Tuesday, May 8, 2018

How Christians Interpret Revelation

"The obscure and extravagant imagery has led to a wide variety of Christian interpretations:


historicist interpretations see in Revelation a broad view of history;

preterist interpretations treat Revelation as mostly referring to the events of the apostolic era (1st century), or, at the latest, the fall of the Roman Empire;

futurists believe that Revelation describes future events;

and idealist or symbolic interpretations consider that Revelation does not refer to actual people or events, but is an allegory of the spiritual path and the ongoing struggle between good and evil."
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And I saw a new heaven and a new earth:
 for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away;
and there was no more sea.
Revelation 21:1
Revelation takes us down from the continuation of history in Daniel to the recreation of the new earth.....= HISTORICISM