A Response: “A Biblical Guide to Revelation” — Part 1

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In this series, we’re going to be going through a study guide I downloaded one morning in July. There was an ad on my daily lectionary email (I use this because it’s a lot easier than looking it up every day) and I clicked on it by mistake. The ad was for a study guide — A Biblical Guide to Revelation: On End Times, Faith, and the Significance Today (hereinafter, “Biblical Guide” or “Guide”). If you’ve read this blog for any length of time, you’ll know that studying eschatology — the “end times” — is an important subject for me, so I was intrigued to see what they had to say and signed up for the free guide.


I downloaded the 25 page PDF Biblical Guide and started to read it. From the table of contents one can tell this has a specific evangelical slant. But, we all do, right? By that I mean we all come to the Bible with our own theological views. We can’t avoid it and I’m no different; if anyone tells us otherwise they’re mistaken or trying to sell us something. Still, the table of contents is quite telling:


Introduction: Unpacking the Book of Revelation

Chapter 1: Who Are the Seven Churches in Revelation?

Chapter 2: What Should We Know about the Rapture?

Chapter 3: Who is the Beast and What is His Mark?

Chapter 4: What is the Tribulation?

Chapter 5: What is the Millennial Reign?

Chapter 6: What are the Different Views of the Millennium?

Chapter 7: What is the Great White Throne Judgement?

Chapter 8: What is the New Heaven and New Earth?


As one can see, this Biblical Guide is coming from a dispensational view of eschatology as it hits all the hot-button topics like the “Rapture” and the “Great White Throne Judgement.”


This is reinforced in the Introduction — 


Although we cannot cover everything there is to know about Revelation, as it would take several thousands of books to do so, we can unpack some of the most important concepts Christians should know about the End Times.


In this guide, we’ll explore some of the biggest hallmarks of the End Times and how to be prepared for them.


From these couple of statements, we see that this Guide sees the “End Times” as something coming in our future. This is also evident at the beginning of the first chapter which we’ll address in the next post in this series.


Click here for Part 2.




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In the Love of the Three in One,


Br. Jack+, LC

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