who wrote "Revelations" and what was he on when he did?

Answer 1

Its John the Theologos(as hes called in orthodox church).He was Jesus favourite.He was an Apostle who was exiled in Patmos and there he lived in a cave that now is called "the cave of Apocalypse".There he wrote the Apocalypse (revelation) in greek language ,he had some visions that helped him do this.
He wasn't on something,he was just in a very high spiritual level

Answer 2

St. John the Evangelist is credited with writing Revelation. (NOTE: It is ''Revelation," not Revelations--check the spelling against your New Testament if you don't believe this).

Probably the true author was one of St. John's disciples. He wasn't on anything.

Revelations sounds weird because it is Apocalyptic literature. If you don't understand that Apocalyptic literature uses fantastically symbolic language to arrive at a revelation, you are lost. Example: Scorpions the size of horses really means: Heretics that infect men with the poison of their heresy.

Also, The Book of Revelation is not a blue-print of the future. The author of Revelation was writing for the First and Second Century Christians as 'resistance literature,' remember, Christians were being thrown to the lions then.

They had their own problems back then, and couldn't care less about what was going to happen in 2006!

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Answer 3

The author of Revelation identifies himself several times as "John" (1:1, 4, 9; 22:8). The author also states that he was in exile on the island of Patmos when he received his first vision (1:9; 4:1–2). As a result the author of Revelation is referred to as John of Patmos. John explicitly addresses Revelation to seven churches of Asia Minor: Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea (1:4, 11). All of these sites are located in what is now Turkey.

Traditional views held that John the Apostle — considered to have written the Gospel and epistles by the same name — was exiled on Patmos in Aegean archipelago during the reign of Emperor Domitian, and that he wrote the Revelation there. Those in favor of a single common author point to similarities between the Gospel and Revelation. For example, both works are soteriological (e.g. referring to Jesus as a lamb) and possess a high christology (e.g. Jesus as "Lord of lords", God's son, etc.). What is most telling, however, is that only in the Gospel of John and in Revelation is Jesus referred to as "the Word of God"

as to what he was on i'd say shrooms

Answer 4

In my St. James version of the bible, this chapter is called, The Revelation of St. John the Divine.

He wasn't on anything, to the best of my knowledge. It does say that he was ill when he received his visions. Consequently, I've come to the conclusion that John was having a fever dream. You should take it as seriously as you take a childish nightmare.

Answer 5

oh man! i now am thrilled i watched something on the history channel about this. it was written by "John", but which john.

http://www.history.com/search.do?searchText=revelation&targetDB=THC_BOOKS_V2

it goes to alll these search results on the history channel


or

http://store.aetv.com/html/product/index.jhtml?id=71913

this was the show i was talking about, it's actually really interesting you should look into it.

Answer 6

john..... i don`t know which john but i`m sure that it wasn`t john cena.

Answer 7

john.
must have been on peyote