Should the Book of Revelation be read chronologically?
The Book of Revelation does not unfold chronologically. Readers must skip around to locate events at the opening, the midpoint, and the end, then fill in the two gaps between them. This approach recognizes that the book presents God's dealing with Israel and the final seven years rather than a strict timeline.
Les teaches that the Book of Revelation does not unfold chronologically. He explains that you have to learn to skip around, finding the events at the opening, then those at the midpoint, then those at the end, and then fill in the two gaps. In the last several programs, he has been looking at the beginning events, such as the Antichrist's appearance out of Daniel chapter 9, when he signs the seven-year treaty with Israel, which restarts God's time clock after the church age. Les also notes that during this seven-year period, the two witnesses appear and proclaim God's word to Israel, and God seals 144,000 young Jewish men to go around the globe with the gospel of the kingdom, not the gospel of grace.