The Unveiling of Jesus Christ by Vladimir Gelesnof It is a very common opinion, widely spread throughout Christendom, and enjoying especial favor among the cultured, that the matter and thought of the prophets, though brought home to the imagination and heart by means of excellent literary forms, reflect the crude ideas current in a remote…

  The Unveiling of Jesus Christ THE prophecies of Daniel are a necessary prelude to the apprehension of the Unveiling of Jesus Christ, which presents the crisis of all of Daniel’s predictions. The kingdoms of the great metallic image have all passed into history except the last one. Babylon’s golden despotism came to its end…

The Unveiling of Jesus Christ THIS scroll has suffered so severely from attempts to force a “figurative” meaning on every expression that no solid progress can be expected until we settle upon some definite principle to decide what is to be taken literally and what is expressed in the form of a figure. It is…

 The Unveiling of Jesus Christ THE INTRODUCTION AND CONCLUSION JESUS CHRIST unveiled! Such is the result we may expect from our studies in this scroll. And who would not hail with joy every word that discovers Him? We may linger fondly over the pages that speak of His humiliation, veiled in mortal flesh, obscure, rejected,…

The Unveiling of Jesus Christ WE now confront the prophetic portions of the Apocalypse, consisting of one long section near the beginning of the scroll (1:4-3:22) and a short section near its end (22:6-17). Before making a minute examination of its details it will help us to take a general survey of its character and…

The Unveiling of Jesus Christ Chapter Nine THE PROPHETIC SECTION INTRODUCTION FIRST things are important. The introduction to the Prophetic Section is as much a key to its understanding as the general introduction was found to be to the whole scroll. Before the vision which precedes the seven letters, we have a rich prelude, including…

THE PROPHETIC SECTION PATMOS was the place where John wrote this scroll and beheld the visions recorded in it. Seldom, indeed, are we informed where the scrolls of scripture were written, but the place of a vision is usually deemed of importance. Ezekiel was by the river Chebar (1:3) and was transported, in spirit, to…

THE FIRST VISION WHEN John turned, he beheld a vision of Israel’s Mediator and Judge. The judgment of the Lord’s day begins at the house of God (1 Peter 4:17). Before the Lord commences His strange work among the peoples and sheaths His sword in the nations, He speaks to Israel with the saber that…

THE THRONE THE THRONE SECTION Of this scroll which we now enter, fills the next eight chapters and comprises the Seals, the Trumpets, and the Thunders, each of which has an introductory vision. As the Trumpets are but an expansion of the seventh Seal, the breaking of the Seals is the dominant thought throughout this…

THE TWENTY-FOUR ELDERS AROUND the throne are twenty-four thrones, occupied by twenty-four elders. Just as one of them afterward asks John concerning the vast crowd with palm branches in their hands, we, too are tempted to inquire: “Who are they?” We shall seek to imitate John and endeavor to extract our answer from the Scriptures…