1) Granted peace and joy

2) Commissioned His disciples

3) Gave the disciples the HS, empowered them to proclaim his message to the world.

1) Emphasize Peter's failure in denying Christ 3X

2) Offer Peter forgiveness and making him an apostle

1) Introduction

2) Text or body

3) Conclusion (greetings; wishes, final greetings or prayer sentence)

Koinonia - fellowship

1) Present experience of the eschatological age

2) Rooted in the true understanding and relationship with Christ.

Two conditional sentences; former: opponents' claim; latter: John's counterclaim

They walked in darkness.

Denied that Jesus' death was real - Jesus the MAN died on the cross, not the DIVINE Christ.

Atonement means Propitiation (blood being poured out)

OT Background: ON the day of atonement, high priest sacrificed goat and bull for Israel’s sins. Poured the blood on the mercy seat of the Ark of the Covenant

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1)      A) Knowing God – claim to know God but don’t follow His commandments

B) Being in God –a biding in God

C) Light – claim to be in light

Hint: KBL

1)      God’s revelation to Israel in the OT; God showed who He is through His miracles so Israel could experience him. Forms the new covenant which is the obedience to God from the heart.

Agape – starts in the Christian’s heart but outflows from God to the Christian and from the Christian to another believer.

John 2:19 - withdrawal from the Johannine community and deprived the community of financial assistance.

12-14 - assurances to John's followers that they are on the right side

15-17 - advices to those believers to remain on the right side

Known Him (Jesus) from the beginning and continue to know Him

1) Different names: antichrist, false christ, false prophet, man of lawlessness, the beast

2) Expectation of a coming Antichrist spread throughout early Christianity

3) Mixing of one Antichrist with many antichrists.

4) Mixing of the ideas of a human and a supernatural Antichrist(s)

5) Antichrist is partially here now

Hint: DEM MA

Devil's Extremely Manipulative with Many Attacks.

• Departed from Johannine community.
• Denied the humanity of Christ

Hint: DD

• Charisma - only occurs 2X in NT
• Holy Spirit
• All possess the HS and will know Christ

Hint: CHA

^You make that noice when you're anointed

"Let the anointing fall, cha!"

1)God's love for them

2) Understanding

3) Hope

Eschatological expectation; used in Johannine literature.

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What are the three contrasts between the children of God and the children of the Devil that are highlighted in 1 John 2:29-3:6?

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Children of God -->

Justly

Christ takes sin 

In Christ, don't sin

Children of Devil

SInfully

He no take sin

Sins, don't know Christ

1) 7-8 - Everyone who does righteousness is righteous; He who sins is of the Devil

2) 9-10 - Who is born of God doesn't sin; Everyone who does not do righteousness is not a child of God.

No.

1) God is light

2) God is love

3) Love one another

1) Abiding in the Truth

2) Assurance before God

3) Answers to prayer

1. Theme of the Spirit is developed
2. Believe in JC and love the brothers

1) Spirit of Truth - confesses that JC came as a human and proves that He (The Spirit) comes from God.

2) Spirit of error ("deceit") - Test the spirits to see which one is true.

"They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them." 1 John 4:5

Allianted from God, so it's deceitful.

1) Revelation of love - the Christian

2) Origin of love - God

3) Opposite of love - fear

4) Test of love - authenticity

Hint: ROOT

The ROOT of love....

Faith

John 5 = Faith

(Both starts with "F")

"two natures under one person" union of Christ.

hint: hypostatic - static electricity brings two things together. "two natures" and "union"

1) Blessings of belief

2) Certainties of belief

Hint: BC

1) Eternal life (13)

2) Answeres to prayer (14-15)

3) Forgiveness of sins (16-17)

(EAF = Elephants Are Forgetful – blessings because not every elephant wants to remember bad stuff!)

Idolatry from the secessionists who left the true God to follow a false Christology.

Diotrephes - rejected John's missionaries (Hint: "Do away with yourself!")

Gaius - Missionaries were welcomed (Hint: "God welcomes you.")

Demetrius - Gaius should welcome Demetrius just as he did with John's missionaries. (Hint: "Please take me in!")

Why does the presbyter commend Gaius (v. 3-8)?

commend: "praise"

1) Affirmation of the truth (walks in truth)

2) Loves kindred spirits (welcomed John’s representatives)

Hint: AL

1) Apocalyptic

2) Prophetic

3) Epistolary

Hint: APE

1) Historicist - Christ will return to establish a thousand-year reign on earth

2) Idealist - "spiritualist" view, interprets book spiritually or symbolically.

