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"Revelation Song" is a song written by Jennie Lee Riddle with lyrics adapted from Revelation 4 of the New Testament.The song first gained exposure on U.S. Christian radio through a Christ for the Nations Institute recording, "Glorious" in 2004, as well as on Gateway Worship's debut album, Living for You in 2006, and subsequently included on Kari Jobe's self-titled album.
The song's title refers to John of Patmos in his role as the author of the Book of Revelation. A portion of that book focuses on the opening of seven seals and the resulting apocalyptic events. In its various versions, the song quotes several passages from the Bible in the tradition of American spirituals.
The short story is replete with religious themes and biblical allusions, the latter seen as the realization of the Bible stories of the "Parable of the Pharisee and the Publican", Jacob and Job, among others, in the work [26] that were crafted, in part, to fulfill O'Connor's goal to increase the meaning of the story with an approach she called ...
The Book of Revelation is one of the most captivating books of the Bible, though few read it. ... but the Book of Revelation is a peculiar kind of horror story. The blood, plagues and violence in ...
The Rev. John Newton's hymn "Amazing Grace" has become a national hymn, uniting people of all walks of life and reflecting the Christian view of man as a fallen creature who can do nothing to save ...
In a 1985 interview in Hitch magazine, James said the title of the song came to him while he was reading the Biblical Book of Revelation: I took the title from the Book of Revelations [sic] in the Bible, reading about the New Jerusalem. The words jumped out at me, and they're not together; they're spread out over three or four verses.
[2] The song contains many Bible references and allusions, including to: "They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb" from Revelation 7:14. The song has been recorded by many notable recording artists, including Johnny Cash, Alan Jackson, Randy Travis, the Louvin Brothers and Ernest Stoneman's Dixie Mountaineers ...
Christian tradition has considered the Book of Revelation's writer to be the same person as John the Apostle. A minority of ancient clerics and scholars, such as Eusebius (d. 339/340), recognize at least one further John as a companion of Jesus, John the Presbyter. Some Christian scholars since medieval times separate the disciple from the ...