The Book Of Revelation : The New International Greek Testament Commentary

Preterists and idealists have much in common in that they seem to reject the prophetic element the book of Revelation. However, in the preterist approach, Revelation was perceived to be describing the events surrounding the destruction of the Roman Empire (Gundry 2012). For example, Mark Hitchcock explains in his article “A Critique of The Preterist View”, that some scholars believe that the seven heads and seven kings, mentioned in 2 Revelations 17:9, are symbolic of a complete set of Roman rulers. The number seven, referenced in the scripture, is viewed as being an apocalyptic symbol for completeness. Though all four approaches agree, to some extent, that the book of Revelation contains symbolic

Comparing and contrasting different written works is a key aspect to discovering truths about the Christian Bible. When we compare and contrast canonical books, we can learn many things about the theology and context in which these books were written. Today, we will be comparing two books from the New Testament: Hebrews and Revelation. While Hebrews is often referred to as an epistle, it is actually more similar to a sermon. Revelation is a book that describes a supposed “vision” from the author John. John wrote this vision down on the instruction of a heavenly figure. While we compare these books, we will specifically focus on their relation to Judaism and their positions on Judaism. We will examine three major difference and/or similarities: Their views on the relevance of Jewish History, the superiority of Christ, and, the Second coming of the Messiah.

This essay will argue that the eschatology of the Book of Revelation forms an integral part of John’s attempt within the pages of his book to form a literary world in which the forms, figures, and forces of the earthly realm are critiqued and unmasked through the re-focalization of existence from the perspective of heaven. It will attempt to show that, in response to the social, political, religious, and economic circumstances of his readers, the Book of Revelation forms a counter imaginative reality. Through drawing upon an inaugurated sense of eschatology and evocative imagery, John is able to pull the reader in and show them the true face of the imperial world and consequences of its ideology, forcing the reader allegiance to fall

So what does the ‘sea’ or ‘water’ prophetically represent? Revelation 17:15 shows that ‘waters’ represent ‘peoples, multitudes, nations and tongues’. With this clue, we know that these beasts in both Daniel and Revelation came up from the densely populated area. What about the beasts? What do they represent? Daniel 7:17,23 clearly shows that ‘beasts’ represents ‘kings or kingdoms’ so we can apply this to both Daniel and Revelation. Without relating Daniel to Revelation and vice versa, the interpretation of these books could be problematic and they could be misinterpreted.

The beast is a concept, which represents an irrational fear within the boys themselves. The beast is just the savagery in them. Every person has evil in them. The Lord of the Flies told Simon “ Fancy thinking the beast was actually something you could hunt and kill! … You knew didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, Close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?”(Golding 143) through the boars head. Overall the beast represents the devil. I think that it’s just a power that takes over peoples the boys feelings, which caused chaos and barbaric actions within the boys.

The beast is an recurring evil figure. He is described as a snake like thing by the boys. A

Revelation 12:7-9 is a vision seen by John that speaks about the war that will occur in heaven. The passage says,“Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. The great dragon was hurled down―that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.” The passage begins by stating that there will be a war in heaven, one between Michael and Satan. Michael is God’s archangel whose name means “one like God”. This leads to the possibility that Michael is Jesus Christ. Jesus has a nature “like God” and can be argued that the word “archangel” might mean not “ruling angel” but “the ruler of the angels.” Add to the fact that the word archangel is never used in the plural… ”(Becker). These facts are strong evidence that Michael is the savior Jesus Christ. Satan is the dragon that is referred to in the text. The dragon is not specifically described in this particular passage, but earlier in the chapter there is a glimpse as to what he looked like. According to Revelation 12:3, “...a great red dragon having seven heads ten horns, and on his head were seven diadems.” The dragon is red to symbolize that it is evil and the horns symbolize its great power. “The deceitful nature of his seven heads is exaggerated by his seven crowns”(Mueller). These crowns are diadems that

The Beast in the novel occupies many entities. The Beast symbolically represents fear in the novel. It’s what causes or provokes the darkness and savagery throughout the boys. The Beast is first introduced as a snake that the one of the little ‘uns saw. “ It was a beastie… A snake-thing. Ever so big. He saw it” (Golding 35). The little boy is the only one that is scared and they all ignore the little boy and though that it was a nightmare he just had. The Beast also becomes a dead soldier that parachuted out of his plane. Sam and Eric comes across The Beast when they were going to light the fire. They become terrified thinking that the soldier was alive and a creature. Sam and Eric ran back to camp to tell the others and “The circle of boys

12:18-13:1: The dragon call up helpers from the earth, presumably from “the same hellish waters” that he arose from himself. This creates a dramatic scene where the beast comes out of the sea, first with his horns, then his heads with his crowns, and then with his body that resembles an animal. This beast is based on Daniel 7:2-7 and 7:19-24, where a creature with ten horns and seven heads is depicted coming out of the sea. The seven heads may refer to the summation of the four beasts in Daniel 7, and the 10 horns may represent the ten horns on the fourth beast, while also signifying the dominion and power he wields.