3) Preterist - past viewpoint

4) Futurist - the future view

1) Historic Premillennialism - church will undergo The Great Tribulation

2) Dispensationalism - administration of God's earthly household

Hint: HD

Differences from other Jewish Apocalyptic Literature

• Revelation is:
  
• Prophetic
  

• Not pseudonymous

• Not pessimistic
  

• Does not recast past events as future prophecy
• Setting: Contemporary world of first century AD

Revelation as Epistle

• Prescript - introduction
• Postscript - conclusion or closing
• Letters to the 7 churches

HINT: PPL

Authorship of Revelation

The external and internal evidence point to John

Date and Historical Setting

• Nero - persecutions in Rome, 64-68 AD
• Domitian - emperor worship, 81-96 AD

Hint: ND

(No Date...even though that's not true!:P)

Date and Historical Setting (church faces 3 opponents)

• Jewish leaders expelled Jewish Christians from the synagogues .
• Emperor worship
  
• Decitist's wrong belief about Jesus Christ

Hint: JED

(JEDI - opponent of dark side)

Theology of Revelation

• Theology proper - God is sovereign, in control,holy, should be worshipped, Trinity
  

• Christology
  

• Pneumatology - Spirit is all-knowing; is God;  inspires prophecy

• Angelology - Righteous and evil angels

• Soteriology - Faith in Christ

• Anthropology - Walking with Christ

• Ecclesiology - Church and/or Israel

• Eschatology - Already/not yet

 Hint:

The Cat’s Paw Attacks Sweet Alex. Eek, Eek!

• God's judgment is righteous
• God gives opportunity for repentance
• God let sin turn upon itself

The Comparison in Revelation

• God seals saints - mark of the beast
• Trinity - dragon, beast and prophet

• Jesus death/resurrection - moral wound healed

• God give Jesus authority - dragon gives beast the power

• Worship God - worship beast and dragon

Hint: God's The Just God, Wow!

Future Kingdom (Revelation)

• Must interpret images as John does

• See the visions as wholes
• Timing - how soon?
  

1) Jesus is revealed

2) God gave this revelation and it's given to John through the angels

3) Reading the Word will bring blessing

4) Words to describe Jesus: Alpha & Omega; He is, he was, to come; first born from the dead; Faithful witness; Christ; Messiah; Ruler of the kings

Revelation 1:12-20

1) Jesus' description: Stars, two edged sword in mouth, face was like sunshine

2) Stars - angels of 7 churches

3) Lampstands - the church

4) Message given to the angel of the church

Ephesus, Revelation 2:1-7

Unofficial capital of Roman province of Asia, Culture of harbor and trade route, Diana (Artemis), imperial cult, magic, Judaism and Christianity.

        ○ Do good works        

○ Perseverance        

    ○ They do not tolerate sin/wicked men        

○ They haven't grown weary

• THREE POINTS: REMEMBER, REMOVE, REPENT
• "Remember from where you have fallen." Remember what it was like when you started this thing. Look at where you are now and look at where you were. Don't forget that.
• Removing the lampstand (the church)
  
• Repent
  

• Center of emperor worship, Polycarp, Christians imprisoned, put to death, economic sanctions, John calls Jews the synagogue of Satan
• Judgment - Will be tested and have tribulation
  

Pergamum - Revelation 2:12-17

• Emperor worship, second biggest library of the time, residence of Roman proconsul, guardian of imperial cult, Satan's throne.

• Strength - had faith
  

• Weakness - Mobility; Old Testament issue - the story of Balaam - caused stumbling block
  

• Judgment - God will make war against them with a sword of his mouth.

• Promise - If they repent, they get manna; A white stone with a new name which no one knows
  

• Trade, own god/gods
  
• Strengths: Love, faith, good deeds (L.F.G)
  
• Weakness - Jezebel's spirit, worship Baal (led Israel to do it too), Immorality
• Promise: Authority over nations
  

Sardis - Revelation 3:1-6

 Safety of hill, trade route, religiously diverse, earthquakes

Strength: Good deeds

Promise: Never blot his name out of the book of life

Laodicea - Revelation 3:14-22

Lack of water supply, anking center, school of medicine, earthquakes

Strength: None

Weakness: Denied God, prideful