A Bible Handbook to Revelation

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Mal Couch
Kregel Academic - 328 pages
Leading evangelical educators combine efforts in this thorough look at the text of Revelation and the issues that most interest and trouble twenty-first century readers and students. Includes a verse-by-verse explanation and background analysis.

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Contents

Foreword
8
Why Is Revelation Important?
15
Revelation in the New Testament Canon
22
How Has Revelation Been Viewed Interpretively?
36
Interpreting the Book of Revelation
45
The Literary Structure of Revelation
69
Bibliology in the Book of Revelation
81
Theology Proper in the Book of Revelation
92
The Problems in the Seven Churches of Asia
207
The Problems in the Seven Churches
217
John Called into Heaven Come Up Here
225
The Six Seals Opened
233
The Four Trumpets Sounded
241
Parenthesis Tribulation Horror Intensifies
250
Satan the Woman Who Is Israel and the Messiah
258
Parenthesis Preview of the End of the Tribulation
268

Christology in the Book of Revelation
104
Pneumatology in the Book of Revelation
114
Ecclesiology in the Book of Revelation
122
Anthropology in the Book of Revelation
131
Hamartiology in the Book of Revelation
142
Angelology in the Book of Revelation
150
Soteriology in the Book of Revelation
163
Israelology in the Book of Revelation
172
The Rapture of the Church and the Book of Revelation
187
A VERSEBYVERSE BACKGROUND GUIDE
197
The Great Chorus of Victory Before the Lord
272
The Seven Bowls of Wrath
274
The Doom of Babylon
278
The Terrible Fall of Babylon
283
The Demise of Babylon and the Coming of Christ
287
The Kingdom Reign of Christ and Satan Bound
292
The Revealing of the New Heavens the New Earth and the New Jerusalem
297
Renovation of the Universe and the Final Message of Scripture
303
Endnotes
310
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Page 261 - Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth ? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
Page 117 - When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth...
Page 124 - But you are A CHOSEN RACE, A ROYAL PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, A PEOPLE FOR God's OWN POSSESSION, that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light...
Page 82 - And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
Page 213 - He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches. To him that overcometh, to him will I give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and upon the stone a new name written, which no one knoweth but he that receiveth it.
Page 90 - If any man shall add unto them, God shall add unto him the plagues which are written in this book: and if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the tree of life, and out of the holy city, which are written in this book.
Page 67 - I am : and ye shall see the Son of man sitting at the right hand of power, and coming with the clouds of heaven.
Page 230 - And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.
Page 259 - And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth...
Page 273 - And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power ; and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled.

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