John is further designated as a prophet (22:6, 9) who was residing on the island of Patmos in the eastern Aegean Sea, because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus (1:9 NASB). The truths revealed may be such as are otherwise inaccessible to the human mindmysteries, which even when revealed, the intellect of man is incapable of fully penetrating. And the dead were judged according to their deeds, as recorded in the books. 2And I heard a sound from heaven like the roar of many waters and the loud rumbling of thunder. [29], Latter Day Saints believe in an open scriptural canon, and in addition to the Bible and the Book of Mormon, have books of scripture containing the revelations of modern-day prophets such as the Doctrine and Covenants and the Pearl of Great Price. The content of these revelations, known as the Qur'an,[48] was memorized and recorded by his followers and compiled from dozens of hafiz as well as other various parchments or hides into a single volume shortly after his death. (They come to different conclusions, however.). The Lamb had seven horns and seven eyes, which represent the seven Spiritsa of God sent out into all the earth. And I will never blot outb his name from the Book of Life, but I will confess his name before My Father and His angels. 4His tail swept a third of the stars from the sky, tossing them to the earth. psis (apocalypse), means Uncovering or Disclosure. This name indicates the meaning of Revelation it uncovers matters that had been hidden and discloses events that would happen long after it was written. WebRevelation.. This is a tremendous spiritual key to understanding prophecy, the entire Word of God, and the Living Word, Jesus Christ. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know the hour when I will come upon you. 19And if anyone takes away from the words of this book of prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and the holy city, which are described in this book. In The Age of Reason (17941809), Thomas Paine developed the theology of deism, rejecting the possibility of miracles and arguing that a revelation can be considered valid only for the original recipient, with all else being hearsay.[3]. For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit". John sees future tribulation, but he also sees the Lamb of God seated on his throne ( Revelation 1:9-18 ). According to Dumitru Stniloae, Eastern Orthodox Churchs position on general/special revelation is in stark contrast to Protestant and Catholic theologies that see a clear difference between general and special revelation and tend to argue that the former is not sufficient to salvation. 4Surrounding the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and on these thrones sat twenty-four elders dressed in white, with golden crowns on their heads. 8And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from His power; and no one could enter the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed. Archived from the original. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, 2 who testifies to everything he sawthat is, the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ. If not, I will describe it. 1Then I saw another great and marvelous sign in heaven: seven angels with the seven final plagues, with which the wrath of God is completed. Every shipmaster, passenger, and sailor, and all who make their living from the sea, will stand at a distance 8and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earthGog and Magogto assemble them for battle. WebRevelation Revelation 1 Prologue ( Daniel 12:113) 1 This is the revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants what must soon a come to pass. WebPrologue. [22] The Westminster Confession of Faith speaks of "the infallible truth and divine authority" of the Scriptures. The truths revealed may be such as are otherwise inaccessible to the human mindmysteries, which even when revealed, the intellect of man is incapable of fully penetrating. 4These are the ones who have not been defiled with women, for they are virgins. God's disclosure of his own nature and his purpose for mankind, esp through the words of human intermediaries 15So the four angels who had been prepared for this hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind. 16And He has a name written on His robe and on His thigh: 17Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and he cried out in a loud voice to all the birds flying overhead, Come, gather together for the great supper of God, 13He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood,c and His name is The Word of God. I was dead, and behold, now I am alive forever and ever! 12And the witnesses heard a loud voice from heaven saying, Come up here. And they went up to heaven in a cloud as their enemies watched them. It will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey.a. The Lamb and the 144,000 ( Revelation 14:1-5) "Then I looked, and behold, on Mount Zion stood the Lamb, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads. They believe that God's will is revealed through the interaction of humanity and God throughout history, and so, in that sense, Torah is a product of an ongoing revelation. Rabbi Nechemia Coopersmith and Rabbi Moshe Zeldman: Beale G.K., The Book of Revelation, NIGTC, Grand Rapids Cambridge 1999. Learn how and when to remove this template message, emperors, cult leaders, and other figures, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Joyce, George. Just before the start of the Apocalypse, a physicist and a nun race against the clock to see if the end of the world can be averted. 