7.5.5. The Importance of the Old Testament

Notes

¹ David Chilton, The Days of Vengeance (Tyler, TX: Dominion Press, 1987), 26.

² “The Book of Revelation depends on the Old Testament much more than does any other New Testament book. This fact alone should warn us that we cannot begin to fathom its meaning apart from a solid grasp of the Bible as a whole.”—Ibid., 30.

³ Also see Swete [Henry Barclay Swete, The Apocalypse of St. John (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 1998, 1906), cxxxv-cxlviii] for a list of references to Greek versions of the Old Testament made by the Apocalypse.

⁴ Swete, The Apocalypse of St. John, xlix.

⁵ Colin J. Hemer, The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia in Their Local Setting (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1989), 13-14.

⁶ Gregory K. Beale, The Book of Revelation: A Commentary on the Greek Text (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1999), 77.

⁷ Grant R. Osborne, Revelation (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2002), 25.

⁸ Alan F. Johnson, Revelation: The Expositor’s Bible Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1966), 15.

⁹ Arnold G. Fruchtenbaum, The Footsteps of Messiah, rev ed. (Tustin, CA: Ariel Ministries, 2003), 801-808.

¹⁰ “The first major figure to challenge the authoritative status of the book of Revelation was Marcion, presumably because of its strong ties to the Jewish Scriptures.”—Adela Yarbro Collins, “Book of Revelation,” in David Noel Freeman, ed., The Anchor Bible Dictionary (New York, NY: Doubleday, 1996, c1992), 5:695.

¹¹ Hemer, The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia in Their Local Setting, 26.