Your teachings are like a fresh of breath air especially in the confusion of interpretation we find today. Thank you for all you do. Truth will prevail!
It is such a shame that today's false teachers only look at the book of revelation as a source of money. Your instruction and teaching are truly priceless and the Lord has a great reward awaiting you.
Thank you so much for sharing your teachings. I am enjoying ALL of them. SUCH A BLESSING. GOD'S Word is Great in all of history and in our lives. (from South Africa)
Thanks again Mr. Gore, this entire teaching on the great apocalyptic poetic book of Revelation has been so helpful & edifying, as well all the teaching vids I've been blessed to listen to, finding your channel. Good stuff in great detail, thank you. Its an awesome thing to have a love for Holy scripture, may we all grow in the grace & knowledge of the truth of our great eternal King Jesus Christ
I have listened to a few of your lectures from the past and I’m happy I can actually tell you how much I enjoy them! I’ve been listening to your lectures on Romans. I’ve never read Revelations; now I see the historical framework and it’s a great introduction for me. Thank you! Chapter 17 on the 17th... very interesting.
I believe we always redo the script - same story but different cast. Thinking about your Sunday School Lesson #2 reminds me of King Saul - but of course, there were those before him and many after him with the same human failing - cockiness and "...gonna do it my way". We all struggle with our appointed tasks and struggle to let go and let God! Thank you for your teachings. Blessings to you and yours.
Great teaching Bruce, and with practical applications for today. When you said about our day. " ... ‘I sit as a queen, I am no widow, and mourning I shall never see." I definitely thought of our supposed new leaders from the recent selection election. God's sovereign purposes in the earth will stand. As judgement begins with His people, His bride will be made more pure without spot or wrinkle, while the fruitless areas (compromised churches and many mega churches) are pruned off. This is a good thing. From Doug Wilson and his team, a few quips: As Paul is arrested and put in jail he probably thinks: "Now we've got them on the run" Or "Cheer up, it's worse than you think"
Literally the best lectures I’ve ever seen on RUclips and heard in person. I am glad the Lord has given you the ability to expound the scriptures and teaching it with such clarity. I’ve watched numerous videos and I’m constantly watching and learning. So thank you brother Bruce 👏 may I ask are you PCA or PCUSA?
Just remember that God is still sovereign and reigning. Just believe in Him, don't watch the fake news and just go about reconciling people to the Lord.If you die a Christian you will be with God for eternity and if you don't youll be separated from him for ever.
Amazing stuff! @Bruce Gore, million-dollar question! do you know if there is a list of prophecies/scriptures in the bible from a semi preterism point of view that are still yet unfulfilled? 1 Corinthians 15:24 comes to mind as an example, are there any others?
Is there a way to get all your work and lectures besides on RUclips? Love it and a great teaching tool for homeschoolers. I would of course love to see your teaching in schools also✝️🙏🏼
#AllSaints2021 This one hurts. (I had all of Apoc. 18 in my reading today). I'm fairly sure ANY attachment to this world and to our "crafts" (art, teaching, etc) will get the many hung up like Lot's wife. I don't want to be attached to any part of any beast system. _But I look at awful electric cars, and my electric heat, and paintings I sign "I.X. [name]"..._ We've got to be prepared, always, to kiss all that goodbye. Including actual people who are attached to anything of this planet over Jesus Christ. Jesus ✝️ says to "all": *Watch.* And yet we look forward to the Church Triumphant -by the Grace of God I.X., all things are possible. (But we can't pray for evil of course. Guess that's a "derp".) #HardChapter Beautiful chapter.
The PreteriteEschatology makes the most sense however It seems to confound and contradict the eminent return of Yashua 2 Timothy 2:18 “Who have deviated from the truth. They say that the resurrection has already occurred, and they undermine the faith of some.”
