Donald Perry

Redirectionalism Donald Perry

This is a commentary on the Book of Revelation from a Redirectionalist point of view with a focusing on the firstfriuts to AD 66. The closest eschatology to what is proposed here is Idealism. I would not define Idealism the way Christianity has defined it thus far. Idealism in the Oxford English Dictionary reads: Idealism 1. Philos. Any system of thought or philosophy in which the object of external perception is held to consist, either in itself, or as perceived of ideas (in various senses of the word: See IDEA sb.). According to Platonic Idealism, there exists a perfect realm of Form and Ideas and our world merely contains shadows of that realm. Because Revelation was first written in Greek and to Gentiles who understood Greek philosophy, this kind of idealistic view and perfect truth would have been reasonable among its readers. The book of Revelation is not to be understood without knowing exactly what each of the truth of these signs mean in their absolute form, that they are the ideas of God.