Book of Revelation – Study Outline
February 7, 2011 by Doug
Filed under Sunday School
Fred Stokes has recently published his study outlines for the Book of Revelation. Fred taught a Sunday school class at Oakland Hills Community Church (OPC) in Farmington Hills, Michigan. Fred developed and wrote down this material over the past year – after more than 30 years of study. The updated Book of Revelation Study Guide is now available as a FREE eBook (PDF). Updated again in November of 2011. The Book of Revelation – A Study by Fred Stokes – is here now.
Fred said the following books were helpful in his study over the years:
- Oswald T. Allis, Prophecy and the Church (P & R Publishing)
- Loraine Boettner, The Millennium (P & R Publishing)
- Herman Ridderbos, The Coming of the Kingdom (P & R Publishing)
- Francis Turretin, Institutes of Elenctic Theology, vol. III, 20.3 (P & R Publishing)
- William E. Cox, Biblical Studies in Final Things (P & R Publishing)
- G. K. Beale, The Book of Revelation, NIGTC (Eerdmans Publishing)
Fred clarified: The reader may note that we have not intended these thoughts to be a polemic against certain forms of millenarianism. Listed above are the name and works of men far more skilled to do just that. I highly recommend the work by Allis, particularly chapters 1, 7, 8, 9 and 10. I would also suggest the work by Cox, chapters 12 and 13. For an older perspective, I found Turretin very clear and pointed (Institutes, III, 20.3). Particularly helpful is the following quote from Gerhardus Vos: “In regard to a book (Revelation) so enigmatical, it were presumptuous to speak with any degree of dogmatism, but the uniform absence of the idea of the millennium from the eschatological teaching of the New Testament elsewhere ought to render the exegete cautious before affirming its presence here” (“The Second Coming of Our Lord and the Millennium,” The Presbyterian, 1916, which is chapter XXIV, 415-422, in Redemptive History and Biblical Interpretation: the Shorter Writings of Geerhardus Vos, P & R Publishing, 1980, p.422).
