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Page 1: The Lion and the Lamb · The Lion and the Lamb The Revelation of John February 27 –April 17, 2019

The Lion and the LambThe Revelation of John

February 27 – April 17, 2019

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REVELATION, n. A famous book in which St. John concealed all he knew. The revealing is done by commentators who know nothing.

Ambrose Bierce, 1947

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Interpreting the Revelation of John

• The person and work of Christ is central• The entire book is from a first century writer to a first century audience.

• The symbols are mostly understood figuratively, not literally

• The Old Testament is “New Testamantized”• It should be viewed structurally as one unit

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Jesus is central!!!

• The Lamb (4‐5; 14:1; 17:14; 19:19; 21:9, 14, 22‐27)• The Lion (5:5)• The one who is worshiped (4‐5)

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They will make war on the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them, for he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those with him are called and chosen and faithful. 

Revelation 17:14

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The longing for Christ

“Surely I am coming soon.”

Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!

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Interpreting the Revelation of John

• The person and work of Christ is central• The entire book is from a first century writer to a first century audience.

• The symbols are mostly understood figuratively, not literally

• The Old Testament is “New Testamantized”• It should be viewed structurally as one unit

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John, the seven churches in Asia…Revelation 1:4

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“Patient endurance”

• False teachers (2:12, 14, 15, 20‐23)• Slander (2:9)• Economic boycotts (2:9)• Imprisonment (2:10)• Martyrdom (2:13)• Apathy (3:15)

The tribulation (1:9)

“thlipsis”(2 Cor 4:8)

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Interpreting the Revelation of John

• The person and work of Christ is central• The entire book is from a first century writer to a first century audience.

• The symbols are mostly understood figuratively, not literally

• The Old Testament is “New Testamantized”• It should be viewed structurally as one unit

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What do the symbols mean?• “Lamb with seven horns” • The dragon (12:3ff)• No sea (21:3)

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Interpreting the Revelation of John

• The person and work of Christ is central• The entire book is from a first century writer to a first century audience.

• The symbols are mostly understood figuratively, not literally

• The Old Testament is “New Testamantized”• It should be viewed structurally as one unit

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Nearly 70% of Revelation borrows Old Testament images and ideas. 

Of the 404 verses, seemingly 278 of them make some allusion to the Old Testament.

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Interpreting the Revelation of John

• The person and work of Christ is central• The entire book is from a first century writer to a first century audience.

• The symbols are mostly understood figuratively, not literally

• The Old Testament is “New Testamantized”• It should be viewed structurally as one unit

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“After this I looked…”

“Then I saw…”

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Prologue (1:1‐8)

In the Spirit: Worship 

(1:9 – 3:22)

In the Spirit: the Throne (4‐16) In the Spirit: the wilderness(17:1 – 21:8)

In the Spirit: a mountain 

(21:9 – 22:5)

Epilogue (22:6‐21)

Intro (1:1‐3) 7 Churches1:9 – 3:22

7 Seals4:1 – 8:1

7 Trumpets8:2 – 11:19

The War12:1 – 14:28

7 Bowls15:1 – 16:21

Judgements17:1 – 21:8

All new21:9 – 22:5

John & angel (22:6‐15)

Saved! (4‐8) Jesus (1:9‐20) Lamb (4‐5) Saints prayers (8:2‐6)

Dragon & woman (12:1‐17)

Worship (15:1 –16:1)

Woman & beast (17)

Bride: city (21:9‐27)

Jesus’ final words (22:16‐21a)

Ephesus (2:1‐7) White horse (6:1‐2)

1/3 earth (8:7) Beast (12:18 –13:10)

Sores (16:2) Lament over Babylon (18)

River of life (22:1‐5)

Benediction (22:21b‐22)

Smyrna (2:8‐11) Red horse (6:3‐4)

1/3 sea (8:8‐9) Second beast (13:11‐18)

Sea like blood(16:3)

Worship for judgments (19:1‐10)

Pergamum (2:12‐17)

Black horse (6:5‐6)

1/3 water (8:10‐11)

144,000 (14:1‐5) Water like blood (16:4‐7)

White horse (19:11‐16)

Thyatira (2:18‐29) Green horse (6:7‐8)

1/3 heaven (8:12‐13)

1st angel (14:6‐10) Sun scorches(16:8‐9)

Beast, armies and supper (19:17‐21)

Sardis (3:1‐6) Souls under alter (6:9‐11)

WOE #1(9:1‐12)

2nd angel (14:8) Darkness (16:10‐11)

Millennium (20:1‐10)

Philadelphia (3:7‐13)

Destruction, 144,000, multitude

WOE #2(9:13 – 11:14)

3rd angel (14:9‐13)

Euphrates dried, great army (16:12‐16)

The Dead (20:11‐15)

Laodicea (3:14‐22) Silence (8:1) WOE #3??? Reaping (14:14‐ It is done!  God’s home (21:1‐

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Key Themes• God is in control (“throne” – 34X, half of those in chapters 4‐5)•Worship (final command: Worship God!)• The Lamb•Warfare• Suffering and endurance (2:3, 10, 19, 25; 3:10; 13:10; 14:12)• Judgment

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The Prologue (1:4‐8)

John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. 

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The Prologue (1:4‐8)To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him, and all tribes of the earth will wail on account of him. Even so. Amen. “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.” 

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Love Jesus!