From the beginning, men have sought out supernatural help from sages, prophetesses, and priestly oracles to uncover future’s jealously guarded secrets. These seers, as they were called in the infant days of mankind, were revered as visionaries and prophets who could offer men a peek into the misty realm of their own personal destiny. Men wanted to know what would happen if they did this or did that; they asked if God be with them or against them? They had these “servants” of God approach him on their behalf to see if God approved of their actions or if he would bring disaster on their head? It is a divinely innate desire to want to know the future, as old as man himself. God also used these “seers” and anointed “priests” to give man hope for redemption and restoration, to teach him through universally understood signs and omens about the ultimate destiny of mankind and the world in which he lived.

Before the Great Flood, which wiped out all but eight people from the face of the earth, inspired prophets of God like Enoch, prophesied of God’s long term redemption plan. These prophets forecast the coming of a Savior, one who would reinstate man to the peace and glory of the “Garden of Eden” and restore him to a full relationship with the Father-Creator. All ultimate hope for the future was held in the coming of this Promised One and all true prophets of God during this Antediluvian Age prophesied of a Messiah. God had started this tradition of “seers” before the invention of writing by setting the story of redemption in the stars for all mankind to witness. God gave the story to Adam, relating in minute detail through the 12 signs of the Zodiac, the first and second comings of this Messiah.

In this manner, by handing down the Gospel of salvation orally by seers, priests and prophets, God kept the inhabitants of the world informed and offered them hope for the future. Adam, as the priest of God, passed this knowledge and ministry on to his son Seth who became a “seer” and high priest for seven centuries of people during the early days of man that preceded the Great Flood. Men like Methuselah were called upon by God to carry on the ministry of teaching people about the redemption plan. The final “seer” of this prehistoric age of Antediluvian antiquity was Noah, who impassionedly warned a deaf world of a coming Flood that would cleanse the world of all unrepentant souls. Men understood that they needed someone to “save” them from the fallen state of their “father and mother”, Adam and Eve. The prophets of God had declared through signs and wonders that central to this need was the advent of the “Promised One”, the Messiah. Looking to the future was an important part of early man’s life. To want to know the future is a natural condition of man. To want to live in full obedience and accordance with God’s plan for the future is divine.

The Book of Revelation is God’s universal gift to mankind. It is a tool to help a person learn to live according to God’s true plan of redemption. Revelation is the greatest and fullest prophecy of all time. It is the clearest vision of the end, a massive picture window of heaven opens and we are shown the mysteries of the future, we can see clearly the culmination of all the prophecies given down through the ages by all the “seers” of God, from Adam and Seth, to Moses and Abraham, from David and the prophets, to the aged Simeon in the Temple and the apostle Paul preaching in the Thessalonica. By looking upon Revelation’s visions we become “seers” ourselves. Yet, alas, it is the least studied book of the Holy Scriptures. Too much of the Church has been robbed of their right to be “seers”.

The Bible book of Revelation is the greatest single contemporary divine gift given to mankind. It can fill our yearning to know the future; and yet for the most part it is greeted with fear and received with skeptical hearts. What a shame on the Church, what loss to our faith, what wasted and untapped riches!

Sadly, many Christians have been taught not to study Revelation. The world says it is the worst kind of cynicism, one which preaches, not hope, but a mean hopelessness that degrades the high spirit of Man. Even the church is now being persuaded that they risk spiritual insanity or may end up totally deceived if they get into the Book of Revelation. The Churches hope to persuade us that God has commissioned the Church to make the earth a perfect and loving place so that Jesus can return to a Shangri La of the excellency of Man.

To make its case the Church-at-large is selling the age-old tale that Revelation is an obscure and complicated mystical book full of dark sentences and bizarre religious symbols. No one can understand its mystifying message it says. Orthodox/Catholic Christians of the Eastern and Western varieties, taught this stuff for fifteen centuries; that it is a book about the fall of the Imperial Roman Empire, ignorantly believing that the book’s prophecies were fulfilled when the Visigoths overran Rome in the fourth and fifth centuries.

All of these impressions are erroneous and far from being divinely inspired. The brunt of Revelation and its wonderful prophecies of Christ’s return fast approach; we are now waiting breathlessly for its glorious fulfillment. We see it coming to a head in every paradigm of prophecy, not only in the realms of Church prophecy but in Israel, Antichrist, World, Phenomenon, and Travel and Knowledge.  

