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Revelations is given to all nations and tongues that live throughout the whole world as in Jew and Gentile. Israel is mainly mentioned, but not all of Israel is Gods chosen people. Those who are washed in the blood of the Lamb are joined as a branch with Israel as God is the root of that branch and those who are sealed by His Holy Spirit are His own who find favor in Him, Romans 11:11-31. Therefore, our attention needs to be on those things that are happening in Israel especially Jerusalem as being Gods Holy City.The fallercy of all 2nd coming posts, beliefs etc is the insistence that revelation is a literal discription of what is going to happen, instead of realising that it is a series of word pictures, often discribing in terms familier to John, what he does not comprehend.
example, a lamb standing on the throne as if it had been slain= Jesus, but is he really going to be in the form of a dead lamb or is this symbolic, the new Jerusalem paved with gold, gold is a soft metal that will quikly erode under the wear of countless feet. Either it is not ' pure ' gold, which rather defeats the symbolism or it is symbolic.
number have symbolic meaning, etc etc etc
There are two things we are certain of.
Jesus is coming again.
We don't know when, so must be expectant.
If you have to ask, then probably not.can you say me it
Revelations is full of symbolism that is literal where it needs to be and Spiritual where it needs to define that of the literal.
Revelation is written so that a group of people could understand it. I'm not one of that group but after I had realized what group it was I tended for, I started to understand.Revelations is given to all nations and tongues that live throughout the whole world as in Jew and Gentile. Israel is mainly mentioned, but not all of Israel is Gods chosen people. Those who are washed in the blood of the Lamb are joined as a branch with Israel as God is the root of that branch and those who are sealed by His Holy Spirit are His own who find favor in Him, Romans 11:11-31. Therefore, our attention needs to be on those things that are happening in Israel especially Jerusalem as being Gods Holy City.
Revelations is full of symbolism that is literal where it needs to be and Spiritual where it needs to define that of the literal. These revelations are given as a warning to those who have yet to accept Jesus as Messiah. Gods chastisements are to draw those back to him in repentance before that door of salvation is closed forever when Jesus returns and Gods true Church is gathered up to be with the Father forever.
The focus in Revelations would seem to center around Israel only and the nations that come against her for this is how John would recognize it to be since all other nations were not yet developed in his time. Revelations is about all of us, Jew and Gentile, past, present and future that by faith keep Gods commandments. We are Gods witnesses that testify of His mercy and grace as we take His word out into the world to those who have ears to hear.
Mat 24:36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.What year will Christ come?
3.5 years after the daily sacrifice is abolished.What year will Christ come?
I don't think they are asking the day or hour. Just the year.Mat 24:36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
Mat 24:37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.