Revelation and Popular Culture

Dan 9 25 Know therefore and understand that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and build Jerusalem unto the Messiah, the Prince, shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks; the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. 26And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself; and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary, and the end of it shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.

27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week; and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

2000or moreyears ofchurchhistory

DISPENSATIONALIST VIEW1828 John Nelson Darby1909 Scofield Reference Bible1970 Hal Lindsey – The Late Great Planet Earth1995 Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins – Left Behind

445 BC AD 30-70

Commandto rebuild Jerusalem

Jesus’ death – Jerusalem destroyed

The Rapture The Tribulation Return of Christand the Saints:Armageddon

Millennium Satan loosedand defeated

Eternity

Dan 9:25 – Neh 2:5-8 Dan 9:26 1 Thess 4:15-171 Cor 15:51-57

Dan 9:27 Rev 4:1-19:10Matt 24 1 John 2:18Dan 2 & 7 2 Thess 2

Rev 19:11-21Isa 63:1-3; Joel 3

Zech 12

Rev 20:1-6Isa 65:20-25

Mic 4:3

Rev 20:7-15 Rev 21-22

Beginning of 70 weeks

foretold by Jeremiah(Dan 9:2 – Jer 25:11)

Clock of prophecy stops with one week of years

remaining

Christians removed

from earth beforethe tribulation

Antichrist’s covenant, one world

government(U.N., Eur. Union)

Temple rebuilt144,000 Jewish evangelists are

active

Harlot’s one world religion (Papacy, WCC)Temple defiled

Antichrist controls world

economy

Gog & Magog (Ezek 39, Dan 11,

Russia)Kings of the East

(Rev 16:11, China)

Christ & saints rule

on earth for 1000 years

Resurrection & last judgment

Lectionary Texts Series C

Rev 1:4-8

Rev 5:11-14

Rev 7:9-17

Rev 21:1-6

Rev 21:10, 22-22:5

Rev 22:12-14, 16-17, 20-21

APOCALYPSES are:

A form of literature with a narrative framework, in which a revelation of transcendent reality is given by an angel or otherworldly being to a human recipient.

Usually the revelation unveils a supernatural world and points to salvation at the end of time.

2 TYPES OF APOCALYPSES

1. Accounts of Heavenly Journeys

2. Accounts of History