The Book of Revelation

Mastering the Sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God 1

The Book of

RevelationThe Book of

RevelationChapter 1

Session 3

27 December 2008

Chapter 1Session 3

27 December 2008


Review of Last Week

• John, the Author– Other Books Written– His Upbringing– Part of the “Inner Circle”– The Exile to Patmos

• Alternative Views– Preterist– Historical– Idealist

The View We Hold?Futurist


Review of Last Week

• Why Prophecy?– Eschatology

• Ammillenial• Post-Millenial• Premillenial

– Hermeneutics• Allegorical• Literal


Review of Last Week


• Ammillenial• Post-Millenial• Premillenial

– Hermeneutics• Allegorical• Literal

AmmillenialismAllegorical


Review of Last Week


• Post-Millenial• Premillenial

– Hermeneutics • Literal

PremillenialismLiteral


Review of Last Week

• Figures of Speech– Allegories– Similes– Metaphors– Over 200 Kinds!


Review of Last Week

• Problems with Ammillenialism– Messianic Promises– Destiny of Israel– Promise Given to Mary– Numerous Reconfirmations in the NT


Review of Last Week

• The Heptadic Structure of Revelation– The Apparent Sevens– The Less Apparent Sevens


Tenses of RedemptionPast Present Future

Rev 1:4

Which WasCol 1:15-17; John 8:58

Which isHeb 7:25

Which Is to ComeRev 1:7

Jesus Christ

Rev 1:5

The Faithful Witness

Jn 14:1-3; Jn 8:14

First Begotten of the Dead

Col 1:18-20

Prince of the Kings of the Earth

Mt 25:31f; 1 Cor 15:24f

Unto Him That Rev 1:5

Loved Us

Gal 2:20; Jn 3:16

Washed Us from our sins in His blood

Heb 7:25; 9:14

Made Us Kings & Priests

1 Pet 2:9; Lk 19:17;Rev 2:26;5:10; 20:4;22:5

Write

Rev 1:19

The ThingsWhich ThouHast Seen

Rev 1:12-18

The Things Which Are

Rev 2 & 3

The Things Which Shall Be Hereafter

Rev 4-22



Rev 1:4


Which isHeb 7:25


Messiah Yeshua

Rev 1:5


John 14:1-3; John 8:14


Col 1:18-20


Mt 25:31f; 1 Cor 15:24f


Loved Us

Gal 2:20; Jn 3:16


Heb 7:25; 9:14

Made Us Kings & Priests

1 Pet 2:9; Lk 19:17;Rev 2:26;5:10; 20:4;22:5

Write

Rev 1:19


Rev 1:12-18


Rev 2 & 3


Rev 4-22



Rev 1:4


Which isHeb 7:25


Messiah Yeshua

Rev 1:5


John 14:1-3; John 8:14


Col 1:18-20


Mt 25:31f; 1 Cor 15:24f


Loved Us

Gal 2:20; John 3:16


Heb 7:25; 9:14

Made UsKings & Priests 1 Pet 2:9; Luke 19:17;Rev

2:26;5:10; 20:4;22:5

Write

Rev 1:19


Rev 1:12-18


Rev 2 & 3


Rev 4-22



Rev 1:4


Which isHeb 7:25


Messiah Yeshua

Rev 1:5


John 14:1-3; John 8:14


Col 1:18-20


Mt 25:31f; 1 Cor 15:24f


Loved Us

Gal 2:20; John 3:16


Heb 7:25; 9:14

Made UsKings & Priests 1 Pet 2:9; Luke 19:17;Rev

2:26;5:10; 20:4;22:5

Write

Rev 1:19

The ThingsWhich ThouHast Seen (vision)

Rev 1:12-18

The Things Which Are (seven churches)

Rev 2 & 3

The Things Which Shall Be Hereafter (future – meta tauta)

Rev 4-22


Three Tenses of “Being Saved”• Past – You have been saved: From the penalty of sin;

