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Revelation: A Book of Comfort

In the last century and the beginning of this century, the idea of Jesus rapturing his church before a great time of tribulation and leaving the lost behind has dominated the popular mind with books like The Late Great Planet Earth by Hal Lindsey and the Left Behind book series by Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim LaHaye which focus on the rapture of the church. (see the Rapture Manifesto below). This whole approach to thinking is rather new to church history, but it has captivated the Western and by extension the East way of thinking about eschatology. Revelation, along with other prooftext, has been used to forge this mindset.

But, is that point of view what John meant when he wrote the book of Revelation? Was he forcasting the events that you read about in USAToday! or other international newspapers? If he read what was being written today, would he believe it?

Below are some resouces of varried value which might help you find a different paradigm of thought about Revelation. If you arrived here form other than the sign up page for my Bible study on Revelation, then you can signup by clicking on the line below or the link to the left in the window sidebar.

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Rapture Manifesto

• The Rapture Manifesto

Text

• Revelation: Blue Letter Bible
• Revelation: The Message Eugene Peterson's popular paraphrase
• Revelation: New American Standard Version
• Revelation: The Amplified Bible
• Revelation: New International Version
• Revelation: New Revised Standard Version
• Revelation: J. B. Phillips Translation (1962)
• Revelation: World English Bible | Read | Listen |

Introduction

• Revelation: An Introduction to the New Testament by Richard Heard
• Revelation: The People's New Testament
• Revelation: An Introduction to the New Testament

Audio

• Revelation: Choose Version in English: Contemporary English Version, English Standard Version, King James Version, New International Version, or Today's New International Version.

Bible Study

• In Quest of Canonical Interpretation by James I. Packer

Dictionary

• Revelation: The Catholic Encyclopedia Catholic Encyclopaedia (1910)
• Revelation: Unger's Bible Dictionary
• Revelation: Smith's Bible Dictionary
• Revelation: The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

Theology

• Revelation: Theology of: Baker's Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology

Resources: Highly Recommended