Towards Understanding Revelation

Category: Revelation 1:1

  • 4/1/23 REVELATION 1:1a, PART 13

    4/1/23 REVELATION 1:1a, PART 13

    We’ll start today with a quote from Tim LaHaye, a well-known expositor of the late 20th century: “The word ‘revelation’ is a translation of the Greek word apokalypsis, which means ‘an unveiling.’ It is not a new word in the New Testament, for it occurs eighteen times (Luke 2:32; Gal. 1:12; 2 Thess. 1:7; 1…

  • 3/4/23 REVELATION 1:1a, PART 12

    3/4/23 REVELATION 1:1a, PART 12

    The first quote starts a rabbit hole almost immediately: “John calls his book an apocalypse or revelation, and this title not only describes its content, but classifies it as a recognized type of literature. During the three hundred years between the persecution of the Jews by Antiochus Epiphanes (167 B.C.) and the destruction of the…