Contradictions in the Book of Revelation: A Critical View

Isinulat ni Dr. Wadi' Ahmed, isang dating diakono sa Simbahang Ortodokso na ginabayan ni Allah sa Islam at namatay bilang isang Muslim. Nawa'y bigyan siya ng Allah ng masaganang awa.

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.