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Quote from: Billy Evmur on October 23, 2018, 12:31:36 am

I wish also that you would give consideration to this.


Few NT books were given titles by the authors of them, the titles i.e "The Revelation of St John the divine" was added later.

Suppose in the original the title comprised the opening words of the book, you would have this

The Revelation of John, the revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave to him to show unto His servants, things which must shortly come to pass, and He sent and signified it by His Angel unto His servant John.

The whole meaning is thus transformed. And I totally agree the present understanding of those opening words are clumsy and somewhat amiss scripturally.

Now the revelation is not given to Jesus Christ but to John and not given to John by an angel but by the Angel of the Lord, much more fitting NT doctrine.

But it is not a revelation of Jesus Christ it is THE revelation of Jesus Christ. In other words His revelation when He comes on the Lord's day. With the same meaning Paul gives it when he speaks of creation groaning in travail with us for the revelation of the sons of God.

This sews up nicely the meaning of the whole of chapter 1.

Well said, except for one thing, what makes you think his name is not there? His name is Yohanan and the Master himself also says he is Eliyahu, (if anyone will receive it), and therefore he is Yohanan Eliyahu, (in Greek the initials for these two Hebrew names would be Iota and Heta, Ι̅H, (not to be confused with Yah Elohim, Ι̅H)). Chew on that for a while. 

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