Rome does not fit the text nor the chronology. Jerusalem does fit the text and chronology. It is easy to see how some can make this mistake, but ch. 11:8 makes it plain, "where our Lord was crucified," it must be Jerusalem.
I have read that Judea was considered a backwater part of the Roman Empire and not the wealthiest part of the empire. Places like Byzantium, Laodocia, and Alexandria seemed to be more prosperous. Please provide a source or two that can shed light on Jerusalem as the wealthiest city outside of Rome. Thanks Bruce
Thanks, Bruce. Good in-depth history lesson... I'm trying to find though where Jerusalem reigned over the kings - I see where some kings and rulers occupied her, but their seats were in other countries at that time... Perhaps this was a precursor to the final fulfillment. I'll keep searching though.
Revelation must be understood in light of Old Testament perspectives more than first century politics. From the Old Testament point of view, Jerusalem was the capital of the world, maintaining a house of prayer 'for the nations.'
Sorry, I had commented before I got to the 00:30:00 mark... I see now where you addressed this question, but it raised another (lol); if Jerusalem was to have been reigning during the OT and to the world then how do I account for the covenant, the Jews signed a covenant with GOD... Mt 15:24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. I'll keep studying, I know it's there!
@@AbelieverofourLord Yes, Jesus was sent first to Israel as their Messiah. They rejected him, and crucified him. Only after his resurrection did he commission his disciples to take the message of his kingdom to the world.
@AbelieverofourLord The Jewish Diaspora existed and extended well beyond the borders of the Roman Empire. Every Sabbath day Jews throughout the world would assemble in synagogues and then voluntarily send financial support to Jerusalem. The Sanhedrin managed a much greater and far-reaching empire than Rome.
I'm not a Futurist and I'm familiar with Preterist view. I have a few questions. *Where are the hermeneutics that point to Jerusalem being Babylon? We lnow that apostate Israel went into captivity within Babylon. And we know that John in his Revelation, mirrored scripture relating to this event, quoting Jeremiah, Isaiah, and other prophets, which are keys to unlocking the mystery, Babylon, he describes. There are two women in scripture. The first being Israel is a shadow of the second one, the church. You are saying, the woman is Israel, via Jerusalem, which is illogical. When, it is the second one, the church. The opostate church, to exact. Just as Israel became apostate and went into captivity within Babylon, so too dod the apostate church. *Your comment 'Propped up on the back of the beast, Rome', is an assumption drawn to fit the Preterist view. Rather, the woman, the prostitute, Babylon, is controlling the beast as one rides a horse, so as to correctly describe her as having complete control. And not, as in the Preterist view, where she, Babylon, is subordinate to the beast, Rome. 'As for the woman you saw, she is the great city that has SOVEREIGNTY OVER THE KINGS OF THE EARTH.' Rev 17:18. *Your summation of Paul's writing in Romans in regard to the Jews is certainly not the correct context and which you have twisted to fit your view. The context, in regard to the Jews in his letter to the Roman church, was the very same as that stated to the Galation church, which was to counteract the false teaching of justification by the law, as opposed to grace through faith in Jesus as Christ. This false teaching being propigated by the believing Jews, who were insisting on and teaching the law given to Israel through Moses. Paul was anti Jewish, as you falsely describe. *You describe Jerusalem as sitting on 'many waters'. Then later on, you attribute the 'sitting on many waters' to the Jews spread throughout the Roman Empire. Which is it? *How could the ten kings/horns (who were to rule for one hour), if literal, destroy Jerusalem? Since the Preterist view of the ten kings is a sequential line of kings, whom all were not ruling at the time of Jerusalem's destruction. I believe the correct interpretation of the ten kings is that the 'ten' represents earthly government. Remember Rev 17:18? *How 'the great city that rules over the kings of the earth' possibly be Jerusalem? You said yourself that Jerusalem was 'propped up' and certainly not ruling Rome. *Since Revelation is a symbolic book, a 'city' is surely symbolic, isn't it? A 'head' is not a literal head. A 'woman' is not a literal woman. A 'beast' is not a literal beast. And therefore, a 'city' is not a literal city.
