All Power to the Lamb: A Commentary on Revelation, Vol. 1 - Softcover

Johnson, James R

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1612151140 ISBN 13: 9781612151144

Publisher: Xulon Press, 2010

Synopsis

Book Summary If you were God, writing a book you wanted men to understand, would you write it in such a way that men would have to make up meaning in order to understand it, or would you write it in such a way that those that seek to understand could actually come to a knowledge of its truth (Mt 7:7)? The present commentary takes the position that God wrote Revelation in such a way that with sufficient effort and intellectual honesty, readers can understand it. Certainly there are symbols in Revelation, but when God does use symbols, He provides inspired interpretations of the symbols. This commentary seeks to avoid the mistakes of the views that use the symbolical approach to Revelation (preterist, continuous historical, spiritualist, and idealist). These approaches suffer from two basic flaws: assuming the text is symbolical when it is not and making up meaning regarding the text based on stream of consciousness word association, much as one would do looking at Rorschach inkblots. This commentary seeks to avoid telling God what He should have said and strives to understand what God actually meant. Of all the approaches to understanding Revelation, this commentary is most closely aligned with the dispensationalist (premillennialist) view in that it views Revelation from a literalist, futurist perspective. It is different from the typical dispensationalist schema in that it views the seven seals as the powers of the Lamb, understands the exercise of the powers of the seven seals to be simultaneous processes, and casts chapters 8-22 as three parallel prophecies of the Lamb's power over the course of the histories of Israel, the nations, and the saints. This commentary also makes use of many of the non-canonical works that provide insight into the spirit world and detail regarding the end of the present age.

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About the Author

James Johnson has been a preacher and Bible class teacher since 1962. He has preached in congregations from Maryland to California and from Alabama to Maine. He has preached on three continents and been a missionary to the Ukraine, Nigeria, and the Philippines. His active gospel ministry, like Paul's, has often been sustained by "making tents". He is currently the minister at a small church in Dayton, OH.

James is an accomplished scientist and engineer with a master's degree in meteorology from Texas A&M University, and a bachelor's degree from the USAF Academy with numerous continuing education courses from institutions such as UC Berkeley, the Air Force Institute of Technology, Sinclair Community College, and Wright State University. 

During his multi-faceted career he has worked in aviation, weather forecasting, maintenance, electro-optics, electronic warfare, retail, banking, engineering development, artificial intelligence, trucking, railroads, product development, software development, and logistics. He is the general editor of six proceedings on the aerospace applications of artificial intelligence, and he was granted approval for one patent. 

He has written one children's book, and is the author of a commentary on Revelation, All Power to the Lamb, Volumes I and II on which he has spent ten years in research, analysis, and composition.

Edition details

• Publisher: Xulon Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1612151140
• ISBN 13: 9781612151144
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 598