When was Revelation written and why do you believe that?
Yours in the Lord,
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Jude 3: 3Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you contend earnestly for the
faith which was once for all handed down to the saints. Is the Revelation not part of the faith?
Be careful of traditions. Remember when Jesus told the Pharisees they nullified the word of God by their tradition. Mark 7:13
Now tradition states that John the apostle is the one whom Jesus loved, but what does the Bible say?
John 11: 1Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. 2It was the Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick. 3So the sisters sent word to Him, saying, “Lord, behold,
he whom You love is sick.” 4But when Jesus heard this, He said, “This sickness is not to end in death, but for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified by it.” 5Now Jesus
loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. 35
Jesus wept. 36So the Jews were saying, “
See how He loved him!”
John 13 21When Jesus had said this, He became troubled in spirit, and testified and said, “Truly, truly, I say to you, that one of you will betray Me.” 22The disciples began looking at one another, at a loss to know of which one He was speaking. 23There was reclining on Jesus’ bosom one of His disciples,
whom Jesus loved.
John 19: 26When Jesus then saw His mother, and the
disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He said to His mother, “Woman, behold, your son!” 27Then He said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” From that hour the disciple took her into his own household.
John 20: 2So she ran and came to Simon Peter and to the other
disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid Him.”
And note also how easily traditions are made and have stayed to this day despite Jesus correcting them. Carefully read John 21 verses 20-23. Jesus told Peter that the disciple whom he loved wouldn't die when He came, and they immediately went about spreading the false tradition that when Jesus came that disciple wouldn't die. One can only speculate why they thought he wouldn't die when Jesus came, but it shows how easily we can be wrong. Fortunately the scripture is never wrong although sometimes translations make mistakes. That's why it's good to look at a variety of translations when they differ.
Also notice who it is who wrote the book in verse 24.
John 21: 7Therefore that
disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, “It is the Lord.” So when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put his outer garment on (for he was stripped for work), and threw himself into the sea. 20Peter, turning around, saw the
disciple whom Jesus loved following them; the
one who also had leaned back on His bosom at the supper and said, “Lord, who is the one who betrays You?” 21So Peter seeing him said to Jesus, “
Lord, and what about this man?” 22Jesus said to him, “
If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you? You follow Me!” 23Therefore this saying went out among the brethren that that disciple would not die; yet Jesus did not say to him that he would not die, but only, “If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you?”
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This is the disciple who is testifying to these things and
wrote these things, and we know that his testimony is true.
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