Preface
Thirty years ago, the authors met weekly to discuss various theological and additional topics. During one of these conversations, the topic of the Rapture and its timing came up in connection with the Olivet Discourse in Matthew 24. This scripture appeared to contradict the prevailing belief of the timing regarding the Rapture. We decided to do an extensive study on the “End Times” and the events (as described by scripture) around it. We focused our study on the book of Revelation and what appears to be bizarre imagery. We quickly realized that we could not study Revelation independently from the rest of the Bible. Quite often, we would pull on a thread in Revelation that led to other parts of the Bible. Hence, we decided to call our commentary on Revelation Tapestry, where one side looks like a jumbled mess of knots and colors, but the other side displays a clear image of what the knots and colors are portraying.
After studying all the relevant aspects of scripture, reading over a hundred books between us, and seven years later, we felt we had a reasonable understanding of how things could play out, or at least as firm an understanding one may have of a prophecy before it is fulfilled. At that point, we did submit a manuscript to several publishers, and not surprisingly, we didn’t hear back from anyone. We taught classes on the topic in our church and for others who were interested in hearing what we had learned from our study.
The manuscript was not complete at that time. It was about 85% done, but life got in the way of completing it. Since new methods of publication are now available, however, we decided to complete the book and publish it via another method.
After studying all the relevant aspects of scripture, reading over a hundred books between us, and seven years later, we felt we had a reasonable understanding of how things could play out, or at least as firm an understanding one may have of a prophecy before it is fulfilled. At that point, we did submit a manuscript to several publishers, and not surprisingly, we didn’t hear back from anyone. We taught classes on the topic in our church and for others who were interested in hearing what we had learned from our study.
The manuscript was not complete at that time. It was about 85% done, but life got in the way of completing it. Since new methods of publication are now available, however, we decided to complete the book and publish it via another method.
