Breaking the Code: Understanding the Book of Revelation - Leader's Guide Edition - Softcover

Metzger, Bruce M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0687497795 ISBN 13: 9780687497799

Publisher: Abingdon, 2006

Synopsis

The Book of Revelation contains passages of great beauty and comfort, as well as passages that strike the casual reader as bizarre, bewildering, and sometimes frightening. How are readers today to discern God's message in this peculiar part of the Bible?

Noted biblical scholar Bruce M. Metzger presents solid scholarship in a non-academic style. The book includes a list of resources for further study and a study guide for 8-13 sessions. Ideal for use in personal or group study.

Topics include:

• Introducing the Book of Revelation/John's Vision of the Heavenly Christ (Revelation 1:1-20)
• Letters to Churches/More Letters to Churches (Revelation 2:1- 3:22)
• John's Vision of God and the Lamb (Revelation 4:1-5:14)
• Opening the Seven Seals of God's Scroll (Revelation 6:1-8:2)
• Sounding the Seven Trumpets (Revelation 8:3-11:19)
• The Satanic Trinity: The Dragon and the Two Beasts (Revelation 12:1-14:20)
• The Seven Bowls of God's Wrath (Revelation 15:1-18:24)
• The Final Victory and the Last Judgment/John's Vision of the Heavenly Jerusalem (Revelation 19:1-22:21)

About this title

About the Author:

As one of the world's best-known scholars on the text of the New Testament, Bruce M. Metzger has taught for many years at Princeton Theological Seminary.

About this edition

• Publisher: Abingdon
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0687497795
• ISBN 13: 9780687497799
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32