Time Limits Set by the Book of Revelation
Time Limits Set by the Book of Revelation* Below is the second of multiple excerpts of commentary on the Book of Revelation from The Parousia , the late 19th-century masterpiece on the Second Coming by James Stuart Russell: " LIMITATION OF TIME IN THE APOCALYPSE [BOOK OF REVELATION] . " This [time limit] is not a mere conjecture, it is certified by the express statements of the book [Rev. 1:1, 1:3, 1:7, 1:19, 3:11, 16:15, 22:6, 22:7, 22:10, 22:12, 22:20]. If there be one thing which more than any other is explicitly and repeatedly affirmed in the Apocalypse it is the nearness of the events which it predicts. This is stated, and reiterated again and again, in the beginning, the middle, and the end. We are warned that ‘the time is at hand ;’ ‘These things must shortly come to pass,’ ‘Behold, I come quickly ;’ ‘Surely I come quickly .’ Yet, in the face of these express and oft-repeated declarations ...