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REVELATION is the Creator God's WORLD and COSMIC VIEW of Humanity, Nations, Time, Earth and the Material Universe. What is Yours?

REVELATION

Its
Ongoing
Relevancy
and
Fulfillment

Fifty-two documents for this Commentary are currently available.

A new, original, in-depth analysis by Homer Dewayne Shappley, free from Pentecostal, sensationalist, financial-gain influences, developed during twelve years of university-level instruction in the "School of Advanced Religious Studies," San Juan, Puerto Rico

Not a compilation of other commentaries. If you are curious regarding my "credentials" for producing and publishing this Commentary, some are presented in "About."

Fifty-two documents for this Commentary are currently available. It is not necessary to read the entire Commentary in order to understand the interpretations and applications made in each and every part. For example, Scenes 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the Fifth Trumpet of Revelation 9 are depicted, interpreted, and applied in Chapter Four of this Commentary. They take place on the Timeline of Humanity and the World in a specific period of "five months" and may be understood, as, personally, I analyze them, without having to understand all that goes before and comes afterward.

Most recent additions and/or substantial updates: June 11, 2025.

The Two Earths. Part 2. The New Earth and New Heavens identified, described, and compared to the First Earth. It is not material; rather it belongs to the spiritual sphere, and is the heavenly place where the new Heavenly Jerusalén descends and is established. Where the spirits of the just made perfect dwell in their new spiritual, glorified bodies. Where justice and righteousness dwell forever. Some comparisons to the material First Earth are made.

The Two Earths. Part 1. The “FIRST EARTH” and the “FIRST HEAVEN PASSED AWAY…and NO PLACE WAS FOUND for THEM.” “NEW HEAVENS and a NEW EARTH” take their place. CELESTIAL, HEAVENLY, in the SPIRITUAL REALM. The astonishingly harmonious teachings of the apostles John, Peter, and Paul on these highly significant, totally relevant subjects, anyone who would like to know and understand COMING TREMENDOUS EVENTS PROGRAMMED by the CREATOR GOD. A careful, concise analysis and application of New Testament revelations on these subjects.

Transcendental Events on the World Stage in the 21st Century. A PowerPoint creation projecting planet Earth being pushed, cumulus storm clouds above it and with an alphabet mixture tossed around by them, across the World Stage by aggressive social and moral agendas into the highly dangerous “LITTLE WHILE” that precedes the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.

The Documents currently available are in the following chapters
of the COMMENTARY, which has Twelve Chapters.

Chapter 1. The Nature and Historical Background of Revelation. Documents: 5

Chapter 4. The Seven Trumpets. Trumpets 5 and y 6. Documents: 19

Chapter 6. The First and Second Beasts. Documents: 8

Chapter 7. The Ten Horns. The 7th and 8th Kings-Kingdoms-Beasts. The Little Horn.
Documents: 1

Chapter 10. The Millennium. The "First Resurrection." The "LITTLE WHILE." The Day of the Lord Comes Like a Thief in the Night. The day no man knows. Every eye will see him. New heavens and new earth. The White Throne Judgment. Documents available now: 13, with many more to be added.

Chapter 1

Prologue to "Revelation: Its Ongoing Relevancy and Fulfillment"

Chapter 1 of the Commentary

The Nature and Historical Background of Revelation

Initial considerations for the study of Revelation

A photograph of the upper portion of the title page for the book The Revelation of John.

CONTENT

Image of the title The Revelation to John inserted on the image showing a part of planet Earth in space with clouds, illustration for the list of the components of the Commentary Revelation: Its Ongoing Relevancy and Fulfillment by Dewayne Shappley.

Part 1 The Origin of Revelation

Part 2 The Meaning of the Word “Revelation.” In Greek, ἀποκάλυψις.

Part 3 The Fundamental Content of Revelation. Prophecy and Predestination. Time and Spatial Range.

Part 4 The Great Value of Revelation for anyone who reads, hears, and obeys it.

Part 5 When was the Book of Revelation written?

Chapter 2 of the Commentary
To be added
The Seven Great Prophecies of Revelation that Lead
Up to the End of the Material Universe and Material Time

Chapter 3 of the Commentary
To be added
The Seven Seals of Revelation

Chapter 4

Chapter 4 of the Commentary

The Fifth Trumpet. Also called "the first woe."
Revelation 9:1-12

Scene 1 of the Fifth Trumpet. The "shaft to the bottomless pit" is opened and "smoke" came out of it "like the smoke of a great furnace."