– Positionally (before the court) Eph 2:8, 9

– Called justification salvation• Present – You are being saved: From the power of sin;

– Operationally, by the Holy Spirit, moment-by-moment; – Called sanctification Rom 6

• Future – You shall be saved: From the presence of sin;– Called glorification, “the redemption of our body.” Rom 8:23


Three Tenses of “Being Saved”• Past – penalty of sin;• Present – power of sin;• Future – presence of sin;

PePoPr

Alphabetical Order ==>


(Proto)Types

Abraham & Isaac Gen 22

Nebuchadnezzar’s Image – Dan 3

• Redemption of the Land – Ruth • Model of the Book of Revelation – Joshua

• The Tabernacle – Exodus 25


Idioms• “Friend of God”

– Abraham– Disciples

• “Dearly Beloved”– Daniel– John

Prophetic Glimpses

ApocalypticWritings


Expositional Constancy• One of the compelling evidences for the

Divine authorship of the Bible is a principle known as the "Expositional Constancy"

• Every story, every genealogy, every number, every page, every detail speaks of the Messiah


“Whole Counsel of God”• Messiah at the center Rev 1:1• “More sure word of prophecy” 2 Pet 1:19• “Search the scriptures…and they are

they which testify of me” John 5:39• “Volume of the book is written of me”

Ps 40:7• “Testimony of Jesus is the spirit of

prophecy” Rev 19:10• “Thy Kingdom Come” Matt 6:10


“I was in the spirit…”

• “…on the Lord's day” (on the day of the Lord) (at Patmos) 1:10

• To the throne in heaven 4:2

• Carried away in the wilderness 17:3

• Carried to a mountain 21:10


“Thunders, voices, lightnings, and an earthquake”Repeated four times

• Throne 4:5

• Seals 8:5

• Trumpets 11:19

• Bowls 16:18


Climactic Doxologies

• Glory, dominion (2) 1:6

• Glory, honor, power (3) 4:11

• Blessing, honor, glory, power (4) 5:13

• Blessing, glory, wisdom, thanksgiving, honor, power, might (7) 7:12


WorshipHoly, Holy, Holy 4:8

Worthy art Thou 4:11; 5:8-10

Unto Him that Sitteth 5:11-13

Salvation to our God 7:9-12

Amen; Blessing... Kingdoms of the World 11:15-18

We give thee thanks Great & Marvelous... 15:2-4

4 Hallelujahs 19:1-8

Old Testament PLUS New Testament

Equals a Multiple of 7!


Things Out of Place

• Israel → Land• Church → Heaven• Lamb → Own throne• Satan → Bound


Three Women

Wife of Woman of Rev 12

Israel

Virgin Bride Bride of Christ Church

Harlot Mystery Babylon

Woman who rides the Beast


Three Women


Israel

Virgin Bride Bride of Messiah

Church


Woman who rides the Beast


Three Women


Israel

Virgin Bride Bride of Messiah

Church


Woman Who Rides the Beast


Creation vs Redemption• How Much Space Devoted?:

– Creation • Two chapters in Genesis, few Psalms, few chapters in Job,

Isaiah...– Redemption

• Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus...Joshua, Ruth, the Prophets, the Gospels...the Epistles...the Revelation!

• The Price?:– Creation

• “Breathed from His nostrils…”– Redemption

• Cost God His Son!


