Help needed with answering some questions on The Book of Revelation.?

Question

My question concerns the ultimate good and evil battle of Revelation. It is an epic story, even surpassing the Super Bowl and BCS football games.

I recently gave a sermon on it at my prison ministry. It is not a book I have read thoroughly, but have examined it. My understanding is that it says Jesus will come as a savior, when evil and good are at the point of Armageddon in the Middle East. One inmate corrected me on this. I could not respond with specific Scripture. If someone knows it I would be very grateful to learn it.

Secondly, Revelation has broken down interpretations of the Millennium into three categories. The three interpreations are postmillennialism, premillennialism, and amillennialism. My preference is amillennialism, because first, postmillennialism requires it to come from today's flawed church. Second, premillennialism is too literal. Why is Satan to be bound exactly one thousand years? The second revolt does not seem logical to me. Please explain.

Appreciate the responses. Still hope to hear more. Let the reader state his opinions, the approach does not have to involve theological terms, which may or may not be helpful.

Revelation addresses the biggest issues of our time. Can man rule himself? Why the endless wars? If there is no suprenatural powering coming or having control, what will happen on Earth?

The end of the Cold War really changed things. Since Communism was anti-religious and dictatorial, then it did seem to be an evil force that had to be contained. But now we might ask, who are the evil forces? After our horrible debacle in Iraq, what gives the United States the moral authority to dictate world policy? When Jesus arrives in Revelation 19, it says nothing of him carrying a United States flag?

These are some of the issues Revelation deals with. All responses, perspectives appreciated.

Answer 1

The Book of Revelations was not about far future prophesy. It is about current events at the time of writing...just coded so as not to tip off the Romans. This is why the number of the beast : 616 (Caligula) was changed to 666 (Nero)... The actual conflict is known to History as "The Jewish Wars". You would need to study turn of the century Judeo /christian numberical codes to know what the meanings of those numbers actualy mean!

Answer 2

Major battle of forces of good and evil and then a 1000 years of peace will reign before the next big one......Has it been a 100 years after the last crusades????

Is the second one building in Iraq and the Middle East?

Plus (from Nostra Damus)

and the Yellow horders will sweep down the Euphratus..isn't that the river running thorugh Baghdad which most of the US military already there now? Are the Chinese the yellow ones?

Sorry cant answer your question as I am still ondering mine here.

Answer 3

Your questions are poorly formulated. They are unclear. What was the inmate's correction? You also have superimposed the millennial controversy upon the scripture and interlaced your own bias as in your notion of "flawed church". Back to the drawing board, please. I will note that Revelation is a particular type of writing called apocalyptic. It is highly symbolic and refers to the times in which it was written, a kind of code for believers in dealing with the oppression of pagan Rome. It s also a motif for the future in that the manner of the pagan assault upon the Church is a type, an image, a prefiguring of the eschatological struggle of evil against the good.

Answer 4

You need to read for yourself if you are going out preach THE WORD. It is not your word or anyone Else's word. It is THE WORD. I know it is so hard to find time to school on God's word but just remember this. If it is not HIS WORD you preach and teach then who's word is it? Would you trust some stranger to give you what you seek, when God has already lay-ed it out brick by brick on the foundation of HIS ROCK.

R20:2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
Not " exactly "!

As I read it, the 1000 years is not nearly as important as the time of peace granted and for what reason did this happen? Read Read Read the answers are out there who be me to tell you better than HIM!

Answer 5

Trust not in your own knowledge but in the wisdom of God. A day is as a 1000 years and a 1000 years is as a day. Your looking at these questions as a human with a humans limited understanding there are things we wont know or understand until we get where we are going.

Answer 6

The Book of Revelations is the only book in the bible to be composed entirely in the style of apocalyptic literature. This style of literature used symbolism, and the wording of the book is open to interpretation. I think that this book in particular needs to be taken with a grain of salt because of the wide variety of possibilities when it comes to interpreting what is being said in Revelations.

Answer 7

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God bless!

Answer 8

God bless u