Scene 2 of the Fifth Trumpet. "Out of the smoke locusts came down on the earth. And they were given power like that of scorpions of the earth."

Scene 3 of the Fifth Trumpet. The "locusts torment" people who do "not have the seal of God."

Scene 4 of the Fifth Trumpet. The “appearance” of the “locusts.”

The Sixth Trumpet. Also called "the second woe."
Revelation 9:13 through 11:14

Introduction to the Sixth Trumpet of Revelation also called "the second woe." In this Commentary, the visions and prophecies of the Sixth Trumpet are presented in fourteen Scenes. Timelines composed of multiple graphics and texts help fix the temporal parameters for their fulfillment.

Scene 1 Scenario A The four angels "bound at the great river Euphrates" are released.

Scene 1 Scenario B. Out of Asia, two hundred million horses bringing "fire, smoke, and sulfur!"

Scene 1 Scenario C. The Three Plagues of "fire, smoke, and sulfur," of the Sixth Trumpet of Revelation

Scene 2. The Seven Thunders of Trumpet 6 of Revelation, the Proclamation of the fulfillment of the "mystery of God" and the end of time, and the apostle John eats the "little scroll" which is "sweet as honey" in his mouth but bitter in his stomach.

Scene 3

Scenario 1 of Scene 3 of Trumpet 6. The “rod like a staff” given to the apostle John according to Revelation 11:1 measures the church, its worship, and the worshippers. Timeframe, context, and purpose of the measuring.

Scenario 2 of Scene 3 of Trumpet 6. Commentary on Revelation 11:2. The “court outside the temple,” the “nations,” and the “holy city” are identified. The timeframe of the “forty-two months” is carefully studied and set. Differences between the “trampling” of Luke 21:24 and that of Revelation 11:2.

The "Two Witnesses" of the Sixth Trumpet. Also called the "Two Prophets."
Revelation 11:3-14

Scene 4 of Trumpet 6. The Two Witnesses (Two Prophets) are identified as Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. They are the Two Olive Trees and Two Lampstands of Zachariah 2. Much biblical evidence is cited. They are represented on earth by their faithful human witnesses, especially by evangelists, elders, teachers, and deacons.

Scene 5 of Trumpet 6. The Two Witnesses prophesy 1,260 days wearing sackcloth. Satan-deceived nations trample over the "holy city" for 42 months. Evidence these two “times” are concurrent, taking place in the “little while” before the Second Coming of Christ. Timeline of events and circumstances.

Scene 6 of Trumpet 6. The WORK of the Two Witnesses is to prophecy and bear witness. How they do their work in the 21st century. The source of their prophecies is explained.

Scene 7 of Trumpet 6. The POWERS of the Two Witnesses to consume enemies with fire, shut the sky that no rain falls, turn waters to blood, and smite the earth with plagues proves they are Christ and the Holy Spirit, not Moses and Elijah, Popes, or other church leaders, for human beings are never to avenge themselves, rather love their enemies.

Scene 8

Part 1 of Scene 8 of the Sixth Trumpet. The Two Witnesses end their testimony in 1,260 days, a period fixed on the graphical Timelines of Revelation. No remedy for unrepentant humans left on earth after that period. Why? Their Satanic armor. Limits to God’s marvelous and admirable forbearance and patience.

Part 2, of Scene 8 of Trumpet 6. The War against the Two Witnesses: They are conquered, and some are killed, thus completing the number of the martyrs of Christ. The War of Harmagedon is real, Christ and the Holy Spirit are left silent and as if “dead” when their faithful representatives on earth are overcome.

Scene 9 of Trumpet 6. The Two Witnesses lie dead in the street of the Great City for three and a half days. Spiritually, the Great City is Sodom, Jerusalem, and Egypt. The dead bodies not buried. The enemies who kill them rejoice and exchange gifts. Explanations and applications.

Scene 10 of Trumpet 6. The representatives of the Two Witnesses, that is, their spokespeople and defenders on earth, dead for three and a half days, are physically resurrected, and, hearing a voice calling them, ascend to heaven, their astounded enemies beholding both literal events. The last events of the Second Woe.

Why is there so much "wrath of God" in Revelation? This divine wrath is manifested in 125 verses of the 404 that the book of Revelation has. In contrast, 197 verses of the 404 may be classified as positive, encouraging, inspiring, full of healthy, pure hope.