The passage of Scripture being discussed in the following paper is Daniel 7:1-14. This chapter consists of three literary sections, first, chaos by the sea (7:1-8) followed by the heavenly courtroom (7:9-14), concluding with the visions divine victory and interpretation (7:15-28) which will not be addressed in this paper. The Christian canon locates the book of Daniel within its prophetic writings, however, the Jewish canon includes it within, “the Writings.” The book of Daniel doesn’t necessarily fit in either category, as it is widely considered within the literary category of apocalyptic literature which the subsequent sections of this paper will explore further. Daniel can be divided into three sections, based on language: a Hebrew introduction (Ch. 1); an Aramaic section (Ch. 2-7); and a Hebrew section (Ch. 8-12). Within these three language divisions exist two literary sections, first, the Tales (Ch. 1-6) followed by the Visions (Ch. 7-12). These two sections, though existing within the language divisions appear to have no corresponding connection.

In the Book of Daniel, a dream leads to revelation & subsequently apocalypse. I too dreamed but this time there was only apocalypse, a giant wave engulfing anything that stood out.

The Book of Daniel is the only full-blown apocalyptic book in the Protestant recognized version of the Canon. A literary device divides the book into two halves. Chapters 1-6 are a collection of stories that introduces the reader to Daniel and three other Israelites as unwilling guests of the Babylonia Empire ruled by Nebuchadnezzar. The second half, Chapters 7-12 consists of apocalyptic imagery of deformed beasts and the heavenly court. The focus of this paper will be on chapter 7, which serves as a bridge of the two halves. Chapter 7 is the earliest of the visions as it identifies with the genre of 8-12 while through language and content it reverts to Daniel chapter 2. The linguistic break down is not as neat as the literary divide in

These judgments will serve to punish sin and bring the nation of Israel to repentance. “…the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof… And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets… And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth” (Revelation 5:5, 8:2, 16:1). Each of these groups of seven objects introduces the next, thus, they are connected. The first four of the seven seals are the Apocalyptic horsemen and cause the introduction of the Antichrist, warfare, famine, and plague and more of the second and third, respectfully. The fifth seal talks about the martyrs of Christ who were killed for their faith during the End Times. The sixth seal is God’s justice for the martyrs of the fifth seal, as it causes great natural disasters, mainly an earthquake. The seventh seal reveals the seven trumpets, the next judgment. The result of the first trumpet is hail and fire, the second is a disruption of the oceans, the third affects rivers and lakes, the fourth darkens the sun and moon, the fifth is a plague of locusts, the sixth is the death of a third of the earth, and the seventh calls forth seven angels who have the seven bowls. The first bowl causes sores, the second causes death of all sea-dwelling life forms, the third changes the rivers to blood, the fourth causes the sun to intensify it’s heat, the fifth, darkness, the sixth, the drying of the river Euphrates and the assembling of the Antichrist’s armies, and the seventh causes an additional earthquake with

The vision John had about the throne of God in Revelation 4 is similar to that of Isaiah. John described the creatures giving honor and glory and reverence to God around His throne. Interestingly the reaction of John is different from Isiah. Perhaps because John experience the risen of Christ at the beginning there was no record of John falling down in terror and awareness (Revelation 1:17). An expression and the repetition of the name three times was common among Jews. Jeremiah 7: 4, the prophets represented the Jews saying “ The temple of the Lord” three times. They express their intense confidence in their own worship despite the fact that it was corrupt and hypocritical. Similar intense expression of three-fold was discuss in Ezekiel 21:27,

After reading chapters twelve through thirteen and seventeen through nineteen from the book of Revelation, I have attained knowledge that allows me to see how the author of Revelation perceives the Roman Empire. From the beginning of chapter twelve it is clearly portrayed that the woman who is in the sky, about to give birth, is meant to symbolize Mary the mother of Jesus, or even Israel, the birthplace of Jesus. The Dragon of course, represents Satan. When the Dragon is thrown down to Earth due to its repulsive actions of trying to harm the woman’s baby, it decides to make war against the faithful Christians. As the story progresses in chapter thirteen, a