This is the introcuctory chapter from my book Understanding Revelation . For a long time, I considered Revelation to be practically an indecipherable book that…
Read moreRevelation 1:20 says: As for the mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lampstands: the seven stars are the angels of…
Read moreIn Revelation 2, when we come to Pergamum, we encounter the One who has “the sharp two-edged sword” acknowledging that the Christians there live where “Satan’s…
Read moreIn Revelation 2:17, For the overcomers in Pergamum, God promised hidden manna, and “a white stone, and on the white stone is written a new name that no one kno…
Read moreMany Christians associate Revelation with the figure of the Antichrist, but in fact, the Antichrist is not mentioned in Revelation at all. For example, a prom…
Read moreThe Book of Revelation itself provides a consistent interpretive framework for itself, which, with some help of knowing history and trust in the validity of bi…
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