Revelation

Revelation
- The fundamental question: Wheres it all going? How will it end?
- Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaen!"
- #onfession of #hurch: $esus is %ord
- &rayer of #hurch: #ome, %ord'" ()arana tha *+ #or, +-,../
- 0uthor: $ohn the 01ostle
2ut grammar, style so different'
- 3ate: 3omitians reign
&ersecution of #hristians
- 4enre: 01ocaly1tic or &ro1hesy?
&ro1hesy: 4od is with! 5 6thical concern
but a1ocaly1tic elements too'
- The inter1retation of 7eelation
8ie iews in oeriew:
+, 9dealist
--7eelation: merely timeless, symbolic struggle btwn good : eil
--cannot identify symbolism with any historical eent
--&rinci1les
., &reterist *or #ontem1orary-Historical/
--7eelation all about church in history
--shows 1ast sense, but eacuates future sense
*final outcome;no sense of redem1tion/
<, Historicist
--7eelation regards 1ast : things already ha11ened
--cultural myo1ia *all about Western/
=, 8uturist
--7eelation referring to eents > end of time
--&ost-trib";7a1ture ha11ens after coming
?, &reterist5 8uturist@
Revelation
The )essage
#ha1ter +
&rologue
4reeting to the seen churches
A1ening ision
#ha1ters .-<
The letters to the Been #hurches
7eference back to the ision of #hrist
The Boereign %ord is with his churches
&raise : blame
The call to hold fast
&romise to those who conquer and oercome
#ha1ters =-?
0 shift of olume
=,+?
The sealed scrolls
#ha1ters --C
Beals, trum1ets, bowls and the end, the end, the end
The com1osite 1icture: utter mayhem as the wrath of 4od is eDecuted
Beals + . < = ? - E
Trum1ets + . < = ? - E
2owls + . < = ? - E
Becond #oming
Becond #oming
Beals + . < = ? - E
Trum1ets + . < = ? - E
2owls +.<=?-E
#ha1ters .F-..
)illenium, anyone?"
&re-millennialism *worse, worse, worse/
&re-trib
&ost-trib
Revelation
&ost-millennialism *already in millennium! better, better/
8or #hrist and His kingdom"
0-millennialism
The end will be a time of intense suffering
The end will be a time when 4ods wrath is meted out
The churchs 1art is to remain faithful, 4od can kee1 his own'
9n the end:
4od trium1hs'
His enemies are defeated'
His uniersal rule is established'