NextLevel Online: Simplifying Revelation

Challenging Assumptions

In Session 2, "Challenging Assumptions," Dr. Shane J. Wood highlights the dangers of assumptions in approaching Revelation, questioning the common assumption of its chronological roadmap for the future and suggesting a broader perspective that targets the individual reader.
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Simplifying Revelation: How to Read the Book of Revelation

Session 2: Challenging Assumptions

I. The danger of assumptions

a. We come expecting Revelation to answer questions like:

i. What will the end look like?

ii. Is the rapture almost here?

iii. Are we living in the end times?

b. Assumptions can cause not a little pain and an awful lot of problems.

II. Key assumption for the Book of Revelation

a. WE ASSUME: Revelation is a chronological roadmap for the future.

i. End of the World:

  1. Seals (Rev. 6:12-17)

  2. Trumpets (Rev. 11:15-18)

  3. Bowls (16:17-21)

  4. Revelation 14

  5. Revelation 19:19-21

  6. Revelation 20:11-15

  7. Revelation 21:1-8

ii. Other problems with the Map:

  1. Seven Thunders (Revelation 10:3b-4)

  2. Revelation 12:1-8

III. Conclusion

a. But what if Revelation’s target is bigger than prediction…what if Revelation’s target is YOU!

Challenging Assumptions Instructions

Section 01
20:07Challenging AssumptionsChallenging Assumptions

Simplifying Revelation: How to Read the Book of Revelation

Session 2: Challenging Assumptions

I. The danger of assumptions

a. We come expecting Revelation to answer questions like:

i. What will the end look like?

ii. Is the rapture almost here?

iii. Are we living in the end times?

b. Assumptions can cause not a little pain and an awful lot of problems.

II. Key assumption for the Book of Revelation

a. WE ASSUME: Revelation is a chronological roadmap for the future.

i. End of the World:

  1. Seals (Rev. 6:12-17)

  2. Trumpets (Rev. 11:15-18)

  3. Bowls (16:17-21)

  4. Revelation 14

  5. Revelation 19:19-21

  6. Revelation 20:11-15

  7. Revelation 21:1-8

ii. Other problems with the Map:

  1. Seven Thunders (Revelation 10:3b-4)

  2. Revelation 12:1-8

III. Conclusion

a. But what if Revelation’s target is bigger than prediction…what if Revelation’s target is YOU!