📹 12. PIO412 2025-11-14 08
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REVELATION AS PROPHECY: MESSAGE, OBEDIENCE, AND INTERPRETIVE APPROACHES
This lecture treats Revelation as prophecy, a label applied at both the beginning and the end of the book (Rev 1; 22). It explains that prophecy is not mainly precise prediction but God’s message that comforts, warns, and calls for obedience. John’s prophetic commission is linked to Ezekiel’s “eating the scroll,” emphasizing internalizing God’s word before proclaiming it. It then compares major interpretive strategies (futurist, historicist, preterist, idealist) and argues for reading Revelation with the first-century context, recurring historical patterns, and final future hope all in view.
This lecture treats Revelation as prophecy, a label applied at both the beginning and the end of the book (Rev 1; 22). It explains that prophecy is not mainly precise prediction but God’s message that comforts, warns, and calls for obedience. John’s prophetic commission is linked to Ezekiel’s “eating the scroll,” emphasizing internalizing God’s word before proclaiming it. It then compares major interpretive strategies (futurist, historicist, preterist, idealist) and argues for reading Revelation with the first-century context, recurring historical patterns, and final future hope all in view.