A Study of the Book of the Revelation

The Book of the Revelation is the last book of the Bible and presents the culmination of God’s purposes for man in the earth. This study delves into the Revelation in search of truth to the end result of God’s redeeming work in the salvation of man. God has an eternal purpose for not only the earth but for the heavens as well. While we see in Genesis the creation of man in the earth and the fall of man, we find in the Revelation the eternal state of redeemed man. The revelation concludes with a New Heaven, a New Earth, and a New Jerusalem. It presents to the Bible believer the absolute authority of the Word of God as a divine revelation of the truth of coming things to man as to His eternal future in God’s plan for the ages. This study is the fruit of the author’s prayerful search of the Bible to find the information that will fix in the mind and heart of the believer the infallibility of the scripture as the sure anchor for the soul. It is the need of every human heart to be established in that faith that promises eternal life as a gift of God’s grace. Most men when presented with the prospect of receiving the greatest gift any man can have - the gift of eternal life, are compelled to find in the Bible that sure anchor for the soul. In the quest for such security of the soul, the spirit of man needs to know that the Word of God will pass every test that man can give it. This study takes one who lives on earth today in the dispensation of grace back into the prophetic program that deals with Israel and the Kingdom of Heaven that concerns our Lord Jesus Christ as the promised Messiah of that favored nation. God temporarily interrupted His program with Israel in the Book of Acts to start the Dispensation of Grace and for some 2000 years has been calling out what is basically a Gentile church - the Church, the Body of Christ. The Pauline epistles deal with the work of God in the activity of saving people by grace through faith apart from Israel or Israel’s program for these 2000 plus years since the saving of Saul of Tarsus. The interruption of God’s program with Israel will one day culminate with the event that we call the rapture of the church which is Christ’s body to heaven where it will live in His honor and glory. Then the prophetic program will pick up again where it was at when it was interrupted in the Book of Acts. The letters to the seven churches in the first three chapters will then give the nation the information that it needs to successfully get through the coming tribulation period. The Book of the Revelation is laid out in an intriguing way - being outlined in seven groupings of seven. Seven being the Bible’s number of completions is a fitting layout to this book that completes the Word of God. As the Bible student follows through these successive groups of seven, he sees the unfolding of the divine plan whereby God reclaims this earth back to Himself.