Who and when it was written the Apocalypse? What Is the Book of Revelation?
According to the Church, "the Apocalypse, from the greek" Revelation "was written by the disciple John, the author of the Fourth Gospel, in the years 94-95 on the island of Patmos (Greece) during The persecution of Christians by the Emperor Domitian made. It expresses, through the revelation by an angel to John the Evangelist, the certainty of ultimate victory of Christ over the powers of evil. " (And the Bible. CEI)
leaving any comment on the significance abusive and biased that the Church ascribes to this book, which is not our intention to enter into discussions fideistic, let's examine this book considering only those assumptions that can be treated in a secular process, such as sole reliance on reason and verifiable by a historical record.
The Book of Revelation, composed of 22 chapters, was actually written in two editions, The first consists of 18 chapters in 68 out of 70 during the war, and the second, represented by the first three and the last chapter, which was added in 1995 by the spiritualists. How is it logical that while the first 18, written by revolutionaries, are the result of the program based warrior zealot hate and vengeance against Rome and its allies, the latter four, written by the Essenes spiritualists, are all of pacifism boasted that they had become after the split from the revolutionary current.
The Apocalypse, always looked upon with suspicion by the Church for its essential concepts zealots, as to be included in the canonical texts only in the sixth century, is what most of the sacred books any other evidence of non-historical existence of Jesus
In both editions, and in that of 68 as in that of 95, he knows nothing of Christ's life and death. The Messiah of the Apocalypse still resides in heaven at the throne of God, and when in his chapter (XII) speaks of his birth is done by designing the constellation Virgo and the beginning of time, remaining in the world of 'astrology, the Messiah of the Apocalypse is the sky in the form of Aries, first sign of the zodiac, which controls the destinies of the world, which is symbolically associated with the paschal lamb biblical Exodus. The descent of the Messiah, which will take place, according to the visions reported by Maccabees, in the person of a victorious leader on a white horse at the sound of trumpets, announced as the next, it has nothing to do with the Passion of Christ took place in 33 states: Far from dying on the cross, he will exterminate the enemies Seated on a throne that will last a thousand years. The Church tries to give this picture of a thousand years, as told by the CEI in the step above application, the symbolic value of a message of hope in the ultimate victory of Christ over the powers of evil, but good enough to read the Book of Revelation to make that the destruction of Rome, a symbol of corruption, is billed as a fact and not as a prophecy.
"The Messiah in Revelation is the "Son of Man" of Daniel's vision. Far from dying on the cross, he is the one that will establish the Jewish empire on the ruins of Rome are not to procrastinate distant past and future, but provided so imminent as to render absurd any other interpretation. And the author, who has taken up the post in 95, does not contradict the expectation expressed in the edition of 68, doing finish work on this promise by the Messiah: "Yes I will come soon, "to which the author answered:" Come, Lord, come! "proves to have been unaware that he has already come under another form." (Guy Fau. Op. Cit. P.. 60).
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