There is a very good reason why the vav consecutive is called the vav consecutive. It has been understood from ancient times that the Hebrew vav prefix is a conjunction used for sequential/series denotations. "ויאמר אלהים יהי אור" (And God said, Let there be light) is the first use of the vav consecutive in the Hebrew Bible after 'And darkness was upon the face of the deep. It is continuously and consistently used for ordering and sequence. It may be translated in difference ways into English such as 'Then, next, and', but in Hebrew, as well as the Hebraized use of the conjunction και in the LXX and NT, one thing that is certain is that any time the vav consecutive and the kai are used first in a sentence in the Bible, whether Old or New Testaments, they always denote order and consecutive action.
Being that is the case, it is certain without doubt that Revelation is written in sequential order of events. There is no hermeneutical way out of it. There is not even one case in the Bible where a vav consecutive or a και as the beginning of a sentence does not denote sequence of order and action. It consistently denotes order and sequence of action in every single case without exception.
If any one can show even one case where the vav consecutive or premiere kai denotes anything but sequence, I'll be interested in how you arrive at that understanding.
The book of Revelation is orderly and sequential just as much so as Genesis, and it can be demonstrated by noting the usage of kai throughout just as the sequence of Genesis can be demonstrated by noting the usage of vav consecutive prefix and kai in the LXX. Therefore, if you hear someone teach that Revelation is non-sequential in ordering of actual events, then you can know that the teacher has missed the mark on two counts. It's grammatically bad reading and bad hermeneutics. What we see in Revelation is the spiritual sequence of events from the beginning of Christ's coming in the clouds of heaven around AD 70 all the way to the ending of the heavens and the earth and even into the age beyond in new heavens and new earth. And it is a linear sequence of events, not a non-linear sequence of events. There is no way to correctly reorder the sequence of events in Revelation. For example, chapter 6 by no means comes after chapter 18 in event sequence. The actual grammatical structure of Revelation does not lend itself to such a reading.
Being that is the case, it is certain without doubt that Revelation is written in sequential order of events. There is no hermeneutical way out of it. There is not even one case in the Bible where a vav consecutive or a και as the beginning of a sentence does not denote sequence of order and action. It consistently denotes order and sequence of action in every single case without exception.
If any one can show even one case where the vav consecutive or premiere kai denotes anything but sequence, I'll be interested in how you arrive at that understanding.
The book of Revelation is orderly and sequential just as much so as Genesis, and it can be demonstrated by noting the usage of kai throughout just as the sequence of Genesis can be demonstrated by noting the usage of vav consecutive prefix and kai in the LXX. Therefore, if you hear someone teach that Revelation is non-sequential in ordering of actual events, then you can know that the teacher has missed the mark on two counts. It's grammatically bad reading and bad hermeneutics. What we see in Revelation is the spiritual sequence of events from the beginning of Christ's coming in the clouds of heaven around AD 70 all the way to the ending of the heavens and the earth and even into the age beyond in new heavens and new earth. And it is a linear sequence of events, not a non-linear sequence of events. There is no way to correctly reorder the sequence of events in Revelation. For example, chapter 6 by no means comes after chapter 18 in event sequence. The actual grammatical structure of Revelation does not lend itself to such a reading.
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