Digging Deep into the Revelation of Jesus Christ
A Study Guide (NKJV)
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Here is a description of how the inside of the Study Guide looks like as the "Preview" doesn't allow a four column presentation. (For a visual picture of the layout, please visit our Blog page on this website).
This guide has been designed with four columns much like a “Parallel Bible” (which contains four translations side by side). When each page is turned the NKJV Bible Chapter will be on the left-most, column #1. In column #2, next to the Scripture will be commentary on that Chapter with references to other verses and passages within the Bible. To save the reader from searching and turning to those other Books, the reference verses and passages have been printed in column #3 on the side-facing page. Then column #4 consists of the commentary for the reference verses. Without turning any pages these four columns are side by side in order to use time more effectively and to promote and enhance ease of understanding.
Following is an example of what each column would contain:
COLUMN 1
Chapter 4 Verse 1
1After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven. And the first voice which I heard was like a trumpet speaking with me, saying, “Come up here, and I will show you things which must take place after this.”
COLUMN 2
Chapter 4 Verse 1 Commentary
4:1-11 Presents a picture of what is happening around God’s throne in heaven upon the Church being raptured (Romans 11:25-26; 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17).
4:1 The Church is called up, that is, raptured. Things which must be hereafter will be shown through this Book; these “things” include His Judgment Seat, the Seven-Year Tribulation, the Second Coming of Christ, Armageddon, His Millennial reign, and the Great White Throne. All these and more will be revealed in the Chapters from here on.
COLUMN 3
Chapter 4 Verse 1 References
V. 1 Romans 11:25 25For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. 1 Thessalonians 4:13a, 16-17 13aBut I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren... 16For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. 17Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.
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Chapter 4 Verse 1 References Commentary
V. 1 Jesus said in Matthew 13:11 that the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven have been given now that He has come, but the mystery was not given to those in the Old Testament ages. **The fullness of the Gentiles refers to the time when the last Gentile will have been saved and the church will be removed from the earth by the Rapture** and so all Israel will be saved (Romans 11:25-26; 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17): After the Rapture of the Church, and during the seven-year Tribulation, national salvation will come to **the Twelve Tribes of Israel (12,000 from each tribe; 144,000** total newly converted Christian Jews, Revelation 7:4). God has temporarily blinded—or set Israel aside for the sake of the Gentiles, but He has not forgotten them because of His promise to their fathers. The Rapture is based upon the eye-witnessed fact that Jesus died and rose again. The certainty of every believer’s hope is based on the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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About the Book
The purpose of this guide is to promote learning, discussion, and blessing. The greatest benefit of the layout is that the reader has four columns side by side to enhance ease of understanding and use time more effectively.
Following the design of a parallel Bible, with four columns side by side, the Revelation Chapter is the left-most column. In column #2 is the commentary on that Chapter with references to other verses and passages. To save the reader from searching for reference Books and verses, those Scriptures are printed in column #3 on the side-facing page. Column #4 consists of the commentary for the reference verses.
About the Author
About the Compiler
For the past 12 years Michael Copple has studiously devoted his life to the Lord by preaching the Gospel and moderating Bible studies. He is a 1958 Eagle Scout, holds a B.S. degree in electrical engineering, and achieved the highest US Air Force enlisted rank with over 26 years service, one year of which was with Forward Air Control duties in Vietnam. For three years he was the senior enlisted member of the US Air Force Academy Wings of Blue Parachute Team; he has performed over 2,000 parachute jumps and accumulated over 15 hours of freefall, qualifying him to author the novel Calling from the Sky. A former world-wide electronic service engineer for 16 years with a semiconductor equipment manufacturer, he and his wife Elfriede currently live in the Canadian Rockies. Since most of this study guide is quoting both Scripture, which God authored, and commentaries by solid brothers in Christ, Michael prefers to be called compiler rather than author.