Why Are People Afraid To Read The Book Of Revelation?
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I don't think it is absurd to say there are people afraid of the book of Revelation. They read it as a book telling us of the terrors of the judgment of the Lord, and I think that part of this book is terrifying. I would be frightened if I didn't know God has His loving arms around me, and I can go to Christ with repentance to escape this judgment.
N
No clue. chalk it up to bad pastors out there on the loose . But I love Revelation of Christ. It's a blessing to those who read, and understand it.
If you want to talk with me about it, I'm always in the chat rooms. And that's something I rarely ever get to talk about with people. Like you said , people really kinda explain it away, or don't bother with it.
A
Don't blame a pastor because someone doesn't bother to read or teach from a certain book. We are all individually responsible for our own spiritual growth. No more so than someone thinking that they are not being "fed" at a particular church so they leave to find another. Christians need to take some responsibility for themselves. The church is or never was intended to be a spiritual day care center. Not understanding scripture is no excuse. The Holy Spirit will give understanding if it is sought.
N
True, but its an't helping non. And If some one sets themselves up as a teach, and preaches, hey dont dont have to understand Revelation, because your going to fly away, yeah God will start judgment at the pulpit. But I get what your saying, at the end of the day, we are all responsible for our own actions.
It's best to start with the a-millennial historical interpretation and take Barnes notes on Revelation as your starting point. Once you realize how accurately it predicted the rise of Islam and many other things that befell the Roman Empire, you'll be quite startled, and you almost certainly won't want to go down the Dispey route of a literal millennium and a literal Christ reigning in Jerusalem and other such monstrosities that are totally out of context.
Revelation is a book of judgement - Christ judging the world for its unbelief. That's what his throne in heaven is for - it's a throne of judgement. There's more blood and gore in Revelation than anywhere else. If you like that sort of thing, it should appeal. I love the book of Revelation but that's partly because I like history. If you don't like history, you'll probably not be interested in it.
Revelation is a book of judgement - Christ judging the world for its unbelief. That's what his throne in heaven is for - it's a throne of judgement. There's more blood and gore in Revelation than anywhere else. If you like that sort of thing, it should appeal. I love the book of Revelation but that's partly because I like history. If you don't like history, you'll probably not be interested in it.
It's because they have been taught that the book of Revelation is about doom, gloom and destruction. The book of Revelation is the Revelation of Jesus Christ... that means Jesus Christ is being revealed.
The truth is, the 4 horses in Revelation are actually these 4 horses:
Zec 6:2 In the first chariot were red horses; and in the second chariot black horses;
Zec 6:3 And in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot grisled and bay horses.
Zec 6:4 Then I answered and said unto the angel that talked with me, What are these, my lord?
Zec 6:5 And the angel answered and said unto me, These are the four spirits of the heavens, which go forth from standing before the Lord of all the earth.
And people don't understand that the four spirits of the heavens that breath life into a person are:
Matthew
Mark
Luke
John
They have also been taught that the rider of this horse is the antichrist, when actually it is Jesus.
Rev 6:2 And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.
Remember what the Psalms tell us:
Psa_40:7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,
That means that the book is written about Jesus, not the antichrist.
The truth is, the 4 horses in Revelation are actually these 4 horses:
Zec 6:2 In the first chariot were red horses; and in the second chariot black horses;
Zec 6:3 And in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot grisled and bay horses.
Zec 6:4 Then I answered and said unto the angel that talked with me, What are these, my lord?
Zec 6:5 And the angel answered and said unto me, These are the four spirits of the heavens, which go forth from standing before the Lord of all the earth.
And people don't understand that the four spirits of the heavens that breath life into a person are:
Matthew
Mark
Luke
John
They have also been taught that the rider of this horse is the antichrist, when actually it is Jesus.
Rev 6:2 And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.
Remember what the Psalms tell us:
Psa_40:7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,
That means that the book is written about Jesus, not the antichrist.
Rev. is a beautiful picture of a God completely in control who is worthy of worship. Of a Lamb who was slain and is worthy to open the seals, of Christ returning in glory and power, of a new heavens and new earth, redemption accomplished, applied and consummated. There is beauty in seeing Rev. as completed history, but there is also beauty in seeing that God has much more to accomplish. A real 1000 year reign of Christ on earth with His saints consummating history and every promise and putting a capstone to human history is a beautiful picture. It's not true only because it's beautiful, but truth, beauty and time walk hand in hand.
I look forward to all the blessings that are mentioned in the book of Revelation. This beautiful Bible book is heartwarming and encouraging because when reading what this last book of the Bible says about the present and what it reveals about the future, inspires faith in God and gives one the strength to go on. Revelation helps true Christians endure this wicked world ruled by Satan the Devil.
