The earth created (1:1)

The earth passed away (21:1)

Sun, moon and stars for earth's

Sun, moon and stars connected

with earth's judgment (6:13;

government (1:14-16)

8:12; 16:8)

Sun to govern the day (1:16)

No need of the sun (21:23)

Darkness called night (1:5)

No night there (22:5)

Waters called seas (1:10)

No more sea (21:1)

A river for earth's blessing

A river for the new earth

Man headed by one in Satan's

Man in God's image (1:26)

image (ch. 13)

Development and end of sin

Entrance of sin (ch. 3)

(chs. 21-22)

Curse pronounced (3:14,17)

No more curse (22:3)

Death entered (3:19)

No more death (21:4)

Cherubim in connection with

Cherubim finally connected

with man's redemption and

man's fall and expulsion (3:24)

restoration (4:6)

Man driven out from Eden (3:24)

Man restored (ch. 22)

Sorrow and suffering enter (3:17)

No more sorrow (21:4)

Nimrod, a great rebel and king

The beast, a great satanic rebel,

and hidden anti-God, the founder

a king, manifested anti-God the

of Babylon (10:8,9)

reviver of Babylon (chs. 13-18)

The rainbow, a token of God's

The rainbow, showing God's

remembrance of His covenant

covenant with the earth (9:13)

with the earth (4:3; 10:1)

Sodom and Egypt, places of

Sodom and Egypt representing

corruption (chs. 13, 19)

Jerusalem (11:8)

Man's dominion ceased and

Satan's dominion ended and

Satan's begun (3:24)

man's restored (ch. 22)

Sun, moon and stars associated

Sun, moon and stars associated

with Israel (37:9).

with Israel (ch. 12).

If expositors and Christians as a whole had only heeded the facts mentioned above, much that is completely

unprofitable would never have been written concerning the Apocalypse. The divine setting of this Book is at the

end of the age and refers largely to the last seven years (the last unfulfilled week of years related to Daniel's seventy

seven's Dan. 9:24-27) a time of unparalleled darkness and persecution which will be ended by the coming of the

Lord Jesus in power and great glory as He promised (Matt. 24:29-31; Rev. 19). In other words the setting of the

Revelation relates to the time and the events described by the Lord in this important chapter in connection with the

end of the age (not `world' as A.V. verse 3). Much of the Revelation is clothed in symbolic language, the difficulties

of which have been exaggerated and have resulted largely because the Old Testament commentary has been ignored

and events in this age of grace have been strained to mean the fulfilment of its terrible judgments. The historicist

interpretation of this Book has done great damage to its understanding. The tremendous events described in its

chapters cannot be identified with past history. The confusion and disagreement among those who have tried to do

so make this quite clear and in any case there is nothing in past history that measures up to the terribly solemn

language that the Revelation contains.