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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Introduction ~ Questions Revelation 1:1-2
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A REVELATION IS NOT A MYSTERY!
7. TWO SETS OF CIRCUMSTANCES
a. John‟s personal circumstances.
1) John is a witness. A witness is one who has personal knowledge of
the subject because he either saw it or heard it, first hand.
2) John is a reliable witness because he, personally, saw and heard
everything he recorded.
3) As a witness, John gives his personal testimony. A testimony is the
type of evidence required in a courtroom to prove a case.
4) As a witness, John gives accurate and reliable testimony. He is able
to do so because he was an eye witness to Jesus Christ as He walked
on earth. John‘s testimony is reliable because of his own trustworthy
character.
5) As a witness John is in fellowship and has the advantage of being
guided by God, the Holy Spirit. Scripture tells us it is Sunday morning
on Patmos Island.
REVELATION 1:10, “I (John) was in the Spirit (in
fellowship) on the Lord‟s day…(Sunday).
b. The circumstances of the Sunday morning Bible Class.
“Does this mean „the Day of the Lord‟ i.e. the day of His visible manifestation,
or does it mean He was in the Spirit on the Lord‟s Day, the first day of the
week? It is not the prophetic day of the Lord, but the Lord‟s day, the day
which the early Church from the beginning celebrated as the day of His
resurrection. “ “Gaebelein‟s Concise Commentary”, Gaebelein, Arno C.,
Loizeaux Brothers, New Jersey, 1989, p.1204
“In my judgment, the Day of the Lord and the Lord‟s Day are two different
things. We recognize that anti-fat and fat auntie are two different things and
that a chestnut horse and a horse chestnut are two different things. And I
would say that the Day of the Lord and the Lord‟s Day are two different
things also, and that the Lord‟s Day is what we call Sunday.”
“Thru The Bible”, McGee, J. Vernon, Thomas Nelson Publishers, Nashville,
Volume. V., p. 893
REVELATION 1:9 I, John, your brother and fellow