After 10 years of work my commentary on Revelation, All Power to the Lamb, Volume I, arrived from the publisher. It is the only commentary that I know of in the two hundred years of the Restoration that takes a literalist, futurist approach to understanding Revelation. My commentary seeks to avoid telling God what He should have said and strives to understand what God actually meant. My commentary takes the position that God wrote Revelation in such a way that with sufficient effort and intellectual honesty, readers can understand it. Certainly there are symbols in Revelation, but when God does use symbols, He provides inspired interpretations of the symbols. This commentary seeks to avoid the mistakes of the views that use the symbolical approach to Revelation (preterists, continuous historical, spiritualist, and idealist). These approaches suffer from two basic flaws: assuming the text is symbolic when it is not and making up meaning regarding the text based on stream of consciousness word association, much as one would do looking at Rorschach inkblots.
Of all the approaches to understanding Revelation, this commentary is most closely aligned with the dispensationalist view in that it views Revelation from a literalist, futurist perspective. It is different from the typical dispensationalist schema in that it views the seven seals as the powers of the Lamb, understands the exercise of the powers of the seven seals to be simultaneous processes, and casts chapters 8-22 as three parallel prophecies of the Lamb’s power over the course of the histories of Israel, the nations, and the saints. This commentary also makes use of many of the non-canonical works that provide insight into the spirit world and detail regarding the course and end of the present age.
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