Towards Understanding Revelation

Tag: Revelation

  • 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…

  • 2/23/23 REVELATION 1:1a, PART 11

    2/23/23 REVELATION 1:1a, PART 11

    We’ll start with a long quote from 1962:  “After 15 years of preaching through the Bible, beginning at the first verse of the first chapter of Genesis, we have now come to the last and the climactic book, the Revelation of Jesus Christ. This is the Apocalypse, the unveiling,  the uncovering, the manifestation, the presentation…