[1] That is, Asia Minor, modern-day Turkey.
[2] The Russian name for Jesus is much closer in sound to the Greek than it is in English.
[3] The Apostle Paul had been arrested by the Romans exactly the same way in Jerusalem many decades earlier. See Acts 21:30-36.
[4] This is pronounced “YAY-soos”, with ‘oo’ as in ‘book’. (See Appendix 1 for a pronunciation guide for this and other names.)
[5] Isaiah 65:17-19.
[6] See Daniel 7:9, 13-14.
[7] See Acts 6:8-10.
[8] Tychicus had been sent to Ephesus by Paul during his imprisonment in Rome (2 Tim. 4:12).
[9] Rev. 1:4-5a.
[10] See Rev. 3:1; 5:6.
[11] Rev. 2:1-3.
[12] Rev. 2:4-6.
[13] See Acts 19:12.
[14] Rev. 2:7.
[15] See also Rev. 1:10; 17:3; 21:10.
[16] Rev. 4:1-2.
[17] Rev. 5:5.
[18] Rev. 6:1.
[19] Rev. 6:12-14.
[20] Rev. 6:15-17.
[21] G. B. Caird, The Revelation of Saint John, (Hendrickson Publishers, 1993 (reprint ed.)), 106.
[22] See 1 Pet. 4:3-4 for a terse summary of such gatherings.
[23] 1 Cor. 10:20-21.
[24] Rev. 6:9-11.
[25] Rev. 2:8-9.
[26] Rev. 2:10-11.
[27] Rev. 6:17.
[28] Rev. 7:14.
[29] Rev. 7:15-17.
[30] Josh. 6:4, 8, 9, 13, 16, 20.
[31] Judges 7:16-22.
[32] Rev. 10:6-7.
[33] Ezek. 2:9-3:3.
[34] Rev. 2:12.
[35] Rev. 2:13.
[36] Rev. 2:14.
[37] Rev. 2:15.
[38] Rev. 2:16.
[39] 1 Cor. 8:4.
[40] 1 Cor. 10:20.
[41] Rev. 2:17.
[42] Byron MacDonald, The Morning Comes And Also The Night, (Xlibris Corporation, 2001), 178.
[43] Rev. 13:11, 17-18.
[44] Luke 18:27.
[45] Rev. 21:1-4.
[46] Rev. 2:18-19.
[47] Rev. 2:20a.
[48] Rev. 2:20b-25.
[49] Rev. 2:26-29.
[50] Rev. 3:1-3.
[51] Rev. 3:4-6.
[52] Rev. 20:15.
[53] Hal Lindsey, The Late, Great Planet Earth (Zondervan: 1970), 42-43.
[54] MacDonald, 57.
[55] Lindsey, 169.
[56] Lindsey, 60.
[57] Ezek. 37:1-14.
[58] Lindsey, 61.
[59] Acts 2:1-21.
[60] Rev. 13:5-10.
[61] Rev. 13:16-17.
[62] Rev. 14:6-7.
[63] Rev. 14:12-13.
[64] Rev. 14:14-20.
[65] Rev. 3:7-9.
[66] Is. 43:4; 45:14; 60:14.
[67] Rev. 3:7-13.
[68] Rev. 6:6.
[69] Rev. 16:17-19.
[70] Rev. 1:1.
[71] Rev. 22:6-10.
[72] Is. 13:9-13.
[73] Rev. 3:14.
[74] Rev. 3:15-17.
[75] Rev. 3:18.
[76] See Rev. 6:11; 7:9, 13-14.
[77] Rev. 3:19-22.
[78] Rev. 19:19-20.
[79] Rev. 20:1-4.
[80] Rev. 3:21.
[81] Rev. 21:1-5a.
[82] 1 Tim. 2:12. See also 1 Cor. 14:34.
[83] The Gospel of Mark, which according to tradition is based on Peter’s eyewitness testimony.
[84] He didn’t. Domitian died in AD 96 when he was assassinated by some of his own court officials.