BIBLE PROPHECY AND REVELATION: Exercises: Revelation, Chapter 1

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Exercises: Revelation, Chapter 1

I have made a list of questions that might be helpful to understand Revelation Chapter 1 (not going into detail regarding the seven churches, because chapter 2 and 3 deal a lot with them):

Who is mentioned in Revelation 1:1, and what are their tasks?
Can you say what John is doing and why? What is John writing about?
What is meant by "for the time is at hand" in Revelation 1:3? Which time is meant? (Compare to Mat 4:17, Mat 26:18)
What do the seven Spirits which are before His throne represent in Revelation 1:4? (compare to Revelation 1:20)
Where and how does Jesus appear in Revelation 1? How is He described there? Can you make a list of attributes?
"Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen." (Revelation 1:7 KJV) Compare it to Matthew 24:30. What does it mean?
Try to find other verses where God and clouds are mentioned. What do clouds usually represent?
How does John introduce himself? Why was he on Patmos?
What is Jesus' voice compared to in 1:10? Where else in the Bible are trumpets mentioned, and what a symbolical meaning do they have?
By which words does Jesus introduce Himself?
What do the seven golden candlesticks represent in Revelation 1:12?
Where does John see Jesus first, and what does this picture suggest?
How is Jesus clothed in John's vision there, and does it have a symbolical meaning (Rev 1:13)?
What about His hair? White like wool, as white as snow - is there a symbolical meaning?
What about His eyes? They were as a flame of fire (Rev: 1:14). Try to find other verses in the Bible were this is mentioned (it turns up thrice in Revelation, for example).
Do Jesus' feet "like unto fine brass" mean something?
What is His voice compared to? Find other verses where water has a symbolical meaning.
What do the seven stars in Rev 1:16 represent? Where exactly are they in John's vision?
What is the symbolical meaning of the sharp two-edged sword in Revelation 1:16 that comes from Jesus' mouth? Do you know of other verses where this image turns up?
What is His countenance in Revelation 1:16 compared to? Are there other verses?
What do you think why John fell at Jesus' feet as dead in Revelation 1:17?
What does Jesus mean by it when he says, "I am the first and the last, I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore"?
Why does Jesus lay His right hand on John?
There are keys mentioned in chapter 18. What does Jesus tell John about them? What does it say about Jesus?
Which things was John to write down? How many aspects of time can you see there? (Rev 1:19)
What is the mystery that Jesus reveals in the end of Rev 1:20
The number 7 appears a few times in this chapter. How often, and in which connection?

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How to read the Bible

Whatever you do, do it with God, and read what He has to say.

Do not change the meaning to your personal liking.

There are metaphors in the Bible, sure, as there are in most other books. Metaphors are used to illustrate things for a better understanding.

If you read the Bible literally, you might face the problem that you have become a letter idiot.

Last week I told someone the way after I was asked. I told him, "Go straight on until you can see a white house." He could have thought, oh, she meant that literally, and I must look for a white house... but there was no real white house, because it was kind of beige, because the rainhad washed the color away. He might as well have thought, oh, it was meant metaphorically! I must look for a house of the Government.

Actually both was wrong. He should have understood what everybody would have understood... he might never have found the way. The truth was I was speaking of a white house that looked white to anyone. Would I have used metaphors to tell him the way? No, I used what I thought he would understand best. Who is there to say God would use speech that nobody could understand and had to guess? God is not stupid. Never forget that He is talking with you when you read the Bible, and pray before that. Ask our Heavenly Father to explain it all to you in Jesus' name, and He will.

Matthew 13:1-23 KJV

"The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side. And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went into a ship, and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore.

And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow; And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up: Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth: And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away. And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them: But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.

Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.

And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?

He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath. Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.

For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.

Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower. When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side. But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it; Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended. He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful. But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.

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Exercises: Revelation, Chapter 1

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