Turning Everyday Conversations into Gospel Conversations by Jimmy Scroggins & Robert B. Stewart

Author:Jimmy Scroggins & Robert B. Stewart
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Religion/Christian Theology/Apologetics
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Published: 2016-11-02T00:00:00+00:00

elements of a letter introduction in 1:4–6 and contains the seven letters to the seven churches in chapters 2–3.

So an interpretation of Revelation should be futurist in understanding the book to be a record of John’s God-given visions about the end of history, the return of Christ, the millennial kingdom, and the eternal state. But they should be preterist in understanding those visions to have begun with first-century events and, even when they shifted to future events, to have used imagery that would have been meaningful to first-century Christians in and around Ephesus based on their own historical-cultural backgrounds. The events from 6:12 onward, except for chapter 12, did not happen in the first century, but John uses imagery that first-century readers or hearers could have understood and often partially related to events that had happened. A book on the historical reliability of the New Testament, therefore, can discuss Revelation by highlighting the major ways in which historical background information can make sense of the imagery of the book. The more we find plausible interpretations of key elements and find them fitting together coherently, the more our confidence should grow in the author’s claims that he had precisely these visions, and the more our confidence in the truth of his predictions should grow as well. But if we find numerous anachronisms or inexplicable details, or inconsistencies in what is taught by the imagery he uses, the more that confidence should wane.

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