How to read the book of Revelation?

[Jesus_is_Saint]

Who can interpret it Absolutely right and accurate?
Can you recommend me source of interpretation for this book?
I am very interested to know The End Time events.

 

[Ken Rank]

Who can interpret it Absolutely right and accurate?
Can you recommend me source of interpretation for this book?
I am very interested to know The End Time events.

Yes, don't just compare it to Daniel... Revelation quotes many different prophets in the OT. When it does, go read those entire chapters being quoted and then apply the context of what you are reading out of the prophets back into the Revelation passage.

 

[vinsight4u]

/nvm

 

[vinsight4u]

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[yeshuaslavejeff]

Who can interpret it Absolutely right and accurate?

Y'SHUA(JESUS). (no interpretation necessary nor allowed)
As it is written:
"Then opened HE their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,"
so HE is the ONE to ask.
Remember:
"Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and ... - Bible Hub
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Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever."

 

[John Hyperspace]

As I'm lead to understand, the singlemost important thing to know is simple: the King of Babylon i.e. King of Babel i.e. King of Confusion comes with "all power" on Tevet 10, the 10th day of the 10th month on the Hebrew calendar: Ezekiel 24:1-2. So if and when you see someone coming into "all power": 2 Thessalonians 2:9: at look at the Hebrew calendar and say "Hey, today is Tevet 10" then you know that is the King of Confusion, and this event is a trap, a "snare the comes upon the whole world": Luke 21:35: and the "hour of testing which comes upon the whole world": Revelation 3:10: and you do not fear this one (Jeremiah 42:11), you do not fight this one (Jeremiah 21:4, Jeremiah 39:18): you take the yoke of captivity on your shoulders and you do what he says (Jeremiah 27:8; Jeremiah 34:3), with one exception: you do not worship this one, even upon sentence of death: Daniel 3:13-14, Daniel 3:16-18.

So if you can look at a Hebrew calendar, and do these things; you're good to go. Also, don't believe anyone who says to you "We will not see the King of Babylon": Jeremiah 27:9, Jeremiah 27:14, Jeremiah 27:17, Jeremiah 37:19

Ecclesiastes 1:9

 

[ViaCrucis]

Who can interpret it Absolutely right and accurate?
Can you recommend me source of interpretation for this book?
I am very interested to know The End Time events.

To give you just an inkling of how controversial and complicated the Revelation (also called the Apocalypse) is, for one, the idea that the book is about "the end times" is just one position among many.

For many the Apocalypse isn't about "the end times" but is first and foremost about events happening in John's time, and it is written to comfort the Christians living in Asia during a period of Roman aggression and oppression, and it is written using lots of graphic, apocalyptic imagery ("apocalyptic" was a literary genre that was popular among both Jews and Christians in antiquity, the word "apocalypse" actually just means "an unveiling" or "revelation") in part in order to hide the meaning from potential Roman eyes where simply saying, "Rome is bad" the text instead speaks of a woman named Babylon riding upon a scarlet beast.

There are four broad schools of interpretation for the Revelation:

1. Futurism - The book is primarily intended to speak of events that will happen in the distant future (from John's point of view); e.g. the Beast refers to some future Antichrist who will unite the world in a war against Christians.

2. Historicism - The book is primarily intended to speak of events that have been unfolding since John's time, and ultimately concludes with the end of history; e.g. the Protestant Reformers believed the Beast to refer to, in their own time, the office of the papacy; not that any individual pope was the Beast, but that the office itself was the problem.

3. Preterism - The book is primarily intended to speak of events that were going on in John's time, as mentioned already above; e.g. the Beast refers to the Roman Emperor, probably most specifically Nero.

4. Idealism - The book doesn't necessarily address any particular time, but instead addresses larger themes that are relevant for the Church in any and every time period; e.g. the Beast is any worldly or social power that is aggressive against the People of God and we have hope, always, of God's victory in Christ which is for us.

There are then further differences of opinion in each of these categories.

Any source you are recommended in this thread will more than likely simply be one that advocates the view of the person recommending it.

It may be far more fruitful if you were to examine things from a bunch of different angles, rather than trying to understand the book yourself, understand instead how various Christians have attempted to understand it throughout history--because there have been many views, many interpretations, throughout the last two thousand years. There is no commonly agreed upon position among Christians on this, some denominations may have official positions, but for the most part the Revelation remains the most hotly contested, and the most controversial text in the New Testament. It was so controversial, in fact, that many Christians didn't finally come to accept it as part of the Bible until nearly 700 years after it was written, and in some places even longer than that.

-CryptoLutheran

 

[Revealing Times]

Who can interpret it Absolutely right and accurate?
Can you recommend me source of interpretation for this book?
I am very interested to know The End Time events.

