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Vengeance Has Come: A Puritan-Minded Exposition of the Apocalypse For the Modern Church
Believers must look to King Jesus through their tribulation since He comes to conquer old Jerusalem and bring in new Jerusalem. Old Jerusalem stands for both that ancient city and the nation of Israel to which she belonged, being plagued with all her hypocrisy and spiritual adultery. New Jerusalem represents the church, the true Israel of God with the same faith as Abraham, who is clothed in the perfect, seamless obedience of her Husband, Saviour and Lord.
Thus, the Apocalypse unveils the Lord Jesus in all His Messianic glory, having been raised from the grave to sit on David’s throne at His Father’s right hand. It is from heaven that He presently rules over all the nations on earth, progressively putting all His enemies under His feet until He subjugates His last enemy, death, on the Last Day.
The Revelation presents Messiah successfully conquering His first enemy since His exaltation, namely, apostate Israel, through desolating her prized capital city and temple by way of Rome’s military force in AD 70. This provides believers both the assurance that He will not stop reigning until all of His enemies are firmly beneath His feet, just as He’s promised, and the motivation to persevere in conquering through the trials they face in faithfully following Him. Indeed, this provides the modern church with a robust, historic, Biblical world-and-life-view that may be summarised as, “All of Christ for all of life for all the world!”
Thus, the Apocalypse unveils the Lord Jesus in all His Messianic glory, having been raised from the grave to sit on David’s throne at His Father’s right hand. It is from heaven that He presently rules over all the nations on earth, progressively putting all His enemies under His feet until He subjugates His last enemy, death, on the Last Day.
The Revelation presents Messiah successfully conquering His first enemy since His exaltation, namely, apostate Israel, through desolating her prized capital city and temple by way of Rome’s military force in AD 70. This provides believers both the assurance that He will not stop reigning until all of His enemies are firmly beneath His feet, just as He’s promised, and the motivation to persevere in conquering through the trials they face in faithfully following Him. Indeed, this provides the modern church with a robust, historic, Biblical world-and-life-view that may be summarised as, “All of Christ for all of life for all the world!”
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264 pages, Paperback
Published December 8, 2023
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February 1, 2024
A quality exposition of Revelation.
April 22, 2025
Excellent, excellent commentary on the book of Revelation. Thorough, even at times too thorough. But a quality in-depth study. Forsythe does an excellent job connecting the lines of the Revelation together, helping the reader see the long-running strands that are well woven together through out the book. He also does an excellent job showing us just how thoroughly The Revelation connects to all of Scripture — saving us from our very modern interpretations of the book where we tend to read it as though it has almost no connection to the rest of God's Word.
Though I don't love all of his writing style, he more than makes up for it by thorough biblical work. Highly recommend this book.
Though I don't love all of his writing style, he more than makes up for it by thorough biblical work. Highly recommend this book.
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