Teaching Elder Duke Shelley of Black Forest Chapel continues a series on Revelation. Part 2 fully explores Biblical various interpretations of the Book of Revelation.

1. The Eschatology Debates
Intro to Revelation
Part 2

2. • Rules of Interpretation:

3. • Rules of Interpretation:
• When the plain sense, makes sense, seek no other
sense.

4. • Rules of Interpretation:
• When the plain sense, makes sense, seek no other
sense.
• 1. Interpret literally:

5. • Rules of Interpretation:
• When the plain sense, makes sense, seek no other
sense.
• 1. Interpret literally:
• 2. Interpret according to the harmony of prophecy:

6. • Rules of Interpretation:
• When the plain sense, makes sense, seek no other
sense.
• 1. Interpret literally:
• 2. Interpret according to the harmony of prophecy:
• 3. Observe the time relationships:

7. • Rules of Interpretation:
• When the plain sense, makes sense, seek no other
sense.
• 1. Interpret literally:
• 2. Interpret according to the harmony of prophecy:
• 3. Observe the time relationships:
• 4. The law of double reference:

8. • Rules of Interpretation:
• When the plain sense, makes sense, seek no other
sense.
• 1. Interpret literally:
• 2. Interpret according to the harmony of prophecy:
• 3. Observe the time relationships:
• 4. The law of double reference:
• 5. Interpret historically:

9. • Rules of Interpretation:
• When the plain sense, makes sense, seek no other
sense.
• 1. Interpret literally:
• 2. Interpret according to the harmony of prophecy:
• 3. Observe the time relationships:
• 4. The law of double reference:
• 5. Interpret historically:
• 6. Interpret consistently:

10. • Rules of Interpretation:
• When the plain sense, makes sense, seek no other
sense.
• 1. Interpret literally:
• 2. Interpret according to the harmony of prophecy:
• 3. Observe the time relationships:
• 4. The law of double reference:
• 5. Interpret historically:
• 6. Interpret consistently:
• 7. Interpret without preconceived ideas.

11. • 1. The interpretation form debate:

12. • 1. The interpretation form debate:
• 1. Allegorical or nonliteral approach:

13. • 1. The interpretation form debate:
• 1. Allegorical or nonliteral approach:
• 2. Preterist approach:

14. • 1. The interpretation form debate:
• 1. Allegorical or nonliteral approach:
• 2. Preterist approach:
• 3. Historical approach:

15. • 1. The interpretation form debate:
• 1. Allegorical or nonliteral approach:
• 2. Preterist approach:
• 3. Historical approach:
• 4. Futuristic approach:

16. • 2. The Amil vs. Premil Debate:

17. • 2. The Amil vs. Premil Debate:
• Amillennialism (a "not" + mille "thousand" +
annum "year").

18. • 2. The Amil vs. Premil Debate:
• Amillennialism (a "not" + mille "thousand" +
annum "year").
• Daniel 2:34&35b You continued looking until a
stone was cut out without hands, and it struck the
statue on its feet of iron and clay and crushed
them…But the stone that struck the statue became
a great mountain and filled the whole earth.

19. • Daniel 2:44 "In the days of those kings the God of
heaven will set up a kingdom which will never be
destroyed, and that kingdom will not be left for
another people; it will crush and put an end to all
these kingdoms, but it will itself endure forever.

20. • Premillennialism (pre "before" + mille "thousand"
+ annum "year").

21. • 3. Post Trib, Mid Trib & Pre Trib Rapture Debate:

22. • 3. Post Trib, Mid Trib & Pre Trib Rapture Debate:
• 1 Thessalonians 4:17-18 Then we who are alive
and remain will be caught up together with them
in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we
shall always be with the Lord. (18) Therefore
comfort one another with these words.

23. • Philippians 3:20 For our citizenship is in heaven,
from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the
Lord Jesus Christ;

24. • Philippians 3:20 For our citizenship is in heaven,
from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the
Lord Jesus Christ;
• Daniel 9:24-27 "Seventy weeks have been decreed
for your people and your holy city, to finish the
transgression, to make an end of sin, to make
atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting
righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and
to anoint the most holy place.

25. • (25) "So you are to know and discern that from
the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild
Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince there will be
seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; it will be built
again, with plaza and moat, even in times of
distress. (26) "Then after the sixty-two weeks the
Messiah will be cut off and have nothing, and the
people of the prince who is to come will destroy
the city and the sanctuary. And its end will come
with a flood; even to the end there will be war;
desolations are determined.

26. • (27) "And he will make a firm covenant with the
many for one week, but in the middle of the week
he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering;
and on the wing of abominations will come one
who makes desolate, even until a complete
destruction, one that is decreed, is poured out on
the one who makes desolate."

27. • Titus 2:13 looking for the blessed hope and the
appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior,
Christ Jesus,

28. • Titus 2:13 looking for the blessed hope and the
appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior,
Christ Jesus,
• 1 Thessalonians 1:9-10 For they themselves report
about us what kind of a reception we had with
you, and how you turned to God from idols to
serve a living and true God, (10) and to wait for
His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the
dead, that is Jesus, who rescues us from the wrath
to come.