Have Faith: Revelation is Pure and Simple
Rest assured, Revelation is a much simpler book than people make it out to be. If you have worries about understanding it, calm your fears, this study will clarify the meaning of Revelation for any student of the Bible whether novice or experienced believer. The book is written in a simple chronological order and every event or action is accompanied by a mention of its spiritual cause and effect. In the end, the study of Revelation lets us know what will happen, why it must happen, and what its effect on us and the world will be. What more can we ask from prophecy, what more should we expect?

Understanding Revelation is tantamount to learning to read. Remember the way it was when we first tried to read? Some children were bold, dove into the challenge, but if we were like the majority we were a little intimidated by all the strange looking symbols crunched together in what seemed to be one overwhelming mass of confusion. But something inside us said that if other people could understand what this mysterious stuff meant, so could we.

At first glance, Revelation, with all its symbols and spiritual meaning, can also seem hopelessly mysterious and confusing, but God does not want us to shy away from understanding Revelation any more than He wanted us to give up on being able to read. True teachers of God’s word can instruct its meanings as a teacher instructs the basics of reading to the simple curious mind. As it took some courage and a little faith to launch out into the world of letters and books, so we must plunge into Revelation trusting God that in this seeming unintelligible maze of symbolism there is a simple and clear message that is fascinating, interesting, instructive and reassuring.

In fact, it is essential to our spiritual education if we are to go on to a higher faith that can negotiate us through the dark and perilous days ahead. It will bring us by the path of hope to the new world where Man’s evils will be squelched and God’s love and truth will hold sway over the earth. We should not be disheartened, but attentive to prophecies that are unfolding and being fulfilled and vigilant in adhering to each of their directives and suggestions.

As with learning to read, we need a little initial guidance and teaching mixed with a bit of coaxing and curiosity to know the mysteries set forth in the story that unfolds. As with any mystery we are interested in how it unfolds, but most importantly how it will end, who is guilty and who survives, who is the champion, and who the villains. We must want to know how it comes out, then we simply need to apply some serious labor and focus so that the Holy Ghost can give us understanding of the mystery of God’s plan as it is revealed chapter by chapter in the book of Revelation.

Since Revelation is the believer’s window into the future, it is a prime objective of the EOE to make Revelation so clear that the window is not muddied or fogged by doubt and ignorance, for ignorance breeds defeat and humiliation. A simple study of Revelation should give us a spotless, crystal clear panoramic view of not only the scenes and characters that God exposes for our spiritual protection but of the heroes and victors of the war that is taking place for the souls of humanity.

While the Book of Revelation is about a myriad of things, ie Church history, the salvation of Israel, the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, the Antichrist spirit, as well as many other profound things, it can be said that the book of Revelation is basically about Jesus and all that He will accomplish for those who come to Him by faith and trust. Revelation pertains to all the crucial things which Christ will perform during the seven-year period of the end times Tribulation.

The following book is about the greatest subject that can be studied because it is about Jesus and we dare not make a flurry of fanciful political predictions of who the Antichrist is. For one must wait for the moment in which a particular prophecy will be fully revealed. That, too, has been prophesied and pinpointed by scripture, and we shall know him by the actions performed by Him in that very moment when Christ carries them out.

This work is devoted to understanding what God has said will happen, not at trying to guess how He will do it. The objective is to know and understand how to apply the warnings and promises in Revelation to people who believe, here and now. They do not have to have an affiliation with a denomination or a church they just simply have to want to know Jesus Christ as their healer, deliverer, friend, and God. They should be seeking to find out if He is the one who will fulfill the prophecies of the pages of Revelation and to have an idea of how those things will come to pass. We shall leave it to the spiritual opportunists, everywhere inside and outside the churches to debate who the antichrist is, leave it to those who love to tickle the ears of the populace so they can get books on the best seller’s list by spreading wild tales of dastardly treasury agents, rumors about computer police and warnings about international conspiracies from secret sinister fraternal organizations.

For here we shall speak of that which we know as revealed in the written word. We direct our study of things shortly to happen in the future to those who seriously want to know what God has said about the future and how He intends to bring to completion His perfectly marvelous plan of redemption. Here we direct the seeker of truth of the days in which we live and what is to shortly come to pass concerning those things; to the one sure place to it can be found. The book of Revelation itself. We urge those to go there in the accompaniment of Jesus and the Holy Ghost.