Chapter 5 of the Commentary
To be added
The Woman Dressed with the Sun
War in Heaven

Chapter 6

Chapter 6 of the Commentary

The First Beast of Revelation 13

Act 1 Scene 1. The First Beast rises out of the sea roiled by the four winds of heaven. So do the four great beasts of Daniel. Revelation 13:1-2; Daniel 7:1-3

Act 1 Scene 2. The seven heads of the First Beast. Revelation 13:1; 17:2, 9-12; Daniel 7:1-7.

Act 1 Scene 3. A blasphemous name on the seven heads of the First Beast. Revelation 13:1

Act 1 Scene 4. The appearance of the First Beast. Revelation 13:2

Act 1 Scene 5. A Great, Fiery Red Dragon Gives Power, a Throne, and Great Authority to the First Beast.

Act 1 Scene 6. The 6th head of the First Beast receives a "Fatal Wound," but it was "healed."
When, how, and by whom? Revelation 13:3

Facts and Fictions regarding the Duration of the Roman Empire. The highly deleterious impact on the interpretation of prophecies in Revelation and Daniel of the false Narrative that says “The Roman Empire Ended in 476 CE.” It did not!

To be added: Act 1 Scene 7. The First Beast makes War on the Saints.

Act 2 Scene 3, The number of the name of the Second Beast is 666. The name identified. Revelation 13:16-18

The Second Beast of Revelation 13

Chapter 6 has 2 more Scenes for Act 2.

Chapter 7

Chapter 7 of the Commentary

Ten Dangerous Horns

The Seventh King-Kingdom-Beast of Revelation 17

The Eight King-Kingdom-Beast

The Little Horn

Act 2. The sign of the Seventh King-Kingdom-Beast. Astonishing SIGN for modern times! Revelation 17

Chapter 7 has many more Acts, Scenarios, and Scenes.

Chapter 8 of the Commentary
To be added. Many Acts and Scenes.
The equivalent of 200 plus letter-size pages.
The Great Whore-Great City of Babylon

Chapter 9 of the Commentary
To be added
The Seven Last Plagues

Chapter 10

Chapter 10 of the Commentary

Composed of Eleven Subjects related to the "LITTLE WHILE"
and End Time Events.

Some subjects have multiple "Parts."

The Millennium: Before, During, and After. The End of the Millennium. The First Resurrection. The Day of the Lord that will come like a thief in the night. Christ will appear a second time without any relationship to sin. Every eye will see him. New Heavens and New Earth. The White Throne Judgment. Etc.

Subject 1

The MILLENNIUM

Part 1 of studies on the "thousand years" of Revelation 20, popularly known as the Millennium. How long does it last? Definitely not from the ministry of Christ to the end of time. Timeline of the Common Era and factual evidence. Satan, in his role as a “great red dragon,” is bound during the Millennium. Satan in his role as a “roaring lion” during the entire Common Era. 12 graphics and 2 timelines.

Part 2 of studies on the Millennium. Does the Millennium (the “thousand years”) come BEFORE the Second Coming of Jesus Christ "as a thief in the night," or does it transpire AFTER the Second Coming?

What are the conditions on planet Earth before, during, and after the Millennium? Regarding the power and work of Satan Lucifer on planet Earth before and after the Millennium, what does “deceive the nations” mean? During the Millennium, Satan does not deceive the nations. What does “not deceive the nations anymore” mean?

Part 3 on the Millennium. Does SIN continue on earth during the Millennium? What organizations are on earth during the Millennium? Eleven photographs and graphics. Two video clips.

Part 4. The Millennium, religious freedom, and martyrs in the 21st century. Is the Millennium taking place today? Religious freedom is the salient characteristic of the Millennium, and it has never been so widespread as in the 21st century. Levels of evil in today's world do not alter this fact nor do martyrs of today. Classes of martyrs identified. Martyrs in politicized churches and religions. God’s Kingdom never politicized. Twelve graphics and two video clips.

Observations about the MARTYRS and their relationship with the rest of the Christians. Does God single out martyrs for special recognition and rewards? Some commentators say he does not. Their arguments considered.

Pending are two more Parts on the End of the Millennium.

Subject 2

To be added...
A lengthy exchange between Dewayne Shappley and Tito Martínez on the Millennium, the Second Coming of Christ, the Day of the Lord, etc.

Subject 3
This Subject 3 has 8 Parts

The Day of the Lord Comes Like a Thief in the Night

Part 1. "The day of the Lord” will come “like a thief in the night.” Will it come before or after the Millennium? The juxtaposition on the timeline between the Millennium and “the day of the Lord.” 2 Peter 3:10-14; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; 5:1-7; Revelation 16:12-16

Part 2 of "The Day of the Lord will come like a thief in the Night. "Look, I come like a thief." Revelation 16:15. Bible texts in Part 2 prove that the Millennium precedes the coming of "the day of the Lord like a thief." Revelation 6:21; 11:3-13; 14:14-16; 16:12-16; 19:11-22.

