America Asks More Questions about the Second Coming of Christ
Question
Isnt the book of Revelation just so many symbols and thus should not he placed on the level of other clearer messages of the Bible?
Answer
The book of Revelation is replete with symbolism; but so is much of the rest of the Bible. We should give no less credence to it than to any other part of the Bible. Symbolisms were used to guide an entire nation of ancient Egyptians and to protect and give hope to generations of Israelites. All of this was done in the very first book of the Bible, so if we are going to lessen the veracity or the practicality of biblical symbols we would have to start at the beginning of the Bible. If we start there, we will find countless other symbols not to trust and in the end we will have chopped up a great deal of Gods word. We dont have the right to remove even one letter from Gods word physically, but we are not to remove it by spiritualizing it or nominalizing it either.
When Egypt was about to undergo one of the worst droughts in its history, Pharaoh had a dream filled with symbolism that deferred the worst from happening. When Joseph...