Revelation

Andrew Parker, a professional computer programmer analyst, left his successful career to go to graduate school to study Bible and search for truth. When he was required to study graduate Greek, his life, and the way he studied Bible would change forever. He then spent over two decades, much of it full time, using his analytical skills reading, searching and studying the Scriptures in their original languages, not Protestantly-biased English translations based upon 16th century Gentile misunderstandings (e.g., missing the “Hebraic roots” and rabbinic argumentation methods), especially of the ancient first century rabbi, Paul (2 Pet. 3:14-18). He used his detail-oriented nature, training, skills and experience to analyze Revelation and associated Old Testament texts in the original languages. Not too long after taking up Revelation to see if he could figure it out, he noticed that the visions were not in chronological order. He then decided to take Revelation apart, vision by vision, and began studying the chronology of the individual parts to see how they might fit with each other. This is when things started falling into place. Still there were more keys that were needed in order to put more of the pieces together.

This first book, part one of the commentary, includes a thorough discussion of the keys necessary for understanding Revelation and the timing of its events. The entire commentary will include a new translation of Revelation along with running commentary in what is believed to be a close rendition of its true chronological order. Included support for these understandings comes from the Old and New Testaments, early Christian writings and ancient Jewish understandings. It is the author’s belief that without access to unbiased and untranslated Bible texts, without the understandings of the Old Testament teachings of the ancient Jews (e.g., the ancient teachings of the chronology of the world and the hidden understandings in the Creation account and the festivals of Leviticus 23) and without the understandings of the early Christians with regard to these things, it is all but impossible to understand Revelation.

This work contains evidence showing that the chronology of Revelation has now been unlocked, and that prior to this point in time the chronology of Revelation has largely been misunderstood, at least for more modern times. The evidence contained in this book shows that chapters 4-11 are out of chronological order and appear to be the ending of the one thousand year period of time described in Revelation 20. One of the difficulties in understanding Revelation and the End Times is because there is more than one ending and most are conflating the endings, trying to understand them as one and the same, which really does not work.

This work shows that there appear to be two separate and distinct endings in Revelation—the end of the age preceding the one thousand year age of Revelation 20:1-6 (as contained in Rev. 13-19), and the end after the one thousand year age of Revelation 20 (as contained in Rev. 4-11). This work shows that this new model with two endings, rather than one, fits with prominent and popular understandings in the very early church, that have for the most part gone unnoticed, at least until now, perhaps because they have not fit with modern interpretations of Revelation and the End Times.

A rough outline of what is believed to be the correct chronological order of Revelation is as follows:

• Rev. 12 (the time from the birth of Christ until His being taken back to Heaven) 
• Rev. 1-3 (Introduction and letters to the seven churches in the time of the apostle John) 
• Rev. 13:1-20:9a (the end of the age prior to Revelation 20 and then the one thousand years of Rev. 20) 
• Rev. 4-11 (the end of the one thousand years of Rev. 20) 
• Rev. 20:9b thru 22:21 (the end of this Earth, then the New Heavens and New Earth) 

Evidence supporting the belief that chapters 4-11 are climactic and final for the Earth (and thus fit after the end of the one thousand years of Rev. 20) include the following observations...