The Key to Revelation

Christ coming back to make things right that had gone wrong. Among things that had gone wrong was sin causing mankind’s fall and curse of earth.

His name Jesus Christ

His name, unlike our names today, is not a first or given name and a last or surname. His two names are like two separate and distinct titles representing his authority.

The Savior - Jesus

The Messiah - Christ

As Messiah, He has authority to accomplish our redemption through His shed blood for the forgiveness of sins.

Savior and Messiah are one person

Messiah and Christ

What is the

Content of the Scroll?

What Bible Scholars have said:

1. New covenant of the promised Kingdom.

2. A Testament or Will assuring believers they have an inheritance reserved for them by God.

3. The Lamb’s Book of Life. –13:8, 20:15

4. A history of the future which reveals [i] judgments of God to be poured out on the earth; [ii] Christ’s return to earth; [iii] the millennium kingdom; [iv] the new heaven and the new earth. In short, it is Christ’s title deed to forfeited planet earth.

Have dominion over the earth

God blessed them, and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living creature that moves on the earth."

–Genesis 1:28 AKJV

Paradise Lost

Of  Man's first disobedience, and the fruit

Of that forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste

Brought death into the world,

and all our woe,

With loss of Eden, till one greater Man

Restore us, and regain the blissful seat

John Milton, Paradise Lost, Edited by Henry W. Boyn-ton, Norwood Press, Mass.,1916, p29

The totality of man’s forfeiture

We also know very well, that there has been an inheritance forfeited¼ and the proper heirs have had no possession of it. Alas, the original possessor sinned, and the inheritance passed out of his hands. Seven seals are upon this scroll, indicative of the completeness of those bonds of forfeiture ¼ and those encumbrances which are upon his lost estate.

Joseph A. Seiss, The Apocalypse, ©1865, Henderson & Company, Toronto, Canada, 1901, Vol 1, p272

A Redeemer

The Old Testament gives us the story of Elimelech and Naomi from Bethlehem who in famine sojourned to Moab where their son Mahlon married Ruth, and their son Chilion married Orpah, each wife being a Moabitess.

Elimelech, Mahlon and Chilion died, leaving three widows. Naomi heads back to Bethlehem with Ruth tagging along. There she picked up leftovers in the barley fields of mighty, wealthy Boaz, a relative of de-ceased Elimelech who had an inheritance of land but someone else was using it.

Boaz, as a relative [kinsman], had the right to buy back [redeem] the land on demand by [i] paying the price, [ii] evicting the present tenant and [iii] taking possess-ion of it.

[i] Jesus paid the price

In Him [Christ] you also who have heard the Word¼ and have believed¼ were stamped with the seal of the long-promised Holy Spirit¼ which is the guarantee of our inheritance¼ the down payment on our heritage¼ in anticipation of its full redemp-tion and our acquiring complete possession of it, to the praise of His glory.

­Ephesians 1:13-14 Amplified NT

[ii] Jesus will evict Satan

In addition to the 7 seals on the scroll in-dicating our forfeited inheritance with its "first mortgage," "second mortgage," "liens" and other encumbrances, the 7 seals are representative of judgments coming on Satan and his worldly empire of evil. The 7 seals, the 7 trumpets and the 7 vials to follow represent Christ the Messiah evicting Satan and his cohorts from this earth.

[iii] Jesus will take possession

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away¼ there will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away. He said to me, "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End."

­Revelation 21:1, 4, 6