Thank you, Dr. Gentry. Balancing my seminary, college, and church duties made it take a long time to publish this post. I can only imagine how long it would take to write a book. Maybe one day!
I’ve been looking for anyone who takes the view that most of revelation (up to the millenium) occurred in the first century, but that is also RECURS after long ages of time. Is there a name for this view? Have you heard of it before?
Jonathan, I'm familiar with a view that understands the book to present a symbolic battle between good and evil that occurs in every generation until the end, including John's generation, but it would not necessarily try to pin "most of revelation" to SPECIFIC first century events. It's called Redemptive-Historical Idealism and is promoted by men like GK Beale.
Yeah I definitely don’t mean so much just symbolism, but rather that major events in Revelation took place literally in the first century, but that they also happen again at the end of epochs of time. So, for instance, Nero was a great example of “the Beast” (which he led as the leader of Rome), and “the whore of babylon” was Jerusalem and the Pharisees who had sold themselves out to the State. But these patterns repeat throughout history, we see them literally unfold over and over again. Is there a name for such a view? Maybe it is just my own private view then
Excellent analysis of absurd "logic." Keep up the good work. Get a book out on the subject!
Thank you, Dr. Gentry. Balancing my seminary, college, and church duties made it take a long time to publish this post. I can only imagine how long it would take to write a book. Maybe one day!
I’ve been looking for anyone who takes the view that most of revelation (up to the millenium) occurred in the first century, but that is also RECURS after long ages of time. Is there a name for this view? Have you heard of it before?
Jonathan, I'm familiar with a view that understands the book to present a symbolic battle between good and evil that occurs in every generation until the end, including John's generation, but it would not necessarily try to pin "most of revelation" to SPECIFIC first century events. It's called Redemptive-Historical Idealism and is promoted by men like GK Beale.
Yeah I definitely don’t mean so much just symbolism, but rather that major events in Revelation took place literally in the first century, but that they also happen again at the end of epochs of time. So, for instance, Nero was a great example of “the Beast” (which he led as the leader of Rome), and “the whore of babylon” was Jerusalem and the Pharisees who had sold themselves out to the State. But these patterns repeat throughout history, we see them literally unfold over and over again. Is there a name for such a view? Maybe it is just my own private view then