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- Herausgeber: Rock Rooster Books
- Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
- Serie: 40-Day Bible Study Series
- Sprache: Englisch
Want to dive into the Bible’s mysterious and captivating book of Revelation?
Revelation Bible Study offers a fresh perspective on this enigmatic prophecy, guiding you through its complex imagery and profound messages.
Forget the typical attempts to predict the future or connect historical events to John's vision. Instead, Bible teacher Peter DeHaan challenges readers to embrace Revelation as relevant for today. Receive it as a glorious mystery, focusing on the ultimate triumph of God over evil.
Through short readings, application questions, and bonus content, this book will help you understand the essence of Revelation and its relevance to your spiritual journey.
Receive hope and assurance that God is in control over every future event. This book is ideal for individuals, small groups, and Bible studies.
From exploring the letters to the seven churches, to embracing the seals and trumpets, to celebrating God’s new heaven and new earth, Revelation Bible Study offers practical insights and thought-provoking commentary on this profound book.
Whether you're a seasoned Bible student or a spiritual seeker, this book is a must-read for anyone pursuing truth and enlightenment from the Bible’s final pages.
Don't miss out on this illuminating journey through the book of Revelation.
Get your copy of Revelation Bible Study today.
[This book was first published as A New Heaven and a New Earth.]
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REVELATION BIBLE STUDY
DISCOVER PRACTICAL INSIGHTS FROM JOHN’S EPIC VISION
40-DAY BIBLE STUDY SERIES
BOOK 8
PETER DEHAAN
RevelationBibleStudy: Discover 40 PracticalInsights from John’sEpicVision(Originally published as ANewHeaven and a NewEarth)
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40-DayBibleStudySeriestakes a fresh and practical look into Scripture, book by book.
BibleCharacterSketchesSeriescelebrates people in Scripture, from the well-known to the obscure.
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CONTENTS
The Book of Revelation
Day 1: The Revelation of Jesus
Day 2: The Alpha and the Omega
Day 3: Do Not Be Afraid
Bonus Content: What Is and What Will Be
Day 4: The Church in Ephesus: Their First Love
Bonus Content: Recurring Words and Themes
Day 5: The Church in Smyrna: Fearless Suffering
Day 6: The Church in Pergamum: Repent
Day 7: The Church in Thyatira: Sexual Immorality
Day 8: The Church in Sardis: A Dead Church
Day 9: The Church in Philadelphia: Weak but Worthy
Bonus Content: Satan at Work
Day 10: The Church in Laodicea: Lukewarm for Jesus
Bonus Content: Summary of the Seven Churches’ Letters
Day 11: Praising God as Holy
Bonus Content: Eternal God
Day 12: Praising God as Worthy
Day 13: Who Else Is Worthy?
Bonus Content: The Number Seven
Day 14: Breaking the Seven Seals
Bonus Content: Zechariah’s Prophecy
Day 15: The Mark of God
Day 16: Everyone
Day 17: Survivors of the Great Tribulation
Day 18: Silence from the Seventh Seal
Day 19: Seven Trumpets and Three Woes
Day 20: Some Still Will Not Repent
Day 21: The End Is Near
Day 22: Two Witnesses
Bonus Content: The Third Woe
Day 23: Worship
Day 24: The Blood of the Lamb
Bonus Content: Daniel and Revelation
Day 25: Whoever Has Ears
Day 26: The Harvest
Day 27: Seven Plagues to Complete God’s Wrath
Bonus Content: Recurring References
Day 28: A Thief in the Night
Day 29: It Is Done
Day 30: The Lamb Will Overcome
Bonus Content: In the Spirit
Day 31: Leave Her
Day 32: Hallelujah
Day 33: Jesus Is the Word
Day 34: The First Resurrection
Bonus Content: The Lake of Fire
Day 35: A New Heaven and a New Earth
Day 36: The Bride of Christ
Day 37: Tree of Life
Bonus Content: Old Testament in Revelation
Day 38: Worship God
Day 39: The Alpha and Omega
Bonus Content: Don’t Add or Subtract
Day 40: Coming Soon
How to Have Your Name Written in the Lamb’s Book of Life
For Small Groups, Sunday School, and Classrooms
If You’re New to the Bible
About Peter DeHaan
Books by Peter DeHaan
THE BOOK OF REVELATION
WhenI ask people what book of the Bible they’d like to understand better, the most frequent response is Revelation. I get that. John’s future-focused vision recorded in the book of Revelation overflows with evocative imagery that sparks our imagination even as we struggle to make sense of it.
