July 17, 2008

• Biblical Eschatology Revisited
  
  
  
  The Timeline Analysis of the Book of the Revelation – Part 1 & 2

  The time has come … and the reduction of the larger chart developed a
  couple of years ago is now finished. Its been a lot of work to finally
  get it down to a size that anyone can print it off for themselves on a
  common computer printer.  Among other things, this effort slowed me
  down on my posting but I hope it will be worthwhile to you. As you will note, the first two pages of the charts will not be
  particularly exciting but offers an introduction, some selected notes
  from Revelation 1 on the first page and some details about the seven
  churches on page 2. In addition, it will give me a good idea if they
  will look ok.  I will include the first two pages with this post and intend to post a
  page a day after that. Things get a little more interesting on page 3
  to page 6 where it looks like a timeline from several perspectives.

  Please accept my apologies for being unable to put all the notes
  contained in the original work onto these but there simply was not
  enough room and still make everything readable since the internet makes
  it difficult to read smaller fonts that I often had to use for notes on
  the original work.

  The original work required two pages of 11” x 17” paper crammed full of
  detail and it was best done in color to keep things organized and
  easily viewable. It was estimated that most people simply do not have a
  large format printer to print that size so this subsequent work was
  started to be able to offer that information to my readers.

  I took Revelation 22:18-19 very seriously, there was no attempt to “add
  or subtract” from the text and if there is such a thing there, it was
  not at all intended. Some brevity was necessary to simply get the
  “flow” of the Lord’s message to be clear and straightforward. After
  all, these charts do not replace the book. They are merely notes and
  observations of events on the Revelation timeline.

  As a matter of fact, the reason for doing this work in the first place
  was for my own benefit because I kept getting things mixed up about
  “when and where and what” was going on.  So the effort was to simply
  figure out what was really going on and put things into a sensible
  order. I wonder that this hadn’t really been done before in the works
  that I had seen before. Anyway, I share this with you and hope it will
  be a help.

  As you read these charts, remember that the Book of the Revelation does
  not stand on its own but is the nexus and culmination of all that has
  gone before it in the Bible. It makes a good deal of sense why the Lord
  warned about “adding and subtracting” to it since everything in that
  book refers back to something else elsewhere in the Bible so the
  tampering that people have done to Revelation over the years becomes a
  huge offense to the entire Bible. In fact, those who have taken
  Revelation to make their own inverted eschatology may be one of the
  very things the Lord was referring to when He clearly warns of “adding
  and subtracting” in Rev 22. The promises made to Israel in the Old
  Testament find their fulfillment here and those who would resolutely
  dispute with Israel’s claim on their inheritance will certainly find a
  most disagreeable end to themselves at the appropriate time.

  So here goes… enjoy!  Please let me know if the graphics are clear.  Blessings, Mr.Vee.

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