Excerpt from The Open Way Into the Book of Revelation: God's Sevenfold Way to Consummations or Fulfillments of Prophecies As in a harbor two lights are placed so that the ship entering may keep itself in range of safety, so I have tried to keep the long range light in perfect line with the shorter range body, by first reading the book of Revelation through about thirty times, with greater and greater interest; then I took the nearer light, which is a very close and minute examination of the smaller parts, the meaning of words, of types, symbols, emblems, and allegories. My next close study was to secure the meaning of the types, sym bols, etc., in the Old Testament and apply them to the book of Revelation: for it is largely symbolic, and thus shadows forth the actual and the real in such time as God has purposed in his own mind. Next I examined the contexts and parallel passages throughout the Bible. In this way the Throne-view of the exalted Christ can be clearly seen.. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.