Is the Book of Revelations talking about the past or the future?

Question

i always wondered this

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Answer 1

Yes well not every prophecy is in Revelations. First the Rapture shall occur and the true followers of Jesus shall meet in heaven too receive their crowns for their Christian services. The Antichrist aka abomination that makes desolation shall forge a 7 year tribulation shall commence once Israel signs a peace treaty for 7 years. Once that happens the judgments shall commence. The first is the seven seals of the scroll opened by Jesus. By order of the treaty of the Antichrist the Jews are now allowed to build their Temple. During this time because God has such bountiful grace and mercy he dispatched 144,000 Jewish evangelicals out of the 12 tribes of Israel 12,000 each Tribe to proclaim the gospel AND MANY shall be saved. God shall also dispatch the 2 witnesses to preach their testimony for 1,260 or 3 ½ years, these witnesses are indestructible during this time they will command fire to come from the sky as well as shut the sky to inhibit rain from falling and execute as many plagues and torments as often as they wish. Some speculate that it shall be Moses and Elijah, we know it shall be Elijah as written in Malachi 4:5. Then the seven trumpets of Judgment shall commence which are worse than the 7 seal of the scroll. During this time while Israel is in their false sense of Security Rogue nations that harbor hatred towards them shall do a sneak attack on them this is prophesied in Ezekiel Chapter 38 and 39 know as the Prophecy Against Gog. It is when Russia, Ethiopia, Libya, Iran, Turkey and other nations try to wipe Israel of the map but to no avail for God obliterates them in his wrath and hot anger. During the first half of tribulations the false world religion controls everything even the Beast of the Sea. Also some of the Jews heeding the warning of the Jewish Evangelicals shall be suspicious and disillusioned by the antichrist (world Leader) and flee to the ancient Ruins of Petra/Bozrah there they shall be supernaturally protected by God. While the raptured followers of Jesus are given their crown they are pestered by the Devil accusing them they are not worthy to be saved but his accusation (Satan) are in Vain. God having enough of his dribble and comments from the peanut gallery expels Satan out of the atmospheric heaven. When the midpoint of the tribulation comes about the antichrist shall slay the two witnesses and the whole world is so morally bankrupt that they shall rejoice over their death and even give gifts to each other. After 3 ½ days they shall come back to life and a voice from heaven shall say “come” and a cloud ascend them both to heaven while their enemies look below a tenth of Jerusalem is destroyed by an earthquake and 7,000 people are killed via earthquake worldwide. Then the antichrist shall sit himself on the throne and proclaim himself to be “god” and demand worship. The beast out of the Earth (False Prophet) shall make sure everyone accepts the mark of the beast failure to accept it means you cannot buy or sell and you shall be beheaded. This will separate the true Christians from the pseudo-Christians. During this time God in his mercy shall do something that has never been done before!!! He shall dispatch 3 powerful angels in the guise of humans to preach the everlasting gospel. They will adamantly stress and warn that those who accept the mark of the beast shall partake the winepress of God’s wrath. This means accepting the mark of the beast is THE UNFORGIVABLE SIN!!!!!!!! Once the Antichrist sit on the throne and declares himself as “god” then the wrath of Sovereign Lord will reach its zenith and his boiling anger shall commence the 7 bowls of his wrath which is worse than the seven seals of the scroll and the 7 trumpets of Judgment. Babylon shall be rebuilt and all commerce shall be transferred to there as in total opposition of God. Babylon is finally destroyed. The heavens rejoiced at its destruction. Jerusalem shall be taken over and then the nations meet at the valley of Megiddo or known as Armageddon. After Israel recognized its national sin the rejection of Jesus they pray for 2 days and the Lord hears their prayers and Jesus comes back by landing his feat on the Mount of Olives Zechariah 14:3-5. Jesus shall defeat the antichrist and his forces by uttering the word of God and for 1,600 stadias or 2,000 miles up to the horses’ bridle the whole valley of Megiddo shall be a sea of blood thus written in the book of Isaiah 63:1-6. Everyone but the antichrist and false prophet have been turned into fodder by Jesus. The antichrist and false prophet are thrown into the lake of fire tormented day and night. Blessed are those who make it to 1,335 days what does that mean Daniel 12:11-12. It means that a saved Christian or Jew that accepted Jesus as their savior are invited to the millennium. From the period of the abomination that makes (midpoint of the tribulations) desolation of the temple to the end of that shall be 1,260 days plus 45 days to purify the Earth from the grievous damage and filth and plus 75 days to judge the nations treatment towards Israel the parting of the sheep and goats the sheep are allowed to enter the millennial kingdom governed by Jesus that equals 1,335 days!! This is the kingdom that was in Daniel 2:44-45 that is the millennial kingdom!! At this time Satan shall be bound in the bottomless pit so he may not tempt for the next 1,000 years. Creation shall be radically changed as the Adamic curse shall be partially lifted there shall be new healthy bodies at that time disease is no more. People can live for 1,000 years!! Nature shall be transformed and wild animals shall be tamed and we all shall be pretty much vegetarians as written in the book Isaiah 65:17-25 and this:

Isaiah 11:

5 Righteousness will be his belt
and faithfulness the sash around his waist.
6 The wolf will live with the lamb,
the leopard will lie down with the goat,
the calf and the lion and the yearling [a] together;
and a little child will lead them.
7 The cow will feed with the bear,
their young will lie down together,
and the lion will eat straw like the ox.
8 The infant will play near the hole of the cobra,
and the young child put his hand into the viper's nest.
9 They will neither harm nor destroy
on all my holy mountain,
for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD
as the waters cover the sea.