This beautiful book is written mostly in symbols and signs. These symbols or signs always can be said to represent a human, governmental and religious entities, God, Jesus, those that are going to heaven, those who are marked for survival of the end of Satan's wicked world and who will have an opportunity to live forever on a beautiful paradise earth, as well as much, much more.
Think about this illustration, perhaps it will take away some of the apprehension or fear that even some Christians have for reading this wonderful book of Revelation. QUESTION: How many ways can you say the word "money" without saying the actual word "money" or better yet what are some terms, "symbols or signs" that can be substituted or used in place of the word "money"?.......
1. Wiggums
2. Bacon
3. Greens
4. Bridge Card
5. Cha Ching
6. Cheddar[
7. And yes, when you think of the words pop bottle, money may come to your mind because once cashed in for the deposit, you will receive cash "money". All these terms, signs or symbols are slang terms for the word money.
That is the same way with symbolic words, phrases, and terminology written in the book of Revelation. You can/might even call these signs or symbols in the book of Revelation, "spiritual slang terms". For instance: False religion is likened to a "harlot" or "prostitute" that commits spiritual fornication with the "kings" or political rulers of the earth. This symbolic fornicatrix gets involved with and meddles in the political affairs of Satan's world, the political entities of the earth. Instead of remaing loyal to God, Jehovah and instead of remaining spiritually clean, "she", the "Great Harlot", is spiritually unclean in God's eye's and from His standpoint........The term "Babylon the Great the World Empire of False Religion" is also applied to all religions, non-Christian and Christedom (All faiths that claim to be worshipers of God and followers of Jesus, but "prove false to the power of holy spirit and God". And who do not obey the "good news about God's Kingdom") The "Great Harlot" that "sits upon many waters" or upon many peoples of the earth wields her powerful influence even over them and their the kings of the earth. All false religion are slated for destruction very soon when the "Great Tribulation" starts (Matthew 24: 21,22).
These are just a couple of terms in the Bible book of Revelation that truly have significant and relevant meaning for our day and time. Understanding the book of Revelation is very urgent because one's future life and personal relationship with God is involved, as well as being granted the underserved kindness and mercy from God to be able to survive the end of this wicked system of things.
Just a further note also. The political and governmental entities are represented by a symbolic "ten horned wild beast"Q
UOTE=Swingalong;1296850]It's because many truly do not understand it, the book of Revelation.[/QUOTE]
This beautiful book is written mostly in symbols and signs. These symbols or signs always can be said to represent a human, governmental and religious entities, God, Jesus, those that are going to heaven, those who are marked for survival of the end of Satan's wicked world and who will have an opportunity to live forever on a beautiful paradise earth, as well as much, much more.
Think about this illustration, perhaps it will take away some of the apprehension or fear that even some Christians have for reading this wonderful book of Revelation. QUESTION: How many ways can you say the word "money" without saying the actual word "money" or better yet what are some terms, "symbols or signs" that can be substituted or used in place of the word "money"?.......
1. Wiggums
2. Bacon
3. Greens
4. Bridge Card
5. Cha Ching
6. Cheddar[
7. And yes, when you think of the words pop bottle, money may come to your mind because once cashed in for the deposit, you will receive cash "money". All these terms, signs or symbols are slang terms for the word money.
That is the same way with symbolic words, phrases, and terminology written in the book of Revelation. You can/might even call these signs or symbols in the book of Revelation, "spiritual slang terms". For instance: False religion is likened to a "harlot" or "prostitute" that commits spiritual fornication with the "kings" or political rulers of the earth. This symbolic fornicatrix gets involved with and meddles in the political affairs of Satan's world, the political entities of the earth. Instead of remaing loyal to God, Jehovah and instead of remaining spiritually clean, "she", the "Great Harlot", is spiritually unclean in God's eye's and from His standpoint........The term "Babylon the Great the World Empire of False Religion" is also applied to all religions, non-Christian and Christedom (All faiths that claim to be worshipers of God and followers of Jesus, but "prove false to the power of holy spirit and God". And who do not obey the "good news about God's Kingdom") The "Great Harlot" that "sits upon many waters" or upon many peoples of the earth wields her powerful influence even over them and their the kings of the earth. All false religion are slated for destruction very soon when the "Great Tribulation" starts (Matthew 24: 21,22).
These are just a couple of terms in the Bible book of Revelation that truly have significant and relevant meaning for our day and time. Understanding the book of Revelation is very urgent because one's future life and personal relationship with God is involved, as well as being granted the underserved kindness and mercy from God to be able to survive the end of this wicked system of things.
