the Father] gave to Him to show to His bond-servants (believers) the things which must soon take place [in their entirety]; and He sent and communicated it by His angel (divine messenger) to His bond-servant John, |
Subject: Interpretative Schools? |
Bible Note: Hi, Dear Val, Perhaps you can see from what I found by googeling the words why I was asking Doc if he was joking? But perhaps this is not the only partial preterist view out there. I went first to your site preceptaustin.org, then I went to gotquestionss.org, then I went to wikipedia, but eventually I setteled on somehthing bigger I found while googeling from a non discript site. The jist of what I could get out of it was that Partial Preterism is about; Those who hold to partial preterism believe that the prophecies in Daniel, Matthew 24, and Revelation, with the exception of the last 2-3 chapters of Revelation, have already been fulfilled and were fulfilled no later than the first century A.D. However, the partial preterist view may not have good biblical support. Those who hold this view do not interpret these Scripture passages books in a normal sense, but rather interpret them allegorically. As an example, Daniel 9:26-27 refers to Christ rather than to the antichrist beast who will appear in Revelation, for the beast, see 11:7 and chapters 13 thru 17, with 13 being quite extensive. In Daniel 9:24-27, Daniel is given a message from God by Gabriel 9:21 Daniel is told that God had decreed 70 weeks for his people, the Israelites, and that these 70 weeks were to 1 finish transgression; 2 make an end of sin; 3 make atonement for iniquity; 4 bring in everlasting righteousness; 5 seal up vision and prophecy; and 6 anoint the most holy place. Per Daniel 9:25-26, 62 plus 7 of these weeks 69 times 7 is 483 years passed and ended with the crucifixion of Christ Messiah will be cut off, v.26, with 1 week 7 years left to finish God's decree. Verse 26 also says, The people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. This speaks of the Roman Empire destroying Jerusalem and the temple, which occurred in A.D. 70. It should be noted that the prince was yet to come; only the people of the prince were the ones who destroyed Jerusalem. This also tells us that the antichrist/beast will come from a future revived Roman Empire. Verse 27 tells us more about this future world ruler. It says that this prince will make a covenant with many for one week, the 70th week is 7 years. Halfway through these seven years, he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering. This indicates that temple worship will be revived by Israel in the latter time, and he will put a stop to it. The last two phrases in verse 27 are what Christ referred to in Matthew 24:15. Christ called this future ruler the abomination of desolation. From Daniel 9:27, Matthew 24:15, and Revelation 13, we discover that this ruler will set himself in the future temple, proclaiming himself to be God, and demanding that the world worship him. Revelation 13:5 also confirms that it will happen at the midpoint of the seven-year tribulation period, for it says that he will be given authority for 42 months which equals 3 and 1 half years. Those who hold to partial preterism twist that which is recorded in Daniel 9:26-27, saying that it refers to Christ, not to the antichrist beast. A normal reading of Daniel 9:24-27, Matthew 24, and Revelation 13 will clear up a lot of the confusion. Those who hold to partial preterism also do not read Matthew 24 in a normal sense. Christ spoke of the destruction of the temple in A.D. 70 24:2. But much of what He spoke of did not occur in A.D. 70. Note that Daniel foretold that the people of the prince to come would destroy the temple and Jerusalem. Christ speaks not of the people, but of the prince to come, the abomination of desolation. Christ describes that future time as one of great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now—and never to be equaled again. If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened Matthew 24:21-22. Christ also says, Immediately after the distress of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken. At that time the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and all the nations of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky, with power and great glory Matthew 24:29-30. In order for the events of Matthew 24:15-30 to have already occurred, Christ would have returned bodily in A.D. 70, He did not. The partial preterist believes that this does not refer to a bodily return of Christ, but rather an appearing of His judgment. This is not what a normal reading of the text would lead anyone to believe. Tamara |