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Revelation Seminars : Lesson # 1: A Bible Prophecy Adventure

• Revelation Seminars are Exciting:

• Revelation is a book of prophecy. It explains the past and reveals the future. You will be amazed as our world’s exciting future opens. You will actually see the future before it happens!

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Revelation The Open Book

• Revelation is an open book. It was written especially for our times - the last

days of earth’s history (Rev. 22:10). A very special blessing is promised to those who study & follow God’s counsel found

in the book (Rev. 1:3).

Revelation Seminars Offer Rewarding Blessing For You!

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• 1. It will greatly benefit your personal life.

• 2. You will have a new understanding of world history.

• 3. You will discover shocking events about to take place on the earth and be prepared for them.

• 4. You will recognize the centuries -long warfare between Christ and satan as it affects your future.

Blessings, cont’d.

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• 5. You will discover the devil’s plan to ensnare you. Forewarned you can avoid his traps. Both God & satan seek your loyalty. Many honor the devil today without knowing it.

• 6. You will be astonished as the Great God of Heaven and His Son Jesus Christ speaks to you through the Holy Spirit and the Word.

Blessings, cont’d.

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• 7. The bible is God’s word, it is not like any other book. You will receive its enormous rewards only as you pray for God’s guidance when you study.

•8. The study of revelation will lead you to the most momentous decisions of your life. You will be excited and overjoyed.

Blessings, cont’d.

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• 9. You will come face to face with Jesus Christ in a most startling manner. You will see Him in a new and wonderful light. Remember, this book is the Revelation of Jesus Christ.

• 10. Your mind will expand and your whole life will take on new meaning as you study revelation. You will treasure God’s vast storehouse of valuable information and you will say “NOW I understand the Book of Revelation”.

Blessings, cont’d.

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In Revelation We Will Look At:

•Real• People

• Issues

• Events

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Preview of Revelation

• Chapter(s)

• 1 - Revelation’s Hero Appears

• 2/3 - Seven Symbolic Churches

• 4/5 - Opening a Locked Book

• 6 - Four Mysterious Horsemen

• 7 - God’s Seal For Survival

• 8/9 - Seven Terrible Trumpets

• 10 - Eating the Bittersweet

• 11 - Two Weeping Witnesses

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Preview of Revelation (cont’d.)

• 12 - Woman and the Moon

• 13 - The Mark of the Beast

• 14 - Three Angels’ Messages

• 15/16 - Grapes of God’s Wrath

• 17/18 - Mystic Babylon the Great

• 19 - Rider on a White Horse

• 20 - Satan Bound 1,000 Years

• 21/22 - New Heaven & New Earth

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1. What are the five steps in Revelation?Revelation 1:1-5

1. God gave it to His Son, Jesus

2. Jesus gave it to The Angel

3. The Angel gave itto

John

4. John wrote it in a Book

5. John sent the bookto the

Seven churches inAsia

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2. God Will Bless Those Who…?2. God Will Bless Those Who…?Revelation 1:3

• “Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy and keep those things that are written therein: for the time is at hand.”

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3. Whom Did Jesus Say the Scriptures Reveal? John 5:39

• “Search the scriptures for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.”

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• 4. What Teaching Method Did Jesus Use?

• Luke 24:27:

• “…And beginning at Moses and all the

prophets, He expounded unto them in all the

scriptures concerning Himself.”

• 5. How did God reveal His message? Rev. 1:1:

• “To shew unto His servants things which must shortly come to

pass.”

• 6. How did God communicate His

message?

• Rev. 1:1:

• “And signified it by His angel.”

A Prophecy A Prophecy PanoramaPanorama

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• Note:• Jesus told them what all the Bible writers had

prophesied about His life. Then they knew that He was the true Messiah. Likewise we should let the Bible explain its prophecies. As we study Revelation in light of what other Bible writers say on the same subject, the other texts become “Golden Keys” that unlock Revelation’s “mysteries”. Remember, our personal opinions about Bible prophecy do not count. In fact we are warned not to teach them.

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7. Why Did Jesus Speak in Parables?

• Luke 8:10:

• “That seeing they might not see and hearing they might not understand.”

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• Note:Note:• Jesus clothed Revelation in symbols so only Jesus clothed Revelation in symbols so only

those who are sincerely seeking spiritual those who are sincerely seeking spiritual truth and willing to be guided by the Holy truth and willing to be guided by the Holy Spirit can understand. Also, in Revelation Spirit can understand. Also, in Revelation God’s enemies are unmasked and His true God’s enemies are unmasked and His true people revealed. Because of this satan’s people revealed. Because of this satan’s followers would have destroyed the Book if followers would have destroyed the Book if it had been written in literal language.it had been written in literal language.

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8. Can We Understand The Symbols of Bible Prophecy?

• YES!

• “BEAST”= Kingdom.• (Dan. 7:23)

• “WATER” = Peoples, multitudes, nations and tongues.

• (Rev. 17:15)

• “DAY” = Year • (Eze. 4:6/Num 14:34)

• (Genesis 29:26-28)(Genesis 29:26-28)

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Authority of Bible Prophecy

• 9. How reliable is bible prophecy? 2 Peter 1:19• “We have a more sure word of prophecy.”• 10. Does God really warn against private

interpretations? 2 Peter 1:20 & Rev. 22:18,19• (a) “No prophecy of the scripture is of any private

interpretation.”• (b) We are not to add unto or take away from the

words of this prophecy.

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11. Why do some say Revelation can’t be understood?

• Read: Isaiah 29:10 - 14:

• Note:

• Satan’s strategy is to claim Revelation cannot be understood because it is a sealed book or because we are not

learned.

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12. How Much of the Bible is Inspired?

• 2 Tim. 3:16:• “All scripture is given

by the inspiration of God (and is profitable

for doctrine, for reproof , for

correction, for instruction in

righteousness …)”

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• Note:

• ALL the Bible, both Old and New Testaments is God’s Word.

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13. What Can Happen if We Twist Scripture?

• 2 Peter 3:16:• “As also in all his

epistles … in which are some things hard

to be understood, which they that are unlearned wrest, as

they do also the other scriptures, unto their

own destruction.”

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14. Six Important Keys

1 Cor. 2:14 I must have spiritualdiscernment.

Rev. 21:6 I must thirst for truth.

2 Tim. 2:15 I must study thescriptures.

Acts 17:11 I must test all beliefs.

Rev. 1:3 I must keep thingswritten.

John 7:17 I must do His will.

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• Note:

• To clearly understand I must have spiritual insight which is given to those who love and serve God. Also, I must be willing to do God’s will as it becomes clear to me. To disobey God’s truth after it is revealed is dangerous.

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15. What Promise is Given to Those Who Obey? • Rev. 3:10:

• “Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation which shall come upon the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.”

• Rev. 22:14:

• “Blessed are they that do His commandments that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.”

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Jesus loves everyone Jesus loves everyone and wants to save and wants to save everyone – no one is everyone – no one is excluded – because excluded – because He Loves All!He Loves All!

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Are you willing to obey as Are you willing to obey as God reveals His truth?God reveals His truth?

Holy Bible

Sanctify them through thy truth, Sanctify them through thy truth, thy word is truth”. John 17:17thy word is truth”. John 17:17