Revelation- Everyman's Bible Commentary

by Charles C. Ryrie

Book Overview

Revelation is a wild book. It's full of strange hybrid animals with extra wings, horns, and eyes. It contains both descriptions of historical events and prophecies about the future. And it can be... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802471080
• ISBN13: 9780802471086
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Moody Publishers
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.6" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Commentaries on Revalations

I have found that there are many commentaries on the book of Revelations. I do not think that most of them provide sound reasoning for their opinions. Most commentaries on this book seem - to me - to be near plaegerisms of transcribed notes from classes and sermons. With these commentaries I find that instead of plainly explaining their rhetoric they become wordy and redundant. Like some may find this review, apologies. It is rare to find a commentary like unto Ryrie's work in this commentary. His presentation is well organized, and most importantly simple. Believing what you may about the time-line of the end times you will be intrigued by how Ryrie goes verse-by-verse stating his perspective in a way that makes sense to anyone, and still giving the reasons others have different views. If you are looking for someone to simply agree with you and you hold to anything other than a pre-trib rapture you will not find what you are looking for here. If you are open and learning you will learn. You may not agree but you will learn from this book. I love it.

Scholarly Without Being Overwhelming....

Ryrie, perhaps best known for the Ryrie Study Bible, has here written a verse-by-verse Revelation commentary noteworthy for being sufficiently detailed and scripturally sound without being too overwhelming for the average layperson. For readers with a mindset to study but little or no background in Revelation, I recommend this solid commentary. Also, this updated edition has quite a few helpful charts. If after this book more depth is desired, try other dispensational commentaries such as those of Walvoord, Thomas, Couch (ed.), or Newell. (For those familiar with eschatology lingo, if you are a preterist, historicist, or postrib premillenialist in your endtimes interpretation, you will not like this book, since it is written from a pre-trib, pre-millenialist viewpoint.)