Understanding the Book of Revelation

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  • čas přidán 26. 11. 2020
  • Dr. John Bergsma, author of "Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls", reflects on the mass readings for November 27, 2020. If you have any further questions about this or any topic, feel free to leave them in the comment section below!
    Revelation 20:1-4, 11-21:2
    Psalm 84
    Luke 21:29-33
    Learn more about Dr. Bergsma's books at bit.ly/2ZXlJPQ

Komentáře • 38

  • @mignonnesolomon4604
    @mignonnesolomon4604 Před 3 lety +11

    Thank you very much Dr. Bergsma for the explanation of the readings for the day.

  • @giopau6756
    @giopau6756 Před 3 lety +7

    Thank God for you Dr. John for explaining this part of Revelation. It is really challenging to understand Revelation for an ordinary laity like me.

  • @reemsuekar8112
    @reemsuekar8112 Před 3 lety +3

    Amen, for every destruction, there is a restoration, thank you.

  • @alvarovasquezpena6693
    @alvarovasquezpena6693 Před rokem +1

    Thanks Mr. Bergsma, greetings from Colombia.

  • @lorrainewilson6278
    @lorrainewilson6278 Před 9 měsíci +1

    You are always sharing what you learned and giving your interpretation, I love it. Thank you.

  • @graceramirez5834
    @graceramirez5834 Před 2 lety +1

    Though Dr Bergsma did not discuss the whole chapter of Revelation , he gave me an eye opener on how to understand this chapter . I have read it twice but still lots of guidance needed and thank you for that . I have to read it the 3rd time applying what he said .God bless !

  • @TheNarrowGate101
    @TheNarrowGate101 Před 3 lety +5

    Amazing !!! May we keep all these things in our hearts that the Lord may find us ready. May the Most Holy, Most Sacred, Most Adorable , Most Incomprehensible and Unutterable Name of God, be always Praised, Blessed, Loved , Adored and Glorified in heaven, on earth and under the earth by all the creatures of God and by the Sacred Heart of Our Lord Jesus Christ, in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar. Amen

  • @aircrew705
    @aircrew705 Před 2 lety +1

    Bergsma is such an inspiration!

  • @Boxed4Y
    @Boxed4Y Před 3 lety +3

    Well done Dr. Bergsman. Thank you!

  • @cindyyuen9923
    @cindyyuen9923 Před 3 lety +2

    Thank you Dr Bergman for the explanation.

  • @marcelinajohn5766
    @marcelinajohn5766 Před 3 lety +4

    You rock Dr B. God bless you richly. Love your intro, always drawing us to the Almighty🙏

  • @ifhollick
    @ifhollick Před 3 lety +2

    Little persecution...great tribulation... it doesn’t matter we prepare all the same! Amen Bergsma!

  • @DustinKoffman
    @DustinKoffman Před rokem +1

    Wonderful. Thank you, brother.

  • @alwilliams3628
    @alwilliams3628 Před 3 lety +1

    Thanks for the pearls of wisdom Dr. B. !!

  • @carolplan171
    @carolplan171 Před 2 lety

    Thank you Dr. Bergsma, I love to listen to your teaching/reflection on our Scripture.

  • @j.williford179
    @j.williford179 Před 3 lety +2

    Thank you Dr. Bergsma.

  • @gluttonforpunishment7846
    @gluttonforpunishment7846 Před 2 lety +1

    Amen thanks for the truth and encouragement

  • @theclapaolini4322
    @theclapaolini4322 Před 3 lety +1

    As usual very useful to embrace and get closer to God.

  • @zakomomomo4407
    @zakomomomo4407 Před 3 lety +2

    Thank you so much

  • @mikaelakuria6263
    @mikaelakuria6263 Před 3 lety

    Thank you Dr for the teaching and for explaining the Book of Revelations, I have a poor relationship with this book which is often used to point out end times. You have made it easier for me to read it. God bless you.

  • @SheilaNSLeao
    @SheilaNSLeao Před 3 lety

    My heartfelt thanks! God bless you richly 🇧🇷

  • @susannestorm9705
    @susannestorm9705 Před 18 dny

    ❤❤❤❤

  • @rc3088
    @rc3088 Před 2 lety

    Thank you

  • @davidsykes9331
    @davidsykes9331 Před 8 měsíci

    👍🏼

  • @josmathews
    @josmathews Před 3 lety +6

    Let us prepare for suffering and persecution.Mother of God pray for us

    • @patti3855
      @patti3855 Před 3 lety

      No, Mary is not to be worshipped or prayed to. She was not divine.

    • @marynadononeill
      @marynadononeill Před 3 lety +2

      @@patti3855 'Pray FOR us'. Not prayed TO. Learn to read.

  • @jackd8439
    @jackd8439 Před 3 lety +2

    What about his feet were dark like burnished bronze. Black Israelites are all about that verse. I say it’s speaking symbolically/metaphorically??

