Book of Revelation

Greg Carey defines rhetography as “sensory rhetoric”, a device used in the Book of Revelation to convey one of its many themes, wealth redistribution. I will be examining the Revelation’s image of the woman and the dragon from 12:1-4. While this image’s rhetography does not address the redistribution of wealth once taken out of Revelation’s larger context, it does present an image of social vulnerability. To begin this examination, I recreated a painted image using a traditional understanding…

Section One This writer believes that the Bible is the Word of God, it is divine authority, it is infallible, (John 10:35) and is absolute sufficiency (Galatians 1:8-9) This writer also believes in its unlimited inerrancy and that “it is God breath” (2 Timothy 3:16), and that this prophecy of Ezekiel 40-48 should be understood literally if one is to get the correct understanding, after all, it is a very precise prophecy of a very real future physical temple. Supporting specifics in the…

high value on religion and warns of its destruction when he sees, “what looks like a sea of glass glowing with fire and, standing beside the sea, the ones who have been victorious over the beast and its reputation over the number of its name.” (Revelation 15:2). These beasts have special demonic powers of communication for they can speak of the devil. They pawn themselves off as the Lamb, the Messiah, and as they represent the world’s ecumenical religion they eventually destroy God’s religious…

The Jewish number of perfection, twelve, also the number of tribes of Israel in the Old Testament, is used in abundance in Revelation. In God’s throne room (4:4), John places twenty-four thrones for twenty-four elders, including the twelve disciples and twelve to represent the tribes of Israel. Even the 144,000 male virgins (7:4-8) stem from the number twelve, twelve thousand from each of the twelve tribes of Israel. The woman clothed with the sun (12:1) wears a crown of twelve stars to…

The Apostle John, having been exiled to the Isle of Patmos by Roman Emperor, Domitian, writes in the first chapter of the Book of Revelation that he was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day and was privileged to see a vision of the resurrected Lord Jesus Christ. It is in that vision that we read about Him Who is “like unto the Son of man”, and the majestic description of the Lord in all His glory as He walks among seven golden candlesticks. What does all of that glittery language mean? The…

Throughout my time in this course, I definitely gained a lot of education and insight into the many different religions of the world. Not only did a learn many new facts regarding religions I was not aware of, but I also learned a great many things about Christianity and developed a better understanding of the story and start of the most dominant faith of the world. When it came time to pick a research subject, one celestial event that came to mind that I have definitely heard of, but was…

Throughout The Bible, passages describe the character of The Antichrist using both direct prophetic allusions and types (typology). Within all these passages, certain themes are discovered again and again. The composite picture paints a fairly simple-minded yet predetermined individual, driven by an insatiable desire for self-elevation and praise. Like Lucifer before him, this obsession will cause The Antichrist to proclaim himself as God’s co-equal, if not higher. Lucifer’s proclamation is…

Packer begins his book by emphasizing on knowing God. He points that “knowing about God is crucially important for the living of our lives” and promotes the study of theology (Packer 19). Deeper knowledge of God would lead to fear of the Lord because God is not just the God of mercy, but also the judgment. There may be a spiritual gap in the lives of many believers because they lack Biblical understanding and the full picture of God. Therefore, the church should equip saints with theological…

Blows My Mind If we shall be found guilty of anything on the Day of Judgement, it will not be because we believed too much but that we believed too little about all the things God intended for us to experience in this lifetime and eternity. St. Paul, quoting his predecessor the Prophet Isaiah, wrote “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love Him” (1 Corinthians 2:8) June was a tall redheaded senior of Irish decent and full of life. She…

presence of hell hearkens back to the Old Testament and the concept grows throughout the Bible until the great unveiling of its physical manifestation in the book of Revelation. It is this final understanding of what hell will be that sticks in the minds of many Christians and theologians. In fact, what has been described in the book of Revelation is the basis for the characterization of hell in popular culture and represents imagery that has since persisted through the generations. However,…