Revelation

Did you know that scholars have many ways to study the Book of Revelation? The most popular four are listed below. I hope you find this information helpful.

Revelation

Four Approaches to Revelation

Preterist	Historicists	Idealist	Futurist
Revelation is about the first century and all events happened in Joh’s lifetime.	Revelation is a panorama of church history with attention focusing on the development of the West.	Revelation is symbolic of timeless truth and conflict between good and evil. The message is God is victorious.	Revelation 4 describes what will take place at the end of history just before the second coming of Jesus Christ and the establishment of His Kingdom.[1]
Seven Candles sticks are the seven churches	Seven stars are the pastors	Twenty-Four Elders are the twelve patriarchs (twelve sons of Israel) and the twelve apostles	144,000 are the redeemed on the earth who will not experience God’s wrath.[2]
Forty-two months/1260 days is an indefinite duration of pagan desolation.	Two Witness	666 is imperfect/evil	Those on thrones are the martyrs in heaven

Bibliography

Akin, Daniel L. and Robert B. Sloan. “Revelation, Book of.” In Holman Illustrated Bible             Dictionary, 1353-1364. Nashville, TN: Holman References, 2015.

[1] Daniel L. Akin and Robert B. Sloan, “Revelation, Book of,” in Holman Illustrated Bible Dictionary, (Nashville, TN: Holman References, 2015), 1355.

[2] Akin, “Revelation,” 1359-1363.