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A Commentary on Revelation, Form #17.055 A Commentary on R E V E L A T I O N Standing Firm in our Time The Apocalypse B r o o k y S t o c k t o n Commentary on Revelation A Commentary on Revelation Standing Firm in our Time Seminary Lecture Notes 2005, 2018, 2020 B r o o k y S t o c k t o n, PHD Version 2.0 © https://nikeinsights.famguardian.org/ Common Law Copyright Revelation: Standing Firm In Our Time 2.0 © Brooky Stockton , Professor of Theology Page 2 of 301 Commentary on Revelation CONTENTS CONTENTS .................................................................................................................................. 3 Preface ........................................................................................................................................ 5 Dedication .................................................................................................................................. 7 Introduction to the Book of Revelation ...................................................................................... 8 The Prologue ............................................................................................................................ 19 1 THE FIRST VISION ........................................................................................................... 27 1.1 The Vision of the Glorified Christ ................................................................................. 28 1.2 The Message to the Seven churches ............................................................................... 36 2 THE SECOND VISION ...................................................................................................... 81 2.1 A Glimpse Into the Heavenly Throne Room ................................................................. 82 2.2 The Lamb and the Scroll ................................................................................................ 87 2.3 The Opening of the Seven Seals .................................................................................... 98 2.4 The Interlude ................................................................................................................ 108 2.5 The Seven Trumpets ..................................................................................................... 114 2.6 The Second Interlude ................................................................................................... 128 2.7 The Woman and the Dragon ........................................................................................ 145 2.8 The Beast and His Followers ....................................................................................... 152 2.9 The Lamb and His Followers ....................................................................................... 165 2.10 The Seven Bowls of Wrath ....................................................................................... 176 3 THE THIRD VISION ....................................................................................................... 186 3.1 Mystery Babylon .......................................................................................................... 187 3.2 The Dirge of Babylon ................................................................................................... 204 3.3 The Rider on the White Horse ...................................................................................... 218 3.4 The Thousand Year Reign of Christ ............................................................................ 225 3.5 The New Heaven and the New Earth ........................................................................... 235 4 THE FOURTH VISION ................................................................................................... 243 4.1 The New Jerusalem ...................................................................................................... 244 5 APPENDICES .................................................................................................................... 258 5.1 Rules of Interpretation .................................................................................................. 258 5.2 Christians as Kings and Priests .................................................................................... 261 5.3 References to Clouds .................................................................................................... 262 5.4 Members of the Synagogue of Satan ............................................................................ 263 5.5 The Doctrine of Balaam in the United States ............................................................... 269 Revelation: Standing Firm In Our Time 2.0 © Brooky Stockton , Professor of Theology Page 3 of 301 Commentary on Revelation 5.6 Meaning of the Title, "Son of God" ............................................................................. 269 5.7 Jezebels, Tolerance, and Statism .................................................................................. 271 5.8 The White Horse in Revelation 6 ................................................................................. 273 5.9 Souls Under the Altar ................................................................................................... 277 5.10 The Gospel and the Apocalypse ............................................................................... 277 5.11 Who are the 144,000? ............................................................................................... 278 5.12 Measuring the Temple and Interpretive Principles ................................................... 281 5.13 Jerusalem as Sodom and Egypt ................................................................................ 282 5.14 The Beast that Was and Is Not ................................................................................. 283 5.15 The Beast and the United States ............................................................................... 284 5.16 Away in the Spirit into the Wilderness ..................................................................... 285 5.17 Notes on the Dirge of Babylon ................................................................................. 286 6 REFERENCES .................................................................................................................. 295 7 BIBLIOGRAPHY .............................................................................................................. 300 Revelation: Standing Firm In Our Time 2.0 © Brooky Stockton , Professor of Theology Page 4 of 301 Commentary on Revelation Preface When properly understood, the Book of Revelation drives out fears and blesses the reader with a fresh vision of Christ. It not only cleanses timidity that hides in the heart, it fuses steel into the souls of men. This book inspires hope and drives pure hearts to dig deeper, to climb higher, and to walk closer with Christ. In the midst of a culture hostile to the Christian faith, this book provides perspective for the battle; vision to preach the gospel; and courage to stand firm in our time against the forces of darkness. This work is not a roadmap to end times. Rather, it seeks to perceive how the early church would have interpreted this book. While many interpreters have relegated the visions to pertain to presumptive future events, this work seeks to understand how these visions pertain to the seven churches; that is, our first duty as interpreters is to recognize the original readers and to interpret the work in light of their time. This is not always an easy task as we do not have all the information we would like to have about the context of this book. For example, we would like to know more about the “doctrine of the Nicolaitanes” but information is sparse. Nevertheless, we do our best to discern the meaning of these visions to the first century readers. This does not suggest, however, the Book of Revelation does not apply to our generation! The forces and pressures upon the early readers are also common to our age and should be applied to our time. This work does not take a perspective that the apocalyptic vision of John is describing the last seven years of history future to us. But, this works does seek to find lessons in the book that apply to our age and the forces of evil that confront the modern day church. Interpreting this book correctly has been a struggle for me. After I wrote my first book on Revelation, I literally threw it in the trash. Not only was I merely parroting other men’s thoughts, my perspective was fatally futuristic. I realized I had to start over and interpret the book from one main perspective: What did John’s revelation mean to the first century mind? Secondly, I had to study the nature of apocalyptic genre. While I believe in a literal interpretation of Scripture, the genre of apocalyptic literature demands we use a different set of rules—rules that apply to apocalyptic literature. While John’s work has a literal message, the lessons come to us through a series of apocalyptic, mythological visions; that is, the task of the interpreter is to recognize apocalyptic images as a vehicle of truth rather than a literal historical figure. The key is to ask, “What did the code language mean to the John’s audience?” Thus, this commentary started as unedited lecture notes. This work still needs to be edited by a professional editor as this task seems to go on forever. Please forgive the grammatical errors as this was work evolved from simple lecture notes in its Revelation: Standing Firm
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