Pitfalls to Understanding Revelation

PITFALLS TO UNDERSTANDING REVELATION
TEXT: Revelation 1:3

I. THE PITFALL OF HYPER-LITERALISM.
A. A Tenet of Dispensationalism.
B. Problems with Hyperliteralism.

II. THE PITFALL OF EXTRA-BIBLICAL FASCINATION.
A. The Preterist Interpretation.
B. The Futurist Interpretation.
C. The Historical Interpretation.
D. The Ideological or Spiritual Interpretation.

III. Symbols in Motion.
A. Things in Nature.

1. Trees.
2. Forces.
3. Animals.
   B. Numbers.
   C. Other elements: contrasts, colors, etc.