1. Four Basic Approaches to Reading the Book of Revelation

2. BASIC APPROACHES PRETERIST Focus Historical Context
and Setting is Most
Important
Preterist: Someone who believes all or almost all of Revelation is about events that happened in the 1st Century

3. The Whole of Human History Must “DECODE” the “BLUEPRINT”
BASIC APPROACHES
HISTORICIST
The Whole of Human History
is Significant
BUT
Must “DECODE” the “BLUEPRINT”
PRETERIST
Focus
Historical Context
and Setting is Most
Important
Historicist: Someone who believes that Revelation is about events that happened throughout all of human history

4. The Whole of Human History Must “DECODE” the “BLUEPRINT”
BASIC APPROACHES
HISTORICIST
The Whole of Human History
is Significant
BUT
Must “DECODE” the “BLUEPRINT”
FUTURIST
Focus
PRETERIST
Focus
Historical Context
and Setting is Most
Important
God’s Final Victory
is the Emphasis
Futurist: Someone who believes that most of Revelation is still to come.

5. BASIC APPROACHES IDEALIST “General Spiritual Principles”
HISTORICIST
The Whole of Human History
is Significant
BUT
Must “DECODE” the “BLUEPRINT”
PRETERIST
Focus
FUTURIST
Focus
Historical Context
and Setting is Most
Important
God’s Final Victory
is the Emphasis
IDEALIST
“General Spiritual Principles”
Operative in all ages

6. New Jerusalem
Age to come
This age Fallen Babylon