The Revelation is a code, the Old Testament is used to encode it. For instance in Rev. 12 we are told the Woman is dressed in the Sun, Moon and 12 Stars. In Genesis 37 Joseph had a dream that the Sun (Jacob) Moon(Rebecca) and 11 Stars (his brothers) would pay obeisance unto him. Thus this tells us the "Woman" in chapter 12 is Israel.

I pretty much have been given all of Revelation through much study and prayer. It is not really that complicated, unless we seek to place our own ideas and agenda ahead of God.

For instance, there is NO MYSTERY BABYLON....The Angel says, come and I will show you the MYSTERY.....We are told exactly what the Harlot is and exactly what the Beast she rides on is, yet everyone says/asks WHAT IS MYSTERY BABYLON...LOL.

Rev. 17:7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.

The rest of the chapter is the Angel explaining what USED TO BE A MYSTERY. Yet we have dozens of ideas who the Harlot is and who Babylon is, when we are told plainly, exactly what they are. Babylon and the Harlot are two entirely different entities. Neither is a City, neither is Rome, Babylon, New York, America, or Mecca. Nor the RCC in full.

In truth, there is no Revelation chapter 17 and 18. Read the end of 16, IT IS DONE. Rev. 17 is only a retelling of events that have already happened by the time Rev. 16 ends. Rev. 16 at the end tells you why God mentions Babylon. Its all there, if we leave our ideas off.

 

[vinsight4u]

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[Yahu_]

Who can interpret it Absolutely right and accurate?
Can you recommend me source of interpretation for this book?
I am very interested to know The End Time events.

My mother is an author on the subject. While we don't agree on all points, she put out a very indepth study of it linking all the OT prophecies concerning the end times scatter through out the prophets writings.

 

[vinsight4u]

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[vinsight4u]

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[vinsight4u]

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[Radagast]

Who can interpret it Absolutely right and accurate?

There is so much disagreement on the details, that perhaps the answer is nobody. But the details aren't important: what's important is Jesus wins.

And let me plug my favourite book on the book:

 

[Jesus_is_Saint]

Can anyone answer me:
Why after millennium, Satan still can deceive people?

 

[JohannineScholar]

It was so controversial, in fact, that many Christians didn't finally come to accept it as part of the Bible until nearly 700 years after it was written, and in some places even longer than that.

-CryptoLutheran

That's a bit of a myth. The book was generally accepted (with the minor exception of the Alogoi) until the time of Eusebius. It was only after Eusebius doubted it that it came to be questioned as a canonical book.

 

[Yahu_]

Can anyone answer me:
Why after millennium, Satan still can deceive people?

Because after living under LAW for a 1000 years, many will think it too harsh. You realize that some people survive the tribulation and go on to repopulate the earth but under directly heavenly rule. There will be no demonic realm leading people into error but sin will still exist and will be punished harshly.

 

[Soyeong]

Who can interpret it Absolutely right and accurate?
Can you recommend me source of interpretation for this book?
I am very interested to know The End Time events.

The book was written to cause the people living in the seven churches to be blessed, happy, and content (Revelation 1:3-4), so if someone's interpretation of Revelation doesn't hold any relevance to the people it was addressed to and wouldn't cause them to become blessed, happy, and content, then their interpretation is wrong. For example, talking about the people in the churches going through what is written about in Revelation would not have caused them to be blessed, happy, and content. Revelation shows us that we are helpless, but that God is in control, so if someone thinks that God needs our help by stockpiling food and ammo, then they have not correctly understood it. There are a number of instance where people got into trouble thinking that God needs our help to bring about prophecy, such as with Abraham and Ishmael, so we shouldn't do that. Evil will always look like evil, so we will always be able to compare what is happening in the world around us to what is written about in Revelation, so it was not written to give us a timeline, and quite frankly God could have done a better job if that were the goal. There were a number of apocalyptic writings that were around during that time which were not canonized because the unknown authorship, but the people in the 1st century were familiar with, such as with the book of Jude quoting from the book of Enoch, so the book of Enoch can help us to correctly interpret the symbolism in the way that the people in the seven churches would have understood it.

 

[Yahu_]

I am very interested to know The End Time events.

To study End time events, you need to be very familiar with the OT prophecies that also deal with the end times. Revelation can't be studied in isolation. It outlines events while the OT prophets fill in many of the pieces and the OT paganism in conflict against Israel also fills in many of the players in Revelation events.

 

[Jesus_is_Saint]

Some pastors said that the False Prophet and Antichrist, and Great Persecution on Churches have not appeared yet.
So the End Time is not imminent.
Do you agree?