Of all the books of the New Testament, Revelation is one of the most difficult to interpret and understand. At first reading the startling images of beasts, dragons, and false prophets, plus many numbers great and small, seem to defy meaning and understanding. This all seems contradictory to the book's opening words: "The revelation of Jesus Christ." The key to understanding the Bible's last book is to establish a set of interpretive keys to unlock the symbols, especially all the numbers found in so many of the chapters. This volume is based on such a set of keys.The commentary begins by...
Of all the books of the New Testament, Revelation is one of the most difficult to interpret and understand. At first reading the startling images of b...
In his short ministry in Palestine, Jesus referenced more than one Old Testament book, but of only Daniel did he say, "Let the reader understand" (Matt. 24:15 NIV). Jesus had such a love for this book he wanted His followers to read and understand it. But as every first-time reader will attest, Daniel is not an easy book to understand. Roy Naden begins his commentary on Daniel (as he did in his Revelation commentary) by unveiling the book's chiastic structure, an approach common in Jewish writing. At the heart of Daniel's chiasm, we find the theme of his book-a most important finding to...
In his short ministry in Palestine, Jesus referenced more than one Old Testament book, but of only Daniel did he say, "Let the reader understand" (Mat...
