Fresh Ideas for Revelation: From Genesis to the End

By Timothy A. Rogers

Fresh Ideas for Revelation: From Genesis to the End presents the reader with a new and fascinating perspective for the much-analyzed biblical text--Revelation. In these pages, you will be taken on a tour of the tabernacle that was constructed according to instructions passed down from God to Moses, as well as journeying through the prophecies recorded in Daniel, both of which will serve as a blueprint for unraveling the prophecies of Revelation. Timothy A. Rogers, through study, prayer, and meditation, has delivered an interpretation of Revelation through the lens of typology, offering a spiritual reflection of worldly events where time is not linear, and the Word of God has space to interpret itself. This book is an offering of the eternalist view of Revelation, a significant shift in understanding, rich with new ideas that affirm the Bible as divinely inspired by the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The reader will travel deep into the Old and the New Testament to gain a more meaningful understanding of prophecy and the role of the Holy Spirit, as well as confronting a new definition of what it means to be part of the body of Christ.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Dec 12, 2023
• ISBN: 9798886857887

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Fresh Ideas for Revelation

From Genesis to the End

Timothy A. Rogers

ISBN 979-8-88685-787-0 (paperback)

ISBN 979-8-88685-788-7 (digital)

Copyright © 2022 by Timothy A. Rogers

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1

Beginnings and Endings

Chapter 2

The Seven Letters to the Churches

Chapter 3

The Seven Aspects of the Church

Chapter 4

The Four Living Creatures

Chapter 5

The Seven Seals

Chapter 6

The Seven Trumpets

Chapter 7

The Tribulation

Chapter 8

The Kingdom Age

Chapter 9

The New Heaven and Earth

Chapter 10

The Beginning and the End

In Conclusion

Introduction

Hey y'all. My name is Tim, and I would like to share with you what the Lord taught me about the Book of Revelation. On March 5, 2019, I came to understand Revelation in a totally different way than I had ever been taught; up until then, I was only familiar with the futurist view. I have always held onto the hope that God's word would interpret itself, but I never could have imagined that my journey would lead me to the realization that the Book of Revelation is a typology guide to the Old Testament. This feels like a huge shift in understanding what has been overlooked for almost 2,000 years. Furthermore, the new ideas I will be sharing in the pages ahead prove absolutely that the Bible is divinely inspired by the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. By the end of this read, I expect that the evidence of this will be clear to you. But you don't have to take my word for it, because God will testify to His word.

Perhaps you are asking, What is typology? That is a very good question. In my experience, a majority of Christians seem to have no idea what typology is exactly. In short, biblical typology is when a type, parallel or shadow of the future, is embedded in the stories of the lives of the people of Israel. I'll offer a brief example to start: Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 10:3–4, All [Israel] ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ. When Paul speaks of the spiritual rock in Corinthians, he is referring to Exodus 17:1–7. In this story, Israel had no water to drink, so God told Moses to take his staff and strike a certain rock. Having done so, water came forth from the rock. The rock is a type of Christ. Moses striking the rock with his staff is a type of Christ's sacrifice on the cross, and the water gushing forth is a type of the abundant life in the Holy Spirit. So when I say that the Book of Revelation is a typology guide for the Old Testament, I am saying the Book of Revelation uses symbolic language to direct us to places in the Old Testament that actually interpret Revelation for us. Simply put, the word of God interprets itself.

Now, I'd like you to replace the word typology with unwritten prophecy. The tabernacle, which God commanded Moses to build in Exodus, is the pinnacle of unwritten prophecy. Hebrews 8:5 tells us, Who serve the copy and shadows of the heavenly things, as Moses was divinely instructed when he was about to make the tabernacle. To put it very simply, the tabernacle is a model of things in heaven. Without understanding the unwritten prophecies of the tabernacle, the Book of Revelation cannot be understood fully. The eternalist view is the only view that allows the unwritten prophecies of the tabernacle to act as a guide for the interpretation of the Book of Revelation. Whatever view of Revelation you presently adhere to, consider entertaining the eternalist view.

Now let's look into the seven unwritten prophecies identified in the tabernacle. They are the bronze altar, the veil, the high priest and the golden altar, the bronze wash basin, the golden lampstand, the table of showbread, and the ark of the covenant.

The bronze altar is probably the most apparent type of the seven. Exodus 27:1–2 describes the bronze altar as an altar of acacia wood, five cubits long and five cubits wide—the altar shall be square—and its height shall be three cubits. You shall make its horns on its four corners; its horns shall be of one piece with it. And you shall overlay it with bronze. In Exodus, we see the Passover lamb sacrificed on the bronze altar, which is reflected in Revelation 5:6 that says, And I looked, and behold, in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as though it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent out into all the earth. The unwritten prophecy of the bronze altar is the crucified Savior. It is important to recognize that the prophecy of the crucified Savior comes with a timestamp. In Revelation 6:9–11, we see souls under the bronze altar. This should be recognized as the time of the death of Christ, which is the fulfillment of the unwritten prophecy of the bronze altar.

The veil in the tabernacle is described in Exodus 26:31–33 as woven of blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and fine woven linen. It shall be woven with an artistic design of cherubim. You shall hang it upon the four pillars of acacia wood overlaid with gold. Their hooks shall be gold, upon four sockets of silver. And you shall hang the veil from the clasps. Then you shall bring the ark of the Testimony in there, behind the veil. The veil shall be a divider for you between the holy place and the Most Holy. Matthew 27:50–51 fulfills the unwritten prophecy of the veil when it says, And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up His spirit. Then, behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth quaked, and the rocks were split. Then we read in Hebrews 10:20, By a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh. These verses show us that the unwritten prophecy of the veil is access to heaven, which could only be achieved through the sacrifice of the earthly body of the Son of God. Prior to the veil being torn, the souls of humanity did not have access to heaven. The fulfillment of the unwritten prophecy of the veil is found in Revelation 4:4, which says, Around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and on the thrones I saw twenty-four elders sitting, clothed in white robes. It must be understood that the twenty-four elders represent the believers in heaven; in other words, through the death of Christ, we have access to heaven, and that access is represented by the veil in the tabernacle.

The golden altar is described in Exodus 30:1–3 and 6 as

an altar to burn incense on; you shall make it of acacia wood. A cubit shall be its length and a cubit its width—it shall be square—and two cubits shall be its height. Its horns shall be of one piece with it. And you shall overlay its top, its sides all around, and its horns with pure gold; and you shall make for it a molding of gold all around. And you shall put it before the veil that is before the ark of the Testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the Testimony, where I will meet with you.

Aaron was the first high priest, and his duties are described in Leviticus 16:11–15, which says:

And Aaron shall bring the bull of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make atonement for himself and for his house, and shall kill the bull as the sin offering which is for