The Wedding of the Lamb

Download or read book The Wedding of the Lamb written by James L. Papandrea and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wedding of the Lamb does not fit into any of the traditional categories of interpretation for the book of Revelation. The author uses historical sources to combine New Testament interpretation with the history of the Roman/early Christian period to present an interpretation that is meant to approximate the way the early Christians would have understood the text. Far from a doomsday message, the message of Revelation is one of hope for a Church in the midst of persecution. The result is an interpretation which, unlike the proliferation of fictionalized accounts of the "end-times," recognizes that most of the images in the book of Revelation are references to events in the history of the Church.