Towards Understanding Revelation

Tag: Sylvester Bliss

  • 4/18/24 REVELATION 1:2, PART 5

    and He sent and communicated it by His angel to His bond-servant John, 2who testified to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, everything that he saw. (New American Standard Bible – NASB) We’re picking it up in the mid-19th century commentaries: “…He has condescended to give his people ‘a more sure…

  • 5/10/23 REVELATION 1:1b, PART 3

    5/10/23 REVELATION 1:1b, PART 3

    We’re continuing in the 19th century, looking at the second phrase, “which God gave Him, to show His servants”: “…the closing book…is called, in distinction from the others, ‘The Revelation of Jesus Christ.’ It contains the ‘many things’ he had to say to his disciples, in addition to those recorded by the evangelists; but which…