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Hey, I’m still new at the Bible (though I’m reading the New Testament for the third time since March of this year - I’ve never read the Bible in all these years from the moment I was born until March 2004…“The Passion” got me to read it and got me into a relationship with Christ for real!) and don’t know how to quite interpret scripture correctly. Reading Revelation, I first had a hard time beleiving all the things in it just by the way it was being said. Though I had to force myself to believe it because it’s God’s Word that cannot lie.
How on earth do I interpret the whole thing??? :confused:
 
If your Bible does not include an introduction and commentary on Revelation, you might find the introduction and footnote commentary found in the New American Bible helpful. click here.
 
A simple way to look at it is encouragement, especially if you are in the face of persecution or want to hear lovely descriptions of heaven.

There is a book by Scott Hahn that offers a specific type of Catholic interpretation on it. Ummmmmmm, a,yes, a… The Lamb’s Supper, or some such. He sees many parts of it as descriptive of Catholic worship (the mass).
 
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A simple way to look at it is encouragement, especially if you are in the face of persecution or want to hear lovely descriptions of heaven.

There is a book by Scott Hahn that offers a specific type of Catholic interpretation on it. Ummmmmmm, a,yes, a… The Lamb’s Supper, or some such. He sees many parts of it as descriptive of Catholic worship (the mass).
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The Lambs Supper is indeed a good, though unsystematic treatment of Revelation. I would recommend two works: The Navarre Bible Commentary on the Book of Revelation, and “Rapture: The End times Error that Leaves The Truth Behind” by David Curie. The last is primarily about the errors of the “Left Behind” rapturist theology, but it has a sizable exposition of the Book of Revelation giving a passage by passage explanation of the book.
 
Go with what Todd Easton gave you.

The Bishops and the Pope are the ones to interpret the Bible. Use commentaries written by Bishops. We are not qualified to interpret. Check this out in the Catechism.
 
oh, and by the way. don’t let revelation get you down. scholars have spent years studying it and still are mystified over bits. i’ve found that God likes to teach us, especially from the Bible, when it’s best for us to learn. in other words, just keep reading, and absorbing what you can. time will come (one day) when you are ready to get something from those difficult passages which make no sense to you now.

be encouraged! i’m so excited that He used ‘the passion’ to bring you closer to Him. may He continue to use your diligent reading of His word, and your growing understanding of the Word (Jesus Himself), to grow you in faith and love.
 
You may find some new additional interpretation to Revelation At www.istheBeast.com The Anti-Christ is nailed along with the Beasts. Keep Christ first in your heart. IHS Daryl
 
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The Lambs Supper is indeed a good, though unsystematic treatment of Revelation. I would recommend two works: The Navarre Bible Commentary on the Book of Revelation, and “Rapture: The End times Error that Leaves The Truth Behind” by David Curie. The last is primarily about the errors of the “Left Behind” rapturist theology, but it has a sizable exposition of the Book of Revelation giving a passage by passage explanation of the book.
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Having read the Lamb’s Supper, I would have to disagree that it is unsystematic. I enjoy reading the Navarre Bible Commentaries, and it has a very different treatment by way of commentary. I am still making my way through David Currie’s book, because it takes time to digest properly. Each book is different in its intention and I think that all have their merit in attempting to understand the Book of Revelation from the Catholic point of view.

Maggie
 
Another online resource with Catholic commentary on Revelation (Apocalypse) is the Douay-Rheims Online Bible, here. This is the Haydock commentary from the 1800s.

On the main Douay-Rheims Online Bible webpage, click on the following menu items in the left-side window:
  1. New Testament
  2. Final Book
  3. Revelations
  4. Chapters & Chapter, as desired
The text of the desired chapter of Revelation should be displayed in the main window. For commentary on a particular verse, click on the blue underlined verse number in the main window and the commentary should come up in the lower window.

Since this is a work in progress, many of the links in the windows to other books of the Bible do not work.
 
Hi, P.B.,

Apocalyptic passages of the Bible (there are some in the Old Testament too) should be read on different levels. Revelation paints a picture of the history of the Church, of the long-lasting struggle between good and evil, where evil is eventually destroyed and Christ reigns for ever over a New Heaven and a New Earth.

So the last act of that play takes place at the end of the world, but it is a scenario that keeps repeating itself in the history of the Church, where evil is again and again coming up to fight Christ, is defeated temporarily and attacks again.

Finally, it is a scenario that takes place in our own lives as we struggle to fight evil in ourselves, fall and come up again.

So the message of Revelation is ultimately one of hope. Christ is with us and with Him on our side, we cannot be defeated.

Verbum
 
Please help me then, old faithful DR scholors. Do all versions of DR omit Revelations, or just the 2008 Baronius Press 4th impression. Was Revelations a separate book like when the DR was first written i.e. Old Testament and then the New Testament.
 
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Please help me then, old faithful DR scholors. Do all versions of DR omit Revelations, or just the 2008 Baronius Press 4th impression. Was Revelations a separate book like when the DR was first written i.e. Old Testament and then the New Testament.
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Hi plefe,

I think what you have encountered is a simple issue of names. Does your copy have a book called “Apocalypse”? That is the book otherwise named Revelation. They are just two names for the same book. The DR uses different names than a typical English bible these days. For example, you will likely find the book currently called 1Samuel to instead be called 1Kings, and, correspondingly, the book we currently call 1Kings is called 3Kings. Some prophets also have their names spelled differently.

It could depend on which version of the DR you have. I don’t know the history of all the name changes. But I bet it is as simple as the book called Apocalypse, which you will find located at the end of your bible. 🙂 Oh, also this sometimes leads to bible references that are unusual for a modern English speaker. A reference like “apoc xv. 1.” is translated Rev 15:1.
 
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Hi plefe,

I think what you have encountered is a simple issue of names. Does your copy have a book called “Apocalypse”? That is the book otherwise named Revelation. They are just two names for the same book. The DR uses different names than a typical English bible these days. For example, you will likely find the book currently called 1Samuel to instead be called 1Kings, and, correspondingly, the book we currently call 1Kings is called 3Kings. Some prophets also have their names spelled differently.

It could depend on which version of the DR you have. I don’t know the history of all the name changes. But I bet it is as simple as the book called Apocalypse, which you will find located at the end of your bible. 🙂 Oh, also this sometimes leads to bible references that are unusual for a modern English speaker. A reference like “apoc xv. 1.” is translated Rev 15:1.
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Thanks Pug and God bless you for your insight. Without even looking, and based on a phone call from my Mother I prosed the querry. Then went back to my version, called my Mother and explained to her what you have just explained to me. Thanks!
 
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