17He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. 5And no lie was found in their mouths; they are blameless.a, 6Then I saw another angel flying overhead, with the eternal gospel to proclaim to those who dwell on the earthto every nation and tribe and tongue and people. 3The One seated there looked like jasper and carnelian, and a rainbow that gleamed like an emerald encircled the throne. To the Church in Ephesus(Acts 19:812; Ephesians 1:12). 15For this reason. The one who overcomes will not be harmed by the second death. 17When I saw Him, I fell at His feet like a dead man. And I heard a voice from heaven like the roar of many waters and like the sound of loud thunder. 2Wake up and strengthen what remains, which was about to die; for I have found your deeds incomplete in the sight of My God. WebYet, the Book of Revelation is far more than an apocalyptic prophecy. 9And they marched across the broad expanse of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. 14And they will say:f. all your luxury and splendor have vanished. Historically, some emperors, cult leaders, and other figures have also been deified and treated as though their words are themselves revelations. 17For God has put it into their hearts to carry out His purpose by uniting to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God are fulfilled. WebRevelation 1 English Standard Version Prologue 1 The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants[ a] the things that must soon take place. These are the seven Spiritsa of God. A revelation communicated by a supernatural entity reported as being present during the event is called a vision. When the Lord reveals His will to the Church, He speaks through His prophet. The Lamb had seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits[ a] of God sent out into all the earth. In Muslim theology, Muhammad is considered equal in importance to all other prophets of God and to make distinction among the prophets is a sin, as the Qur'an itself promulgates equality between God's prophets. 13And as I observed, I heard an eagle flying overhead, calling in a loud voice, Woe! 14The wall of the city had twelve foundations bearing the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. For your merchants were the great ones of the earth, because all the nations were deceived by your sorcery.. 16And the second beast required all people small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, P Bilimoria (1998), 'The Idea of Authorless Revelation', in Indian Philosophy of Religion (Editor: Roy Perrett). 108. There were ten royal crowns on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads. God's disclosure of his own nature and his purpose for mankind, esp through the words of human intermediaries [19][20] It added: "Since God speaks in Sacred Scripture through men in human fashion, the interpreter of Sacred Scripture, in order to see clearly what God wanted to communicate to us, should carefully investigate what meaning the sacred writers really intended, and what God wanted to manifest by means of their words. Muslims believe the Quran was revealed by God to Muhammad word by word through the angel Gabriel (Jibril). 5From the throne came flashes of lightning, and rumblings, and peals of thunder. 9I know your affliction and your povertythough you are rich! The Catholic Encyclopedia. secures to the teacher or writer infallibility in communicating that truth to others. And the dragon stood on the shore of the sea.b. I am the First and the Last, Come up here, and I will show you what must happen after these things.. This is the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ. The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, wrote of his personal experience of inspiration and his own experience of the idea of revelation in his work Ecce Homo (book): Has any one at the end of the nineteenth century any distinct notion of what poets of a stronger age understood by the word inspiration? [8] Additionally, because many of the works were first recorded by an amanuensis,[9] most were submitted for approval and correction and the final text was personally approved by the revelator. 1 The revelation from Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants what must soon take place. By her teaching she misleads My servants to be sexually immoral and to eat food sacrificed to idols. 7And he said in a loud voice, Fear God and give Him glory, because the hour of His judgment has come. Before the throne burned seven torches of fire. But He placed His right hand on me and said, Do not be afraid. 14The armies of heaven, dressed in fine linen, white and pure, follow Him on white horses. And its rider is called Faithful and True. WebRevelation.. 16So because you are lukewarmneither hot nor coldI am about to vomit you out of My mouth! The throne of God and of the Lamb will be within the city, and His servants will worship Him. His face was like the sun shining at its brightest. 2And I saw a mighty angel proclaiming in a loud voice, Who is worthy to break the seals and open the scroll?. 1Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls came and said to me, Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits on many waters. And no one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth. 20Behold, I stand at the door and knock. WebTo the Church in Ephesus. The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits. ). 