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INTRODUCTION
The study of the prophetic Scriptures in recent years has escalatedas recorded by Daniel the prophet:
“Seal the book even to the time of the end: many shall run to and froand knowledge shall be increased…And he said, Go thy way Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.”(Daniel 12:4, 9
)Daniel’s prophecy of the heightened activity of those who “
shall run to and fro
” refers to this increased study of his writings and theother prophetic Scriptures that are tied to his book. The result is
“knowledge shall be increased”
when God opens up those truths thatwere formerly “
closed up and sealed till the time of the end”.
“The People of the Apocalypse” is an examination of theseScriptures focusing upon the people who are found in the propheticWord and their impact upon
“the time of the end”.
The first seven chapters of this study serve as an introduction to thelives of these people as they lay the groundwork for understanding thetime and circumstances in which “The People of the Apocalypse” willappear.This study lays emphasis upon the literal method of interpretingthe Scripture for the plain common sense interpretation provides themost accurate rendering as the following quote underlines:“Many of the interpretations placed upon the Bible’s revelation of the future presuppose that it just cannot mean what the words plainlyseem to say, therefore, another explanation is required. That is thecommon source of the alternative prophetic views. Men come to theBible and look at prophecy. Ideas have come to them from variousquarters, and they admit that, at the first reading, they wouldunderstand these words simply to mean one thing, yet they maintainthat the words do not mean what they plainly appear to say. That isunbelief. That is, we need someone to interpret for us what God hassaid, and that makes the interpreter the authority, not God. If someonespeaks to me in a foreign language and I have another to interpret, Iutterly depend on what the interpreter tells me. Thus, when propheticteachers say what God means when He has said something different,
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