Knowing Faith

Revelation - Is The Book Of Revelation About The Past, Present, Or Future?


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Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley discuss the different ways people interpret the Book of Revelation.

Questions Covered in This Episode:

  • How do we put the phrase “was, is, and is to come” in the right context?
  • What tier of importance is Eschatology?
  • What is hermeneutics?
  • Is the only kind of prophecy telling the future?
  • What are the main approaches to this book?
  • Why is it significant to have conversations about these theological categories?

Helpful Definitions:

  • Hermeneutics: How do we interpret and read Biblical texts?
  • Prophecy: Telling us things that are eternally true.
    • Foretelling: Future prediction of events that have yet to happen.
    • Forthtelling: Divine commentary of what is happening. Proclaiming.
  • Futurist: Everything from Rev. 4:1 onward to be concerning future unfulfilled affairs/events.
  • Historicist: A prophecy laying out the history of the church between the two advents.
  • Preterist: Most prophecies in Revelation have been fulfilled in the years immediately following John’s writing of the book.
  • Idealist: Revelation is concerned about presenting timeless principles and we should not be concerned about tying fulfillment (past, present, or future) to prophecies.
  • Ladd: “eclectic approach” Blending futurist and preterist approaches. Proper fulfillment in the near future and some of them most hold trust for a future fulfillment.
  • Historicist/Idealist: Historicist with a heavy emphasis on the symbolic nature of the text.

Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

  • Revelation 1:8, 1:17, Revelation 2:8, Revelation 5, Revelation 4:1

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