However great that is people are still going to rebel as written in Isaiah 65:20!! Even under utopia conditions via Jesus people shall go against Jesus. Satan shall be released and the rebels will be destroyed by fire from God. Those who are at the Great white Throne are not saved and are not written in The book of life they are thrown in the lake of fire forever and the ones who are saved are in bliss with God and Jesus in the new heaven and Earth. Praise the Lord Jesus!!

Answer 2

If you believe that the Church took the place of the Jews, then you believe it is talking about the Past & Present. You believe that it is our job to create the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth.

If you believe that the Jews will be restored to their place as God's main people that He works with, then the Revelation is in the future.

In this scenario: Romans 11 teaches that for a time the Gentiles (non-Jews) temporarily replace the Jews as the main people God works with. BUT AT THE SAME TIME: the promises explicity to the Jewish Race in Genesis 12 & 15 are eternal.

I believe in the second understanding. I am waiting for a physical return of Jesus Christ. I am waiting for the clear and undeniable fulfillment of the exact prophecies of suffering, judgment, and a New Heaven & New Earth.

I just have come to accept the Bible as Absolute Truth. I accept it in it's most literal sense (grammatical/historical/contextual)

Was this as clear as mud?

Answer 3

It is about the destruction of the last part of the Statue of Daniel 2. The fourth world empire. Rome changed into a religious entity after her imperial power was depleated, this is mainly covered in the seals of Revelation. The Trumpets continue and mainly cover the continued destruction of the relgious entity, we are now in the 6th vial, and the last gasp attempt of the dragon, the beast and the false prophet are drawing the nations for the battle of the Day of Yahweh.
www.1335.com has an online tape library which will explain many of these facts. Beware of dispensational Futurism and Preterism, as they are products of 'the beast' system.

Answer 4

When it was written it was talking about current events, now past.

It was a letter written by John of Patmos (exiled to the island of Patmos) to the 7 churches of Asia speaking of the exile and persecution they were experiencing. Apocalyptic (which means devastion, troubles and exaggerated predictions, not the end of the world) literature was popular in the day and it was an allegorical statement of good (christians and jews) truimphing over evil (the roman empire).

And the book is called Revelation not Revelations (there was only one revelation, not muliple)

Answer 5

stable question chum. The seven seals conceal (from the factor in time wherein the e book grew to alter into written) the previous, the present and the destiny. "Rev a million:19 Write for this reason the subjects which thou sawest, and the subjects that are, and the subjects which shall come to bypass hereafter; " The symbolism in this e book is deep and confusing and can desire to't be deciphered with out receiving revelation from God. I certainly have been examining and asking God to show the reality of it even with the undeniable fact that the better I understand approximately it the deeper it gets. there's a key to the sequence of activities yet this very lots demands one to waiting to shun each and every of the present ideals approximately that's which skill that are consistent with recommendations's eye and to rightly divide the interest of actuality for one's self. "2Ti 2:15 come across advice on the thank you to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth to no longer be ashamed, rightly dividing the interest of actuality. " The above verse applies to all of God's observe yet lots better so whilst examining the e book of Revelation.

Answer 6

the first 3-4 chapters deals with the churches that exsisted
at the time of John whom was age 90 when he wrote it.

the rest of the chapters cover the future after john was dead
up to the final day of mankind.

Answer 7

Past, though most people, especially churches, interperate it as future, there are I think 3 ways to interperate that book.
I take it as literal, especially because the Bible, in other books, mentions, it will be

"within your life time"
"very soon"
"soon"
"soon"
"within your life times"

http://www.tentmaker.org/Dew/Dew6/D6-TheComingOfChristIn70AD.html
This is a good site for that, they claim it is past, and to get their point of veiw read that website - to get the futuristic veiwpoint, go to a church and ask the pastor.

Hope it helped,
feel free to email me,

Jessica

This should help with the 3 interpretations
http://home.att.net/~thestoneofhelp/three-interpretations.htm

Answer 8

It is the revelation of the end times - the future.
As Old Testament prophets such as Isaiah and Jeremiah told of the future coming of Jesus, this last book of the Bible tells of the last days. Some things are being fulfilled right now or have been fulfilled.
But the tribulation, the Anti-Christ, etc. have not happened yet.

Answer 9

I think if it is talking about the past, it would be a lot more moral. God would not interfere with the future, but would demand that we make a difference ourselves, and do the work required to make this world a better place. A moral God, would make us do the work, to earn our future. The future is not fixed, the world will change, if we make it change.

Answer 10

Revelations1:8 I Am Alpha & Omega, the beginning & the ending, saith the Lord, who Is & who was & who is to come, the Almighty.

Answer 11

Well, first of all, it is called Revelation, not Revelation(S), it's not plural, it's only one.

Most of it is talking to the future. Some mentions the first centurey. For example, when Jesus talks to the 7 congregations.