The Beast Revelation

Lets count the number of times a "mis-translation" of "SIGNiFIED" revelations occur in this letter.

First one must know just what is meant in scripture when the word "signified" is used. And as always in order to translate the correct contextual meaning of a word one must go to a place in scripture where the meaning is stated with no AMBIGUITY. The greatest error anyone attempting to give a current (today) meaning to the words used in the Book of Rev. is when they attempt to place a date on these revelations to some point in the distant future when the very first few sentences in this book of SIGNATIFIED meanings begins with a literal unambiguous text. Rev. 1:1 ".....things which must SHORTLY COME TO PASS.....and He (Christ Jesus) sent and signified it (the word/revelation) by His angel to His servant John"

Now back to the scriptural meaning of the word SIGNIFIED..... this word written in Greek literally means to indicate something by a SIGN....with a sign being something that has no clear meaning with its truth hidden with the language itself. An example of this word being used in scriptural text where it is given a historical context would be in the Gospel of John (the same John most likely who authored the Book of Rev.)


Here is the text with signified meaning clearly revealed by a recorded historical timeline in scripture. "And if I am lifted up (crucified on the cross) from the earth, will draw peoples unto Myself. THIS HE SAID SIGNIFYING WHAT DEATH HE WOULD DIE." -- John 12:32-33. If the author of John had not literally translated the signified words of the Christ himself.....one could have placed a false meaning to the declaration of the Christ....one could have assumed the Christ was speaking of His resurrection and ascent into heaven.

In the Book of Revelations the author is not so literal...because he is speaking of future events....not historical events, of things not yet to have occurred but where to SHORTLY TAKE PLACE. Shortly take place is literal as evidence by the contextual content of the first paragraph. The author is not talking about or revealing any event that was to take place some 2000 years in the future.


The 2nd mistake made by those attempting to mold some 1000 year reign around a signified (symbolic) meaning....is to ignore the clear unambiguous literal text of the 1st paragraph of the Book of Rev. "....blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy; and keeps these things written in it; FOR THE TIME IS NEAR." -- Rev. 1:1,3

To make it even more UNAMBIGOUS the prophecy being discussed by John, who received this message from an angel that Christ Jesus sent from heaven....is speaking of things that must shortly take place....we find the ending of this book matches the beginning of this book....EXACTLY, with no ambiguity in relation as to when this prophecy was to take place....IN THE NEAR FUTURE.

"DO NOT SEAL(hide from view) THE WORDS OF THE PROPHECY OF THIS BOOK......FOR THE TIME IS AT HAND." -- Rev. 22:10


It is true The Book of Revelation is signified with most of its meaning hidden within its text....but there is one thing that is abundantly clear. Anyone that attempts to give thousands of years to any interpretation of this book....has lost their direction right from the beginning.

Personally I read the Book to Identify....Rome and the Roman Empire as the BEAST that would bring tribulation upon the Christians John was addressing. Because literally the scriptures define the Anti-Christ as a movement against Christianity, not any single person.

This also is UNAMBIGOUS to anyone that would but read the history contained in the Scriptures in relation to the use of this term, "The Anti-Christ"...which is never mentioned in the Book of Revelation.

Anti-Christ is mentioned by John (the same author of the Book of Revelation)…...but the term Anti Christ is never mentioned in the Book of Revelation. Why...because John makes it clear that the Anti Christ is a term used to denote either current or historical use of this term. The first time we the see the term is in 1 John 2:18 ….where the words are quite clear and unambiguous that he is speaking of the Last Times/Days/hours being THEN during his lifetime, "Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard the Anti-Christ is coming, even now MANY ANTI-CHRISTS have come, by which we know that it is the last hour."


Conclusion: We have been living in the last times since Jesus was crucified and ascended into heaven 2 thousand years ago. As the New Testament of Christ Jesus is the last covenant between mankind and Father God....the final and last covenant.


The term is used by John 3 more times.....all contextually presenting the Anti-Christ as a movement represented by many people who simply do not accept Jesus as the Messiah of Scripture and God incarnate. (1 John 2:22, 1 John 4:3, and 2 John 7).



And the way the 2 resurrections(deaths) are defined is also quite clear to give a proper interpretation. The 1st resurrection is the resurrection by which one is REBORN through symbolic act of water baptism....the 2nd death and resurrection is clearly in relation to the day of judgment and physical death.


Read the signified meaning in the Book of Revelation in relation to the 2nd death/resurrection, "Then death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire (final judgment). THIS IS THE 2ND DEATH. AND ANYONE NOT FOUND IN THE WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE WAS CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE." -- Rev. 20:14-15


Then....when is the 1st death mentioned in scripture? "...….Or do you not know that as many of us were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized unto His death? Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we should walk in a newness of life. For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, CERTAINLY WE ALSO SHALL BE IN THE LIKENESS OF HIS RESURRECTION...…….." -- Rom. 6: 3-6


The scriptures are also vividly clear and unambiguous. NO ONE KNOWS when the end will come, Jesus Himself did not know of this time. Yet here we are......some people knowing to the day, the hour and the minute when this judgement is to take place.....:palm:
 
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milomason said:
It's how people misinterpret the Bible that's the problem.
You're an excellent example!
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The verse about Satan is in Isaiah.



How you are fallen from heaven,
O morning s ar, son of dawn!
How you are cut down to the ground,
you who laid the nations low! (Isa. 14:12)



The verse about Jesus is in Revelation.


I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify to you about these things for the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star. (Rev. 22:16)
 
kudzu said:
The verse about Satan is in Isaiah.



How you are fallen from heaven,
O morning s ar, son of dawn!
How you are cut down to the ground,
you who laid the nations low! (Isa. 14:12)



The verse about Jesus is in Revelation.


I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify to you about these things for the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star. (Rev. 22:16)
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Jude 9 Kind of ruins your assumption there is no Satan!
 
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