LITERATURE
REVELATION, AN OPEN BOOK FOR TODAY This book by Pastor Luis M. Ortiz is based on a detailed, practical, inspiring, devotional and easy-to-understand theological research about the final section of the Holy Scriptures. Based on God’s Word, it also speaks about the future that awaits humanity.
Biblical prophecies are studied following the “principle of double reference.” According to this principle, a prophecy can be either interpreted from a literal (closer) or dispensational (distant) perspective. From the first perspective, “the Lord’s day,” as the first primitive Christians called it, would refer to the first day of the week, Sunday. Ignatius, a bishop of Antioch who lived from 30 to 107 AD during the time of the Apostles, wrote: “Let every friend of Christ keep the Lord’s Day as a festival, the resurrection day…” However, from the latter perspective, the prophets and Apostles referred to the Second Coming of Christ as “the Lord’s day” in their prophecies. Reprinted in April 1993, Revelation, an Open Book for Today is a practical, inspiring, devotional and easyto-understand theological research by Reverend Luis M. Ortiz Marrero, founder of the Worldwide Missionary Movement (WMM). It is an accurate and detailed study inspired in the last book of the Holy Scriptures and based on the prophetical conferences he held as missionary and pastor. Chapter 6 of Revelation is some sort of sketch of the events of the Great Tribulation, that is the seventieth week of Daniel’s prophecy. Six out of the seven seals of the book taken by Jesus were opened in this chapter. Note that the seventh seal introduces the seven trumpets, and the seventh trumpet introduces the seven bowls. Seals, trumpets and bowls represent three stages of the divine judgement of humanity. The Father sent the Lamb of God for our redemp-
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tion, and now the Father gives to the pierced hand of the Lamb “as it had been slain” the sealed book to fulfill the redemption of all creation. Revelation, an Open Book for Today was originally published in two volumes, the first printed in 1984 and the second in 1988. In 26 chapters, Brother Ortiz thoroughly explores the prophetical book of the New Testament and offers a neat interpretation of future impending events. Jesus-Christ foretold that in the end of times “there