Revelation is an intriguing prophecy, full of fascinating allusions, overflowing with enigma. What does it mean? When will it happen?
Many people have invested time—perhaps too much time—attempting to interpret the uncertainty of John’s epic vision. Even with their best work, it’s as if we see into the mirror dimly (1 Corinthians 13:12).
Additionally, each person who tries to explain this vision often piles on additional complexity to an already complicated narrative. Too often, I fear, in a pursuit of clarity they end up connecting dots that may not relate.
We should not strive to make Revelation into something it’s not. It’s not a precise cipher detailing what will happen in the future. We also shouldn’t try to link John’s compelling narrative with real people, places, or events. Instead, we should understand Revelation as the glorious mystery it is, embracing one essential, concluding idea: In the end God will prevail, vanquishing the enemy permanently and living for eternity with his purified bride, the Church of Jesus.
The goal of this book is to take a fresh approach. Read on to find out what to expect and what not to expect in this book. As you move forward, my prayer is that you will walk away with practical and understandable insights that you can apply to your life and spiritual journey today.
To begin, let’s consider the three basic options we could take to explore the book of Revelation.
A Future Look
The apostle John’s vision as recorded in the book of Revelation is a future-focused glimpse into what will one day be. The most common investigation into Revelation examines this prophetic future and attempts to explain it.
If you’re someone who wants a detailed treatise on what the end times will look like, I’m about to disappoint you.
Here is the essential summary, the key takeaway concerning the future, from the book of Revelation:
At the end of time, we will see an epic battle between good and evil.
God wins.
The end.
The details don’t matter to us today. Not really. Here’s why.
First, let’s consider prophecies in the OldTestament, which anticipated Jesus, the coming Messiah who would save God’s people. Though today we can read the OldTestament text with clarity and understand what the prophecies predicted, most people in Jesus’s day got it wrong. Even his disciples were slow to catch on (Luke 24:25).
Two thousand years ago, most everyone’s understanding of the prophets was to expect a military savior who would free the people from the tyranny of an oppressing ruling nation (John 12:13). Few people expected a spiritual savior who would free them from the tyranny of sin (Matthew 1:21 and 1 Timothy 1:15).
The people of that day had much less information to deal with than we do now, whereas we have a multitude of narratives and conflicting views constantly bombarding us. If they were confused then—in a simpler time—how much more likely are we to face confusion and make a wrong assessment of John’sNewTestament prophecy?
Next, Jesus says that no one will know when the end will happen. Yet many attempt to use Revelation as a primer to unlock the code that will reveal exactly what Jesus said is unknown (Matthew 24:36, Mark 13:32, and Revelation 3:3). Paul and Peter agree with Jesus (1 Thessalonians 5:1–3 and 2 Peter 3:10).
Third, many people think we’re currently living in the last times and that the end is near. YetJesus’s followers thought the same thing two millennia ago (1 Peter 4:7). Every generation, I suspect, has voiced this same perspective ever since. As such, I don’t think the end is near. I don’t expect to be around for these end time events (Matthew 24:6, Mark 13:7, and Luke 21:9).
Last, even if we did correctly interpret John’s vision of what will be, what difference would it make? What will happen will happen. And if we are here when it happens, there’s nothing we can do about it but remain faithful to Jesus and seek his strength to stand up under what will occur at that time.
A Past Look
The second basic approach to take in understanding the book of Revelation is to apply its narrative to the culture of that day. That is to take John’s imagery from his vision and connect it with the events from the perspective of life 2,000 years ago.
Though this makes for a most interesting excursion, what effect would this new knowledge have on how we live our life today? Though we’d know more, we’d only be amassing knowledge and not informing our actions and our attitudes to affect our faith journey. Jesus wants changed hearts, not changed minds.
Another weakness of this approach is that we must rely on historical accounts of the past to enlighten us on that day’s correlation with the imagery of John’s vision. The items we connect will be only as accurate as the version of history we choose to consider. Just as historical accounts disagree, any conclusions we make would diverge.
To put this in a more practical perspective, how often have we heard a preacher explain the historical context surrounding a passage of Scripture? The explanation illuminates our understanding (our knowledge), but later another teacher offers a different—and sometimes conflicting—historical perspective. Therefore, connecting Scripture with history is only as valuable as the accuracy of the historical account we follow.
This effort can produce a most intellectually satisfying result, but we can expect little more from it.
