CPM Sessions with Darryl Riden

Bible Study: The Book of Revelation: Chapter One- Intro and the 4 main interpretation models

Darryl Riden Season 4 Episode 23

The Book of Revelation Bible study- author, the Apostle John, through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit- John is writing from the Isle of Patmos where he is in exile under Roman government, AD 96.

Introduction, chapter one

Revelation: Greek, the "Apokalypsis", an Unveiling

4 main interpretation models:

Preterist: View that all events took place by AD 70

Histroical: View that John is only describing the main events of human history.

Spiritualizing: View that all the content of Revelation is symbolic and should be spiritualized.

Futurist: View that the prophetic events recorded are literal and will be fulfilled.


Revelation chapter One verses 1-8

1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants—things which must shortly take place. And He sent and signified it by His angel to His servant John, 2 who bore witness to the word of God, and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, to all things that he saw. 3 Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written in it; for the time is near.

4 John, to the seven churches which 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, 5 and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth.

To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, 6 and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

7 Behold, He is coming with clouds, and every eye will see Him, even they who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. Even so, Amen.

8 “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,” says the Lord, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”






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