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Alistair Huong and Norman McNulty: The Book Of Revelation

Alistair Huong

An Overview on The Book of Revelation

Revelation Chapter 1

Ephesus

Smyrna and Pergamos

Thyatira

Norman McNulty

Sardis And Philadelphia

Laodicea

The Book With Seven Seals

The Seven Seals

The 144,000

The Seven Trumpets, Part 1

The Seven Trumpets, Part 2

Revelation 10: The Second Advent Movement

Revelation 11:1-14 The Two Witnesses and The French Revolution

The Seven Trumpets, The Woman And The Dragon

Revelation 12: The Accuser of The Brethren

Revelation 13: Big Picture of The Beast

Revelation 13: The Image To The Beast

Revelation 14:1-5: The Characteristics of the 144,000

Revelation 14:6-8: The 1st and 2nd Angels’ Messages

The Third Angel’s Message

Revelation 14 and 15: The Harvest

Revelation 15: The Close of Probation and the Fit Man

Revelation 16: 1-13: The Seven Last Plagues

Revelation 16: 16-21: Armageddon in Jacob’s Time of Trouble

Revelation 17:1-7: The Judgment of the Great Whore

Revelation 17: The Seven Heads

Revelation 17:8-18: The 7 Heads: 7 Popes or 7 Kingdoms?

Revelation 18:1-4: The Loud Cry

Revelation 18:4-24: The Fall Of Babylon

Revelation 19&20 - Marriage of the Lamb and the 1000 Years

Revelation Final Class: Our Prophetic Identity and Mission

Well, let's let's bow our heads for prayer and we'll get started Father in heaven, we're so thankful that you have woken us up Although it is a brisk morning.

We're thankful that you have warmed us with Your presence here in burden hall I pray that as we open your word, particularly the book of Revelation, that you will give us understanding and that you'll give us clarity so that we may see Jesus clearer.

We gave you a sort of a teaser, an overview, different perspectives or different ways you can look through the book of Revelation.

But today I want to focus first of all, and we may get to other things, I want to focus on John's prescribed method or his hermeneutic if you will.

All it means is how you understand something, how you go about studying something.

That's sort of the working definition, it's not the technical theological 1.

But in the first few verses of Revelation, it sets the stage by telling us the perspective by which we can thoroughly and clearly understand this book.

It is a treat, I guess, in a way, because not all books in the Bible does that.

Sometimes I wish the Apostle Paul would give us a little more assistance in understanding what he's writing.

So the first 3 verses, I like to call it Revelations Hermeneutic, or how we can understand the book of Revelation.

The revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave unto him to show unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John, who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.

Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein, for the time is at hand.

And I want to spend a few moments here because it lays a foundation on the rest of the book, the rest of this study.

But in the title of my Bible, it says of Saint John the Divine.

The proper title should be Revelation of Jesus.

And we talked about this last time and later on in this chapter we're going to discuss 1 of the ways in which we can see Jesus revealed.

Okay, but skipping ahead here, it says the Revelation of Jesus Christ which who gave unto Him?

So this book originated from God Himself, which means it comes from a divine origin.

But very specifically, the book of Revelation expresses it in no uncertain terms.

And it continues, God gave it unto him, which is Jesus, to show unto his servants things which must when Shortly come to pass.

Keep that in mind, we're coming back to that.

And he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John.

So you see the the process by which the revelation is given.

It comes from God the Father, it goes to Jesus, it goes to an angel, and then it goes to John, and then it comes to us.

And there's something unique that happens between the angel and the John stage.

God simply gives it to Christ, Christ to his angel, and then the angel doesn't just give it to John.

The angel does something with the message.

That's not the word, at least in the King James, that's not the word it uses.

That word is very important because it helps us understand Revelation.

The word signifies, I looked it up in Webster's 1828 dictionary, it says to make known something either by signs or words.

So in other words, the angel signifying something translated the direct meaning into signs or symbols.

So the book of Revelation from the very onset it explains itself as being interpreted through signs and symbols.

If you Remember William Miller, he is a prominent figure in our church's history.

He had a principle of prophetic interpretation or biblical interpretation.

It is you take everything literal as much as possible unless there is an obvious need to take something symbolically.

I think that is a very practical, very logical way of reasoning.

But the book of Revelation from the onset, it says this book was written using signs.

So from its very beginning, it helps us understand it's not just literal.

And there are signs that contain in this book.

But you know the difficulty is not to take everything symbolically.

But anyway that's something we'll have to take on a case-by-case basis.

But from the very beginning, it warns us, Look, this thing is written in signs.

It says, John, who bare record of the word of God, and of the what?

Again, this is another key to understanding Revelation.

In fact, let's skip down to chapter 1 and verse...

We'll have someone read that 1 verse for us.

Can you read that from the beginning 1 more time?

Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter." A very important clue to how to understand Revelation is that John simply wrote down what he was shown.

And John simply writes down what he sees.

So there's a lot of visual effects in the book of Revelation.

There are sequences, things that come, 1 came after the other.

He came up in this place, in the seas, in the land, and there are a lot of numbers.

He had 10 heads, 7 horns, or 7 heads, excuse me, 10 heads, or 7 heads, 10 horns.

So in order for us to really understand Revelation, we need to have very vivid imaginations to see what John is describing.

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Alistair Huong and Norman McNulty: The Book Of Revelation

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