22He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.1 a Or the sevenfold Spirit5 b Or scrape off7 c See Isaiah 22:22.11 d Or suddenly or quickly14 e Or Beginning or Ruler, 1After this I looked and saw a door standing open in heaven. And he measured the city with the rod, and all its dimensions were equal12,000 stadiad in length and width and height. 9This calls for a mind with wisdom. With Bill Pullman, Natascha McElhone, Michael Massee, Mark Rendall. 2But exclude the courtyard outside the temple. 14And I looked and saw a white cloud, and seated on the cloud was One like the Son of Man,c with a golden crown on His head and a sharp sickle in His hand. People were divinely inspired by God with a message, but not in a verbal-like sense. 12Then the fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun and moon and stars were struck. Thus, parents may receive inspiration from God in raising their families, individuals can receive divine inspiration to help them meet personal challenges, church officers may receive revelation for those whom they serve, and so forth. 18Here is a call for wisdom: Let the one who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and that number is 666.d. "[39] (Smith, 362), ruti, Sanskrit for "that which is heard", refers to the body of most authoritative, ancient religious texts comprising the central canon of Hinduism. 7He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. His major work, Star of Redemption, expounds a philosophy in which he portrays the relationships between God, humanity and world as they are connected by creation, revelation and redemption. 8They had hair like that of women, and teeth like those of lions. [53], Revealed religions have religious texts which they view as divinely or supernaturally revealed or inspired. 14The second woe has passed. ). They will weep and mourn, I. 17Then the seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and a loud voice came from the throne in the temple, saying, It is done!. Here is a call for the perseverance and faith of the saints. 25Its gates will never be shut at the end of the day, because there will be no night there. 5Therefore, keep in mind how far you have fallen. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, ready to devour her child as soon as she gave birth. 13There were three gates on the east, three on the north, three on the south, and three on the west. To Him who loves us and has released us from our sins by His blood, 21And the rest were killed with the sword that proceeded from the mouth of the One seated on the horse. 8The beast that you sawit was, and now is no more, but is about to come up out of the Abyss and go to its destruction. 26And to the one who overcomes and continues in My work until the end, I will give authority over the nations. 14saying to the sixth angel with the trumpet, Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.. 7When the two witnesses have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up from the Abyss will wage war with them, and will overpower and kill them. 27But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who practices an abomination or a lie, but only those whose names are written in the Lambs Book of Life. To the thirsty I will give freely from the spring of the water of life. 14But I have a few things against you, because some of you hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block before the Israelites so they would eat food sacrificed to idols and commit sexual immorality. 6And before the throne was something like a sea of glass, as clear as crystal. 2The beast I saw was like a leopard, with the feet of a bear and the mouth of a lion. secures to the teacher or writer infallibility in communicating that truth to others. Muslims hold that the message of Islam is the same as the message preached by all the messengers sent by God to humanity since Adam. What city was ever like this great city? they will exclaim. Earth and heaven fled from His presence, and no place was found for them. 13These kings have one purpose: to yield their power and authority to the beast. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. 5Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and hurled it to the earth; and there were peals of thunder, and rumblings, and flashes of lightning, and an earthquake. 3And the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, where I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns. Orthodox Judaism and some forms of Christianity hold that the first five books of Moses were dictated by God in such a fashion. (Qur'an 3:84). 20Now the rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the works of their hands. This is a tremendous spiritual key to understanding prophecy, the entire Word of God, and the Living Word, Jesus Christ. And he will be tormented in fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb. The Lakota people believe Pteswi spoke directly to the people in the establishment of Lakota religious traditions. And he was given a great sword. 15But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood. Do not measure it, because it has been given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for 42 months. 7The one who overcomes will inherit all things, and I will be his God, and he will be My son. 5After this I looked, and the templethe tabernacle of the Testimonywas opened in heaven. 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