Glossary for Lessons 1-3

Glossary of terms and names from lessons 1-3.

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G

Great Prostitute

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

H

Historicism

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.

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

K

Kingdom

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.

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.

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