The style of writing is only used in the books of Daniel and Revelation.
Wilfried Harrington in his 2008 book "Revelation " wrote:
History is rapidly moving to a showdown: the final, decisive battle of good
and evil will be fought in the valley of Megiddo (Rev 16:16). Even if some
dispensationalists interpret Ezekiel 38–39 as envisaging a world-wide
nuclear holocaust, the climactic moment will still occur in the valley of
Megiddo. A further refinement is the “rapture”; this time the single text 1
Thessalonians 4:16–17 is pressed into service. Using vivid apocalyptic
language, Paul had underlined the truth that all the faithful will live
with the Lord forever. He spoke of all being “caught up” (“rapt up”) to
meet the Lord of the parousia—hence the “rapture” of the
dispensationalists. True believers will, at the end, be “raptured” from the
earth and thus will escape the gruesome destruction of the rest of
humankind.
73
DR
On Oct 18, 2016 3:07 PM, "John J. Miller" <seaspark@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Greetings;
The book of Revelations is interesting and perhaps a little frightening.
Most of the natural disasters that have occurred can be interpreted as
pertaining to the scripture.(Floods, earthquakes, the Atom bomb, etc.).
20 years ago I attended a week long bible study of Rev.
We were told that it is not a prophecy but just the writings of a 90 year
old man, (John). His writing is not the word of G-- or even an inspiration.
There are a lot of thoughts that must be interpenetrated: The whore of
Babylon is actually the Roman empire. I don't remember the rest, (Beast,
etc.) 666 is just a dramatic number . Armageddon is a big battle,etc.
Just something to think about. There are books about Rev., might be an
interesting subject to pursue. I belong to the Methodist denomination, I am
sure other churches have different feelings about this.
73
J J Miller
