Revelation SeminarWorksheet 4
“______________________________. . .”
PurposeRevelation 1:9
I, John, am your brother and your partner in __________ and in God's Kingdom and in the
patient endurance to which ______________. I was _______ to the island of Patmos for __________ the ____________and for my testimony ____________.
New Living Translation
KeysFor a Biblical
Explanation of Revelation
ContextThe parts of a __________ that _________ a word or passage and can ____________on its ________. ______________ that _____ the
setting for an event, statement, or idea, and in terms of which it can be ______ understood and
_________.
_____ Key
Reading the Bible in ________ means, ______ of all you consider the verses _______ the verse you’re studying, as well as the verses _______ it. You’ll
want to look at the context of an ________________or maybe the ____________, as
we’re doing with Revelation.“concerning the writing, study, or content of
literature”
Literary Context
_____ Key
The Bible, written over a span of more than ______ years
Historical ContextThe _________ context
_____ KeyHistorical Context
_____ KeyHistorical Context
First KeyLiterary Context
First KeyLiterary Context
First KeyLiterary Context
First KeyLiterary Context
Second KeyHistorical Context
Differences
_____the __________.I ___________, and now look,
I ________ for _______________!And ________________of _______ and
______.
Revelation 1:18 (TNIV)
Second KeyHistorical Context
Differences
A ________________in the area of the seven churches when John wrote Revelation.
She traveled between _________________and ___________ if you would go to _______ or Hades (___) when you died. Hekate was believed to be the
one who _______________________________
Hekate
Second KeyHistorical Context
DifferencesThe historical context aids our understanding,
especially when things seem opposite.Sometimes a basic understanding of the historical context simply provides deeper understanding and
appreciation of the message in the Bible—a message that we can then apply to our current
situation.
______ Keys
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______ within a text of Scripture sometimes are _________ with ________ and at other times are just ____________. So we’ll want to be on the lookout for the __________—the ones _______ with ______ insights and meaning. Sometimes these are ________, and sometimes they _______.
Key words
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Revelation 1:1
“The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants what must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel
to his servant John.”
Key words
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Revelation 1:1Key words
“___________”You came over to my house to visit and I have
something on the stove cooking. It’s a pot with a lid on top and you can not make out the smell. You are
invited to dine with me when finished. “________________?”
_____ KeyKey words
“Revelation”“__________”
Taking off the lid reveals what’s inside.
“__________________________________”
_______
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?During the time of John’s exile very ____ who were ___________ had not actually seen _______ in _______. They had ______ about Him and the many _________________He had done.
_____ KeyKey words
They heard about His:1. _________2. __________3. ____________ on a Cross4. _____________ 5. Been ______ to _______6. Repeated promise of one day __________ to _____ them to heaven.
_____ KeyKey words
“The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to _____ unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass, and he _____and __________ it by his angel unto his servant John.”
to show by a ________ or _______.
_____ KeyKey words
CodifyCrypticmysteriousPuzzlingObscureAmbiguousSecretHidden
Decoder____________ ___________ __________
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______________________________1. Bitdefender2. Norton3. Webroot 4. ESET NOD325. F – Secure6. McAfee7. AVG
_____ KeyKey wordsPassword
A password, ___________________passcode, is a _________________, typically a string of
characters, used to ________ the _________ of a user. The secret is memorized by a party called the
_________ while the party ________ the identity of the claimant is called the _________.
_____ KeyKey wordsPassword
When the claimant ____________ ____________knowledge of the password to the
verifier through an established ____________________, the verifier is able to _____ the
claimant’s identity.
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Where did John come up with the symbols he chose? Rev 1:1
1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which _____________ Him to show His servants —things which must shortly take place. And ___
_____ and signified it by His angel to His servant John,
NKJV
_____ KeyKey wordsSummary Quiz
what comes before and what comes after the verse we’re studying. ______________.includes the cultural elements that might have been different from what we take for granted.__________.“revelation” and “signify” or “symbolize.”__________.
_____ KeyCompare With Other Scripture
The ______ is the _________ Word of God, it is the way ___ __________ books of the Bible ______ together. ________ by some ___different ________ over a span of more than _____ years, it continues to be the Word of God.Sometimes one verse or passage will ___________
another one.
_____ KeyKey words
John tells the readers that he is going to ______Jesus to them in ________.
Rev. 1:9Preaching _______, put he and the believers in _________ with the Roman Empire. Taken from his parish at Ephesus and placed on the island of Patmos, John had to find a way to ____ the ________ from the island of Patmos back to the _________.
