Colour scheme
By colouring down the border of your margin in just 5 colours through most of Revelation you can quickly see what type of chapter you are reading:
Blue–for Visions kingdom or the kingdom-community
Green–for Seals (Judgments on Pagan Rome)
Yellow…
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Chapter Breakup
v1-3 The Introduction and Blessing
v4-7 The Eternal Author Introduced
v8-11 The Great Voice to the Ecclesias
v12-20 The Vision of the Son of Man
Introduction and Blessing
1:1 – The Revelation of Jesus Christ
Gk – apokalupsis – mean…
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An Announcement
In v4 God expressed Himself in the language of manifestation as One who manifested Himself in the past, is manifesting Himself in the present and will do so in the future, through His omniscient and almighty power and wisdom.
Now the identity of the manifestation is fur…
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1:14 – His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; (ie purest white)
–head = Christ; hair = multitude ‘at one’ with the head
–wool: saints are the sheep of his pasture
–white: justified and washed (Isa 1:18)
and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
–eye = intelli…
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Introduction/Background
The letter to the Ephesians gives us a good picture of what life in Ephesus was like:
Materialistic – Eph 1:7,18; 2:7; 3:8,16
Immoral – Eph 4:20-24; 5:3-5
Idolatrous – Eph 2:21; Acts 19:27
Acts 18:19 records Paul’s first visi…
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Background
Smyrna is known today as modern Izmir; located at the south east edge of the gulf of Smyrna and situated on a long peninsula that thrusts out to the beautiful Aegean Sea. In spite of the earthquakes and other events that Smyrna suffered through the centuries, the city had pro…
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Background
The KJV has Pergamos (feminine form of the name). Many other translations have the neuter form, Pergamum.
In 282BC it was made the capital of the Seleucid kingdom. In 232BC the Attalid kingdom was established and under the reign of Eumenes II (197–159BC) the city was tra…
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Background
Thyatira was founded as a garrison city in the time of Seleucus I, mainly because it stood in the important Lycus valley and was designed to impede the flow of enemy forces up and down the valley.
When the Roman Empire took over, it ceased to be merely a military city, thoug…
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2:21 – And I gave her space
– Gk chronos – time; season
to repent of her fornication;
– the Lord continually seeks repentance (v5, 16, 22; 3:3, 19) – he used the work of the Apostle John in his letters to warn these false teachers
and she repented not.
– Jezebel k…
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Background
The city of Sardis was a principal city in western Asia Minor, located in the Hermus Valley, 80km east of the port city of Smyrna. Until it was captured in 546BC by the Persians under Cyrus II, it had been the capital of the Kingdom of Lydia, but it remained an impor- tan…
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