{"content":[{"text":"Revelations Chapter 1:1-7: “Behold, He IS Coming With Clouds”","bbox":{"left":0.105882,"top":0.045338,"width":0.788138,"height":0.024998000000000006}},{"text":"The futurist approach asserts majority prophecies of Revelation have \n never been fulfilled and await future fulfillment. Everything after \n chapter 4 refers to a brief time period before the return of Christ \n which they call “The Great Tribulation” \n The preterist views fulfillment of Revelation prophecy occurred \n already in John’s own time. Thus the fulfillment was future from the \n point of view from John but is past from our vantage point. Most \n preterists believe final chapters of Revelation look forward to the \n coming of Christ. \n The historicist approach is a classical protestant interpretation of \n Revelation as a prewritten record of the course of history from the \n time of John till the end of the world. \n The idealist, Symbolic or spiritualist approach takes it to be a great \n drama depicting spiritual realties such as the constant conflict \n between Christ and Satan, the Saints and anti-Christian world powers, \n heavenly vindication of the martyrs and the final victory of Christ and \n His saints. Thus the prophecy is applicable to Christians of any age. \n The Messiah was to come as redeemer and Judge \n Malachi 3:1-3 Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare \n the way before me: and the LORD, whom ye seek, shall suddenly \n come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye \n delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts. 2 But who \n may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he \n appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap: 3And he \n shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons \n of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto \n the LORD an offering in righteousness. \n Hermeneutics Rules:","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.119278,"width":0.880776,"height":0.811967}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}