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Why is it so important to understand what type of book Revelation is? How has what you’ve learned in this lecture changed your understanding of the book of Revelation?
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Why is it so important to understand what type of book Revelation is? The book us based on vision and prophesy of John, and although this can be a foretelling it was also a foretelling too.
How has what you’ve learned in this lecture changed your understanding of the book of Revelation? Yes as the lecture has opened up more if a discussion and wanting to more is more.
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To understand the book of Revelation is to get better way of understanding the book itself.
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Understanding the type of book and the historical context gives the reader greater insight into what the author is trying to say. It is much more difficult to related the book to modern situations. One must see it in the light of first century Christians under the iron thumb of Rome.
I hope to be able to look at the readings as not just a prediction as I have always thought of them, but as a look at the situation in the time frame in which it was written. -
Knowing what type of book Revelation is will help guide how to interpret what’s there. It is a letter from John to real people living under the rule of the Roman Empire, people who were meant to act on the message they received. There is also some foretelling prophecy about events in the future. It’s helpful to see that descriptions of John’s vision are meant to reveal the true nature of reality, as it gives a new perspective for understanding what they could mean.
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It gives a better handle on the intention of what John was doing by writing this letter, this prophecy of forthtelling, this apocalypse vision of revelation.
It solidifies my understanding that this is a book revealing more of Jesus to us