at sea greeted John Chrysostom, the patriarch of Constantinople, at the beginning of the fifth century when he was on his way to Ephesus to replace seven corrupt bishops.  Morozov, a Russian astronomer dated the Apocalypse to be in the year 395, based on astronomy, in his book “REVELATION IN THUNDERSTORM AND TEMPEST” and suggested John Chrysostom was the only one around at that time who could have written it.  For some strange reason R. H. Charles decided to include this in his “Studies in the Apocalypse”. Go figure.

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commented on the Apocalypse.  How did he get a copy?  Tertullian produced the only record we have on  Antipas and the churches prior to the fourth century.  He didn’t say much about the Apocalypse but somehow it included Antipas and three of the churches.  Victorinus and Eusebius, who was obsessed with martyrs, had plenty to say about the Apocalypse but failed to mention either.  What were they looking at?

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who wrote to the seven churches.  This John knew the Baptist, a man sent from God.  He also knew the followers of the Baptist in Ephesus spoken of in Acts 19.  He was told to prophesy again by adding Jesus, the churches, and Antipas to the original written by the Baptist

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has this to say about the Apocalypse.  “We cannot conclude without mentioning the theory advanced by the German scholar Vischer. He holds the Apocalypse to have been originally a purely Jewish composition, and to have been changed into a Christian work by the insertion of those sections that deal with Christian subjects. From a doctrinal point of view, we think, it cannot be objected to. There are other instances where inspired writers have availed themselves of non-canonical literature. Intrinsically considered it is not improbable. The Apocalypse abounds in passages which bear no specific Christian character but, on the contrary, show a decidedly Jewish complexion. Yet on the whole the theory is but a conjecture.”

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worthy of your time if you are really interested in what the Apocalypse is all about.  “Studies in the Apocalypse” by R. H. Charles is based on his lectures delivered before the University of London.  It is free, online, and searchable.  If you read just one book on the Apocalypse, it should be this one.

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posed by Josephine Massyngbaerde Ford was that John the Baptist wrote the first version.  It was not well received even though many scholars have held that the Apocalypse was the work of more than one author.  It has also been held that the Apocalypse was first written in Hebrew and later translated into Greek.

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John the Apostle bare record in his Gospel and in the Apocalypse.  It should be clear that it was John the Baptist who bare record in the Apocalypse.  John the Baptist is just one of His servants.  There are three of them and they are all named John.

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A key word in the Old Testament but not in the New Testament with the exception of the Apocalypse.  If you take away Jesus, the churches and Antipas, you could argue that it belongs in the Old Testament and you would have no trouble identifying who wrote it.  John the Baptist.

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attributed to John the Baptist.  The word lamb is found 142 times in the Old Testament, 27 times in the Apocalypse, and six times in the rest of the New Testament.  Two of the six times are attributed to John the Baptist who was preparing the way for the Lamb of God but at the time did not know it was Jesus who is mentioned 12 times in the Apocalypse.  Was the name of Jesus in the first version of the Apocalypse?

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with Victorinus and Eusebius.  The seven churches Victorinus mentions in his commentary on the Apocalypse are the ones Paul wrote to.  The letters are to seven spirits not seven churches.  Eusebius mentions six of the seven churches but never associates them with the Apocalypse.  Could it be their copy of John’s Apocalypse did not mention them?

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