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

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Revealing Revelation

Copyright 2022 by Amir Tsarfati

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I dedicate this book to God, whose perfect plan revealed in Scripture is what gives me peace in a tumultuous world .

I dedicate this book to my family, friends, and ministry partners. It is your love, prayers, and support that give me the strength and resources to carry out that to which God has called me .

I dedicate this book to the brave pastors who are out there still boldly teaching Revelation with the same excitement and enthusiasm they have for teaching the rest of the Bible .

First and foremost, I want to thank the Lord for giving His Word. I harbor a deep love for Scripture and count it a humbling privilege to have been called by God to both study and teach biblical truth.

I want to thank Dr. Rick Yohn for his wisdom and understanding of Scripture, which have proven invaluable not just during the creation of this particular book, but at many times through the years. Your friendship is a true blessing to me. Also, thank you to Steve Yohn for your assistance in the writing of this book.

My love and appreciation go out to my wife, Miriam, my four children, and my daughter-in-law for your love and encouragement through the long workdays and the extended absences.

Thank you, Behold Israel team, for your love, support, and dedicationMike, H.T. and Tara, Gale and Florene, Donalee, Joanne, Nick and Tina, Jason, Abigail, Jeff, Kayo, and Steve. Also, thanks to all your spouses and children, who often sacrifice their family time with you to further the spreading of Gods Word.

Thank you to Bob Hawkins, Steve Miller, and the wonderful team at Harvest House for all your hard work in making this book happen.

Finally, thank you so much to the hundreds of thousands of followers, prayer partners, and ministry supporters of Behold Israel. This ministry would not exist without you.

CONTENTS

R evelation was written to be read.

That may seem like an obvious fact, but when it comes to the last book of the Bible, many people forget that truth. Sure, they know that it should be read by someone, maybe theologians or pastors or prophecy teachers. But they conclude that for the ordinary church person, its just too complicated or weird or scary. Best to leave it for the professionals, they say.

The problem is that so many of the professionals are not reading it themselves. For some, its because their seminaries barely touched on this important book during a New Testament overview course. So they have no real idea what the apostle John wrote. Others prefer to dodge the book, incorrectly claiming that there are no personal applications in it. Really? What they are saying is that Revelation is essentially irrelevant. If that is true, then why is it in the biblical canon? I challenge you to show me one book of the Bible that is not applicable in some wayone part of Scripture about which you can say, You know, I kinda think that God was just padding His word count with this passage. This kind of Revelation avoidance is very sad, because way too many people in the church are missing out on all the blessings that God Himself promises to those who read it.

It is because I want everyone to experience these guaranteed blessings that Ive written this book. Its true that, at first, Revelation can be intimidating. However, once you start reading, youll be shocked at how easy it is to understand. Again, God wrote it to be readnot just by the professionals, but by you.

For many years, I was a tour guide in Israel. When I took a group to a location like Caesarea Philippi or En Gedi or Gethsemane, my goal was to make sure that by the time our bus departed, everyone knew all that they needed to know about that particular site. That is my goal as we roll up to Revelation. I want to be your tour guide, and together we will discover all the wonderful knowledge, promises, and blessings found in this letter.

This is not a commentary. It is a tour. My hope is that everyone who gets to the last page will say, Okay, now I get it. What an awesome plan God has. This book is written for the common person, the everyday student of Gods Word. If you want to dig deeper, let me encourage you to check out the accompanying workbook that I have written with a man who has been teaching Bible prophecy for decades and whose name shares the cover of this book, my good friend Dr. Rick Yohn.

Now, my friends, step up into the bus and find a seat. We are now departing, and the sites you are about to see will amaze you.

In our age of technology, we no longer make a habit of sending letters to one another. Instead, we use email, texts, and social media. For me, my use of social media allows me to reach hundreds of thousands of people in real time with updates about events that are taking place in the Middle East. This would be impossible if we were still in the old nondigital days. In Johns time, he didnt have any of those fancy options. If you wanted to communicate something to someone and you couldnt be there yourself, your one choice was putting pen to paper.

We should be very thankful that social media did not exist in the first century. Why? Because posts are usually short, to the point, and often meaningless. Can you imagine Paul, rather than writing the letters to the church in Corinth, spending his time trolling the accounts of Apollos and Peter or creating memes that take jabs at the super apostles of 2 Corinthians 1112? What if, rather than penning the amazing visions he was given of the throne room of God, John had spent his time on Patmos posting pictures of beach life and the lunch he had made of the tiny crabs he caught in the tide pools?