Contents of Overcoming: Guide to understanding the Book of Revelation
Author Steve
Singleton
Contents
PROLOGUE
INTRODUCTION
- Hermeneutics
to the Book of Revelation . . .-
General
hermeneutics - Special
hermeneutics for the Book of Revelation
-
General
-
Internal
contexts . . .-
Immediate
context – Sentence, paragraph, book -
Remote
contexts – author’s corpus and New Testament -
Remote
contexts – Old Testament
-
Immediate
-
External
contexts . . .-
Geographical
and historical backgrounds -
Literary
and cultural contexts
-
Geographical
-
The
various interpretations of the book . . .-
Premillennialism:
Christ will return before a literal 1000-year reign. . . .-
Chiliasm
(post-tribulational) -
Dispensationalism
(pre-tribulational)
-
Chiliasm
-
Postmillennialism:
Christ will return again, after the "millennium" -
Amillennialism:
No literal millennium has occurred, nor will occur . . .- Spiritualist
-
Continuous
historical - Preterist . . .
- Destruction of Jerusalem
- Domitianic persecution
-
Bonus essay: Predictions
of the return of Christ
-
Premillennialism:
-
Authorship
of the Book of Revelation . . .-
The
alternatives regarding authorship -
What
is the evidence for and against each of these alternatives? -
Conclusion
about the authorship of Revelation
-
The
-
Date
of the Writing of the Book of Revelation . . .-
The
alternatives regarding date: early, middle, and late. -
Conclusion
about date
-
The
-
Purposes
of the Book of Revelation -
Sources
of the Book of Revelation . . .-
Old
Testament symbolism of numbers and colors -
Symbolism
derived from the Jewish cultus -
Symbolism
of the Exodus
-
Old
COMMENTS & NOTES ON THE TEXT
-
The vision of the Son of Man (chap. 1) . . .
- Overview essay
- Notes on the text
- What Christ thinks of the Church (chaps. 2–3) . . .
- Overview essay
- Notes on the text
- Creator God, Redeemer Lamb (chaps. 4–5) . . .
- Overview essay
- Notes on the text
-
Bonus
essay: "Worthy is the Lamb" – The Christology of Revelation 5
- The seven seals (chap. 6) . . .
- Overview essay
- Notes on the text
- Sealed for God (chap. 7) . . .
- Overview essay
- Notes on the text
- The seven trumpets (chaps. 8–9) . . .
- Overview essay
- Notes on the text
-
Bonus
essay: Why would God allow this to happen?
- The prophet and the witnesses (chaps. 10–11) . . .
- Overview essay
- Notes on the text
- The spiritual conflict (chaps. 12–13) . . .
- Overview essay
- Notes on the text
- The demise of Satan in the Book of Revelation
-
Bonus
essay: Can we solve the 666 puzzle? . . . - The mystery of the number
- Context is important
- An overview of Revelation
- The immediate context
- Lexical and grammatical considerations
- A gematria riddle the best possibility
- Two solutions point to Domitian
- Less likely solutions to the puzzle
- Many, many dead ends
- Beware our true Enemy
- In Christ is the only safety
- Bonus Essay: The real issue is not 666
- The harvest of the earth (chap. 14) . . .
- Overview essay
- Notes on the text
- The seven bowls of wrath (chaps. 15–16) . . .
- Overview essay
- Notes on the text
-
Bonus
essay: Recapitulation in the Book of Revelation
- The Fall of “Babylon the Great” (chaps. 17–18) . . .
- Overview essay
- Notes on the text
- Victory at last (chaps. 19–20) . . .
- Overview essay
- Notes on the text
-
Bonus
essay: How should we view the millennium? - Bonus essay: Who are Gog and Magog?
- The new Jerusalem (chaps. 21–22) . . .
- Overview essay
- Notes on the text
EPILOGUE
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bonus essay: The End of the Urge?
Bonus section: BEHIND “LEFT BEHIND”
Bonus: Scripture Index to Spiritual Songs referring to Revelation
Index to the Introduction
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