These are Parts 1 and 2AA of Subject 3, of Chapter 10. Subject 3 has 6 more parts.

“I will come again.” Jesus comes again, yes, only after the long centuries of the apostasy, the Lawless Man of Sin arises and rules, the Millennium transpires, and the “little while” runs its course. John 14:1-3, 28-29 and relevant texts. Are preachers and teachers of the Christian religion justified in pronouncing, as many of them do often and with great vigor, the following statement? “Jesus can come again any moment! Even on this very day! YES! RIGHT NOW!”

PowerPoint image for the coming of the Day of the Lord like a thief in the night composed of 24 principal texts and 3 graphics. Events prior to, during, and after the Day of the Lord in an easy-to-follow sequence, in one image.

TIMELINE, artistic, created in PowerPoint, for the Millennium, the Little While, the Resurrection of the dead in Christ, the Transformation of righteous people alive on earth, the audible, visible Second Coming of Christ, and the fleeing of planet Earth away from the Great White Throne. On a deep space background in shades of purple.

Two Questions of Immediate Global Relevance
about Wars in the 21st Century

Question 1. Before the appearance of Jesus Christ “a second time” (Hebrews 9:28), putting an end to the material universe and material time, ¿will there be more wars like that of the present Russia-Ukraine one?

Reply. Possibly. Some nations of today with an aggressive-bellicose character can be identified: Russia (bent on adding Ukraine to its hegemony), China (obsessed with taking Taiwan into its fold), North Korea (perhaps coveting South Korea), and Iran (apparently hoping to dominate its neighboring countries, particularly, Syria)—also, certain Arab nations in sporadic material, and physical conflict with the country of Israel.

Question 2. Will a Third World War take place just before the appearance of Jesus Christ 'a second time'?”

Reply. Negative! I would say that, most assuredly, such a global war will not take place in the designated timeframe of “just before the appearance of Jesus Christ a second time not to deal with sin.” On the contrary, in those days that immediately precede the Second Coming of Christ, the immense majority of earth’s inhabitants will be saying: “Peace and Security.” Thus affirm the Sacred Scriptures of Pure Christianity in 1 Thessalonians 5:1-7

Lamentably, that “Peace” will be the kind “the world gives.” John 14:27. A peace that nations deceived by Satan negotiate among themselves as, driven by atheism, hedonism, social and cultural engineering, plus their hatred of the “two witnesses” (Revelation 11:7-10), they begin to march to "HARMAGEDON" to make war on God and those human beings unconditionally loyal to him according to norms of the Sacred New Testament Scriptures of the Spiritual Kingdom Not of this World. Revelation 16:12-16; John 18:36

"HARMAGEDON." A war that will not be carnal, with material weapons, but of fiery philosophical, psychological, and spiritual conflicts fanned by strongly differing social, moral, religious, and cultural agendas and convictions. We can be sure this is the right view of Harmagedon because, although fanatical, violent elements among the secular, worldly, sensual, unbelieving masses who attack God and his people, may physically wound and kill some of the true Christians, their victims will never rise against them with carnal weapons, for they do not wage “war according to the flesh.” 2 Corinthians 10:3-6

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Subject 4
To be added
"New heavens and a new earth"

Part 1. The “FIRST EARTH” and the “FIRST HEAVEN PASSED AWAY…and NO PLACE WAS FOUND for THEM.” “NEW HEAVENS and a NEW EARTH” take their place. CELESTIAL, HEAVENLY, in the SPIRITUAL REALM. The astonishingly harmonious teachings of the apostles John, Peter, and Paul on these highly significant, totally relevant subjects, anyone who would like to know and understand COMING TREMENDOUS EVENTS PROGRAMMED by the CREATOR GOD. A careful, concise analysis and application of New Testament revelations on these subjects.

Are you looking forward with ineffable joy to the appearing of the “New Earth with New Heavens?” A short, 5-minute article on how faith in the appearing of a New Earth and New Heavens inspires a joyful hope that becomes an anchor for the soul. Illustrated by a dramatic painting of a woman, back view, standing on the edge of a shallow stream with a mountain on one side and trees on the other, contemplating an enormous sphere that fills the sky before her, which represents the “New Earth and New Heavens.”

