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Revelation and John
In the New Testament, the Ark is mentioned in the Letter to the Hebrews and the Revelation to St. John.
File: Durer Revelation Four Riders. png | The Revelation of St John: 4.
File: Durer, apocalisse, 08 battaglia degli angeli. jpg | The Revelation of St John: The Battle of the Angels, 1497-1498, woodcut, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
File: Durer, apocalisse, 05 quinta e setsa piaga. jpg | The Revelation of St John: Opening the Fifth and Sixth Seals, 1497-1498, woodcut, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
Evangelist John of Patmos writes the Book of Revelation.
It is also known as the Book of the Revelation of Saint John the Divine or the Apocalypse of John, ( both in reference to its author ) or the Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ ( in reference to its opening line ) or simply Revelation, ( often erroneously called Revelations in contrast to the singular in the original Koine ) or the Apocalypse.
The author of Revelation identifies himself several times as " John.
As a result, the author of Revelation is sometimes referred to as John of Patmos.
Eusebius ( c. 263 – 339 ) was inclined to class the Apocalypse with the accepted books but also listed it in the Antilegomena, with his own reservation for identification of John of Patmos with John the Apostle, pointing out there were large differences in Greek skill and styles between the Gospel of John, which he attributed to John the Apostle, and the Revelation.
The traditional theory holds that John the Apostle — considered to have written the Gospel and the epistles of John — was exiled on Patmos in the Aegean archipelago during the reign of Domitian, and there wrote Revelation.
Those in favor of apostolic authorship point to the testimony of the early church fathers ( see " Early Theories " above ) and similarities between the Gospel of John and Revelation.
In the Gospel of John and in Revelation, Jesus is referred to as " the Word of God " (), although the context in Revelation is very different from John.

Revelation and Book
Eschatological passages are found in many places, especially Isaiah, Daniel, Matthew 24, Matthew 25, and the Book of Revelation.
The author of the Book of Revelation writes about God and the angels versus Satan and demons in an epic battle at the end of times when all souls are judged.
Using the biblical Book of Revelation as a point of departure, Caesar Antichrist presents a parallel world of extreme formal symbolism in which Christ is resurrected not as an agent of spirituality but as an agent of the Roman Empire that seeks to dominate spirituality.
In a vision in the New Testament Book of Revelation, an angel called Abbadon is shown as the king of an army of locusts ; his name is first transcribed in Greek as " whose name in Hebrew Abaddon " ( Ἀβαδδὼν ), and then translated as, " which in Greek means the Destroyer " ( Apollyon, Ἀπολλύων ).
Category: Book of Revelation
The legend is linked to an idea in the Book of Revelation ( 3: 12 and 21: 2 ) describing a Second Coming, wherein Jesus establishes a new Jerusalem.
7: 13 ), and Jesus is presented using the same wording in the Book of Revelation in 1: 13-15 .< ref name = Bromiley1995 >
The Book of Revelation, often simply known as Revelation or by a number of variants expanding upon its authorship or subject matter, is the final book of the New Testament and occupies a central part in Christian eschatology.
The Book of Revelation is the only apocalyptic document in the New Testament canon, though there are short apocalyptic passages in various places in the Gospels and the Epistles.
* Bass, Ralph E., Jr. ( 2004 ) Back to the Future: A Study in the Book of Revelation, Greenville, South Carolina: Living Hope Press, ISBN 0-9759547-0-9.
* Beale G. K., The Book of Revelation, NIGTC, Grand Rapids – Cambridge 1999.
Apocalypse: The Illustrated Book of Revelation.
* Gentry, Kenneth L., Jr. ( 1998 ) Before Jerusalem Fell: Dating the Book of Revelation, Powder Springs, Georgia: American Vision, ISBN 0-915815-43-5.
* Muggleton, Lodowicke Works on the Book of Revelation London 2010 ISBN 978-1-907466-04-5
* Understanding the Book of Revelation – Article by L. Michael White from PBS Frontline program " Apocalypse!
In the Book of Revelation, Jesus Christ is the kinsman-redeemer and is the only one worthy to open the seven sealed scroll spoken of in Revelation 5: 1-10.

Revelation and 4
# Revelation 20: 4.
Posttribulationists argue that the seventh trumpet mentioned in Revelation is also the last trumpet mentioned in 1 Corinthians 15: 52, and that there is a strong correlation between the events mentioned in Isaiah 27: 13, Matthew 24: 29-31, and 1 Thessalonians 4: 16-thus creating a strong parallel, proving that the rapture occurs after the tribulation.
* 4, 949, 735 km < sup > 2 </ sup > -- Base of the New Jerusalem mentioned in Revelation 21: 16
Other relevant Scripture passages include Exodus 19: 5 – 6, First Peter 2: 4 – 8, Book of Revelation 1: 4 – 6, 5: 6 – 10, and the Epistle to the Hebrews.
Other works by Lardner are A Large Collection of Ancient Jewish and Heathen Testimonies to the Truth of the Christian Revelation, with Notes and Observations ( 4 volumes, quarto, 1764 – 1767 ); The History of the Heretics of the two first Centuries after Christ, published posthumously in 1780 ; and a considerable number of occasional sermons.
The reference to the lamb in Revelation 5: 6 relates it to the Seven Spirits of God which first appear in Revelation 1: 4 and are associated with Jesus who holds them along with seven stars.
# Ephesus ( Revelation 2: 1-7 )-the church that had forsaken its first love ( 2: 4 ).
A DVD release of the first series of Chance in a Million was released on 1 March 2010, with the second series released on 5 July 2010 and the third and final series as well as a 3-Disc set of the complete series released on 4 October 2010, all from Revelation Films.
Rather, the LDS believe that to become as God means to overcome the world through the atonement of Jesus Christ ( see 1 John 5: 4 — 5 ; Revelation 2: 7, 11 ).
Thus the faithful become heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ and will inherit all things just as Christ inherits all things ( see Romans 8: 17 ; Galatians 4: 7 ; 1 Corinthians 3: 21 — 23 ; Revelation 21: 7 ).
Acts 1: 10-11 ; I Thessalonians 4: 13-18 ; Revelation 1: 7.
I Corinthians 12: 25 ; II Corinthians 11: 2 ; Galatians 3: 28-29 ; Ephesians 4: 16 ; 5: 23-33 ; Revelation 19: 7-8.
The cherubim are mentioned in Genesis 3: 24 ; Exodus 25: 17-22 ; 2 Chronicles 3: 7-14 ; Ezekiel 10: 12 – 14, 28: 14-16 ; 1 Kings 6: 23 – 28 ; and Revelation 4: 6-8.
Like many hymns, too, this one is a tissue of Biblical quotations, including " Alpha and Omega " ( st. 2 ) as an epithet of Christ, from Revelation 21: 6 ; the casting of crowns before God's throne ( st. 4 ), from Revelation 4: 10 ; the promise that Christians shall be " changed from glory into glory " ( st. 2 and 4 ), from 2 Corinthians 3: 18 ; as well as other, more general allusions.
References to the creatures reoccur in texts of Second Temple Judaism, in rabbinical merkabah (" chariot ") literature, and in the Book of Revelation 4: 6.

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