The Pith of the Apocalypse
The Pith of the Apocalypse

Author: Paul A. Rainbow

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2008-10-15

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 1498275184

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To serve God and Christ faithfully in the midst of a pagan society that exalts power, wealth, and pleasure is the tenor of the prophetic summons to the church in the book of Revelation. Unfortunately, this simple message, as potent today as it was at the end of the first century, is often obscured by misguided, if sincere, interpreters. The present book explores the background issues and lays out the principles that inform a sound approach to this enigmatic writing: its historical and cultural setting, its literary structure, its symbolic code, its core theological concepts, its scheme of last things, and its preachable and teachable points. In dialogue with dispensationalism on the one hand and with the skeptical criticism of it on the other, The Pith of the Apocalypse derives clues for cracking the Apocalypse from the book itself, viewed against the sweep of the biblical prophetic tradition that flowed into it, through the lens of methods widely accepted in mainstream New Testament scholarship. Readers will return to the book of Revelation itself with enhanced confidence, penetration, and understanding.

The Four Horses of the Apocalypse
The Four Horses of the Apocalypse

Author: Benjamin Dock Jr.

Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

Published: 2022-08-01

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 1644923238

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The sentiment as the book closes packed with information breathed into heart and mind is to desire you have found our Lord to be honest and full of love toward his creation. He honestly informs us of the end coming as the church prepared for her resurrection trumpet to sound. The scriptures pertaining to the first three and a half years of seven-week years of Daniel is so full of imagery and the conclusion must have had many words taken from imagery through visions that are hard to understand. Consequently, the same vision of John's revelation are written plainly and simple, rolling up all of Daniel's entities into two basic ones. One is the appearance of the beast out of the sea having seven heads and ten horns are both the Antichrist and beast. Secondly, the beast out of the land is the false prophet sent for the destruction of Israel. The scarlet woman is Jerusalem or Babylon. That is pretty much it made simple so any one reading should comprehend the book. Those who read and study the book of Revelation are offered salvation through Christ as one finishes the book. As well, those who miss the catching away of the bride of Christ will need the information written in God's word. Not much mention of this by modern ministers. You will need information written in my book in order to find your way through the maze and obey the only promise through the terrible times coming on the world for the safety of your soul! Not only do you have to refrain from the 666 mark and the worship of the beast you must also obey the "everlasting gospel" Jesus teaches in Mathew 25:31""46. Evidently with so many failures of souls saved during the first half, God sends an angel close to the first half ending of tribulation to announce the everlasting gospel. Many people have hoarded food and other supplies but are only concerned with themselves. It must have been that many people were unaware of this sheep and goat judgment in force. Those who will not share with folks in need are goats and will be cast out of the kingdom. You survived the 666 mark and the beast worship but failed to share! God help you!

Handbook on Hebrews through Revelation (Handbooks on the New Testament)
Handbook on Hebrews through Revelation (Handbooks on the New Testament)

Author: Andreas J. Köstenberger

Publisher: Baker Academic

Published: 2020-07-21

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1493423630

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A leading evangelical scholar of the New Testament provides an easy-to-navigate resource for studying and understanding Hebrews through Revelation. Written with classroom utility and pastoral application in mind, this accessibly written volume summarizes the content of each major section of the biblical text to help students, pastors, and laypeople quickly grasp the sense of particular passages. The series, modeled after Baker Academic's successful Old Testament handbook series, focuses primarily on the content of the biblical books without getting bogged down in historical-critical questions or detailed verse-by-verse exegesis.

Reading Revelation
Reading Revelation

Author: Gordon W. Campbell

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2022-01-01

Total Pages: 454

ISBN-13: 0227178386

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The Book of Revelation can be read in various ways. Where interpretation opts not to venture beyond Revelation or approach the book as a forecast of end-time events, it typically favours either going behind the text, in search of a socio-historical context of origin to which it might refer, or else standing in front of the text and investigating the book’s reception history, or its present relevance and impact. Comparatively little interpretative work has been undertaken inside the text, exploring the mechanics of how Revelation ‘works’, still less how its complex parts might fit together into a meaningful whole. Gordon Campbell considers Revelation to be a coherent narrative composition that draws its hearer or reader into its text-world. In Reading Revelation: A Thematic Approach, Campbell gives an innovative account of Revelation’s sophisticated thematic content. Mindful of Revelation's narrative verve, or its architecture en mouvement (as Jacques Ellul once put it), Campbell plots a series of thematic trajectories through the book. On this reading, parody and parallelism fundamentally shape the whole narrative. As a first-ever integrated account of Revelation’s macro-themes, Reading Revelation makes an important contribution to Revelation scholarship. In its light, the book may justifiably be seen as the ‘crowning achievement’ of the Scriptures.

