Understanding the Book of Revelation: A Verse-by-Verse Commentary

By Thomas Velez

This book is meant to be a ready reference book, a verse-by-verse explanation, to be easily used with your own Bible. It retains the original Bible chapter and verse "addresses", and each verse has its' own explanation. Book chapters also align with the original short stories that make up the Book of Revelation. This book does not rely on any previous concepts, preconceived notions, philosophies, or teachings of others. It was built from the ground up, not from the top down, as most other books on this subject do by primarily repeating what others have said.Much of the problem with understanding the book of revelation has come from the assumption that the book is written entirely, or almost entirely, in chronological order. The Book of Revelation is not in chronological order. Like Isaiah and Daniel, the Apostle John had several separate, independent visions received over a span of time, and those visions have been combined into one book. Each vision was like a "short story." Each story was usually about a single topic, event, or character. Much of the Book of Revelation is therefore actually a series of several separate short stories, many times overlapping each other. What is the Integrated Master Schedule of Events?Sometimes, these different stories mention a recognizable event from another story, thereby identifying a common data or time point in the two different stories. In this manner, these common data points between the stories aid in the construction of an Integrated Master Schedule of Events of all the stories combined, such as a "Gantt Chart". This shows the how these various stories relate to each other time-wise and character-wise, since they overlap each other. This is a technique commonly used in engineering and project management. This Gantt Chart has been sequenced into a word format for clear reading at any amplification or screen size of any electronic device, and for easy understanding by non-engineers and non-management personnel. My book contains a Glossary of Terms and Symbols (Appendix 2). As a ready reference and to quickly sort out and identify the most significant events, characters and symbols which are likely to cause confusion, a summary definition of each these things is included in a Glossary Terms and Symbols. Their Biblical references, and also Biblical cross-references for other simultaneous or other related events and other names for the same character or symbol, are listed.My book is not based on Dispensations or a Pre-Tribulation Rapture.As stated above, my book was built from the ground up, not from the top down, and did not presuppose a pre-tribulation rapture. As such, the verse-by-verse explanations do not presuppose it either, and it turns out that it is not Biblically verified in the Book of Revelations, or elsewhere in the Bible. Appendix 1 in my book includes all applicable references from throughout the Bible that most people use to identify a physical rapture of living human beings before Jesus Return. Each of these references is also examined with full explanations: verse-by-verse. This effort began in 1977. The Holy Bible is the foundation for my commentary, and the enlightenment of the scriptures was provided by the Holy Spirit. My book includes, among others, the stories of:The evolution of the Church (chapters 2 and 3); The sequence of the Trumpets, and what they are (chapter 7-9; The Two Witnesses (chapter 11); The Glorious Church (chapter 12); The Antichrist (first portion of chapter 13); The False Prophet (second portion of chapter13); An assembly in Heaven, and the subsequent First and Second Reaping (chapter 14); The Apostate Church (chapters 17 and 18); Jesus' coming at Armageddon (chapter 19); The Millennial Reign and Judgment (chapter 20); The Eternal Kingdom (chapters 21-22)

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 109975951X
• ISBN13: 9781099759512
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 251 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"