“Evening Service” SLBC (LKLD, FL)
The Apocalypse In Perspective
Revelation 1:1-3
1. The book REVEALS Jesus (ἀποκάλυψις)
• It is from GOD
• Through an ANGEL
• To JOHN (the Apostle)
• For the Lord’s SERVANTS
2. We are blessed if we READ and KEEP the WORDS in this book.
3. It is about SOON and NEAR events…
• Two possible dates of writing: either BEFORE or AFTER AD70
• External evidence: Irenaeus of Lyons “Against Heresies” (Book V, Chapter 30, Section 3)
“We will not, however, incur the risk of pronouncing positively as to the name of Antichrist; for if it were necessary that his name should be distinctly revealed in the present time, it would have been announced by him who beheld the apocalyptic vision. For that/he was seen no very long time since, but almost in our day, towards the end of Domitian’s reign.”
Resources:
Steve Gregg
Revelation Four Views A Parallel Commentary
G.K. Beale
Revelation: The New International Greek Testament Commentary (NIGTC)
Grant R. Osborne
Revelation: Baker Exegetical Commentary On The New Testament (BECNT)
E. Earle Ellis
“The Making of the New Testament Documents”
Kenneth L. Gentry
“Before Jerusalem Fell: Dating the Book of Revelation”
Stephen S. Smalley
“The Rev. to John: A Comm. on the Greek Text of the Apocalypse”
“Thunder and Love: John’s Reveation and John’s Community”
D.E. Aune: WBC 3 Vols.
T.F. Glasson “The Rev. of John”
F.C. Chase “The Date of the Apocalypse: the Evidence of Irenaeus” JTS 8 (1907) 435.
Austin Farrer
“The Revelation of St. John the Divine”
J. Ramsey Michales
“Interpreting the Book of Revelation”
IVP NT Commentary Series “Revelation”
Robert H. Mounce
NICNT “The Book of Revelation”
James L. Resseguie
“The Rev. of John: A Narrative Commentary”
“Rev. Unsealed: A Narrative Critical Approach…”
Frederich D. Mazzaferri
“The Genre of the Book of Rev. From a Source-Critical Perspective”
Bruce J. Malina
“On The Genre and Message of Rev.: Star Vision and Sky Journeys”
David A. deSilva
“Seeing Things John’s Way: Rhetoric of the Book of Revelation”
Arthur W. Wainwright
“Mysterious Apocalypse: Interpreting the Book of Revelation”
Mark Wilson
“Charts on the Book of Rev.: Literary, Hist., & Theol. Perspectives”
Richard Bauckham
“The Theology of the Book of Revelation”
Adela Y. Collins
“Crisis & Catharsis: The Power of the Apocalypse”
Bruce M. Metzger
“Breaking the Code: Understanding the Book of Revelation”
Steve Moyise
“Studies in the Book of Revelation”
Paul Spilsbury
“The Throne the Lamb & the Dragon: A Reader’s Guide…”