The woman in ch. 12 is the remnant and faithful Israel, and not the adulterous Israel. Even Hosea was told by God to marry a prostitute so Hosea would understand what God goes through being "married" to a harlot.
@@larrymcclain8874 Yes, I agree, Larry. Through Israel ran the thread of the remnant; the believing and faithful Israel. They were the true Israel because they believed and exoressed their faith through obedience. One is not an Israelite simply by birth, as Jesus said to the Pharisees. Cheers
Don't forget, the Jewish Diaspora extended well beyond the Roman Empire. These Jews in synagogues throughout the world paid homage to the Sanhedrin in Jerusalem both spiritually and financially. Rev. 11:8 makes it plain, "where our Lord was crucified." Also in ch. 21 we have another "great city," the New Jerusalem, the Bride of Christ. The Old Jerusalem (adulterous harlot) was destroyed by the beast (Rome), and so the New Jerusalem comes down from heaven to be "with men," ch.21:3.
@@larrymcclain8874 Thanks for the fellowship in these things by way of your comments. Having read through my original comment, I probably should be more circumspect and a little less dogmatic sounding. However, I do that to Futurists also. However, if a 'woman' is not a literal woman, how can a 'city', even the 'great city', be a literal city? And if it is the city of Jerusalem, why not just say Jerusalem? Rev 11:8, 'figuratively called Sodom and Egypt', seems to be a reference to the world, rather than Jerusalem. Since, figuratively, the world is represented by the enslavement in Egypt from which every believer comes out of into the promised rest of Christ. Also, Jesus was not crucified within the city of Jerusalem. He was crucified 'outside the gate'. Contrary to my dogmatic writing, I'm still on the fence. Though I lean to the Historical view. Cheers
I like the analogy of the woman riding the beast represents the Jews. The principle is correct, but the timing is off. Jerusalem fell in AD70 and the book of Revelation was written in AD 90. John was told that he is going to be shown, "things to come". So, we must look for another religious entity who took over from the Jews having a similar relationship with Rome, and that is the Christian church of the Middle ages, starting from the 6th Century. This is the apostasy that the Apostle Paul spoke about in 2 Thessalonians that would take place before Christ appears the second time.
Your teachings are like a fresh of breath air especially in the confusion of interpretation we find today. Thank you for all you do. Truth will prevail!
It is such a shame that today's false teachers only look at the book of revelation as a source of money. Your instruction and teaching are truly priceless and the Lord has a great reward awaiting you.
Must say this interpretation is more convincing than the more popular dispensational one. Nicely unpacked and connected with historical events.
That’s a pretty low bar.
I was a Dispensational Premillennialist for 30 years. Thank you Jesus for delivering me from that madness !
Excellent as always! Thank you so much for making this teaching available!
Thank you so much for sharing your teachings. I am enjoying ALL of them. SUCH A BLESSING. GOD'S Word is Great in all of history and in our lives. (from South Africa)
You are truly a man of God.
Thank you so much for your work!
Thank God! All the Earth shall be filled with the Glory of the Lord!
So happy to see you posted again! I’m looking forward to continuing the study of this amazing book! Thank you!
Thanks again Mr. Gore, this entire teaching on the great apocalyptic poetic book of Revelation has been so helpful & edifying, as well all the teaching vids I've been blessed to listen to, finding your channel. Good stuff in great detail, thank you. Its an awesome thing to have a love for Holy scripture, may we all grow in the grace & knowledge of the truth of our great eternal King Jesus Christ
Your feedback is very encouraging. Thank you!
I have listened to a few of your lectures from the past and I’m happy I can actually tell you how much I enjoy them! I’ve been listening to your lectures on Romans. I’ve never read Revelations; now I see the historical framework and it’s a great introduction for me. Thank you!
Chapter 17 on the 17th... very interesting.
Thank you!
Thank you Bruce, always look forward to your teachings. Blessing to you and your family.
I clicked on you video because it looked cozy lol. Great insight and God Bless you!
Thank you! I'm looking forward to being back in a setting that is less cozy, but allows for a live audience!
You are historical and great teacher. Please continue your teaching. I am part of your teaching. God be blessed you a lot
Thank you. I'll keep teaching if you'll keep praying!
Thank you for the wonderful relief your teachings continue to give concerning the book of Revelation. God bless you.
Thank you, and blessings to you and yours!
I believe we always redo the script - same story but different cast. Thinking about your Sunday School Lesson #2 reminds me of King Saul - but of course, there were those before him and many after him with the same human failing - cockiness and "...gonna do it my way". We all struggle with our appointed tasks and struggle to let go and let God! Thank you for your teachings. Blessings to you and yours.
Great teaching Bruce. Thank you.
Thank you so much. I really do appreciate your time sharing your knowledge. Thank you.. God bless you.
Thank you Professor Gore
Great teaching Bruce, and with practical applications for today. When you said about our day. " ... ‘I sit as a queen, I am no widow, and mourning I shall never see." I definitely thought of our supposed new leaders from the recent selection election. God's sovereign purposes in the earth will stand. As judgement begins with His people, His bride will be made more pure without spot or wrinkle, while the fruitless areas (compromised churches and many mega churches) are pruned off. This is a good thing.
From Doug Wilson and his team, a few quips:
As Paul is arrested and put in jail he probably thinks: "Now we've got them on the run"
Or
"Cheer up, it's worse than you think"
Thank you!
Literally the best lectures I’ve ever seen on RUclips and heard in person. I am glad the Lord has given you the ability to expound the scriptures and teaching it with such clarity. I’ve watched numerous videos and I’m constantly watching and learning. So thank you brother Bruce 👏 may I ask are you PCA or PCUSA?
Thank you for your kind feedback. I have been a member of First Presbyterian Church (PCUSA), Spokane, for well over 40 years.
@@GoreBruce That’s really awesome brother , I’ve only been to Spokane a few times. I’m out in clearview,WA.
Just what's going on today Big Brother!
Beats me!
What????
Just remember that God is still sovereign and reigning. Just believe in Him, don't watch the fake news and just go about reconciling people to the Lord.If you die a Christian you will be with God for eternity and if you don't youll be separated from him for ever.
Oh not worried - just found the parallels kind of interesting. But I know God is coming in with a miracle and things are going to be even better.
@@joyfulpreterist7532 preterist? Really? Guess you flunked the class.
Amazing stuff! @Bruce Gore, million-dollar question! do you know if there is a list of prophecies/scriptures in the bible from a semi preterism point of view that are still yet unfulfilled? 1 Corinthians 15:24 comes to mind as an example, are there any others?
Thanks for the feedback. I will treat your question in some detail when we reach chapter 20.
Is there a way to get all your work and lectures besides on RUclips? Love it and a great teaching tool for homeschoolers. I would of course love to see your teaching in schools also✝️🙏🏼
Please visit my website: www.brucegore.com.
Thanx again! Question: how many more weeks do you plan this series to go?
About ten more!
You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.
#AllSaints2021 This one hurts. (I had all of Apoc. 18 in my reading today). I'm fairly sure ANY attachment to this world and to our "crafts" (art, teaching, etc) will get the many hung up like Lot's wife. I don't want to be attached to any part of any beast system. _But I look at awful electric cars, and my electric heat, and paintings I sign "I.X. [name]"..._ We've got to be prepared, always, to kiss all that goodbye. Including actual people who are attached to anything of this planet over Jesus Christ. Jesus ✝️ says to "all": *Watch.*
And yet we look forward to the Church Triumphant -by the Grace of God I.X., all things are possible. (But we can't pray for evil of course. Guess that's a "derp".) #HardChapter Beautiful chapter.
The PreteriteEschatology makes the most sense however It seems to confound and contradict the eminent return of Yashua 2 Timothy 2:18 “Who have deviated from the truth. They say that the resurrection has already occurred, and they undermine the faith of some.”
Why do so many commentaries say the women is Rome not Jerusalem? Really appreciate your expository efforts.
Who is IB you quote so often?
IB is 'Interpreters Bible' which includes comments from many individual commentators.
Rome does not fit the text nor the chronology. Jerusalem does fit the text and chronology. It is easy to see how some can make this mistake, but ch. 11:8 makes it plain, "where our Lord was crucified," it must be Jerusalem.
I have read that Judea was considered a backwater part of the Roman Empire and not the wealthiest part of the empire. Places like Byzantium, Laodocia, and Alexandria seemed to be more prosperous. Please provide a source or two that can shed light on Jerusalem as the wealthiest city outside of Rome. Thanks Bruce
Josephus provides plenty of information along those lines, and Tacitus is also helpful.
Thanks, Bruce. Good in-depth history lesson... I'm trying to find though where Jerusalem reigned over the kings - I see where some kings and rulers occupied her, but their seats were in other countries at that time... Perhaps this was a precursor to the final fulfillment. I'll keep searching though.
Revelation must be understood in light of Old Testament perspectives more than first century politics. From the Old Testament point of view, Jerusalem was the capital of the world, maintaining a house of prayer 'for the nations.'
Sorry, I had commented before I got to the 00:30:00 mark... I see now where you addressed this question, but it raised another (lol); if Jerusalem was to have been reigning during the OT and to the world then how do I account for the covenant, the Jews signed a covenant with GOD... Mt 15:24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. I'll keep studying, I know it's there!
@@AbelieverofourLord Yes, Jesus was sent first to Israel as their Messiah. They rejected him, and crucified him. Only after his resurrection did he commission his disciples to take the message of his kingdom to the world.
@AbelieverofourLord The Jewish Diaspora existed and extended well beyond the borders of the Roman Empire. Every Sabbath day Jews throughout the world would assemble in synagogues and then voluntarily send financial support to Jerusalem. The Sanhedrin managed a much greater and far-reaching empire than Rome.
I hear constant , america is mystery babylon .?
Very confusing to the youngest in Christ . I hope they see this understanding .
God bless you sir.
I believe that the United States is Mystery Babylon
Almost sounds like NYC...
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Where does the quote from Bruce chilton come from?
David Chilton, Days of Vengeance, a commentary on Revelation.
I just saw you got trolled. Let us pray Christians can unite instead of uglinesss. We all have differences in theology. ✝️🙏🏼
I'm not a Futurist and I'm familiar with Preterist view. I have a few questions.
*Where are the hermeneutics that point to Jerusalem being Babylon? We lnow that apostate Israel went into captivity within Babylon. And we know that John in his Revelation, mirrored scripture relating to this event, quoting Jeremiah, Isaiah, and other prophets, which are keys to unlocking the mystery, Babylon, he describes. There are two women in scripture. The first being Israel is a shadow of the second one, the church. You are saying, the woman is Israel, via Jerusalem, which is illogical. When, it is the second one, the church. The opostate church, to exact. Just as Israel became apostate and went into captivity within Babylon, so too dod the apostate church.
*Your comment 'Propped up on the back of the beast, Rome', is an assumption drawn to fit the Preterist view. Rather, the woman, the prostitute, Babylon, is controlling the beast as one rides a horse, so as to correctly describe her as having complete control. And not, as in the Preterist view, where she, Babylon, is subordinate to the beast, Rome. 'As for the woman you saw, she is the great city that has SOVEREIGNTY OVER THE KINGS OF THE EARTH.' Rev 17:18.