Subject 5
The "LITTLE TIME" of Revelation 20

Subject 6
To be added
The "FIRST RESURRECTION" of Revelation 20

Solid reasons for understanding the First Resurrection of Revelation 20 to be LITERAL are: (1) The second death has no power over those resurrected. (2) John sees souls in resurrected, glorified, immortal, spiritual bodies, not physical bodies alive on earth. (3) The resurrected have achieved eternal salvation, irrevocable, and absolute, are in a blessed, holy state, are not on earth, and will not return to it. The rising from the waters of baptism is symbolical and not a literal resurrection.

Subject 7
To be added
"Every eye will see Him"

Subject 8
Christ "will appear a second time, not to deal with sin."
For the CONDENSED VERSION of this subject click here.

Subject 9
The Great White Throne Judgment

Subject 10
To be added
The Day No Man Knows

Chapter 11 of the Commentary

Several Subjects of Revelation not covered in previous chapters

Here is a “DIAMOND TRUTH” that highlights a REWARD of a “SPIRITUAL WARFARE CATEGORY” that GOD promises to give to his SOLDIERS LOYAL to HIM UNTIL DEATH.

“To everyone who conquers and continues to do my works to the end, I will give authority over the nations; to rule them with an iron rod, as when clay pots are shattered, even as I also received authority from my Father. To the one who conquers, I will also give the morning star.” Revelation 2:26-28

Other relevant texts are...

Ephesians 6:10-20; 2 Corinthians 10:3-6; 2 Timothy 2:3-6; 4:6-8

In this composite image of art and texts, an exquisite, large diamond of different shades of purple rests on a surface of more or less the same colors in the lower part of the graphic, transitioning to a black background in the upper portion, with texts relative to the subject of Authority over the Nations above and below the diamond.

Chapter 12 of the Commentary
To be added
Several Subjects of Revelation not covered in previous chapters

The entire commentary on Revelation by the author is the equivalent of about 1,300 letter-size pages.

REVELATION is the Creator God's WORLD and COSMIC VIEW of Humanity, Nations, Time, Earth and the Material Universe. What is Yours?

REVELATION

Its Ongoing Relevancy and Fulfillment

Fifty-two documents for this Commentary are currently available.

A new, original, in-depth analysis by Homer Dewayne Shappley, free from Pentecostal, sensationalist, financial-gain influences, developed during twelve years of university-level instruction in the "School of Advanced Religious Studies," San Juan, Puerto Rico

​Not a compilation of other commentaries. If you are curious regarding my "credentials" for producing and publishing this Commentary, some are presented in "About."

Prologue to "Revelation: Its Ongoing Relevancy and Fulfillment"

Chapter 1 of the Commentary The Nature and Historical Background of Revelation

Initial considerations for the study of Revelation

CONTENT

Part 1 The Origin of Revelation

Part 2 The Meaning of the Word “Revelation.” In Greek, ἀποκάλυψις.

Part 3 The Fundamental Content of Revelation. Prophecy and Predestination. Time and Spatial Range.

Part 4 The Great Value of Revelation for anyone who reads, hears, and obeys it.

Chapter 2 of the Commentary To be added The Seven Great Prophecies of Revelation that Lead Up to the End of the Material Universe and Material Time

Chapter 3 of the Commentary To be added The Seven Seals of Revelation

Chapter 4 of the Commentary

The Fifth Trumpet. Also called "the first woe." Revelation 9:1-12

Scene 1 of the Fifth Trumpet. The "shaft to the bottomless pit" is opened and "smoke" came out of it "like the smoke of a great furnace."

The Sixth Trumpet. Also called "the second woe." Revelation 9:13 through 11:14

The "Two Witnesses" of the Sixth Trumpet. Also called the "Two Prophets." Revelation 11:3-14

Chapter 5 of the Commentary To be added The Woman Dressed with the Sun War in Heaven

Chapter 6 of the Commentary

The First Beast of Revelation 13

The Second Beast of Revelation 13

Chapter 7 of the Commentary

Ten Dangerous Horns The Seventh King-Kingdom-Beast of Revelation 17 The Eight King-Kingdom-Beast The Little Horn

Chapter 8 of the Commentary To be added. Many Acts and Scenes. The equivalent of 200 plus letter-size pages. The Great Whore-Great City of Babylon

Chapter 9 of the Commentary To be added The Seven Last Plagues

Subject 1

The MILLENNIUM

Subject 2

To be added... A lengthy exchange between Dewayne Shappley and Tito Martínez on the Millennium, the Second Coming of Christ, the Day of the Lord, etc.

Subject 3 This Subject 3 has 8 Parts