is there a message for people today in the book of Revelation?

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Is there a message for people today in the book of Revelation?

The Book of Revelation also called Revelation to John,  of John and Revelation of Jesus Christ. It is the last  of the  in the  and was written sometime around 96 CE.The Revelation or the apocalypse (from the Greek word for “unveiling” or “revealing” ) concerns the end of time. The message of the book is given by God through Jesus and his angle to “his servant”John”. It is the only biblical book that is wholly composed of . The author of Revelation identifies himself several times as "John" (1:1, 4, 9; 22:8).He was probably a Christian from Ephesus known as "John the Elder. According to the Book, this John was on the island of Patmos, not far from the coast of Asia Minor, "because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus" (Rev. 1.10). This has traditionally been taken to mean that he had been exiled there as a martyr for his Christian faith. However, it is suggested that it might have been a regular stop on a preaching circuit. The author of the text tells us that his name is John. Christian tradition has taken him to be the apostle John, author of the Fourth Gospel. However, the John of Revelation does not claim to be one of the disciples or to have known Jesus. Stylometric analysis, a process which analyses an author's style of writing, shows that the Book of Revelation and John's Gospel display more differences to each other than any other two books in the New Testament. However some believe that the similarities between the Gospel and the Revelation suggest it was the same author. For example, both works are  (e.g., referring to Jesus as a ) and possess a high , stressing Jesus' divine side as opposed to the human side stressed by the . In the Gospel of John and in Revelation, Jesus is referred to as "the Word of God"(Rev. 19:13)

”He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God”. Most modern scholars such as Krohn believe that , , and  refer to three separate individuals. Certain lines of evidence suggest that John of Patmos wrote only Revelation, not the Gospel of John nor the Epistles of John. For one, the author of Revelation identifies himself as "John" several times,(Rev 22:8) but the author of the Gospel of John never identifies himself directly. While both works liken Jesus to a lamb, they consistently use different words for lamb when referring to him—the Gospel uses amnos, Revelation uses arnion. Lastly, the Gospel is written in nearly flawless , but Revelation contains grammatical errors and stylistic abnormalities which indicate its author may not have been as familiar with the Greek language as the Gospel's author.  Seiss argues that the author is the apostle John (on Rev 1:1), but does apparently not date Revelation.`

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Some Protestant theologians argue that the  contains a realized  which contradicts the  contained in Revelation (e.g., chaps. 21–22). Against this Protestant view, however, stands the Protestant proposition that, properly interpreted, even realized eschatology is not fully realized eschatology: God's kingdom has been initiated but is not entirely implemented. This view is generally called the "already but not yet" state of God's kingdom.

 John explicitly addresses Revelation to  : , , , , , , and  (1:4, 11). All of these sites are located in what is now . He mentions details about these communities that indicate he knew and was ...

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