Lecture Two

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I will type the notes as presented to me.
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II Timothy 2:15
Study to shew thyself approved unto G-D, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

I Thessalonians 5:11
Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.

And for the record no one is ruling out dual fulfillment.












1. The Book of Revelation is also known as the apocalypse.

2. According to the Bible Megiddo is the location that has to do with the last battle known as Armageddon.

3. The Book of Revelation tells of how G-D will depose the devil as the evil leader of this world.

4. Modern groups such as the Waco, TX group base their beliefs on apocalyptic ideas.

5. William Miller, a retired army captain, predicted that the L-RD would return in 1843-1844.

6. Miller was believed to have had approximately 500,000 followers which later resulted in what has been called the Great Disappointment.

7. Two later groups that had their beginnings founded in some of Miller's concepts are the Jehovah Witnesses and the Seventh Day Adventists.

8. Many early Christians as late as the 400's believed the Book of Revelation should not be a part of the new testament canon.

9. The four horsemen were symbols of conquest, war, famine, and death killing one third of the earth's population.

10. At the climax of the Book of Revelation an angel is to bind hasatan and cast him into the pit. Next, all the world will stand before the White Throne of G-D for final judgment to see whose names will be written in the Lamb's Book of Life.

11. The original meaning of the phrase 666 referred to Nero the Roman emperor. Each letter of the Greek as well as the Hebrew alphabet also symbolizes numbers that were used to identify names.

12. John wrote the Book of Revelation in a cave on the island called Patmos.

13. When Nero died in 68 AD, many believed the end of the Jewish world was at hand because of the great tribulation happening in Jerusalem including the destruction of the Temple.

14. The writer of the Book of Revelation was Jewish and the book is filled with apocalyptic symbols that were often used during the first century.

15. John's words concerning Jezebel were actually against the Jewish/Christians who were participating in pagan idolatry in the seven cities to which he wrote the letters.

16. The trade-guilds (unions), in such cities as Thyatira, where many believers worked, had pagan meals in which John warned the believers not to participate.

17. In Ephesus, the tomb of John the elder, commemorates the burial spot of the author of the Book of Revelation.

18. John's writing of the apocalypse followed the Jewish tradition of apocalyptic literature which by that time was already centuries old.

19. Approximately 200 years before the time of Christ the apocalyptic prophecies predicted in various mysterious images the victories of the Jews over their enemies.

20. The Book of Daniel is one of the oldest apocalyptic writings.

21. The Book of Revelation is actually an interpretation of the Book of Daniel.

22. The Essenes at Qumran looked for and prepared to fight the evil rulers of the earth in the final battle. The War Scroll, a part of the Dead Sea Scrolls, gives great details of these battle plans.

23. The Persian prophet Zoroaster, several centuries before the time of Christ, also had apocalyptic predictions of a cosmic battle between good and evil.

24. John, in the Book of Revelation, does not actually mention this battle, but considers it already over since Jesus obtained victory over evil by His death and resurrection.

25. The word Megiddo in Hebrew is called Har Megiddo and means the hill or mountain of Megiddo known as Armageddon.

26. The Bible never actually mentions a final battle at Megiddo, but rather describes it as the meeting place of the armies for the final battle as they march to Jerusalem just before the coming of Jesus Christ.

27. By the time John wrote of Megiddo it had already been in existence some 4,000 years as a major crossroad of ancient armies and trade routes. Pharaoh Thutmose III declared that whoever captured Megiddo would controll a thousand towns.

28. By the time of Pharaoh Thutmose III (1468 BC), Megiddo had already been destroyed and rebuilt eleven times.

29. During Solomon's time (950 BC), Megiddo was already a city twice the size of Jerusalem.

30. When Megiddo was finally abandoned in the fourth century BC, it had already been inhabited some 3,000 years and had been rebuilt twenty times.

31. The purpose of the Apocalypse, like other apocalyptic literature, is to raise hope in believing people that G-D is going to ultimately win the struggle between good and evil which each person must encounter in life.

32. Many scholars believe the Apocalypse was not a writing of a literal vision of the end of all things, but rather a symbolic story of each believer's trials and how G-D will ultimately overcome evil.

33. In the story of the Book of Revelation evil is overcome not by G-D's mighty army, but by G-D's power through a Lamb and love.

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