Just a further note also. The political and governmental entities are represented by a symbolic "ten horned wild beast"Q
UOTE=Swingalong;1296850]It's because many truly do not understand it, the book of Revelation.[/QUOTE]
There are similarities between the symbolism of Daniel and Revelation. Daniel, a Jewish theology book, is another book that long ago was understood to largely relate to history from the Babylonian to the Greek period circa 170BC (when it is commonly supposed to have been written or finalized into its present form). It also anticipated the Roman period and Christ. As with Revelation, the dispensationalists got hold of Daniel and used it in the formulation of their novel pre-millennial and rapture prophecies in the latter part of the 19th century, and then it appeared in the Scofield Reference Bible in 1909 for US consumption.
What most don't seem to realize is that long before the Scofield Reference Bible, Revelation and Daniel were being understood according to the historical a-millennial perspective. That is why the historical interpretation of Revelation was so well developed even by the middle of the 19th century. The identity and nature of the beasts in Rev 11 etc were understood in the reformation as relating to the Catholic church power, but some protestants such as Servetus also saw them as relating to all church powers derived from ex-Catholic daughter churches, even Calvinism in Geneva.
Thus Dispensationalism in its present form is a very recent and almost exclusively US based interpretation, that is unknown elsewhere in the world except in a few "bretheren" churches in the UK who still follow JN Darby.
Thus according to the conventional protestant interpretation, both Daniel and Revelation relate to what is now mostly history, although some of the last prophecies of Revelation have still to be fulfilled.
What most don't seem to realize is that long before the Scofield Reference Bible, Revelation and Daniel were being understood according to the historical a-millennial perspective. That is why the historical interpretation of Revelation was so well developed even by the middle of the 19th century. The identity and nature of the beasts in Rev 11 etc were understood in the reformation as relating to the Catholic church power, but some protestants such as Servetus also saw them as relating to all church powers derived from ex-Catholic daughter churches, even Calvinism in Geneva.
Thus Dispensationalism in its present form is a very recent and almost exclusively US based interpretation, that is unknown elsewhere in the world except in a few "bretheren" churches in the UK who still follow JN Darby.
Thus according to the conventional protestant interpretation, both Daniel and Revelation relate to what is now mostly history, although some of the last prophecies of Revelation have still to be fulfilled.
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God doesn't mean for us to understand Revelation as a book giving exactly how everything will happen. God told the Hebrews about the coming of Christ the first time and most of the scholars who said they understood it perfectly made a terrible mistake about what Christ did. We can look back on all the prophecies and understand them after they happened. All the prophecies that have happened have been like that. The parts of Revelation that are clearly told about what we can expect tell of absolute wonders ahead for us.
I like going over the feast of Sukkot, the feast of the harvest, that God gave to show us what the harvest of His people will be like. It gives such a clear picture, and it gives us the season it will happen. The feasts that prophesied such as the crucifixion (Passover) and Pentecost gave the exact date, I'll bet this feast will, too. Just not the year.
I like going over the feast of Sukkot, the feast of the harvest, that God gave to show us what the harvest of His people will be like. It gives such a clear picture, and it gives us the season it will happen. The feasts that prophesied such as the crucifixion (Passover) and Pentecost gave the exact date, I'll bet this feast will, too. Just not the year.
Through the years many people have been sure they knew what the symbols in Daniel relate to. All we really know is that there will be a series of gentile nations who rule.
In Daniel 7:25 we read: He shall speak words against the Most High, shall wear out the holy ones of the Most High, and shall attempt to change the sacred seasons and the law; and they shall be given into his power for a time, two times, and half a time.
By the year 324 it was made illegal to include anything the Jews did in the Christian Church. They said Paul told them they must not. No season God had told them about was allowed, no church service on a day the bible ordered, and every bit of law God had given was considered obsolete. They said Christ did away with law. This is not the Catholic Church, this is all our churches.
In Daniel 7:25 we read: He shall speak words against the Most High, shall wear out the holy ones of the Most High, and shall attempt to change the sacred seasons and the law; and they shall be given into his power for a time, two times, and half a time.
By the year 324 it was made illegal to include anything the Jews did in the Christian Church. They said Paul told them they must not. No season God had told them about was allowed, no church service on a day the bible ordered, and every bit of law God had given was considered obsolete. They said Christ did away with law. This is not the Catholic Church, this is all our churches.
K
And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals. 2And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof? 3And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon. 4And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon. The Lamb is Worthy
5And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.
Can someone tell me? I can only imagine that if no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth was able to open the book, and then:
5And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.
Was it that Christ was between earth and heaven, while He was ascending? When no man was found, that is. I mean, they looked and didn't see, then they did see.
5And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.
Can someone tell me? I can only imagine that if no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth was able to open the book, and then:
5And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.
Was it that Christ was between earth and heaven, while He was ascending? When no man was found, that is. I mean, they looked and didn't see, then they did see.