The Book Of Revelation

by Rev. Clarence Larkin

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THIS BOOK IS

DEDICATED

TO THE AUTHOR OF THE

BOOK OF REVELATION

THE

LORD JESUS CHRIST

TRUSTING THAT ITS EXPOSITION

MAY MEET WITH HIS DIVINE

APPROVAL AND BLESSING

FOREWORD

This work is the result of 25 years' study of the Book of Revelation. Twice

within 6 years the writer gave a 4-months' course of Sunday morning

sermons to his people on the Book. These lectures have also been given

in Bible Institute Courses, illustrated with large, colored, wall charts.

The Book of Revelation is interpreted from the Futurist Standpoint.

Chapters two and three cover the present Church Dispensation. From

chapter four until the end of the Book all is future. The writer's purpose

is to show that the Book of Revelation is to be taken literally, and that it

is written in chronological order. The text of the Old Version is used and

is printed at the top of each subject. The chapter and verse divisions are

ignored. The text is emphasized by the use of capitals and black type.

This helps to explain it and make it clear to the general reader. The

descriptive matter of the book is emphasized in the same manner.

The book is also illustrated with over 30 charts, maps, and diagrams.

Numerous cuts of symbols, beasts, etc., spoken of in the Book of

Revelation are distributed through the book at the place where they are

mentioned, and add greatly to its value by elucidating the text and saving

much explanatory matter.

The make-up and printing of the book is unique. The writer has broken

all rules of book-making in his desire to make the average reader see and

grip the truth. This he has been able to do because of his skill as a

draughtsman, and because the Printers of the book, who are lovers of the

truth and like to see it "Rightly Divided," were in sympathy with the

writer's purpose, and have done everything they could to make the

"printer's art" express the writer's thought.

A book gotten up in this way is naturally more expensive to print than an

ordinary book. The writer had to spend weeks and months in study and

designing the charts, maps, diagrams, cuts, etc. These had to be inked in

and lettered by hand. Then plates had to be made of the drawings, and

electros of the plates. The emphasizing of the descriptive matter with

black type costs extra, but all this trouble and expense makes the book

doubly valuable. While there are but 210 pages in the book, the size of

the type, and the enlarged page, 6 x 9 inches, make it equivalent to an

ordinary book of 400 pages.

There is nothing fantastical in the book. It contains no speculative

matter, nor opinions of the writer. The book is not a commentary made

up of quotations from other writers. The writer is neither a copyist or

compiler. The only Author the writer has sought to follow is the Author

of the Book the Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore the writer lays no claim to

originality. All he has sought to do is to clearly present the "MIND OF

CHRIST" as revealed in the Book, having in mind the "CURSE" to

which every expositor of the Book subjects himself. "If any man

shall ADD unto these things, God shall ADD UNTO HIMthe

'PLAGUES' that are written in this Book, and if any man shall TAKE

AWAY from the words of the 'Book of this Prophecy,' God shall TAKE

AWAY HIS PART OUT OF THE 'BOOK OF LIFE,' AND OUT OF

THE HOLY CITY, AND FROM THE THINGS WHICH ARE

WRITTEN IN THIS BOOK." Rev. 22:18-19.

The writer's aim has been to prepare a standard work on the Book of

Revelation, from the Futurist Standpoint, that can be used as a text-book

in Theological Seminaries and Bible Schools, and be of invaluable service

to the busy pastor in his exposition of the Word of God. The book is sent

out with the prayer that God will bless its testimony in these days when

the prophetic utterances of the Book of Revelation are rapidly

approaching their fulfilment.

CLARENCE LARKIN.

"Sunnyside"

Fox Chase, Phila., Pa.