Contradictions in the Book of Revelation: A Critical View

Rédigé par le Dr Wadi' Ahmed, ancien diacre de l'Église orthodoxe qui a été guidé par Allah vers l'islam et est mort en tant que musulman. Qu'Allah lui accorde une grande miséricorde.

Ten Sevens in the Book of Revelation: A Critical View

In the “Book of Revelation,” the number seven appears frequently. Here are some examples:

• Seven spirits before the throne of God.
  
• Seven golden lampstands representing seven churches.
  
• The Son of Man holding seven stars representing the seven angels of the churches.
• The Son of God having seven spirits of God.
  
• Seven burning lamps before the throne of God, which are the seven spirits of God.
• Seven seals on a scroll at the right hand of the throne of God.
  
• A lamb with seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth, who opens the seven seals.
  
• When the seventh seal is broken: seven angels appear, each given seven trumpets, bringing seven plagues upon the inhabitants of the earth.
  
• They also have seven golden bowls filled with the wrath of God, which they pour out on the earth’s inhabitants.
  
• The great harlot (Babylon) sitting on a beast with seven heads, representing seven mountains and seven kings.

Upon reviewing these sevens, we find them to be intertwined in a contradictory manner, a result of continuous distortion. Due to these contradictions, the council at the Nicene Creed in 325 AD refused to recognize it as a divinely inspired holy book.