_____ KeyCompare With Other Scripture
Revelation 1:4,5 “John, to the seven churches which are in Asia:
Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the ______________who are before His throne, and from _____________, the ________________, the __________ from the _____, and the ______ over the ______ of the earth.”
_____ KeyCompare With Other Scripture
Revelation 1:4,5 ___________and ________and _______________,
Ex 3:44 So when the Lord saw that he turned aside to look,
____ called to him from the midst of the bush and said, "Moses, Moses!"
NKJV
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Revelation 1:4,5
The Trinity(God the ______, God the ____, and God the __________) can be found right in Revelation 1.
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Revelation 1:4,5 Him who is and Who was and Who is to come,
Ex 3:4_____ (_______)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God:
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Revelation 1:4,5 Him who is and Who was and Who is to come,
Ex 3:4God (_______)
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used of the ____________; occasionally applied by way of
deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative.
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Revelation 1:4,5 Him who is and Who was and Who is to come,
Ex 3:11,1411 But Moses said to God,"Who am I that I should go to
Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?" 14 And God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM." And He said, "Thus you shall say to the children of Israel,’
I AM has sent me to you. NKJV
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Revelation 1:4,5 Seven Spirits
Rev 4:55 And from the throne proceeded lightnings,
thunderings, and voices. ___________________were burning before the throne, which are the ______________of God.
NKJV
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Revelation 1:4,5 Seven Spirits
Rev 5:66 So I looked, and there, surrounded by Throne,
Animals, and Elders, was a Lamb, slaughtered but standing tall. ____________he had, and
___________, the ______________of God sent into all the earth. THE MESSAGE
_____ KeyCompare With Other Scripture
Revelation 1:4,5 Seven Spirits
Isa 11:22 The Spirit of the _____ shall rest upon Him,The Spirit of _______ and ______________,
The Spirit of _______ and ______,The Spirit of _________ and of the ____ of the Lord.
NKJV
_____ KeyCompare With Other Scripture
Seven Spirits Zech 4:1,2
1 Then the angel who had been talking with me returned and woke me, as though I had been asleep. 2 "What do you see now?" he asked. I answered, "I
see a solid gold lampstand with a bowl of oil on top of it. Around the bowl are ____________, each
having ______ _______ with ______.
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Seven Spirits Zech 4:3-5
3 And I see ____________________, one on _____ _____ of the ______." 4 Then I asked the angel,
"What are these, my lord? What do they mean?"5 "Don't you know?" the angel asked.
"No, my lord," I replied.
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Seven Spirits Zech 4:6
6 So he answered and said to me:"This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel:
_____________nor by ______, but by _________,'Says the Lord of hosts.
NKJV
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Seven Spirits Acts 1:7,8
7 And He said to them, "It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority. 8
But you ____________________when the ____________has come ________; and you shall be _________ to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and
Samaria, and to the _______________." NKJV
_____ KeyCompare With Other Scripture
Seven Spirits
Rev 5:66 So I looked, and there, surrounded by Throne, Animals,
and Elders, was a Lamb, slaughtered but standing tall. ____________he had, and ___________, the
_____________ of God _____ into ______________. THE MESSAGE
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Revelation 1:13-1513 “Among the __________ was someone ____ a ___ of ___, _______ in a ____ reaching down to his ____ and
with a ______ ____ around his _____. 14 The ____ on his head was _____ like ____, as _____ as ____, and his ____
were like _______ ____. 15 His ____ were like ______glowing in a furnace, and his _____ was like the sound of
_______ ______.
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Daniel 10:5,6“I looked up and there before me was a __________in _____, with a ____ of ________from _____ around his
_____. His ____ was like _____, his ____ like _________, his ____ like _______ _______, his ____ and ____ like the gleam of _________ ______, and his _____ like the sound
of a _________.”
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Daniel 10:5,6 & Rev. 1:13-16 Rev. 1 Dan. 10a son man a mandressed in a robe dressed in linengolden sash around chest belt of fine gold Uphaz waisteyes blazing fire eyes like flaming torchesfeet were like bronze arms and legs of bronzevoice sound rushing waters voice sound multitude
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John on the island of Patmos saw the same person in his vision that Daniel had seen 700 years before in Babylon
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1. Literary Context2. Historical/Cultural Context3. Key Words4. Compare With Other Scripture5.6.7.