Genesis vs. Revelation

• Earth Created 1:1• Earth Passes away 21:1• Sun to Govern Day 1:16• No Need of Sun 21:23• Darkness Called Night 1:5• No Night There 22:5• Waters He Called Seas 1:10• No More Sea 21:1• A River for Earth's Blessing 2:10-14• A River for New Earth 22:1,2

Gen Rev



• Earth's Government (re: Israel) 37• Earth's Judgment (re: Israel) 16:8• Man in God's Image 1:26• Man Headed by Satan's Image 13• Entrance of Sin 3:6• End of Sin 21:27• Curse Pronounced 3:14-17• No More Curse 22:3• Death Entered 3:19• No More Death 21:4

Gen Rev



• Man Driven out of Eden 3:24• Man Restored 22• Tree of Life Guarded 3:24• Right to Tree of Life 22:14• Sorrow & Suffering Enter 3:17• No More Sorrow 22:4• Nimrod Founds Babylon 10:8-10• Babylon Falls 17,18• God's Flood to Destroy Evil Generation 6 - 9• Satan's Flood to Destroy Elect Generation 12

Gen Rev



• A Bow: God's Promise 9:13• A Bow for Remembrance 4:3; 10:1• Sodom & Egypt: Corruption, Judgment 13,19• "Sodom & Egypt"(Jerusalem) 11:8• A Confederation vs. Abraham's People 14• A Confederation vs. Abraham's Seed 12• A Bride for Abraham's Son 24• A Bride for Abraham's Seed 21• Marriage of 1st Adam 2:18-23• Marriage of Last Adam 19• Man's Dominion Ceased; Satan's Begun 3:24• Satan's Domain Ended; Man's Restored 22

Gen Rev


One Integrated Design

The New Testament is in the Old Testament concealed;The Old Testament is in the New Testament revealed


Prophetic Scriptures

• 8,362 Predictive Verses• 1,817 Predictions• 737 Separate Matters

J. Barton Payne, Encyclopedia of Biblical Prophecy


Major Prophetic Themes

• Israel• Jerusalem• Temple • Babylon• Russia (Magog)

• Rise of China• European SuperState• Ecumenical Religion• Global Government• Rise of the Occult

The Focus of Revelation• The focus of the book is on Messiah and His

return to institute His perfect, earthly kingdom

• The book itself is the “Revelation of Jesus Christ”

• This can be seen in the numerous titles which John records throughout the book:


The Focus of Revelation• The faithful witness• The firstborn of the dead• The ruler of the kings of the

earth• The Alpha and Omega (Aleph

and Tav)• The first and the last• The living One• The One who holds the seven

stars in His right hand, the One who walks among the seven golden lampstands

• The One who has the sharp, two-edged sword

• The Son of God• The One ‘who has eyes like a

flame of fire, and feet like burnished bronze’

• The One ‘who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars’

• The One ‘who is holy, who is true’


The Focus of Revelation• The holder of ‘the key of

David, who opens and no one will shut, and who shuts and no one opens’

• The Amen, the faithful and true Witness

• The Beginning of the creation of God

• The Lion that is from the tribe of Judah

• The Root of David• The Lamb of God

• The ‘Lord, holy and true’• The One who ‘is called

Faithful and True’• The Word of God• The ‘King of kings, and Lord of

lords’• Christ (Messiah), ruling on

earth with his glorified saints• Jesus – the root and the

descendant of David, the bright morning star



Our ChallengeWe are being plunged into a period of time

about which the Bible says more than about any other period in history

…including the time when Jesus walked the shores of Galilee and climbed the mountains of Judea.


The Ultimate Issue

• We are in possession of message of extraterrestrial origin

• It portrays us as objects of an unseen warfare• Our eternal destiny depends upon our

relationship with the ultimate victor in this cosmic conflict

• Where do you stand with respect to Him?


How to Study• Prayer & Relationship with the Author• Presuppositions• Note Taking• Your Secret Journal• Helps

– Exegetical (Kin to Hermeneutics)– Expositional (Verse-by-Verse Study)


For the Next Session

• Read the entire Book• Examine Chapter 1 VERY Carefully

– List the Various Identities in Chapter 1– What do the Seven Lampstands Represent? – List Some of the Churches that were NOT

Included Among the Seven– Why These Seven?


?

The Book of Revelation

Documents

Transcript of The Book of Revelation