Quotes About Revelation

The book of Revelation is filled with symbols, yet these symbols refer to things that are literal. They have literal referents (see, for example, the explanation that appears in Revelation 1:20).

The idealist view has no interpretive anchor that helps hold Revelation together. This view is extremely reader-centered and not tied to the original meaning of the text.

Idealism is not a reliable guide to the meaning of Revelation.

Futurists interpret Revelation 4–22 as describing real people and events yet to appear on the world scene.

While it is certainly true that Revelation looks ahead and reveals the future, it also looks back and brings together all the threads running through the first 65 books of the Bible.

Step two of properly interpreting a symbol in Revelation is to recognize that all the symbols in the book are explained either in Revelation itself or in other parts of the Bible.

The bottom line is this: Don't be afraid of or intimidated by Revelation. God wants you to understand and apply the truth of this book to your life.

Revelation 6–16 is the main section of the Bible that describes the end-times Tribulation. These eleven chapters focus upon the awful judgments of the end times.

In Revelation 16:13-16, Satan sends out demonic spirits to entice the leaders of the world's nations to gather their armies at Armageddon in northern Israel for the final great military campaign of this age.

Revelation 20:3 says that Satan is cast into the abyss for 1000 years after the return of Christ to earth "so that he should not deceive the nations any longer." This indicates that deceiving the nations must be one of his main goals during this present age.

Christianity turned its back on these ancient stories of fated decline. But it has never been able to escape historical mythmaking, despite the best efforts of theologians from Augustine to Karl Barth. The reason, as Hegel formulated it so well, is that Christian revelation is based on a unique divine incursion into the flow of historical time that altered but did not delegitimize an earlier divine–human relationship.

Honestly, I've never felt better in my life. It's like somebody flicked a switch and I've suddenly realized how crazy I'd been acting all those years. All that talk about interfacing with an ultra-dimensional Phoenix deity – it was absolutely insane.

To find meaning and truth in life place a blindfold on and observe your surroundings, you may find it right in front of you."-Mark Miller

When the world is pregnant with lies, a secret long hidden will be revealed.

Whatever opens us is not as important as what it opens.

I myself am the apocalypse of which I speak.

I think a good novel is a slow reveal--of the character and the plot. It's a process of discovery for the reader.

Writing is an act of revelation--to one's self and the world.

Fiction is a lie that tells deep truths

I sometimes surprise myself when one of my characters says something I would never say.

The penis, when you pull the underwear down, it's like a drunk friend just falling out of a car. —Jo Koy

Kafka didn't save me. He just told me I was drowning.

You want to get a good look at yourself. You stand before a mirror, you take off your jacket, unbutton your shirt, open your belt, unzip your fly. The outer clothing falls from you. You take off your shoes and socks, baring your feet. You remove your underwear. At a loss, you examine the mirror. There you are. You are not there.

remembering what I had forgotten; of rediscovering what had been submerged under mental clutter.