1. Revelation and Popular Culture

2. Dan 9 25 Know therefore and understand that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and build Jerusalem unto the Messiah, the Prince, shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks; the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. 26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself; and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary, and the end of it shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. 27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week; and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate. 2000 or more years of church history

3. DISPENSATIONALIST VIEW 1828John Nelson Darby 1909Scofield Reference Bible 1970Hal Lindsey – The Late Great Planet Earth 1995Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins – Left Behind 445 BCAD 30-70 Command to rebuild Jerusalem Jesus’ death – Jerusalem destroyed The RaptureThe TribulationReturn of Christ and the Saints: Armageddon MillenniumSatan loosed and defeated Eternity Dan 9:25 – Neh 2:5-8Dan 9:261 Thess 4:15-17 1 Cor 15:51-57 Dan 9:27 Rev 4:1-19:10 Matt 24 1 John 2:18 Dan 2 & 7 2 Thess 2 Rev 19:11-21 Isa 63:1-3; Joel 3 Zech 12 Rev 20:1-6 Isa 65:20-25 Mic 4:3 Rev 20:7-15Rev 21-22 Beginning of 70 weeks foretold by Jeremiah (Dan 9:2 – Jer 25:11) Clock of prophecy stops with one week of years remaining Christians removed from earth before the tribulation Antichrist’s covenant, one world government (U.N., Eur. Union) Temple rebuilt 144,000 Jewish evangelists are active Harlot’s one world religion (Papacy, WCC) Temple defiled Antichrist controls world economy Gog & Magog (Ezek 39, Dan 11, Russia) Kings of the East (Rev 16:11, China) Christ & saints rule on earth for 1000 years Resurrection & last judgment

4. Lectionary Texts Series C Rev 1:4-8 Rev 5:11-14 Rev 7:9-17 Rev 21:1-6 Rev 21:10, 22-22:5 Rev 22:12-14, 16-17, 20-21

5. APOCALYPSES are: A form of literature with a narrative framework, in which a revelation of transcendent reality is given by an angel or otherworldly being to a human recipient. Usually the revelation unveils a supernatural world and points to salvation at the end of time.

6. 2 TYPES OF APOCALYPSES 1.Accounts of Heavenly Journeys 2.Accounts of History