Based on Revelation 4.

Now… when it comes to The Revelations of Jesus Christ, which should be the proper name for the book, people have two responses. First, they either ignore it all together, or secondly, they grossly misinterpret it and use it for all kinds of fabricated sensationalism.

In the Reformed circles which I have traveled in, most of the pastors I have known are amillennial who tend to ignore the book all together.

The other camp that abuses the book are those who are Dispensational. Dispensationalists have taken the book, and its central message, and blown it to smithereens by their insistence that the book wasn’t written for First Century Christians under persecution from the Great Harlot. They make the book all about themselves, thinking that Babylon the Great, and the Great Harlot are in action now.

Dispensationalists are futurist, and see the entire book as something that will happen, but has not yet done so. They believe the Revelation of Jesus Christ wasn’t written in the First Century for those in the First Century. They believe that all the events were written for those in the 18^th Century when the first Dispensationalist accurately placed all the events of Revelation in their day, and accurately predicted the coming of the rapture.

NO Wait!, Dispensationalist made a mistake in the 18^th Century, they meant the 19^thCentury, when all the events of Revelation were finally manifesting themselves and the rapture was accurately predicted to occur.

20^th Century! They meant the 20^th Century and had a multitude of books on the topic, predicting the events of the 20^th Century as those in the book of Revelation along with multiple accurate and true predictions of when the rapture would occur.

And here we are in the 21^st Century, and they are making the same false claims and false predictions about the events depicted in the book of Revelation and the rapture.

So then, how are we to deal with The Revelation of Jesus Christ?

Here the entire sermon: