Hope: Looking at the End of Time, Studies from Revelation

by Serendipity House

Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

Reviews

[Jennifer Robb · Rating 4 out of 5]

A friend did this as a Bible study with a group at some point in the past. She passed the book on to me when she was done with it. I can't remember if I read through it in the past and decided at that time that it had enough information that I wanted to keep it as a reference or whether this is the first time I've read it. I did this on my own so there was not any discussion. A discussion group may have helped with refining some of the answers to the questions. I appreciated the Notes section which discussed the text and gave interpretation(s) of it. I also appreciated that the authors admitted when there was not consensus on an interpretation and provided the options that are most commonly put forth.

I started this around the time the COVID19 pandemic shut everything down. There are some parallels to that event that also occur in the Biblical book of Revelations.

Revelations is the Apostle John's divinely-inspired visions of the fulfillment of God's promises. I hadn't connected the tree of life from Genesis returning in the New Jerusalem (city where those whose names are inscribed in God's Book of Life will live eternally in the presence of God and Jesus). That makes an interesting story arc. And as the author of this study points out "look at all the things that happened in between to make reviving the Tree of Life possible"--most of them bad.

Overall, I thought it was a well-researched and well-presented study.