Today I have updated the Letters to the Seven Churches endnote post with additional citations representing the different views on its meaning. With that update, ALL the endnotes for the first three chapters of the book (Introduction, The Design of Revelation, and Rev 1: The Things Which Are) are posted. WHOO HOO! I will probably always be adding endnotes even to the finished chapters, as I run across them in my research … but everything in those chapters has been cited. Yay! Now to finish the endnotes for Rev 2-3: The Letters to the Seven Churches chapter … !!

On the use of symbols in Revelation:

“I have also spoken by the prophets,
And have multiplied visions;
I have given symbols through the witness of the prophets.”