VERSE BY VERSE STUDY THROUGH THE BOOK OF REVELATION

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The importance of the book is found Revelation 1:3

Revelation 1:3 ESV

Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near.

There, we find three beatitudes of the book:

1. Blessed is he that readeth

2. and they that hear the words of this prophecy

3.and keep those things which are written therein.”

MEANING OF THE WORD REVELATION

Revelation

Greek: apokalypsis

disclosure, appearing, coming, lighten, manifestation, be revealed, revelation, an unveiling. This Book is about the Lord Jesus Christ—He is unveiled in this Book

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THE ADDRESSEES OF THE BOOK

Revelation is addressed to seven of the local churches of the Roman province of Asia.

After the death of Paul in A.D. 67, John, led by the Holy Spirit, moved his headquarters to Ephesus, the capital city of Asia, and assumed apostolic supervision of the Paul-planted churches of Proconsular Asia, which supervision continued until John’s death around 30 years later.

John addressed Revelation to seven of these churches under his supervision.

Use of symbols

1. Numbers

• fractions: incompleteness

• four: the earth

• five: punishment

• six: evil

• seven: God or heaven

• ten and twelve: completeness[1]

Kendell H. Easley, Revelation, vol. 12, Holman New Testament Commentary (Nashville, TN: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 1998)

2. Colors

• white: purity

• emerald green: life

• pale green: death

• gold: value

• red: sin

• black: famine

Understanding Revelation–Volume 1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ! (Revelation 1:1–3)

In the Book of Revelation we find:

A warning to the churches about the dangers of sin and disobedience;

it reveals the power of God that will overcome Satan;

it magnifies the majesty of the Lord Jesus and heaven’s worship around His throne;

it reveals the end of human history;

the rise of the Antichrist,

the false peace in the world,

the coming tribulation,

the Second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, His 1000 year reign on earth,

the doom of Satan, the judgment on mankind,

the eternal joys of the new heaven and the new earth,

the eternal agony and separation from God in hell for those who reject the Lord!

From Genesis to Revelation

What is begun in Genesis finds its concluding and consummating climax in the Revelation.

• Genesis provides the story of the creation of the heavens and the earth; Revelation is the story of the creation of the new heaven and the new earth.

• In Genesis, we read of man losing his first paradise. In Revelation, we read of how paradise is returned to the fallen man.

• Genesis gives the story of the tree of life and how man was driven from it. In Revelation, it is the story of the tree of life and how man is invited back to it.

• In Genesis, we are introduced to Satan for the first time; in Revelation, he appears for the last time in his ultimate and certain doom.

• In Genesis is the story of the entrance of sin into the world—with the sorrow and toil and heartache it brings. The book of Revelation describes the great announcement that “there shall be no more sorrow nor crying; neither shall there be any more pain” (Revelation 21:4).

• In Genesis is the story of the first death, the first mound of earth heaped up, over which the first parents wept and cried. In Revelation, there is the glorious announcement that says “that there shall be no more death”(Revelation 21:4).

• Genesis tells of the story of man’s vast disobedience and of the building of the tower of Babel. Revelation is the story of the destruction of Babylon, and the world system that it represents.

• In Genesis, there is the story of the creation of the first man, Adam, and his dominion over all things that God made. In Revelation, there is the story and the revelation of the second Adam, and His dominion over things in heaven and in earth.

• In Genesis is the story of the first woman, the first bride, and how she was made a help mate for the man. In Revelation, there is the story of the bride, the church of Christ, and how she shall share with Him in His great and exalted eternal glory.

Understanding Revelation–Volume 1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ! (Revelation 1:1–3)

Satan hates the Book of Revelation—as he also hates the book of Genesis.

◦ In Genesis his rebellion is declared—in Revelation his ruin is declared.

◦ In Genesis we note the dawn of Satan—in Revelation we will learn about the doom of Satan.

◦ In Genesis we see the entrance of sin—in Revelation we will learn about the end of sin.

◦ In Genesis sin starts—in Revelation sin stops. ◦ In Genesis the tree of life was given up—in Revelation we learn that the tree of life is gained back.

◦ In Genesis we see that death makes its entrance—in Revelation death will make its exit.

THE AUTHOR

the apostle John

• The disciple whom Jesus loved (John 21:20, 24)

• One of the two sons of Zebedee, the brother of James

• Along with James, nicknamed the Sons of Thunder (Mark 3:17)

Formerly a follower of John the Baptist

• Wrote the Gospel of John and the Epistles of John; wrote the Book of Revelation in his old age

• Known as the Apostle of Love, since the theme of love is so prominent in his writings

(6) the only apostle yet alive when Revelation was written; and (7) the author of four other New Testament books.

HOW OLD WAS JOHN WHEN HE BECAME A CHRISTIAN?

HOW OLD WAS JOHN WHEN HE WROTE THE BOOK OF REVELATION?

WHERE WAS JOHN WHEN HE WROTE THE BOOK OF REVELATION?

THE ISLAND OF PATMOS

HOW DID HE GET THERE ?

EMPEROE DOMICIAN

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John wrote from the barren and rocky island of Patmos, located in the Aegean Sea around seventy-five miles southwest of Ephesus. The Roman emperor Domitian, during a time of imperial persecution of the church, had banished John to this island because of his faithfulness to God’s word revealed through the testimony of Jesus Christ (John had refused to worship the emperor, who claimed deity), 1:9.

Revelation 1:9 ESV

I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and the kingdom and the patient endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.