The Revelation of Jesus Christ

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The Revelation of Jesus Christ was written by the Apostle John while he was imprisoned at the penal colony on the island of Patmos.  Most scholars assign a date of 95 AD to its writing, but the formal writing was done upon his release from Patmos at the death of the emperor Domitian in 96 AD.   John's writing of the Revelation is se3ldom questioned nor is there any significant documentation of such.  The title of the book is accepted as The Revelation, The Revelation of Jesus Christ or the Apocalypse.  It is noted the Greek word for revelation is apokálypsis or apocalypse. 

The purpose of the Revelation of Jesus Christ is to document the things which were, the things which are and the things which will be (Rev 1:19).  He reveals specific information on a view into the throne room of God (Chap 1), the history of the church (Chap 2-3) and the events of the end times *eschatology) including the status of the Church at the end, the rapture of the saints, the Millennial Period, the Two Beasts, the Antichrist, God's Final Judgement of Humankind, the final assignment of the righteous and the unrighteous and the establishment of the New Heaven and the New Earth.

John was speaking to all of the entire Church.  In verses 1-2 of Chapter 1, John states it this way, " 1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show to His bond-servants, the things which must soon take place; and He sent and communicated it by His angel to His bond-servant John, 2 who testified to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw."    

The Revelation of Jesus Christ is the core and the embodiment of the entire doctrine of Christian eschatology, the study of the end times.  While greater detail on several components of eschatology is documented in other places like the Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles and the letters of the New Testament, the systemic doctrine for how the entire eschatological system fits together is told here.  John reveals God's process for the entire Church Age from the Resurrection of Christ through the Second Coming of Jesus for the Rapture of the Saints and the Final Judgement of the world.  He shows the extraction of all believers before the initiation of judgement upon the lost who remain.  He demonstrates His unconditional mercy to the lost world by sending 144,000 Jewish evangelists to explain salvation to all who remain.  He shows an enumerable group of people, all who respond, as rescued from the Tribulation Period taking place on Earth.    

The Book of Revelation has more volumes of explanation and evaluation than the combination of any other dozen of Bible Books.  While it is true that the Revelation is written in a different style than most of the other books of the Bible, this study will not concentrate on the style and miss the content.  So, rather than define apocalyptic literature or numerological techniques of presentation, this study will teach content and application and touch on the Apostle John's writing style and reasoning as asides.  The schedule for the presentations are immediately below, followed by the list of studies which including embedded links to take you directly to the study for that date.  The little icon below and to the right allows question or comments which go immediately to the author's email account for responses. 

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