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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 the period between the first and second coming of Christ. During this period, Christians will continue to suffer tribulation, but the Church will grow and experience blessings.

A kind of biblical literature that is symbolic, gives divine revelation, is usually revealed privately, and deals with interactions among natural, preternatural and supernatural realities

The "anointed one"

The visible manifestation of the kingdom of God today

Name used in the lesson to refer to a kind of fulfillment of prophecy that occurs when the outcome of the prophecy is somehow modified in light of the way human beings respond to the prophecy

While the word itself only appears once in the Book of Revelation, the concept shapes the whole book.

Roman emperor who persecuted Christians outside of Rome more extensively than any other emperor had done before. He required his people to worship him, and executed his own cousin because he was a Christian.

The church from Asia Minor that has lost their "first love"

In theology, it is the study of the last things

View of how the prophecies of the Book of Revelation are fulfilled. It considers that the visions of Revelation won't begin to be fulfilled until the final crisis immediately before the second coming of Christ.

Also called Babylon, it represents all illicit pleasures that tempt God's people

View 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.

The confident anticipation of a positive future

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.

Author of the Book of Revelation

That 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.

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

One of the most common forms of Old Testament prophecy

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

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

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

The church from Asia Minor that failed to reject the Nicolaitans

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.

View of eschatology that believes Jesus will return before reigning 1,000 years on the earth

View of how the prophecies of the Book of Revelation are fulfilled. It considers that most prophecies were fulfilled in the distant past.

The literary genre of the Book of Revelation

This is a theory about how to interpret the Book of Revelation in general. It proposes that each series of visions symbolizes the events of the same period between the first and second comings of Christ, but with a unique emphasis

Spiritual being represented by the red dragon with seven heads and ten horns

The church from Asia Minor in whose letter there was no rebuke

In a treaty of covenant, this refers to the great emperor or powerful king.

Term used in the lesson to refer to a kind of fulfillment of a prophecy in which the things stated in the prophecy are foreshadows of future events

In a treaty or covenant, this refers to someone appointed by the emperor or powerful king to rule over his kingdom and administer it for him.