Tsarfati Amir - Revealing Revelation Workbook: How Gods Plans for the Future Can Change Your Life Now

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Revealing Revelation Workbook

Copyright 2022 by Amir Tsarfati & Rick Yohn

Published by Harvest House Publishers

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CONTENTS

T he Bible study you hold in your hands has a twofold purpose: (1) to help you grasp the meaning and importance of the book of Revelation, and (2) to provide you with an approach to personal Bible study.

This book is an inductive Bible study. To learn from the Bible inductively means to look at the texts of Scripture and then draw conclusions. It is a connecting the dots approach to learning from Gods Word. Such study is often based on three aspects: (1) observation, (2) interpretation, and (3) application. But too often it does not include a fourth very important aspect: correlation. This answers the question, How does this passage relate to the rest of Scripture? When we dont include this part of Bible study, we fail to see the unity of the Bible, how each part contributes to the whole.

Correlation will be an important element of this study, which will help you understand that the book of Revelation is not an isolated book. Instead, it is the accumulative words of God through the entire Old and New Testaments.

Our desire is that you will not only have a sound understanding of Gods last word to mankind, but also a working approach to the study of Scripture that will enable you to better grasp all the books of the Bible as the whole counsel of God.

In this workbook, it is our privilege to introduce you to this marvelous revelation that came from the exalted Lord Jesus Christ by means of an angel to the apostle John, to seven churches, and then to us. Your study will be an adventurea journey through some unfamiliar language, filled with narrative and symbols and, occasionally, some very strange stuff. Along the way, you will uncover wonderful hidden treasures known only to those who are willing to take this journey into the future.

Join with us as we see Jesus no longer as the rejected prophet from Galilee, but now as the exalted Lord who alone is worthy to bring an end to the sinful stain that has corrupted the perfection of Gods creation. He begins His revelation with a message to the church, transitions to the coming judgment upon Satan and mankind, and then declares that He will reclaim that which is rightfully His. This will then launch us into a new heaven and earth. And now, turn your eyes upon the exalted Jesus.

F or many people, the book of Revelation is mysterious. For others, its just downright scary. But for those who know the Lord Jesus Christ as their personal Savior, it is a captivating, sobering, and yes, a more complete perspective of the Messiah. No longer do you read about a babe lying in a manger, or about the man from Galilee, or even about Jesus the prophet. No more is He the lowly servant who will die for mankind. Instead, a very different perspective of Him emerges from the pages of Revelation.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servantsthings which must shortly take place. And He sent and signified it by His angel to His servant John, who bore witness to the word of God, and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, to all things that he saw. Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written in it; for the time is near (Revelation 1:1-3).

Some of you will be looking for the church in this book and wonder where it is when Gods wrath is poured out on mankind. Others will want to know all about the Antichrist and may even be tempted to try to figure out what the number 666 is all about. You can spend a lot of time in speculation, or you can take the book of Revelation at face value by accepting it as a message not only for the people of the first century, but also for each of us today. It is not all written about us today, but all of it is for us today.

In this workbook, we want to give you an overview of Revelation that includes both highlights and details. We have designed this study for your participation. It is the companion to Amir and Dr. Yohns book Revealing Revelation . You will have the opportunity to act much like the believers in the city of Berea during the days of the apostle Paul. He tells us that they were not mere listeners to what he had to say, but also took the time to dig deeper. How did they accomplish that? Paul tells us in the book of Acts:

The brethren immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea. When they arrived, they went into the synagogue of the Jews. These were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so (Acts 17:10-11).

We are encouraging you to do the same thing. You may have already read Revealing Revelation , so now it is time to evaluate for yourself whether the contents of the book line up with what the Bible actually teaches. Whether you are doing this study on your own, in a small group, or in a large class at church, personal investigation into the Scriptures is the best way to learn what it teaches.

As we study Revelation, we are going to learn how to interpret it using a literal approach to understanding the Scriptures unless the text specifies that it is symbolic in nature. Even then, we will look for the literal meaning behind the symbols. Fortunately, many of the symbols are interpreted for us.

I, Rick, had just graduated with my BS in Bible from Bible college. I had taken two-and-a-half years of Greek, four years of Bible and theology, as well as many other college courses. I loved those four years of being immersed in Gods Word. I learned how to teach the Scriptures, how to preach from Gods Word, and how to understand what I was reading.

You would think by that time, I would also know how to study the Bible. I thought so, too, until I took a class on Bible study methods from Professor Howard G. Hendricks at Dallas Theological Seminary. During my first year there, I discovered that there is a difference between knowing about the Bible and knowing how to get into the Bible for myself . Hendricks taught us how to dig into the Scriptures on our own. We not only learned what we should be looking for when we opened the Bible, but also how to draw out the meaning of the specific passage. Then, best of all, he showed us how to apply it to our personal daily lives.