If there were ever a ranking system dedicated to complex words, prolepsis

would be in the top five. Prolepsis is the thought or image of something

describing a situation that hasn’t happened yet. For instance, one

proleptic statement is, “dead man walking.” The person walking isn’t

actually dead but the sentence insinuates he’s headed somewhere and will be

punished for some past act. He’s alive but proleptically dead. This sermon

will break this concept down, for we need it to truly understand Revelation

7.