Revelation 1:1

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Me:
Praise the Lord everyone!
     I love the Lord and how He arranges things.  I have
been wrestling for the past couple of days about how to
state the differences between my views on the book of
Revelation and those of Rev. Blume.  This paragraph was God
sent.

I entreat you Rev. Blume to let the following statements
stand without rebuttal as they are merely statements that
establish my "mindset" and clearify my position.  God has
been dealing with me on this and this is the manner in
which I would like to proceed.

Rev. Blume: 
> The following, though a condensed version of a study on
my website, is fairly a long post.  It portrays how the
Book of Revelation is MAJORLY a book about man's salvation,
and not so much Endtime events as many feel it is. I feel
the following notes prove that point to be true.  

Me:
I agree that the Book of Revelation is a book of man's
salvation but I also believe that it is a MAJOR book of
endtime prophecy.  Now for the BIG let down.  In my
opinion, this book is for the post rapture Jews (144,000)
to encourage them through this great time of trial. 

Now as to the message of salvation in the book of
Revelation I whole heartedly agree.  What I do not agree
with is that this excludes in any way the fact that this is
a book of prophecy whose fulfillment is at hand.

As an example of how things get confused let me address the
issue of the Temple of God.  Rev. Blume says that if the
Jews build a new Temple that the writers of the Bible
wouldn't call it the "Temple of God."  He then goes on to
say that since this is the term used in a revelation that
it is God who has established this Temple in the Revelation
as "His."  The problem is that he has thrown in that we are
the Temple of the Holy Ghost and therefore this is refering
to us.  Sounds good but let's dig in.

The term "Temple of God" in the day of John refered
specifically and exclusively to the BUILDING that stood on
the Temple mound.  In the Greek, the word "theos" or "god"
was used not only for God but sould mean all of the "lesser
gods" and indeed could be equally applied to Satan.  It is
only when the article "the"
is in front of the term that it definately and definitively
means "God."  Another point, if I dedicate a Temple to I AM
I AM, I have dedicated it to God the Father.  Salvation is
in the name of Jesus but I AM is still a name of God. 
Jesus said that unless we believe that he is "I AM" we
shall die in our sins.  Therefore the Jews can indeed
dedicate a temple to God and not have the slightest idea
that they are totally rejected by that God since they have
still rejected their Messiah.  My point.  It looks like I
am sayin that I don't think that we are the Temples of the
Holy Ghost if I say that there will be a literal temple
theat the Jews will build on the Temple mound and will be
dedicated to Haw-yah Haw-yah/Jehovah (I AM I AM in hebrew)
which will be the temple of God but not approved of God.
In Johns day "the Temple of God" had a WORLD of difference
in meaning than the term "the Temple of the Holy Ghost." 
The next point made was that God must somehow approve of
the Temple for it to wear the title "Temple of God" but
what about when the Temple was used for the worship of
idols?  It was still refered to as the Temple of God.

The point I am trying to make here is that Rev. Blume very
correctly states and sees that the book of Revelation is
about salvation since it is about how God reveals Himself
in the flesh of Jesus Christ and I agree 100%.  I have just
been trying to find a way to say that this doesn't in any
way exclude a FURTHER interpretation of events of the near
future.  You see, when it is all said and done it is more
important that ALL get what Rev. Blume is saying about the
salvation message that is in the Book of Revelation
while understanding the ins and outs of the tribulation is
of nearly no practical value.  No one's salvation hinges
upon understanding of whether the locust are demons from
the pit or are indeed supernatural but physical bugs.
 
What I feel lead to do is to write my assesment of
Revelation but to not enter it into a field of debate since
there is no way to carry on such a debate PUBLICALLY and
preserve the more important aspect of personal salvation as
the untainted and ABSOLUTELY primary message of the Book. 
What I will do is to post this on my site and will freely
discuss this in private with anyone.  You see my dear
friends, this message is the one that God has "hidden" in
the book for nearly two thousand years and means for ALL to
see.  Like I said, there are other things of value in the
Revelation, but salvation is the most important.

I am certain that unity is more important than the marginal
value of the knowlege to be obtained.

Timothy Litteral
472 Grant St.
Marion Ohio 43302
trlitteral@usa.net
http://members.tripod.com/~trlitteral