Johannine Writings and Apocalyptic
Johannine Writings and Apocalyptic

Author: Stanley E. Porter

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2013-09-15

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 9004254870

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Johannine Writings and Apocalyptic provides a wide-ranging and thorough annotated bibliography for John's Gospel, the Johannine letters, Revelation, and apocalyptic writings pertinent to these books. More inclusive than many other bibliographies, this volume provides reference to over 1300 individual entries, often including references to multiple works with a given description. Annotations are designed to provide guidance to a wide range of readers, from students wishing to gain entry to the subject to graduate students engaging in research to professors needing ready access to useful materials. The volume is topically organized and indexed for easy access.

Enigma: An Interpretative Commentary of Revelation
Enigma: An Interpretative Commentary of Revelation

Author: Dr. Nathan Ogan

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2019-01-16

Total Pages: 498

ISBN-13: 035936506X

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This has been offered to the reader as if to say that from the very outset, any study of Revelation that is done or offered without the direct application of Jesus' teaching, specifically His sermon on the Mount of Olives, is incomplete at best. The argument that God conclusively broadened His redemptive purpose beginning with the Jewish people then spread to all races, as promised in Matthew 28:19, rings true in Revelation when understood in the context of what Jesus taught. What's more, the development of temple-based worship into a simpler spiritual-based worship as expected in John 4:21-24 is equally difficult to ignore from what appears to have been fulfilled in the prophecy of Revelation as predicted by Jesus in His Mount of Olives sermon.

The State of New Testament Studies
The State of New Testament Studies

Author: Scot McKnight

Publisher: Baker Academic

Published: 2019-11-05

Total Pages: 503

ISBN-13: 1493419803

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This book surveys the current landscape of New Testament studies, offering readers a concise guide to contemporary discussions. Bringing together a diverse group of experts, it covers research on the most important issues in New Testament studies, including new discipline areas, making it an ideal supplemental textbook for a variety of courses on the New Testament. Michael Bird, David Capes, Greg Carey, Lynn Cohick, Dennis Edwards, Michael Gorman, and Abson Joseph are among the contributors.

Lions, Locusts, and the Lamb
Lions, Locusts, and the Lamb

Author: Michael Kuykendall

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2019-01-28

Total Pages: 423

ISBN-13: 1532640862

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The symbolism of Revelation has puzzled readers for centuries. Every generation falls prey to extreme views of interpretation. Even worse, they minimize the importance of John’s Apocalypse by not teaching or preaching from it. Yet Revelation is a profound work of New Testament theology and warrants a close study. John expects and prepares believers to follow the Lamb through suffering and possible martyrdom. The problem is centered on what the symbols mean. Are they literal? Are they symbolic? Do the images refer to events and people in the first century, or to the last days of planet earth? Moreover, how is the book structured? Is it one vision, four visions, or more? Are the visions linear or recapped? Lions, Locusts, and the Lamb: Interpreting Key Images in the Book of Revelation demonstrates a way to unlock John’s structure and unravel his symbols. The key is to follow a logical step-by-step interpretive approach that accents the historical, cultural, intertextual, extratextual, and particularly intratextual allusions and connections. The result is a book that delivers the basic meaning of three hundred images and categorizes them into an accessible guide for teachers, preachers, and readers of Revelation.

Reading Revelation After Supersessionism
Reading Revelation After Supersessionism

Author: Ralph J. Korner

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2020-11-11

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 1725274655

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In this volume, Ralph Korner argues that John’s extensive social identification with Judaism(s), Jewishness, and Jewish institutions does not reflect a literary program of replacing Israel with the ekklēsiai (“churches”/“assemblies”), that is the Jewish and non-Jewish followers of Jesus as Israel’s Messiah. Rather, John is emplacing his Christ-followers further within Israel, without thereby superseding Israel as a national identity for ethnic Jews who do not follow Jesus as the Christos. There are three primary roads travelled in this investigative journey. First, Korner explores ways in which a Jewish heritage is intrinsic to the literary structure, genre, eschatology, symbolism, and theological motifs of the Apocalypse. Second, he challenges the linear chronology of (generally) supersessionist dispensational readings of Revelation’s visionary content by arguing for a reiterative/repetitive structure based on certain literary devices that also provide structure for visions within Jewish apocalypses and Hebrew prophecies. Third, he incorporates the most recent research on ekklēsia usage, especially in Asia Minor, to assess how John’s ekklēsia associations might have been (non-supersessionally) perceived, especially by Jews in Roman Asia.

Johannine Theology
Johannine Theology

Author: Paul A. Rainbow

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2014-09-05

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 0830896503

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In this magisterial synthesis, Paul A. Rainbow presents the most complete account of the theology of the Johannine corpus available today. Both critical and comprehensive, this volume includes all the books of the New Testament ascribed to John: the Gospel, the three epistles and the book of Revelation.