These judgments appear to be overwhelmingly environmental. Of war, but verse 20 says clearly these also are plagues, not human warfare (perhapsġ1:6 & 13– Water turns into blood and plagues ravage the earth, while an earthquake kills This sounds like it could be the smoke, fire, and sulphur How do we understand those other violent passages? Here are the main examples:Ĩ:7-8– Hail and fire mixed with blood comes down from heaven and a burning mountainĩ:13-20– Smoke, fire, sulphur. 19:13) or the word of testimony to Jesus (Rev. With death, it is not by any sword other than the word that comes from someone’s mouth, Sacrifice of the lamb, not by the death of the unbelievers. Earlier in the same book in 1:5 and 5:9 salvation comes by the The one who conquers is the one who died rather The crossĭefines out understanding of the whole. The hub of our interpretive method, then to interpret these texts nonviolently is the way toĭo justice, both to the to cross and to the context of each respective chapter. When we go back further to chapter 7 (v14) the conquering army wears the same uniformĪs the commander-in-chief, a robe dipped in the blood of the lamb. It is a word of testimony from their mouth.
Same weapon as their leader in chapter 19. If we go back to chapter 12 (v11) we find those who follow the conquering lamb use the Nothing here about Jesus’ followers shedding blood.ĮARLIER DESCRIPTIONS OF THE BATTLE IN REVELATION 12 and 7 Holy presence is sufficient to devastate his foes when revealed in its true glory. The Garden of Gethsemane according to John’s gospel when Jesus spoke the “I AM.” His The enemies fall down as quickly as did the temple cops who confronted Jesus in Sword is his powerful word (also in v13), and this word of truth destroys the enemy onĬontact.
The use of a sword that comes out of the hero’s mouth, not a sword held in his hand. The carnage beginning in verse 17 results from Before the battle begins in verse 11, the conquering hero isĪlready covered with blood (v13), but not the blood of his enemies. I begin with the climactic battle in chapter 19. Show the relevance of the cross to the battle stories of Revelation. Teaching of Revelation back to the cross in a meaningful way, working with theĪssumption that the cross ultimately governs everything else in scripture. By that I mean the conscious attempt to relate the I’ll try to demonstrate a “hermeneutic of theĬross” as applied to this question. You asked what I thought about Jesus leading his followers into bloody conquest of
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