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What do you think is the best way to interpret Revelation? Well I think futurism is the best way to look at it. But how do we interpret the Bible as a whole? Isn't there just one interpretation? ( Being Gods way and his meaning) Can we really know exactly how to take Gods word? Well for most parts we can. It's all about faith baby. I think futurism is a valid way to interpret revelations due to making the most sense (at least for me it does so). For other points it just doesn't fall in as smoothly as futurism does being that the events in revelations hasn't happened yet and we are waiting for everything to occur.  

The futurist viewpoint often divides Revelation into three sections, which are defined in Revelation 1:19. There, the apostle John is instructed to “write, therefore, what you have seen, what is now and what will take place later.” Following this three-part outline, Revelation 1contains John’s vision of the risen Christ and represents the past (“what you have seen”). Chapters 2 and 3, which contain the letters to the seven churches, describe the present (“what is now”). Finally, chapters 4–22 describe events in the future (“what will take place later”). 

Dispensationalists generally believe that the raptureof the church takes place at the time of Revelation 4:1, after which comes the “what will take place later.” Revelation 4:1marks the beginning of the tribulation, a seven-year period where God finishes His discipline of Israel and begins His judgment of the unbelieving world as described in Revelation 4–19. Some futurists place the rapture of the church at Revelation 19, at the time of Jesus’ second coming.

- Paul benware

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