Exegesis of Christ Figure

In order to understand the meaning of any New Testament text, it is essential to appreciate the historical context in which the books of the Bible, which is to say the authoritative voice of emergent Christianity, were made canonical. The process involved a wholesale transformation of religious sensibility as Greco-Roman influences overlapped and converged with Jewish tradition. The dynamics involved do not begin with the book of Revelation but are linked to it starting with the Acts of the Apostles, forming the context that in a sense prepares the way for the evangelical (= teaching) mission of the nascent ecclesiastical apparatus.

This does not mean that Revelation is linked only to Acts, as a cursory examination of the "miniconcordance," or numerous parallel Scriptural references and marginal readings that are in the center column of the traditional King James Bible. The present point is that Acts lays the socio-historico-cultural groundwork for explication of the emergent Christian faith. By the time of the Acts of the Apostles, the situation for the new religious sect is that the Jesus mission has been authorized by the events o

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lly say so, MacArthur (32) takes the book to be "the title deed to the universe." Since we are in metaphorical territory anyway, that particular metaphor is perhaps as useful as any for referring to an object that is invested with such importance that unlocking its seals would appear to yield secrets of cosmic importance. It is how the book (deed) is treated that is the relevant point. John weeps at what seems to be the consternation of the heavenly hosts at the idea that "there was no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth able to open the scroll or to look inside it" (Revelations 5:3). Now of course the Father, the One, could open the seals, or God would be less than omnipotent. And as Bauckham observes, Rev. 4 and 5 make clear that "God's sovereignty is seen as it is already fully acknowledged in heaven" (Th. 32). That has to be the case; otherwise there would not be the presentation of the heavenly throne. But among mankind "the powers of evil challenge God's role and even masquerade as the ultimate power over all things, claiming divinity" (Th. 32). That implies that God is seeking an agency of mediation between the divine and human, such that humanity may glimpse, or be worthy to glimpse, the Beatific Vision. Trouble
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