A Study In Revelation Chapter 2

The Study of end time prophecy is one that needs to be carefully approached because to falsely interpret what God has foretold even innocently is a very dangerous thing.

2 Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come. 3 Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, 4 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

5 Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things? 6 And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time. 7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way. 8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming. 9 The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, 10 and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, 12 that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

Deuteronomy 4:2 “You shall not add to the word which I command you, nor take anything from it” (also Deuteronomy 12:32). The reason God is so adamant on this is because “The entirety of His word is truth” (Psalms 119: 160).

"Add thou not unto His words, lest He reprove thee, and thou be found a liar" Proverbs 30:6.

In our day there is the belief in “progressive revelation” that originates from outside the Word.

It lends itself to multiple warnings that in the last days many will come with false teachings.

Paul warns Timothy in I Tim. 4:1 The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons.

False teachers do not want to submit to its original intent, so they do not seek what Scripture actually (exegesis) means, instead, they conform it to what they want it to mean (eisegesis).

They will look to another source as their authority because they are not under God’s authority.

This is why Paul admonishes us in 1 Corinthians 4:6: “not to think beyond what is written” (exceed or go past).

Likewise, he gave this warning in II Thess. 2 regarding false theology near the end

Proverbs 30:5-6: “Every word of God is pure; he is a shield to those who put their trust in Him.”

The book of Revelation completes the Bible, just as Genesis began it.

Rev. 22 states " If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this Book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the Book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the Book of Life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this Book" Revelation 22:18-19. (2 strong judgements to properly study His Word.)

In this study I will be doing this different than I ever have before – It will include portions that are vs. by verse teaching with comparisons between Daniels prophecy, and Johns on Patmos, but it will also include topical subjects with comparisons. One such topical review will be:

Such at the 70-week prophecy of Daniel

A perfectly times prophecy given while Israel was in captivity that foretold Nehemiah’s going back to Jerusalem to rebuild, pressing forward to Christs coming to earth and his being cut off in death. Leaving a gap for the church age, the present age we are living in, and then coming back with the last 7-year period in the worlds history, known as the tribulation.

We will see the original plan of God and how satan has tried throughout time to duplicate it.

One example being the triune Godhead, Father, Son, and Spirit, being falsely presented in “the Dragon (satan) the anti-christ (falsely modeled after Christs authority) and the false prophet (falsely modeling the Holy Spirit)