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INTRODUCTION: CONTEXT• WHO?
– John
• WHAT IS IT? – Apocalyptic / Prophecy
• WHEN? – AD 90s
• WHERE FROM? – Patmos
• WHERE TO? – Churches, Asia Minor
• WHY? – Reasons to Hold On!
• SO WHAT FOR US?– In WHOSE Kingdom are You?
APPROACHES
• FUTURISTIC– “Reading Daily News til Jesus Returns”
• HISTORICAL-SOCIAL– 1st Century A.D. Context– All that’s left is Judgment!
• THEOLOGICAL– Power Structures– What God Does About Them– What It Means for Us
• GOD’S RULE
– TRUTH
–MESSIAH, LAMB
– BRIDE, NEW JERUSALEM
–GOD’S KINGDOM PREVAILS
• SATAN’S PRETEND RULE – DECEIT, SEDUCTION– BEASTS & FALSE PROPHETS– “HARLOTS & BABYLONS”– PRETEND RULE DESTROYED
A REVELATIONFROM GOD TO JESUS TO JOHN
• PROPHECY– JUDGMENT in Real Time
– RENEWAL in Real Time• LAND
• TEMPLE
• KING (David)
• 12 TRIBES
• APOCALYPTIC– World-View SHIFT
• DUALISTIC
• PESSIMISTIC
• DETERMINISTIC
– Social Structure: EVIL
A BLEND OF . . .
APOCALYPTIC: EARLY EXAMPLES
• Biblical– (Joel)
– (Zechariah)
– Isa. 24 – 27
– Ezek. 38 - 39
–Dan. 7 - 12
• Jewish– Sibylline Oracles 150
B.C.– Jubilees 150 B.C.– 1 Enoch • 2nd C. B.C. -- 1st C. A.D.
– Apoc. Abraham 1st C. A.D.
– 2 Baruch 1st C. A.D– 4 Ezra 1st C. A.D.
LIFE, DEATH, &LIFE EVERMORE !
• “Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last; I am the Living One. I was dead, and, behold, I am alive forever and ever. And I hold the Keys of Death and Hades.” Rev. 1:18
7 TRUMPETS
• TRUMPETS 1, 2,3, 4: SET THE STAGE
• TRUMPETS 5, 6, 7: “THE 3 WOES”
• 6TH TRUMPET: CITIES of Revelation
CITIES of REVELATION
• BABYLONS– NEBUCHADNEZZAR’S
• DESTROYED JERUSALEM
• 586 B.C.
– JOHN’S• HARLOT
• ROME DESTRUCTION
• JERUSALEMS– TITUS
• DESTROYED JERUSALEM
• A.D. 70
– JOHN’S• BRIDE
• COMING DOWN OUT OF HEAVEN
SEALS, TRUMPETS, BOWLS
• SEALS: 6: 1 – 8:1• TRUMPETS: 8:2 - 11:18–REV. 12, 13
– THE WOMAN & THE MALE CHILD
– THE DRAGON
– THE 2 BEASTS
• BOWLS: 15:1 – 16:21
MESSIAH & HIS ENEMIESREV. 12, 13
• THE WOMAN – Gives Birth to CHILD– COSMOS – ISRAEL – NEW CREATION
• MALE CHILD– JESUS– MESSIAH
MESSIAH & HIS ENEMIESREV. 12, 13
• WAR IN HEAVEN: Michael vs. Dragon– THE DRAGON: Serpent, Devil, Satan• Satan Cast to Earth
• BEAST Out of the SEA: 7 Heads, 10 Horns– Fatal Wound, Now Healed
– “His number is the number of a man” –Rev. 13:18
• BEAST Out of the “EARTH”: False Prophet
BEAST Out of the SEA:“NERO” vs THE LAMB
• REV. 13: 18 -- WHO IS 666 ?– THE NAME and THE NUMBER
–NERO: Not Dead, but Returning (Redux)
–NERO: Dead & Back to Life (Redivivus)
BEAST & “NERO”ALL Power-Structures
Opposed to God
CHRIST & THE “NERO MYTH”
CHRIST
• REV. 1:18
• REV. 2:8
• REV. 5:6
THE BEAST / 666
• REV. 13:3
• REV. 13:12, 14
• REV. 17:8, 11
The gematria of 666
• Therion -- “beast” = 666
• QSR NRWN = 666
• “The one whose fatal wound had been healed.”
NERO & “NERO”• NERO Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus A.D. 37 – 54 – 68
• Titus Flavius Caesar DOMITIANUS Augustus A. D. 51 – 81 -96
BEAST FROM THE SEA
7 HEADS OF BEAST = 7 KINGS
1, 2, 3, 4, 5 = “FALLEN”
6TH: Domitian
7TH - 8TH IS COMING
“Nero”-in-Domitian
Nero Redivivus / Redux
REV. 17: 9 - 11
RISE & FALL - EVIL POWERS• 1. SATAN THROWN: HEAVEN TO EARTH
– REV. 12
• 3. Satan thrown: Earth to LAKE of BURNING SULFUR
– Rev. 20
• 2. BEAST & FALSE PROPHET BLASPHEME, SEDUCE
– REV. 13
• 2. Beast & False Prophet to LAKE of BURNING SULFUR
– Rev. 19
• 3. HARLOT of BEAST MAKES WAR ON THE LAMB
– REV. 17
• 1. Harlot CONQUERED & BURNED by BEAST
– Rev. 17
144,000 & “GREAT MULTITUDE”
144,000
• “Sealed”
• 12 Tribes, Israel
• 7:1-8; 14:1-5
“GREAT MULTITUDE”
• All Nations, Peoples
• 7:9-17; 5:9,10; 6:9-11; 20:4-6
“WHO ARE
THESE?”
MARTYRED IN THE “GREAT TRIBULATION”
• BEFORE THE LAMB’S THRONE• WHITE ROBES• WASHED IN BLOOD OF LAMB• SERVE GOD IN HIS TEMPLE• NO HUNGER, NO THIRST• NO SCORCHING HEAT• LAMB IS THEIR SHEPHERD• GOD WIPES AWAY EVERY TEAR
“Bore Testimony to Jesus”
Revelation 5:9-10
6: 9 – 1114:1-517: 619:2
20:4-6
NEW JERUSALEM / BRIDEENVISIONED IN
PROPHECY
ISA. 2:2–5 // MIC. 4:1-5ISA. 49:17-19 ISA. 51:1-16
*ISA. 54:1 – 55:2ISA. 61:1-10ISA. 62:4-6ISA. 65:18
ZECH. 14:10-11
EXPRESSED IN THECHURCH
EPH. 1-3EPH. 5: 25-33HEB. 12:22-24
TRANSFORMED INAPOCALYPTIC
REV. 19: 7-9REV. 21:1-2
NEW HEAVENS, NEW EARTH
ENVISIONED INPROPHECY
ISA. 4:2-6ISA. 42:9
ISA. 48:6-8ISA. 65:17ISA. 66:22
EXPRESSED IN THECHURCH
ROM. 8:18-252 COR. 5: 17
GAL. 6:152 PET. 3:13
TRANSFORMED INAPOCALYPTIC
JUB. 1:291 ENOCH 45:4-5; 91:16-17
2 APOC. BAR. 32:6
REV. 3:12