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The Book of Revelation Simplified for the Latter-Day Saints
Have you tried to read the Book of Revelation and been completely baffled at the strange language and mysterious figures that John the Revelator uses to describe his vision. Revelation has a reputation for being a secretive perplexing book that most reader of the Bible find difficult to understand.
This difficulty become quite evident when the reader encounters the characters and concepts mentioned in Revelation, such as the four horsemen of the apocalypse, the pale rider, warriors in the form of locusts, the red dragon, the beast with seven heads and ten horns, the false prophet/Anti-Christ, the number of the beast 666, the battle of Armageddon, the evil forces of Gog and Magog, and the New Jerusalem.
To make sense of John s symbolic language, the author has consulted the various commentaries written about the Book of Revelation within the LDS community. With these aids, the author has rewritten each verse in Revelations to reflect what it means in today s language. In The Book of Revelations Simplified for the Latter-day Saints the reader will
A left-hand column showing the Book of Revelation as it appears in the King James Version, and A right-hand column that gives a verse-by-verse restatement in today s language;
Those changes made by the Joseph Smith Translation to the Book of Revelation with the changes noted in bold;
-Differences in the King James Version when compared to the literal translation of the Greek manuscripts, with the changes noted in red;
-Complete scriptural references from the LDS Standard Works.
This difficulty become quite evident when the reader encounters the characters and concepts mentioned in Revelation, such as the four horsemen of the apocalypse, the pale rider, warriors in the form of locusts, the red dragon, the beast with seven heads and ten horns, the false prophet/Anti-Christ, the number of the beast 666, the battle of Armageddon, the evil forces of Gog and Magog, and the New Jerusalem.
To make sense of John s symbolic language, the author has consulted the various commentaries written about the Book of Revelation within the LDS community. With these aids, the author has rewritten each verse in Revelations to reflect what it means in today s language. In The Book of Revelations Simplified for the Latter-day Saints the reader will
A left-hand column showing the Book of Revelation as it appears in the King James Version, and A right-hand column that gives a verse-by-verse restatement in today s language;
Those changes made by the Joseph Smith Translation to the Book of Revelation with the changes noted in bold;
-Differences in the King James Version when compared to the literal translation of the Greek manuscripts, with the changes noted in red;
-Complete scriptural references from the LDS Standard Works.
- GenresReligion
192 pages, Paperback
First published September 13, 2007
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