Great ProstituteAlso called Babylon, it represents all illicit pleasures that tempt God's people |
HistoricismView of how the prophecies of the Book of Revelation are fulfilled. It considers the visions to be a chronological outline of church history from the first century until the second coming of Christ. |
HopeThe confident anticipation of a positive future |
IdealismView of how the prophecies of the Book of Revelation are fulfilled. It considers that the scenes depict general patterns of spiritual warfare, not specific events or chronologies. |
JohnAuthor of the Book of Revelation |
KingdomThat which "comes where the gospel is heard, hearts are changed, sin and error overcome, righteousness cultivated, and a living communion with God established," according to Geerhardus Vos. |
LaodiceaThe church from Asia Minor that was "neither hot nor cold" |
LawsuitOne of the most common forms of Old Testament prophecy |
NeroRoman emperor that persecuted Christians for supposedly causing a great fire in Rome. |
NicolaitansSect mentioned by name in Revelation, that some wayward Christians joined during the first century AD. They mixed the Christian faith with eroticism. |