For nearly two thousand years, Christians have debated the meaning of one of the most mysterious chapters in the Bible: Revelation chapter 20. What is the “thousand years”? When is Satan bound? What is the “first resurrection”? And what exactly is the great white throne judgment? Long before denominational traditions, the earliest Christians were already […]
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Partial preterists differ from full preterists in that they do not say everything in the Bible has already been fulfilled. They typically hold that Armageddon was fulfilled in AD 70, but also maintain that the final resurrection and final judgment are still future. This video is the first in a series explaining the partial preterist […]
Understanding Revelation 18:4 and the Prophetic Call to “Flee” Revelation 18:4 commands:“Come out of her, my people, so that you do not share in her sins, nor receive her plagues.”This dramatic line echoes a much older pattern in the Bible—God calling His people to leave the influence of corrupt, doomed systems. Many assume this refers […]
Does Jehovah truly base salvation on organizational affiliation, or does He judge each person by the condition of the heart? In Revelation chapters 2 and 3, Jesus inspected seven congregations that differed sharply in faithfulness. Yet, instead of commanding individuals to get out of those problem congregations, he still held them in his right hand […]
Both internal and external evidence suggest that Revelation may have been written before Jerusalem’s destruction in 70 CE. If so, Babylon the Great—the “great city”—fits most naturally as symbolic of apostate Jerusalem rather than the broad, later concept of “false religion.”
This video examines statements from the book of Revelation itself in order to determine the time of writing, whether before or after the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 C.E.
This video examines historical information that can help us to determine the date of the book of Revelation.
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When Was Revelation Written?
This video examines historical information that can help us to determine the date of the book of Revelation.
And I heard another voice out of heaven say: “Get out of her, my people, if you do not want to share with her in her sins, and if you do not want to receive part of her plagues. (Revelation 18:4) An article on Wikipedia states: “Historicist interpreters commonly used the phrase “Whore of Babylon” to […]
What the Early Church Fathers Taught Determining the date of the book of Revelation proved to be much more difficult than I anticipated. There appear to be valid historical arguments in favor of both an early date, prior to the death of Nero, (68 CE) and a late date, prior to the death of Domitian […]