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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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This lecture changed my thoughts about the because I believed it was a book about how the world would be destroyed and the destruction of evil doers. Never understood the book a letter or the forthtelling of John’s vision.
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Methodology of how John need to communicate to the 1st century church.
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It’s important to understand that Revelation is from God, therefore it is not a lot of mumbo jumbo but is meant to be revealing.
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It is important to understand the type of book it is because it reveals the message the author was trying to convey. My understanding has changed by looking at it from the original readers view and seeing what message was being proclaimed and how it would be important to the original audience.
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It is important to realize that the book of Revelation is apocalyptic , visionary, prophetic and written as a letter to Christians under persecution. We today cannot understand what John described when he wrote of the beast with seven heads, when told of visions regarding the woman and the dragon, prophesied, I believe, that Christians win in the end and that’s really all I need to know. It doesn’t really matter which part is foretelling and which part is forthtelling because it has a wonderful ending and I’m on the right side. I’ll bet the early church was very happy to receive the letter.