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    Revelation

    By Volker Schunck

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    The Revelation isn’t any longer a hot potato in modern theology. One put it ad acta under the keyword “Jewish Apocalypticism”. Already Luther couldn’t do anything with it. What can you do with it? Is it an exact road map for the end of the world? I’m surprised that a scripture with the heading “Revelation” is such mysterious. But what we possibly believe and criticize to be fuzziness or a deficit of the Revelation actually is its strength. Just because concrete names and historical dates aren’t mentioned in it, it is timeless. Its metaphorical language is ancient and archetypically. Therefore it touches us so deeply as hardly another biblical scripture, when we get involved with it.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherVolker Schunck
    Release dateOct 29, 2016
    ISBN9781370335268
    Revelation
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      Revelation - Volker Schunck

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      Titelbild: light in darkness

      Revelation

      by Volker Schunck

      Published by Volker Schunck at Smashwords

      1st Edition 2016

      Copyright 2016 Volker Schunck

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      Thank you for downloading this ebook. You are welcome to share it with your friends. This book may be reproduced, copied and distributed for non-commercial purposes, provided the book remains in its complete original form.

      The used translation of the Revelation is The World English Bible (WEB) provided by biblegateway.com. The name World English Bible is trademarked. The World English Bible (WEB) is a Public Domain (no copyright) Modern English translation of the Holy Bible. It is is based on the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible first published in 1901, the Biblia Hebraica Stutgartensa Old Testament, and the Greek Majority Text New Testament. - Thank you guys for your work! If you enjoyed this book, please return to your favorite ebook retailer to discover other works by me. Thank you for your support!

      They will never be hungry, neither thirsty any more; neither will the sun beat on them, nor any heat; for the Lamb who is in the middle of the throne shepherds them, and leads them to springs of waters of life. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.

      (Revelation 7:16-17)

      Table of Contents

      Copyright

      Table of Contents

      About me

      Introduction

      Revelation

      Wikipedia

      About me

      I live in Dresden, Germany. I was a merchant and then I studied theology - without degree. Through my engagement with Zen I became aware of the Christian mysticism. Meanwhile I go my own way. Believe is not a thinking but a being. It is important to me, not to live lost in thought, but to live aware and intensely.

      My Christian faith and my experiences in meditation influence my everyday life, in which I try to be attentive. My books arise from this spirit too.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      I can’t name a precise date, but the revelation accompanies me almost as long as I read the Bible on my way as a Christian. Starting with a children's Bible with many pictures and central stories from the Old and New Testament (without Revelation), my interest grew so that I already knew as a young teenager several Bible translations. Now it may even be a little more than forty years that I know the Revelation. In my opinion my intellectual understanding of this prophetic book has hardly changed. Certainly, meanwhile I can read the Revelation in Greek, know a few theological terms, but I can’t say specifically if I understand it better than I did then.

      You can inform yourself about the current state of research and scientific facts of the Revelation in the last chapter. This is a copied article of Wikipedia. After this introduction you find the text of the revelation. The used translation of this text is The World English Bible (WEB) provided by biblegateway.com.

      The Revelation isn’t any longer a hot potato in modern theology. One put it ad acta under the keyword Jewish Apocalypticism. Already Luther couldn’t do anything with it. What can you do with it? Is it an exact road map for the end of the world? I’m surprised that a scripture with the heading Revelation is such mysterious. But why have we to understand everything? Is that a problem of our modern age? No! I reckon that the Revelation never was easy to understand. But that is generally the case with prophetic sayings and scriptures. The Christians interpret the suffering servant of God in Isaiah 42 as a clear vision of Jesus, the Jews not.

      How does prophecy happen? Are the prophetic texts something like a ticket to a part of comming world history, that happens only this way and once? Like a ticket which expires when the stageplay is over?

      What is, if the scientific research almost certainly can identify the antichrist, who bears the name of the number 666, as the Roman Emperor Nero, is this part of Revelation then fulfilled and completed, checked off and classified into world history?

      Yes and no. The prophetic visions of the seer may be written down as comfort for the early Christians, which suffered under the persecution of the Roman Empire. So the Revelation may have been concretely fulfilled in a specific time in some parts. But its content concerns all Christians of all times. The antichrist who was called for the early persecuted Christians Nero, is called 1936-1945 for the persecuted Christians of the Confessing Church Adolf Hitler, for the persecuted Christians of the presence in Syria Isis.

      What we possibly believe and criticize to be fuzziness or a deficit of the Revelation actually is its strength. Just because concrete names and historical dates aren’t mentioned in it, it is timeless. Its metaphorical language is ancient and archetypically. Therefore it touches us so deeply as hardly another biblical scripture, when we get involved with it. It hides itself in front of an intellectual understanding. The one who opens his / her heart to it, it comforts and move him / her to tears.

      In different visions the curtain between the visible, material world and the invisible world is pushed aside. The visions are not abstract but totally concrete. It is shown an image to the seer which he shall write down. Surprisingly. Because it is

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