Revelation!
MF Blume (mfblume@ns.sympatico.ca)
Sat, 01 Feb 1997 14:14:35 -0800
Timothy Litteral wrote:
> I find that the most appropriate manner to begin a
> discourse on the book of the Revelation is with revelations
> from the Lord. I was puzzled after reading the Revelation
> for about the twentieth time and although I recieved
> "something" from it I was certainly "lost" as to the
> greater inplications and in
> passing, and as is my habit, spoke to God as if He were
> right in front of me (since He is) and said "You know Lord,
> you are going to have to explain this to me or at least
> give me something on this so I can handle this book." I
> added that there was, of course, no hurry as I trusted Him
> to know His timing and purpose far better than I.
> I was amazed by the almost immediate answer: "Handle
> it
> (Revelation) like any other book (in the Bible)."
I agree wholeheartedly! Good point. And my opinion, which may be
wrong, has been to take the book, therefore, and also stress
it is not so much endtime as I may have thought.
> One must not read too much into these and must take
> them for what they are, as they are written. For one
> thing,
> these do not exclude any interpretation of the Revelation.
> The first establishes
> an attitude for the further study of the book and the
> second says that once you garner the practical truths from
> the first 8 chapters that the rest, although they are rich
> in many
I must disagree. ALL the book is pertinent, since I feel it refers
to the Church. But I see your belief's point. If one feels the
last part after 8 is not for the Church, then one
would not see the importance of it so much as the first part.
> Let's begin.
Any comments about my assertion that Revelation spirals
around the LITTLE BOOK that is sealed 7 times, and that
the book represents redemption?
Waiting for some feedback about that, what I feel, MAJOR
basis for the interpretation.
--
In Christ,
Mike Blume
mfblume@ns.sympatico.ca
http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/mfblume/mblume.htm