Shalom All:

Do any of you remember the game "telephone"?  When I was a child the teacher would line up two rows of us children and then whisper the same message to the first child at the head of the line.  Then, down each line, the message would be whispered from one child to the next.  At the end of each line the last child would speak aloud the message that had been whispered to them.

Then how we would laugh when the teacher gave the orginal message and we heard how distorted the final messages had gotten.

I have come to feel that same way about the account of Revelation.  Is there anyone out there who reads in Hebrew and English?  Could you point out where the deviations are?  I also think it would highly unlikely that Jewish sources would be willing to honestly and accurately share what they know of the visual language used by John as it relates to Jewish idioms, figures of speech, etc.  Is there anyone with that understanding who could share what they know without editorializing?

Only after Yeshua calls the Bride and she is The Father's house will I feel like laughing at the fractured, distorted, frustrating understanding we have had about the prophecies!

Dianne
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