Book Of Revelation

The book of Revelation is the most significantly ignored, misunderstood, controversial, complex, and yet fascinating book in the Bible. There have been movies, television shows, books, and sermons, but they all seem to have different viewpoints and interpretations. Even one of the most brilliant scientists who ever lived, Sir Isaac Newton was known to be intrigued by the book of Revelation and wrote commentaries on it. Hilton Sutton (2001) writes that it is not a book of doom and gloom for the believer but rather a book that is to be understood because it reveals God's plan for the end of this age. So, why is the last profound book in the New Testament so intriguing? This book provides the insights and the answers to many of those questions of the end times. Knowing that, "Blessed is the one who reads aloud the word of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it

4:1). Chapters four through twenty are his descriptions of the events that are to take place in Heaven and on Earth marking the beginning of the Tribulation. Embedded in these chapters are heavy symbolism, numerology, the extravagant imagery all leading to the cataclysmic day of Judgement. Believers and non-believers have a difficult time understanding that some symbols must be interpreted and which are literal descriptions or interpretations that must be taken at face value. Pate & Gundry (1998) contended that “The Book of Revelation in the Bible has been viewed by many as a figurative book providing a visionary description of the future, the conflicts between good and evil, and the eventual end of the world, the Apocalypse” (p. 17). A practical key to understanding some of these visions and symbols can be found in the Old Testament, remembering the Bible is the best commentary on the Bible because it compliments