*Your summation of Paul's writing in Romans in regard to the Jews is certainly not the correct context and which you have twisted to fit your view. The context, in regard to the Jews in his letter to the Roman church, was the very same as that stated to the Galation church, which was to counteract the false teaching of justification by the law, as opposed to grace through faith in Jesus as Christ. This false teaching being propigated by the believing Jews, who were insisting on and teaching the law given to Israel through Moses. Paul was anti Jewish, as you falsely describe.
*You describe Jerusalem as sitting on 'many waters'. Then later on, you attribute the 'sitting on many waters' to the Jews spread throughout the Roman Empire. Which is it?
*How could the ten kings/horns (who were to rule for one hour), if literal, destroy Jerusalem? Since the Preterist view of the ten kings is a sequential line of kings, whom all were not ruling at the time of Jerusalem's destruction. I believe the correct interpretation of the ten kings is that the 'ten' represents earthly government. Remember Rev 17:18?
*How 'the great city that rules over the kings of the earth' possibly be Jerusalem? You said yourself that Jerusalem was 'propped up' and certainly not ruling Rome.
*Since Revelation is a symbolic book, a 'city' is surely symbolic, isn't it? A 'head' is not a literal head. A 'woman' is not a literal woman. A 'beast' is not a literal beast. And therefore, a 'city' is not a literal city.
The woman in ch. 12 is the remnant and faithful Israel, and not the adulterous Israel. Even Hosea was told by God to marry a prostitute so Hosea would understand what God goes through being "married" to a harlot.
@@larrymcclain8874 Yes, I agree, Larry. Through Israel ran the thread of the remnant; the believing and faithful Israel. They were the true Israel because they believed and exoressed their faith through obedience. One is not an Israelite simply by birth, as Jesus said to the Pharisees. Cheers
Don't forget, the Jewish Diaspora extended well beyond the Roman Empire. These Jews in synagogues throughout the world paid homage to the Sanhedrin in Jerusalem both spiritually and financially. Rev. 11:8 makes it plain, "where our Lord was crucified." Also in ch. 21 we have another "great city," the New Jerusalem, the Bride of Christ. The Old Jerusalem (adulterous harlot) was destroyed by the beast (Rome), and so the New Jerusalem comes down from heaven to be "with men," ch.21:3.
@@larrymcclain8874 Thanks for the fellowship in these things by way of your comments.
Having read through my original comment, I probably should be more circumspect and a little less dogmatic sounding. However, I do that to Futurists also.
However, if a 'woman' is not a literal woman, how can a 'city', even the 'great city', be a literal city? And if it is the city of Jerusalem, why not just say Jerusalem?
Rev 11:8, 'figuratively called Sodom and Egypt', seems to be a reference to the world, rather than Jerusalem. Since, figuratively, the world is represented by the enslavement in Egypt from which every believer comes out of into the promised rest of Christ.
Also, Jesus was not crucified within the city of Jerusalem. He was crucified 'outside the gate'.
Contrary to my dogmatic writing, I'm still on the fence. Though I lean to the Historical view. Cheers
@@larrymcclain8874 The old Jerusalem giving way to the new Jerusalem coming down does have merit.
Mystery Babylon is the United kingdom
I like the analogy of the woman riding the beast represents the Jews. The principle is correct, but the timing is off. Jerusalem fell in AD70 and the book of Revelation was written in AD 90. John was told that he is going to be shown, "things to come". So, we must look for another religious entity who took over from the Jews having a similar relationship with Rome, and that is the Christian church of the Middle ages, starting from the 6th Century. This is the apostasy that the Apostle Paul spoke about in 2 Thessalonians that would take place before Christ appears the second time.
For my detailed treatment of the date of Revelation’s authorship, please see lectures #11, 12, and 13 of this series.
I blame Joe Biden
America is Babylon ... it is a mystery but you havent figured it out yet
Amen, I agree
Your exegesis is bad and you should feel bad.
Livin up to your name. Good job.