Revelation - Is The Book Of Revelation About The Past, Present, Or Future?

Knowing Faith

Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley discuss the different ways people interpret the Book of Revelation.

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• How do we put the phrase “was, is, and is to come” in the right context?
• What tier of importance is Eschatology?
• What is hermeneutics?
• Is the only kind of prophecy telling the future?
• What are the main approaches to this book?
• Why is it significant to have conversations about these theological categories?

Helpful Definitions:

• Hermeneutics: How do we interpret and read Biblical texts?
• Prophecy: Telling us things that are eternally true.
  • Foretelling: Future prediction of events that have yet to happen.
  • Forthtelling: Divine commentary of what is happening. Proclaiming.
• Futurist: Everything from Rev. 4:1 onward to be concerning future unfulfilled affairs/events.
• Historicist: A prophecy laying out the history of the church between the two advents.
• Preterist: Most prophecies in Revelation have been fulfilled in the years immediately following John’s writing of the book.
• Idealist: Revelation is concerned about presenting timeless principles and we should not be concerned about tying fulfillment (past, present, or future) to prophecies.
• Ladd: “eclectic approach” Blending futurist and preterist approaches. Proper fulfillment in the near future and some of them most hold trust for a future fulfillment.
• Historicist/Idealist: Historicist with a heavy emphasis on the symbolic nature of the text.

Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

• Revelation 1:8, 1:17, Revelation 2:8, Revelation 5, Revelation 4:1

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