A number of details in the Book of Revelation may date the relevance (of those part of the Revelation at least) to a time now already past.
For example:
1. The Roman currency Denarius is mentioned (in 6:6). As John Wesley said, that seems to date its relevance to a place and time when that currency was in use - that is, in the Roman Empire.
2. John was told that one of the horns, a king, "...now is..." That is, that he was a contemporary of John's, in the first century AD, perhaps.
3. The city of Jerusalem was identified, as a location for some of the predicted events, when it said, "...where also our Lord was crucified..." Jerusalem was destroyed around AD70, so does that mean the events had to have happened around then?
4. It also mentions 12,000 people from each tribe of Israel. Since Jewish genealogies proving a person's tribe were lost as a result of the destruction of the city and Temple around AD70, does that also date the fulfilment of that part of the Revelation to around that time?
It's also interesting that in Turkey, where John's letters were addressed to, a large network of underground cities exists, built by early Christians to survive waves of persecution, persecutions possibly beginning around the time of Nero, through Domitian, into subsequent centuries - and persecutions still hasn't stopped.
Maybe, just maybe. Just wondering.
For example:
1. The Roman currency Denarius is mentioned (in 6:6). As John Wesley said, that seems to date its relevance to a place and time when that currency was in use - that is, in the Roman Empire.
2. John was told that one of the horns, a king, "...now is..." That is, that he was a contemporary of John's, in the first century AD, perhaps.
3. The city of Jerusalem was identified, as a location for some of the predicted events, when it said, "...where also our Lord was crucified..." Jerusalem was destroyed around AD70, so does that mean the events had to have happened around then?
4. It also mentions 12,000 people from each tribe of Israel. Since Jewish genealogies proving a person's tribe were lost as a result of the destruction of the city and Temple around AD70, does that also date the fulfilment of that part of the Revelation to around that time?
It's also interesting that in Turkey, where John's letters were addressed to, a large network of underground cities exists, built by early Christians to survive waves of persecution, persecutions possibly beginning around the time of Nero, through Domitian, into subsequent centuries - and persecutions still hasn't stopped.
Maybe, just maybe. Just wondering.
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