[Jim W N]

My book “The End Times” will be out soon.

My goal is to clear up and understand what is coming soon, to promote the Gospel of the Grace of Christ, to comfort those who know Jesus, and warn the rest to please board the Ark of Heaven, Jesus Christ who will whisk away to Heaven those who belong to him before it all comes crashing down on earth.

[Telepathic Intruder]

Because Revelation contains a lot of symbolism doesn’t mean it’s not true, or that there are no incorrect ways to interpret it. Jesus often spoke in parables, and would translate their true meaning to his disciples. The symbolic nature is there to underscore the true spiritual meaning of events rather than leave them open to reinterpretation depending on how you wanted to look at them.

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[Campion]

Irenaeus, who grew up in the church at Smyrna in the second century AD, tells us that John wrote the book of Revelation at this time.

The Greek is ambiguous. It could mean that Revelation was written in the AD 90s, or it could mean that John (the John who wrote Revelation) was alive in the AD 90s.

[SkyDancer]

Rapture friend told me since the church is not mentioned after chapter 3 in Revelation, it means the church was taken out in the Rapture. I told her that Revelation wasn’t written in chapter and verse. That didn’t come about until the 16th. century when it was divided into chapter and verse.

[FarCenter]

Martin Luther’s Preface to the Revelation of St. John (1522)​

About this Book of the Revelation of John, I leave everyone free to hold his own opinions. I would not have anyone bound to my opinion or judgment. I say what I feel. I miss more than one thing in this book, and it makes me consider it to be neither apostolic nor prophetic.

First and foremost, the apostles do not deal with visions, but prophesy in clear and plain words, as do Peter and Paul, and Christ in the gospel. For it befits the apostolic office to speak clearly of Christ and his deeds, without images and visions. Moreover there is no prophet in the Old Testament, to say nothing of the New, who deals so exclusively with visions and images. For myself, I think it approximates the Fourth Book of Esdras; I can in no way detect that the Holy Spirit produced it.

Moreover he seems to me to be going much too far when he commends his own book so highly [Revelation 22]—indeed, more than any of the other sacred books do, though they are much more important—and threatens that if anyone takes away anything from it, God will take away from him, etc. Again, they are supposed to be blessed who keep what is written in this book; and yet no one knows what that is, to say nothing of keeping it. This is just the same as if we did not have the book at all. And there are many far better books available for us to keep.

Many of the fathers also rejected this book a long time ago; although St. Jerome, to be sure, refers to it in exalted terms and says that it is above all praise and that there are as many mysteries in it as words. Still, Jerome cannot prove this at all, and his praise at numerous places is too generous.

Finally, let everyone think of it as his own spirit leads him. My spirit cannot accommodate itself to this book. For me this is reason enough not to think highly of it: Christ is neither taught nor known in it. But to teach Christ, this is the thing which an apostle is bound above all else to do; as Christ says in Acts 1[:8], “You shall be my witnesses.” Therefore I stick to the books which present Christ to me clearly and purely.

[Vlad0]

Does it even really belong in the Bible? Many early Christians thought not. The Eastern Orthodox often left it out of their lists of canonical scriptures. And various Protestants thought little of it.

(Wikipedia) Martin Luther called Revelation "neither apostolic nor prophetic" in the 1522 preface to his translation of the New Testament (he revised his position with a much more favorable assessment in 1530),[43] Huldrych Zwingli labelled it "not a book of the Bible",[44] and it was the only New Testament book on which John Calvin did not write a commentary.[45] As of 2015, Revelation remains the only New Testament book not read in the Divine Liturgy of the Eastern Orthodox Church,[46] though Catholic and Protestant liturgies include it.

I think it's a fascinating book, but wonder how authentic it is.

[Zathras]

The Rapture teaching is based on one line in one book in scripture.
There is probably no “teaching” that has wasted more lives in scripture than this one.
Its not going to happen!
Take control over your own life and stop waiting for Jesus to save you.

[Ezekiel]

Now God seen some sinnin'
And it gave Him pain...

While folks argue, you can count on the Irish Rovers for the real intel, because

The 'Days of Noe' *is* Operation Unicorn:

The Irish Rovers - The Unicorn Song

Operation Unicorn is the plan for handling the Queen's death in Scotland. Details about Operation Unicorn were first reported to the public in 2019, although mention of the codename was first made in the Scottish Parliament's online papers in 2017.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_London_Bridge#Operation_Unicorn_(Scotland)

The operation, which was to come into force in case Queen Elizabeth II died in Scotland, was named so after the national animal of Scotland.

"Don't you forget my unicorn."

Total round-up. People just aren't prepared.

Isaac="he will laugh"

Good Irish name. Íosac