A Present Look
The third approach we can take to the book of Revelation is to explore the ways that we can apply it to our lives today. Though taking a future look or a past glance have their intellectual rewards, we can benefit most by seeking how Revelation can best inform what we do, think, and believe today.
That’s the goal of this book.
In doing so, we will not ignore the essential future-focused message and the hope it provides, but we will do so only to the extent that it illuminates our understanding today.
What do you think about the concise, three-line summary of the book of Revelation? How willing are you to look at the book of Revelation from a fresh perspective?
[Discover more about how to embrace the book of Revelation in 2 Timothy 3:16.]
DAY 1: THE REVELATION OF JESUS
REVELATION 1:1–3
The revelation from JesusChrist, which God gave him to show his servants what must soon take place. (Revelation 1:1)
We think of the book of Revelation as John’s revelation, but, in fact, it is Jesus’s. John is only the recipient. This revelation comes from Jesus. FatherGod gave it to him. Jesus shares this revelation with John through a supernatural vision as the apostle communes with God in the spiritual realm (Revelation 1:10).
An angel shows up in John’s vision to reveal Jesus’s revelation. The intent of the vision—that is, the revelation—is to show John what will soon take place.
As we comprehend time, we can easily conclude that soon has already occurred, since we are now 2,000 years distant from John’s recording of these words. Yet we must acknowledge that God views time differently than we do. A thousand years to us are but a day to him and a day to us may be a thousand years to him (Psalm 90:4 and 2 Peter 3:8).
So when we read John’s words that the time is near, this shouldn’t perplex us. If we literally equate 2,000 years of our time to two days for God, then we are but two days removed from this revelation. In this respect, we can accept that the time is, indeed, quite near.
Yet a literal application of Scripture’s statement about God’s view of time may be an overreach. The principle to grasp, however, is that we comprehend time much differently than God. Given this, we can accept that these events will soon take place because the time is near, even though those words took place two millennia ago. Time isn’t a problem for God, only for us.
John confirms that his vision is a prophecy. In a delightful simplicity, we’ll receive God’s blessing by merely reading it, hearing it, and taking it to heart (Revelation 1:3). Don’t miss this point.
John doesn’t say we need to understand what it says. Just like the rest of Scripture, we can now only know in part. Rather, we should read it and be amazed. That’s the intent. AndGod will bless us when we do.
Beyond that we find another hint at the purpose of John’s vision much later in Revelation. The aim of Revelation may be simply to worship God and celebrate Jesus (Revelation 19:10).
How well do we accept that we understand time differently than God? How content are we to read, hear, and take to heart the book of Revelation?
[Discover what else John says about Jesus and how it relates to our view of time in John 1:1–5.]
DAY 2: THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA
REVELATION 1:4–8
“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the LordGod, “who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.” (Revelation 1:8)
Having worked our way through John’s short prologue to his book, we move forward with excitement about what we’ll encounter next. When we realize, however, that the next passage is only a greeting, we’re tempted to skim by it and get to the good stuff.
But we shouldn’t do that. Slow down. John packs much into these four verses, and we don’t want to miss what he has to say.
John addresses his writing to the seven churches in Asia (and we’ll soon learn who they are and more about them). To these churches John proclaims grace and peace. This blessing comes from eternal FatherGod who exists in time present, time past, and time future as someone who is, was, and is to come. Also implied as a sender is the HolySpirit in the form of the sevenfold Spirit who resides in heaven. Jesus, as part of the Trinity, exists as a third sender of this message to the seven churches.
John then gives us three characteristics of Jesus. He is the faithful witness. He is the firstborn from the dead. He is ruler over the kings of the earth. Each one of these traits deserves deep contemplation.
Furthermore, Jesus loves us. He showed his deep, unsurpassed love for us when he died as the ultimate sacrifice to free us from the punishment that our sins (the times when we missed the mark) deserve, according to the OldTestament law.
By doing so he makes us into his kingdom, the kingdom of God.
We see in the Bible’s four biographies of Jesus (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) that he says much about the kingdom of God (synonymous with the kingdom of heaven, as Matthew renders it). Jesus teaches often on the kingdom of God, whereas he only uses the word church twice. We will do well to study what Jesus says about the kingdom of God and use it to inform our perspective and guide our relationship with him.
Not only does Jesus make us into his kingdom, but he also makes us his priests. Every one of us who follows him as our Savior is a priest. Our lineage doesn’t matter, as it did in the OldTestament. We also don’t need an advanced education, as our religious institutions require today, or special training. To be Jesus’s priest, we just need to follow him. It’s that simple.
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