WHY STUDY THE BOOK OF
REVELATION:
THE BOOK OF REVELATION:
JESUS’ END-TIME BATTLE PLAN FOR THE CHURCH
A. The
Book of Revelation reveals the glory of Jesus (Rev. 1:1) and His specific plan
to transition the earth to the age-to-come. These events require our deep
involvement.
B. There are 4 parts in the
structure of Revelation. The 4th part
has 5 chronological sections in
which the events occur in sequential order. There are 7 main symbols in the
Book.
C. The main theme of Revelation is
Jesus’ return to earth to rule all the nations. Evil governments will resist
this. His End-Time battle plan is to physically destroy all the evil
governments on earth by releasing His judgments on them during the Great
Tribulation as described in Rev. 6-19.
D. As
the Book of Acts describes the power of the Holy Spirit that was released
through the early Church so the Book of Revelation describes the power of the
Holy Spirit that will be released through the End-Time Church. I refer to
Revelation as the “End-Time Book of Acts”. It is a “canonized prayer manual”
that informs us of the ways in which Jesus will manifest His power.
E. Revelation is Jesus’ battle plan to allow the
sin in man’s heart to fully come to the surface and then to drive evil off the
planet through the praying Church. These judgment events do not happen to us as
helpless victims of Satan but are released through
us as participants with Jesus.
F. Jesus’ judgments are released to remove all
that hinders love. He is at war to
have His wedding.
Revelation is Jesus’ battle plan to allow the sin in man’s heart to fully come
to the surface and then to drive evil off the planet through the praying
Church. These judgment events do not happen to us as
helpless victims of Satan but are released through
us as participants with Jesus.
G.
Jesus’ judgments are released to remove all that hinders love. He is at war to have His wedding.
H. The 7
main symbols: all events and numbers in Revelation
are to be taken in their plain meaning (literal) unless specifically indicated
not to (Rev. 1:20; 5:6; 11:8; 12:1, 3, 9; 17:7, 9, 15-18, etc.)
1) Dragon: is
symbolic of Satan (Rev. 12:3, 4, 7, 9, 13, 16, 17; 13:2, 4; 16:13; 20:2)
2) First Beast: is
symbolic of the Antichrist (Rev. 13; 14:9-11; 17:3-17; 19:19-21; 20:4, 10)
3) Another Beast: is
symbolic of the False Prophet called “another Beast” just once (Rev. 13:11)
4) Seven Heads: are
7 empires from history that persecuted Israel (Egypt, Assyria, Babylon,
Persia,
Greece, Rome, revived Roman Empire of Dan. 2:41-42; 7:7; Rev. 12:3; 13:1;
17:3-16)
5) Ten Horns: represents
a 10-nation confederation that serves the Antichrist (Rev. 17:12-13)
6) Harlot Babylon: will
be a worldwide demonically inspired religious and economic system
based in
the re-built city of Babylon, near Baghdad in Iraq (Rev. 17-18; Jer. 50-51)
7) Woman with a Male-child (Jesus):
is the faithful remnant of Israel
through history (Rev. 12)
No comments:
Post a Comment