Is the Book of Revelations still relevant today?

Question

Its a beautiful, mysterious, sometimes frightening book. And it contains wisdom and glimpses of the nature of God that are true in any age.

But wasn't it written for the first century? Didn't its author(s) believe that Jesus Christ would return in their lifetime? Isn't it basically written in a coded manner for its own time?

So does the book still hold any truth today in terms of giving us any clues about the future of humanity?

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. ANY GUESSESS ON WHO THE ANTICHRIST IS; IS ONLY A FOOLS GAME!!! After the rapture the antichrist shall reveal himself and only the newly converts of Jesus after the rapture shall decipher the name of the beast which is 666, SO IN ESSENCE ANY 666 GUESSING GAMES RIGHT NOW BEFORE THE RAPTURE IS ALSO A FOOLS GAME!!! The Antichrist will be a powerful world leader well versed in all arts. The antichrist myriads of talents are the following:
• Oratorical genius (Great speaking ability that entrances the human ears i.e. Hitler)
• Intellectual Genius
• Commercial Genius
• Military Genius
• Administrative genius
• Religious genius

Once this 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. THE 2 WITNESSES SHALL BREATH FIRE FROM THEIR MOUTHS TO ANYONE WHO ATTEMPTS TO HARM THEM; THIS IS THE WAY THEY MUST DIE. 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 ( Any Jew or Gentile not written in the book of life are condemned to hell) 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

Revelations is most definitely pertinent today! It is all about what will be. It may have been an inspiration for Christians of 1st century AD and thereafter, but it has not yet been fulfilled, as it contains prophecy that correlates with much of the Old Testament prophecy including Ezekiel, Daniel and Jeremiah. I do not believe that Emperor Domitian was the reincarnation of anyone including Nero. Nero's name may equal the 666 in the Hebrew letter/number code, but Nero was not the Anti-Christ. Anti-Christ has not yet appeared, but I believe the time is soon that Anti-Christ will appear. I think we are the generation to see the prophecy in Revelation and other prophetic books come to pass and be complete, hence - Judgment day is upon the world soon.

Answer 3

The Book of Revelation was written, in 2 parts.

1. Rev 1 through chapter 11

2 Rev 12 through chapter 22

They both tell the same story but 12 through 22 tell the story in more detail and in chronological order.
That right chapters 12 through 22 are in the order that they happened, as is 1 throught 11, but with more detail.

We are right now in Rev 8:7 and 16:19 they both are the same story.

Answer 4

That is like saying the entire Book of Isaiah was written only for the Israelites around the reign of Hezekiah. Though some of the book may have applied more to certain people than others, prophecies are only revealed when they come true.

Like with the prophecies about Jesus even spoken by Him. None of His disciples understood the concept of His death, resurrection, and ascension until these things had passed.

Answer 5

It is still relevant. John who wrote the book saw a glimpse of flying crafts( as we know to be airplanes ), and he saw "charriots" that move as he knew it, with great speed. aka cars!! Everything he saw is a metaphor for something else. He talks about a 10 headed beast. That represents 10 nations in todays world. He wrote about the 4 horsemen of the Apocalypse, and they represent 4 belief structures. Communism, etc.. They each were a specific color, and today those colors represent those beliefs. Like there is a color that represents communism. I can't remember everything I have been told about the translations, but for more info on that go to www.endtime.com

Answer 6

It depends on one’s eschatology.

For example, Preterists believe that the events in book of Revelation were fulfilled within the lifetime of the book’s original 1st-century audience and that there is nothing in it about our future. This view places its date of writing prior to AD 70 and its soon-fulfillment in AD 70 in conjunction with Christ’s divine visitation, coming, and return in the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple.

Dispensational premillennialism, known for the words of prophecy to be interpreted literally, maintain a “futuristic interpretation” of Revelation.

Historic premillennialists and Amillennialist “combine the futurist and preterist views,” stipulating that it had a “message for John’s own day and that it also represents the consummation of redemptive history.

Answer 7

The first white horse rider has not come on the scene yet !!! The second white horse rider with all the crowns on His head is the one we are all waiting for to clean up the sinister evil in this world and make this world a better place for a thousand years !!!

Answer 8

More Than Ever Before. At Revelation 12:7-10 we read : “And war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels battled with the dragon, and the dragon and its angels battled but it did not prevail, neither was a place found for them any longer in heaven. So down the great dragon was hurled, the original serpent, the one called Devil and Satan, who is misleading the entire inhabited earth; he was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him.
Anytime anything Bad is heading to earth l am weary of..when Satan & his Demons are confined to the Earth...you bet I would be Worried. There you have your answer.

Answer 9

It was written by the apostle John, and all books in the bible are relevant; the bible is the word of God, and the word of God is always relevant.

Answer 10

It's quite relevant and it's only frightening for those nonbelievers. If you really have a pastor or someone who can tell you what all the symbolic things mean, it's quite facinating too!

Answer 11

yes, it is a story of the past - and the roman occupation in the 1st century