  • @MsHburnett
    @MsHburnett Před 3 lety

    Macro temple is the church?

  • @cynthiadsilva3455
    @cynthiadsilva3455 Před 3 lety

    Dear Bergsma,
    According to the second-century historian, Julianus Africanus, Joseph's "two fathers" (Jacob and Heli) were half-brothers of the same mother. Heli was the deceased and first husband of Joseph’s mother. Heli died without children, so Jacob married Heli’s wife to raise up children for his brother according to the "Levirate law" (Deut. 25:5-6). And according to the law, the widowed woman’s second husband’s children must bear the name of her first husband. Please confirm if this is correct.

  • @ronkebarber6238
    @ronkebarber6238 Před 6 měsíci

    As the name denotes, Revelation is the manifesting or clarifying everything Daniel couldn't understand, which made him have to shut the prophecy.
    God gave Daniel the end time vision and revelation, and he couldn't understand what he heard and saw. Thus, the bible was shut in Daniel 12:4 because he couldn't comprehend what the angel that talked with him was saying, especially about a Savior who would be cut off- it didn't make any sense, and about the end of the world. He was only praying for God to remember His people in captivity, who are nearing the completion of their 70 years in captivity. It was then the 69th week year, so God sent the angel to let him know that His people were not ready, and they wouldn't be able to return to the promised land- which will reject them, as they were cast out already because of unbelief and disobedience to the law of the land. In His mercy, God was going to play His ultimate card - send His Son to finish the work and restore His people. But, they have to go through the period of the wrath of God, so to spare at least some, God ushered in the dispensation of Grace- whosoever would believe in Him, through the sacrificial death burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ, His Only Begotten Son, and accept Him as Lord and Savior, will be spared.
    Thus, he was told to go rest till the time of the end when everything would've come to pass already and would then be easier to understand.
    The book of Revelation is the revealing or clarification of those things that Daniel couldn't understand at that time, especially that of a suffering Messiah, who will later be glorified (Benoni to Benjamin), now made manifest to him and not to the Apostle John as many thought, to whom was revealed the conclusion of the grace dispensation of the church.
    Daniel was referred to as "greatly beloved" Daniel 9:23, and the Apostle John often referred to himself as "the desciple whom Jesus loved ", other than that, there's no where in the scriptures where there's any reference whatsoever, to connect him to end time revelations. Thus, Daniel must have been referred to as the man greatly beloved, (like Solomon and Benjamin), rather than by his name in the manuscripts, thus, it was attributed to the Apostle John as the person to whom the vision was revealed. Could it also be possible for Daniel to be the one on the Isle of Patmos since there was a reference of him appearing again at the time of the end in Daniel 12?
    Jesus, as the Lamb of God, took the book that was sealed Revelation 5, and opened it physically in Luke 4:17-21, after His baptism and anointing, now filled with Holy Ghost and power, as the Messiah, to begin His ministry, as it was written of Him Psalm 40:6-8. He quoted the first part of Isaiah 61:2 because that was what He had come to fulfill. Isaiah 63:4, let us know that the second part would begin after the completion of the first part.
    The day of the Lord's vengeance is now upon the world. The acceptable year of the Lord is fast closing. Let's endure till the end by His grace. In Jesus' name. Luke 4:17-18, Isaiah 61:2, 63:4, 34:8; 35:4, 33:22. Psalm 91.
    We have no excuses. The bible will be shut again very soon, as the Holy Spirit that was sent to teach, help us understand, interpret to and lead us until the time of the end would have taken all Believers up and out of this world, thus, the bible returning to how it was in Isaiah 28:11-12; Amos 8:11-12. Everything written and revealed is unfolding.
    They have started to make sense as the day draws near.
    The whole counsel of God will be fulfilled, and then the end will come.
    Daniel actually needed the revelation of Jesus Christ to the Apostle John, in Revelation chapters 1-4, In order to understand the end-time prophecy God sent the angels to reveal to Him, before continuing from Revelation chapter 5 onwards, till judgment and rewards.
    Daniel was told not to seal the prophecy at this time, once everything already became clear, and he got the full understanding of past, present, and future events that should begin to unfold from then onwards, which he couldn't understand before, and got the book of prophecy shut until its revelation, hence the name: Revelation. Revelation 22:10.
    God was ready for the prophecies to begin to unfold. The next is the ushering in of "The Day of Vengeance of our God " after " the acceptable year of the Lord." Luke 4:17-20; Isaiah 61:2; 63:4.
    We need to be prepared!

  • @JamesRichardWiley
    @JamesRichardWiley Před 6 měsíci

    There is nothing to understand in the Book of Revelation. It's garbage. Throw it away.

    • @frisco61
      @frisco61 Před 6 měsíci +1

      Hmmmm, in that case it’s one of the most beautifully written piece of “garbage.”

  • @SandCube
    @SandCube Před 3 lety

    The Church must have been losing its marbles after the year 1000 AD (or 1033).