Revelation Written In 95 AD By The Apostle John

1The revelation from Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants what must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, 2who testifies to everything he saw—that is, the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ. 3Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near. – Revelation 1:1-3

Revelations is a very misunderstood book. Its genre is an Apocalypse, a Prophecy, and an Epistle. John is the author and he wrote it in approximately 85-95 A.D. He wrote it while in prison on the Island of Patmos. To understand the book of Revelations we must first understand that John is describing the beginning of the end of the world as we know it.

The pericope I chose for my close reading assignment comes from Revelation chapter 22 verses 1-6. When reading this pericope it quickly obvious the genre is apocalyptic. In the few short verses there is evidence of an apocalyptic genre such as the means of revelation. Verse 5 says, “ Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal.” This pericope is apocalyptic because verse 1 is just one example of the means of revelation. The genre is also apocalyptic because it has examples of determinism. The restoration of the New Jerusalem is history moving forward towards a conclusion. The last evidence of this pericope being apocalyptic literature is the division of history into the Old and New Ages. The entire pericope is about the coming of the New Jerusalem, which is brining the old age to a close.

The rapture, anti-chirst, marking of the beast, and the tribulations are just a few things that come to mind when I think of the book of Revelation. I have personally read the book a few times. My church has also taken an a large amount of time to break down the book for the congeration. My church also produced a movie called Defiant, which follows a character during the rapture and attempts to paint a picture for the audience to see the potential of life once the anti-christ rules. My exposure to the topic and the book has left with me with many questions. Although, the talk of Eschatolgy once made me feel worried and sick, I can say now I'm more at peace with what is to come.

The book of Revelation, the final book of the bible, is one of the most interesting and symbolic readings for many. With an unknown author, apocalyptic foreshadowing, and obscure meanings, it has been interpreted a number of different ways. Starting with the history, the symbolism, and ways to interpret it, the aim of this paper is to give the reader a better understanding of the book.

The book of Revelations is another major literary form also known as the apocalypse or unveiling, Revelations features the unseen world inhabited by both good and evil creatures and urges us as believers to follow Christ each and every day and to always have faith in him. As we study the books we find numerous apocalyptic concepts involving eschatology or study of worlds end.

The book of Revelation was written by John when he was on the Isle of Patmos. This book is the only book in the Bible that is made up entirely of apocalyptic writing. Revelation appeals to the imagination and provokes visions of the coming of the Lord. There are many symbols and numbers found in the scriptures that are significant to end times. This book is revealing to us what will happen in the latter days when God will bring the world to an end. The judgement is contained in a scroll that is “seven-times sealed—and only the Lamb is worthy to open and read it” (Knowles 701). The phrase “seven seals” refers to the seven symbolic seals that secure the book and when the Lamb broke each seal, a judgement is released or an apocalyptic event occurs.

The book of Revelation, written in c. 95 A.D. by John the apostle, was written to Christians who were facing increasing hostility from the Roman Empire, which was beginning to enforce the cult of emperor worship. John had been exiled to the island of Patmos for his activities as a Christian missionary. The book of Revelation is considered apocalyptic literature, a kind of writing that is highly symbolic, but the book itself provides a number of clues for its own interpretation. There are several purposes of the book of Revelation, including encouraging believers by showing the final outcome of God 's plan, showing the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecies, and revealing Christ in all his glory. John writes to encourage the faithful to resist the demands of emperor worship and hold fast to God 's promises: that the final showdown between God and Satan is imminent, the believers are sealed against spiritual harm and will be vindicated when Christ returns, the wicked will be forever destroyed, and God 's people will enter an eternity of glory and blessedness. In this vision that John receives, he is shown many things about the final judgment to come and the establishment of the Messiah 's kingdom. The vision begins with Jesus giving a command for John to write letters to seven churches addressing problems that are common to most churches across the world (chapters 2-3). Chapter 5 introduces a book, or scroll, with seven seals that represent seven judgments. This begins the

John wrote the book of Revelation and he was not a synoptic gospel. The fact that John was chosen to be the author of this book speak volumes of what God wanted for him. The book of Revelation is hope but not many people can see that through the doom and gloom that it screams at you. It seems as though it will be a scary time when the end comes but it shouldn’t be for the believers. We constantly deal with what we do not know and we want to make to know what is going to actually happen. I always wonder who the anti-Christ is going to be and I think every year I guess someone new. It’s a scary thought but the end result of the Revelation will be us in heaven with our Father. We will go through the hard times to get to the end which is our hope for the future. The Charles Manson documentary was scary too as I was just watching him think he was doing everything right. He justified what he was doing by the readings from the Bible. Many can interpret this book wrong and Charles Manson was one of many that took the book completely out of

In the book of Revelation, John writes an apocalyptic letter each to the seven churches in the ancient Roman providence of Asia (The Bible Project). Before writing the letters, John of Patmos, or another John, is persecuted for preaching the Gospel; as punishment, he is exiled on an island called Patmos where he meets Jesus in a vision, seeing the risen Savior in His full glory. This becomes the start of Revelation where Jesus would tell John about the present events likely to happen with the future outcomes of history. This happened with prophets in the Old Testament, such as Isaiah and Ezekiel. The parallelism between the Old Testament prophets and the author of Revelation is that each prophet received a vision from God. When God calls

“In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (John 1:1 KJV). This familiar passage of scripture recorded in the Gospel of John indicates the deity and or preexistence of Jesus Christ prior to time as we know it and before the creation of earth. The strongest proof that the Lord Jesus Christ is God are the divine attributes, divine names, divine works, divine worship, divine claims and divine relationship ascribed to Him.

The Apocalypse. In a religious context, the apocalypse is a disclosure of knowledge or revelation, usually of something hidden. In the New Testament’s Book of Revelation, John the Apostle, one of Jesus’ twelve disciples, receives the prophecy of the Revelation of Jesus Christ. With this Revelation John learns that Jesus, the son of God, will one day return to Earth from the Heavens, and with his return he will judge the living and the dead and usher in a new kingdom of God, a kingdom on Earth where pain or suffering cease to exist. Therefore, the apocalypse within the Bible marks the revelation of Jesus Christ’s return. In the contemporary setting however, the term ‘apocalypse’ differentiates rather drastically from that of its’ religious’

canonical book and the writing of his gospel. Some of those questions have answers and some do not. In this essay we will take a look at some of them that has biblical answers. The first question is did John write the gospel bearing his name? Second, who was the audience that he was writing to? Third, what was the purpose of John writing the gospel?

To start this off, I don’t know much about the New Testament but I can name a few specifics. For instance, the first four books of the New Testament are all the same story just different perspectives. I know that the book of Revelation is a story of the end of times, written by John. However, Jesus was speaking through John, as he wrote the book. I know that Jesus was born of a virgin, named Mary. Jesus, before his time, had performed his first miracle of turning water into wine. By the age of thirteen, John the Baptist had baptized him. From that moment on, Jesus was now the man he was called to be, our Savior. I know that Jesus traveled through the Middle East, to more place than we know, performing miracles, such as, healing a leper, making

The book of Revelation was written by the apostle John, in an apocalyptic literature style. It consists of a series of prophecies about the end times, when Jesus will return and triumph over all the evil residing in the world. Its purpose is to bring hope and encouragement to Christians so that they will continue watching for the return and victory of Jesus Christ, but it is also a warning of the Final Judgment that nonbelievers will endure. The depiction of the cosmic battle that takes place both in heaven and on earth, symbolic language, and introduction of surreal