Marcus O'Reillius
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I would offer my explanation, and my admonishment not to read the book of Revelation through as a novel, by demonstrating that the book of Revelation is composed of a series of ofttimes overlapping parallel accounts.Wormwood said:So how would you explain this continual, repetitive acts of worldwide judgment on the wicked and glorifying the faithful over and over and over and over again in Revelation if it is chronological?
In each account, some information is divulged. We can recognize the overlapping of such accounts by the repetition of specific and unique events.
One of these is the five-fold repetition between chapters 11, 12, and 13 of one-half of the one 'seven' as first split in half and prophesied by Gabriel in Daniel 9:27.
Now there are not 17 and 1/2 years to the one 'seven', but looking at these two halves from different angles relating to different subjects, causes the repetition.
A second repetition is four times the "end" comes to the one 'seven' found twice in chapter 11, and chapters 16, and imputed in 19 with the end of the battle at Armageddon first referenced in Rev 16.
I look for the division of these parallel accounts by a change of both scene and focus.
Thus, I divide:
2&3 - The Churches.
4-11 exclusive of the sidebar account of 11:1-13 - the broad overview of the Seal/Scroll chronology.
11:1-13 - the sidebar account of the Temple and the Two Witnesses.
12 - the dual parallel accounts of the Woman Israel and the Dragon Satan.
13-16 - the detailed parallel account to the broad overview which concerns just the one 'seven', i.e., the Rise and Fall of the anti-Christ.
17&18 - explanatory in nature, and not containing a linear narrative per se.
19-22 - the Epilogue showing the end of the one 'seven', the Millennium, and the hereafter.