66 Revelation: Unlearned and Ignorant Commentary
About this ebook
1. We cannot pretend like we understand and know all things written in this book. Some things are not for us to fully understand or know (i.e. we don’t know much about Heaven. In fact, we know more about Hell than we do about Heaven).
2. John makes it a point to try and describe with incredible detail the things that are taking place. He is told several times what he is suppose to write down. I don’t know if he wrote these things while he was seeing the revelation or if he wrote them after they occurred (I believe and understand based on the way it is portrayed, that he more than likely wrote them as they were happening).
3. It’s noted that this book was written most likely around his exile to Patmos, and that has to be remembered frequently as we read this account.
4. He is writing during a time of great persecution to the Christian church by the Roman government. The reason he is sent to this island was because of his faith in Jesus Christ being rejected by the ruler of that day.
5. John uses a lot of symbolism from HIS current time period. Some things that are mentioned are not directly related today, but it was relevant during the time of the writing (though it wouldn’t surprise me if they became places of actual fruition again today).
6. There is a lot of symbolism that is used, and I will do my best to describe what scholars have said, how they line up with the Bible, and what they are more than likely to mean. Not everything will be fully understood (I need to reiterate this point, though I’ve already mentioned it), but that’s the ultimate goal of a study like this.
7. These notes will not be incredibly honed in on a “scholarly” level, and that’s on purpose. These will simply be the best notes I can get or find for the largest of issues or most prominent of information. (I’ve gone through this book in several settings, and I still learn something new each time). I want my notes to be simple for a reason, so that I don’t over complicate the gospel message (more on that in a moment).
8. John goes back and forth between things to come, and things that had already happened a lot. I will try and reference when he does this, but sometimes he does it without warning.
9. We should be open to researching uncertainties either now or later, so we don’t get caught up in semantics or unnecessary understandings.
10. Lastly (and most importantly) we can read this book of the Bible with the same focus as all of the other books of the Bible, the center being Jesus Christ and His salvation.
