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A Testimony of Jesus Christ
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Introduction
1. Audio Course
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2. As We Begin
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2.1. An invitation
2.2. Housekeeping Matters
2.2.1. Section Numbers
2.2.2. Finding Your Way Around
2.2.3. Cross-References
2.2.4. New King James Version
2.2.5. Use of Bible Addresses
2.2.6. Hebrew and Greek Fonts
2.2.6.1. Transliteration
2.2.7. Automatic Lookup
2.2.8. Endnote References
2.2.9. HTML Page Formats
2.3. Why Another Commentary on Revelation
2.4. Attacks upon the book of Revelation
2.5. Avoidance within Christianity
2.6. Hiding or Revealing
2.7. The Importance of Historical Perspective
2.8. Overemphasis on Extra-biblical Sources
2.9. Simplicity over Academics
2.10. A Policy of Inoculation
2.11. Dispensational, Premillennial, Pretribulational Exposition
2.12. Learning God’s Way
2.13. Focus is Christ
2.14. The Primacy of Scripture
3. Audience and Purpose
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3.1. Can’t God Prophesy
3.2. Overemphasis on Immediate Audience or Events
3.2.1. Misunderstood Motive
3.2.1.1. Anti-Supernatural Motive for Writing
3.2.2. Relevance to the Immediate Audience
3.2.2.1. The Present Value of Future Events
3.3. Purpose
4. Theme
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4.1. The Sovereignty of God
4.2. Worship of God
4.3. The Arrival of God’s Kingdom
4.4. A Worldwide Revival
5. Anti-supernatural Bias
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5.1. Implicit Denial of Evangelical Principles
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6. The Genre of the book of Revelation
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6.1. Motivation for Categorizing as Apocalyptic
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6.2. Different from Apocalyptic Genre
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7. Interpreting Symbols
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7.1. The Importance of Meaning
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7.2. The Art and Science of Interpretation
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7.3. The Rise of Allegorical Interpretation
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7.4. Understanding Symbols and Figures
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7.5. Understanding Numbers
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7.5.1. The Abuse of Numbers
7.5.2. Literal Understanding of Numbers
7.5.3. The Symbolic Meaning of Numbers
7.5.3.1. Two Witness
7.5.3.2. Three Life, Resurrection, Completeness, the Trinity
7.5.3.3. Four the Entire World, the Earth
7.5.3.4. Five Provision, Fullness, Grace
7.5.3.5. Six Man’s Incompleteness, Human Will
7.5.3.6. Seven Perfection, Completeness
7.5.3.7. Twelve Jewish Tribes, Completeness
7.5.4. Searching for Meaning in all the Wrong Places
7.5.4.1. Searching Pagan Mythology
7.5.4.2. Searching Jewish Apocryphal Writings
7.5.5. The Importance of the Old Testament
7.5.6. Is It Really So Difficult
7.5.7. The Importance of Right Relationship
8. Style of Writing
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9. Authorship
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9.1. Apostolic Authorship Opposed
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9.2. Alternatives to the Apostle John
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9.3. Internal Evidence
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9.3.1. Subjectivity of Internal Evidence
9.3.2. Simplicity of Title
9.3.3. Authority of Author
9.3.4. Textual Similarities
9.4. External Evidence
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9.4.1. Testimony of the Early Church
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9.4.2. Testimony of Enemies of the Early Church
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10. Acceptance into the Canon
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10.1. Rejection
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10.2. Acceptance
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11. Date
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11.1. Significance of the Date
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11.2. The Nature of Internal Evidence
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11.3. Evidence for an Early Date
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11.3.1. Internal Evidence for an Early Date
11.3.2. External Evidence for an Early Date
11.4. Evidence for a Late Date
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11.4.1. Internal Evidence for a Late Date
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11.4.1.1. Changes since the Writing of the Epistles
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11.4.1.2. Emperor Worship
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11.4.1.3. Other Evidence
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11.4.2. External Evidence for a Late Date
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11.4.2.1. Early Testimony
11.4.2.2. Nature of Christian Persecution
11.4.2.3. The Church at Smyrna
11.4.2.4. John in Asia
12. Systems of Interpretation
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12.1. The Importance of Interpretation
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12.2. Preterist Interpretation
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12.2.1. Types of Preterism
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12.2.2. The Motivations of Preterism
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12.2.3. The Beginning of Preterism
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12.2.4. Hermeneutics of Preterism
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12.2.5. Damaging God’s Word
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12.3. Idealist Interpretation
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12.4. Historicist Interpretation
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12.5. Futurist Interpretation
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12.6. Ecclectic Interpretation
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13. Related Passages and Themes
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13.1. Trouble Ahead
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13.2. Jewish Rabbinical Thought
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13.3. The Day of the Lord
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13.3.1. When Does the Day of the Lord Dawn
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13.4. Jacob’s Trouble and the Great Tribulation
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13.5. The 70th Week of Daniel
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13.5.1. Weeks of Years
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13.5.2. Prophetic Year
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13.5.3. The Final Week
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13.5.4. Events of the 70th Week of Daniel
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13.5.5. The 70th Week in Relation to the Book of Revelation
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13.6. The Synoptic Gospels
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13.7. The Plagues of Egypt and the Tribulation
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13.8. Genesis and Revelation as Bookends
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14. Literary Structure
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14.1. Recapitulation of Events
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14.2. Sequential Events
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14.3. Structural Outline
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