Philip Mark Ames

The Olivet Oracle and The Apocalypse Philip Mark Ames

Why have the two most important sections of Endtimes Prophecies in the New Testament been so difficult for most Christians to understand? Primarily because most teachers of those prophetic masterpieces have not recognized the design and flow intended by the original writers. Instead, a few eye-catching words and phrases have been borrowed from each; and then great imaginative scenarios and interpretations have been attached to them. In their explanatory books and sermons, those teachers have not followed the Biblical method of allowing Scripture to interpret itself. In both accounts foretelling then-future events, the inspired writers put their literary works together according to a definite design, the recognition of which would permit the reader to see the relationship of each part to the other parts and to the whole. Neither prophetic work was written as a fiction novel, although many works of fiction have been based on each. A correct understanding of endtimes prophecies must be based on rightly dividing these two passages of Scripture into their component parts. For example, after the Disciples asked Jesus three questions, He gave three answers; we must determine which question he was answering in each part of the Olivet Oracle. Only then will our understanding of the whole prophecy be clear. Similarly, in the Apocalypse, the Apostle John recorded seven separate visions; recognizing where each begins and ends is absolutely imperative to correctly dividing and interpreting the entire book. These and other criteria for letting these extremely significant passages of prophetic Scripture interpret themselves are presented in this book. The studious reader may for the first time get a good grasp on what Jesus Christ was revealing to his followers in the Olivet Oracle and in the Apocalypse, also called The Revelation of Jesus Christ.