In this video series, I consider how the American strike on Iran in support of Israel has caused a fresh spate of prophetic drug-taking amidst prognostications of Armageddon and WWIII. I look at Rapture Fever, that Jesus failed to return in 1988 and the broad contours of End Time theological perspectives, Jesus’ main future facing dialogue on the End Times in Matthew 24-25 and the Book of Revelation.

Part Four

In this episode, I consider specifically some of the features and contours of the Book of Revelation.

00:00:00 The Book of Revelation

00:00:40 A plenary genitive: Jesus giving a revelation of Himself

00:02:46 The structure of the book

00:03:17 The “silent period”

00:03:52 The apocalyptic genre

00:04:32 The symbolic genre

00:05:10 Linguistic solicisms

00:06:00 The relationship to the gospel of John

00:07:40 Higher and lower criticism

00:09:00 Demythologising scripture

00:09:36 The danger of plain text interpretation

00:12:50 Sense and referent

00:13:40 Greek letters

00:14:00 The Jewish section, the Final Judgment

00:14:48 Chapter 4, the Rapture?

00:15:00 The Church Age

00:15:26 The Jewish section

00:15:44 The judgment of Babylon

00:16:00 The Final Judgment

00:17:15 The character of Babylon

00:19:00 The recapitulation problem

00:20:29 The challenge of the plain sense

00:21:24 The assumption of Premillenialism

00:22:06 The effects of Premillennialism

00:22:37 Viewing the end of Revelation as fufilment of the dominion mandate

00:23:53 What does Scripture say as a whole?

00:25:20 Summary – being the best in your vocation

00:30:00 Dominion Theology: https://planetmacneil.org/blog/dominion-theology-its-origin-development-and-place-in-christian-thinking/