Book of Revelation
The Book of Revelation is the last profound book in the New Testament. It conveys the significant purpose of Christianity by describing God’s plan for the world and his final judgment of the people by reinforcing the importance of faith and the concept of Christianity as a whole. Accordingly, this book is the written record—not of wild dreams—but the dramatic God-sent visions given to one of God’s servants, John the Apostle. This book was written by John in 95 or 96 A.D. at the reign of the Roman Emperor, Domitian, and is the revelation of Jesus Christ illustrating the events that occur before and during the second coming of Christ. By using complex symbolism and apocalyptic metaphor, the meaning of Revelation is defined: what is, what has been, and what is to come, is the central focus of the content. When correlating the total concept of the Book of Revelation, the tremendous impact of the Word of God cannot be overlooked. The climax of God’s plan started back in Genesis “In the beginning . . .” (New American Standard Bible, Gen.1:1), which lead up to Revelations. As Gareth Leaney stated, “God’s plan of redemption is not judgment, but the eternity beyond it.”
A man named John wrote the book of Revelation on an island in the Argean Sea named Patmos. Domitian banished John to the isle of Patmos because of the Christian stand. This
person is believed to be John the Apostle of Jesus Christ, author of the fourth gospel. There has been some confusion over this, due to the fact that John does not designate himself as an apostle and, when mentioning them, he does not include himself in that group. Rather he claims to be a prophet and his book to be a prophecy. However, the early churches as well as early theologians claim the author as John the Apostle. In 480 A.D., five passages written by Iraneous mentioned John specifically as the author, and in the middle of the 2nd century Justin Marty quoted verbatim "attributing the authorship to John, an apostle of
A man named John wrote the book of Revelation on an island in the Argean Sea named Patmos. Domitian banished John to the isle of Patmos because of the Christian stand. This
person is believed to be John the Apostle of Jesus Christ, author of the fourth gospel. There has been some confusion over this, due to the fact that John does not designate himself as an apostle and, when mentioning them, he does not include himself in that group. Rather he claims to be a prophet and his book to be a prophecy. However, the early churches as well as early theologians claim the author as John the Apostle. In 480 A.D., five passages written by Iraneous mentioned John specifically as the author, and in the middle of the 2nd century Justin Marty quoted verbatim "attributing the authorship to John, an apostle of
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