Revelation Unveiled: Understanding the Heart of Jesus In the Imminent Day of the Lord
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This work reads Revelation by the discipline of letting Scripture interpret itself across the whole canon. The author is the translator of the Jubilee Bible; his ten-year labor of assigning a unique English word to each Hebrew and Greek term taught him to trace every key sign, every prophetic number, every recurring word through its trajectory in Scripture, so that meaning is fixed by God's prior usage, not by human inference.
What surfaces is not a timeline to memorize but a condition — sealed or marked, hot or lukewarm, dwelling in the heavens or only on the earth. The seven letters are heard as the living voice of Jesus. The man child of Revelation 12 is read as a corporate, many-membered son brought forth from the old creation. The Hebrew trajectory of the word rapture — to be torn or seized, as Rahab was torn from inside Jericho only after the walls had fallen — undoes a generation's inheritance of escapist theology. Mercy and truth are held together; the verdict belongs to the Judge.
The reader is left with the only question that has ever mattered: is the work of Christ visible in me, and is my name written in the book of the life of the Lamb? Written from within a South American revival that has endured decades of persecution, this is the book of Revelation read on its own terms, at the threshold of the seventh millennium.
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At age four, while his family was living in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Russell Stendal prayed and asked God to call his parents, Chad and Pat, to be missionaries. God answered that prayer, and within just a few years, the whole family was on the mission field in Colombia, South America. He became an accomplished jungle pilot and married a beautiful Colombian lady named Marina. They have four children, Lisa, Alethia, Russell Jr., and Dylan, plus nine grandchildren.
When Russell was twenty-seven years old, Marxist guerrillas of the FARC kidnapped him for 142 days. The story of his kidnapping is told in his book Rescue the Captors — titled after the realization that his captors were more captive than he was. While there was the possibility he would be released, most of his kidnappers were young people who had been taken from their families, given a weapon, and taught to kill. They had little hope of survival.
To reach all the actors in the armed conflict, including his former captors, Russell established a radio ministry to broadcast programs into the dangerous war-stricken areas of Colombia with messages of peace and hope. He has also written more than fifty books in English and Spanish.
In 2017, Russell was awarded the Shahbaz Bhatti Freedom Award (given to Pope Francis the year before) for his tireless efforts toward spreading peace and reconciliation in Colombia (in the context of promoting religious freedom). He travels extensively as a guest speaker at conventions around the world. His speaking is unique in that he is very sensitive to the Lord’s voice and does not hesitate to deliver the message imparted to him, no matter how uncomfortable that may be to him or others. Most of the books he has published were transcribed directly from the radio messages he preached in Spanish and beamed into virtually all of the war-torn areas of the countryside.
Russell is the translator of the Jubilee Bible (JUB) and Biblia del Jubileo (JBS) translations that are published in English and in Spanish. Well over a million copies of the Biblia del Jubileo have been donated and distributed into the most impoverished areas of Colombia and Venezuela.
