1. Revelation, Which Interpretation?

15. 3 basic interpretations
Continuous historical
Futurist
Preterist

16. Cyprian of Carthage 200 - 258 AD
Vaudois (waldenses) AD
John Wycliffe – 1384 AD
Walter Brute th century AD
John Oldcastle – 1417 AD
William Tyndale – 1536 AD
George Joye AD
William Sherwin – 1687 AD
Thomas Beverly – 1701 AD
Edward Holyoke AD
Increase Mather – 1723 AD
Samuel Hopkins AD

19. A document found in the Bibliotheque Nationale de Paris
Written 1550 AD
“Of all the advice reserved for your holiness we have kept the most essential until the last moment.
Concerning the reading of the bible: we must keep our eyes wide open and intervene with all our power. It is necessary to authorize, as little as possible, the reading of the gospels, particularly in modern languages and in countries under our jurisdiction. That which is read during Mass must suffice and nobody must be authorized to read any other.

20. Your interest will prosper so long as the people are contented with the little which is offered to them, but as soon as the public asks for more, your interests are in danger. The Bible is the book which, more than any other , can stir up against us, revolts and storms which might well-nigh destroy us.
Certainly if someone studies the Bible seriously and compares it with what is happening in our churches he will soon find the contradictions and will see that our doctrines are far astray from the truth, and are even more often completely opposed to the Bible.

21. If the people come to recognize all these things they will be constantly defying us until everything is brought to light, whereupon we shall become the object of ridicule and hate. It is vital to keep the Bible away from the attention of the people, but with much caution so as to avoid uproar”

22. Martin
Luther’s 95
Theses
1517 AD

23. Counter Reformation God’s Marines The company of god
The Society of Jesus
The Jesuits
The organization was founded; Sept. 27, 1540AD

24. Renaissance or Rebirth
A cultural rebirth of the arts, literature, history, moral philosophy, sciences, and humanism.
The education of the lower classes.

25. Reformation Era Protestant Reformation 1517 – 1648
Counter reformation – 1648
Renaissance era th to 17th century

26. “Inscarum Beati Ioannis Apostoli
& Evangelistiae apoclypsin
Commentarij”
“Commentary on the Apocalypse”
Francisco De Ribera
Published 1585

27. “Investigation of the Hidden
Sense of the Apocalypse”
Luis De Alcazar
Published 1614

28. “ the Coming of Messiah
in Glory and Majesty”
Emanuel De Lacunza
Published 1812

29. “Polemic Lectures Concerning
the Disputed Points of the
Christian Belief Against the
Heretics of This Time”
Robert Bellarmine
Published 1885

30. 75% of civilization destroyed

31. PRETERIT
“Bygone or Former”
Those believing this view are Preterist

32. Protestant perspective
In what could only be described as a stunning reversal, protestants have, over time, actually become the papacy’s greatest ally by spreading its Jesuit spawned propaganda. What irony that protestants, who originally broke away from what they clearly recognized to be the harlot antichrist led church of prophecy, now champion the futurist interpretation from high profile ministries. Futurism has without doubt, been successful beyond the wildest dreams of its Jesuit authors.

33. Eureka Vol. 1 page 1
Blessed he that knows accurately, and they who give heed to the words of the prophecy, and observe narrowly the things which have been written in it; for the time is near.

34. Christadelphian alternate interpretations
“Revelation, A Biblical Approach”
Harry Whittaker, 1973, Preterist
“Apocalypse for Everyman”
A.D. Norris, , Futurist
“Exploring the Apocalypse and the Future”
Peter Watkins, ?, Futurist

35. The Revelation a Biblical Approach p. 171
All present indications are that the political power of the Church of Rome is as good as finished. Fantasies about political union between Rome and Communism are ventilated from time to time, but these lack even a vestige of Biblical support, and politically they certainly do not belong to the world of reality. The identification of the beast with the great power of Russia has much to commend it.

38. Revelation, Which Interpretation? Page 118
Many who read these new interpretations recognize that they are not sound expositions, but they maintain a tolerance toward them, and continue to hold those who write thus in high esteem. This comparative indifference to the truth is not good. With these mutually contradictory interpretations before us, our rising generation will adopt the view that there is no certain truth. With this loose attitude on one of the books of the inspired word of God, it will inevitably follow that a similar attitude will grow towards the rest of God’s word. Uncertainty and debate will increase, and our standing as the people that have the TRUTH will be lost.

39. Bro. Graham Pearce
Our duty is to join our faithful brethren of past centuries in witness against the Christian apostasy, headed up in Rome. This witness is being undermined by the new interpretations. A tolerant attitude to the Churches is growing rapidly in our community. We are ceasing to be God’s witnesses, because we have ceased to respond to the Revelation, to keep the sayings of this book.

40. Herald of the Kingdom Oct. 1851, P235
Moses Stuart and Dr. Lee believe that the Apocalypse was all compressed within the first three or four centuries, but Burgh, Todd and Maitland, that it must all be compressed into the last three or four years of the Christian era.
These opinions belong to the Arctic and Antarctic circles of speculation.

41. 1Pet. 3:15
Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear.

42. Apathy
Apathy is the result of an individual feeling he or she does not posses the level of skill required to confront a challenge.
Trauma induced by prolonged periods of conflict.

43. Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest
Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Toleration is 9 parts apathy to one part brotherly love.
Frank Moore Colby

44. Tolerance is a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors are apathy and weakness
James Goldsmith

46. Watchman Ezek. 33 H6822 צפה tsâphâh tsaw-faw'
A primitive root; properly to lean forward, that is, to peer into the distance; by implication to observe, await: - behold, espy, look up (well), wait for, (keep the) watch (-man).

47. Watchman Isaiah 21 H8104 שׁמר shâmar shaw-mar‘
A primitive root; properly to hedge about (as with thorns), that is, guard; generally to protect, attend to, etc.: - beware, be circumspect, take heed (to self), keep (-er, self), mark, look narrowly, observe, preserve, regard, reserve, save (self), sure, (that lay) wait (for), watch (-man).

48. Hebrews 13:10 Obey, peitho, believe, to have confidence in
Rule over, ago
lead, carry or keep
Watch, agrupneo
to be sleepless, to keep awake

49. Watchman Isaiah 56:10
His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.

50. Ezekiel 22:30
And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.

52. 2Peter 3:10 -11
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved

53. What Manner of persons ought ye to be