Glossary for Lessons 1-2

Glossary of terms and names for lessons 1 and 2

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H

Hope

The confident anticipation of a positive future

I

Idealism

View 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.

J

John

Author of the Book of Revelation

L

Laodicea

The church from Asia Minor that was "neither hot nor cold"

Lawsuit

One of the most common forms of Old Testament prophecy

N

Nero

Roman emperor that persecuted Christians for supposedly causing a great fire in Rome.

Nicolaitans

Sect mentioned by name in Revelation, that some wayward Christians joined during the first century AD. They mixed the Christian faith with eroticism.

P

Patmos

Island where the Book of Revelation was probably written while the author was in exile

Pergamum

The church from Asia Minor that failed to reject the Nicolaitans

Postmillennialism

View of eschatology that believes Jesus will return to establish the eternal kingdom after reigning from heaven. This reign from heaven is the "millennium," not literally a thousand years, but a period of expansion of the Church and improvement of the entire earth.

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