The Beast of Revelation [Paperback]

Kenneth L. Gentry (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1989

Kenneth L. Gentry's scholarly skills are evidenced in this fascinating book. Who is the mysterious person behind the number 666? Who is the Beast who has perplexed and evaded prophecy students for 2,000 years? The reader will quickly learn that the Bible does interpret itself. Gentry employs this method throughout the book and exhibits its rational and illuminating effects page after page. If you are weary of the hype over the identity of the Beast and the plethora of theories that border on the nonsensical, then you are in for a most refreshing read.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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About the Author

Kenneth L. Gentry, Jr., Th.D., is Director of NiceneCouncil.com, a pastor of a Reformed Church, and author of over thirty books.

Product Details

• Paperback: 209 pages
• Publisher: Inst for Christian Economics (June 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0930464214
• ISBN-13: 978-0930464219
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,555,296 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Kenneth L. Gentry, Jr., Th.D. is an ordained minister (Reformed Presbyterian Church, General Assembly) and author of over thirty books. He holds a B.A. from Tennessee Temple University; the M.Div. from Reformed Theological Seminary; and the Th.M. and Th.D. from Whitefield Theological Seminary. He is married (July 31, 1971) and has three married children (and several grandchildren): his daughter is an Executive Asst. for the president of a national clothing firm; his oldest son is a physicist working in nanotechnology in the Research Triangle in North Carolina; his youngest son is a Senior Manager CPA for one of the Big Four accounting firms). He has a Facebook page and welcomes new "friends" there.

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41 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's about time they put this book back into print!, May 20, 2002

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Peter D. Glickenhaus (Morrisville, NC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Beast of Revelation (Paperback)

About 250 pages in length, this book is vintage Gentry. He spends about 100 pages or so identifying the Beast of Revelation, making an ironclad case that has proven impossible to refute. In order to buttress his position, he spends almost 150 pages (the rest of the book) answering when exactly Revelation was written. This is an abbreviated version of Gentry's "Before Jerusalem Fell," another work that conclusively affirms the Preterist perspective.
There is no better defender of the Preterist view alive today than Gentry. His works, always scholarly, yet accessible to the reader of every type, have given orthodox Preterism a solid voice in the evangelical community.
He has done a great service to the body of Christ with his research, and American Vision has fleshed out this service by putting Gentry's book back into print.
This book is comprised of 15 chapters that break down the issues very thoroughly, yet simply. READ THIS BOOK! One chapter a day, and in 2 weeks your entire perspective on the book of Revelation may be revolutionized!!
In addition to a great theological watershed, you'll get a book with a really cool cover. What else could you ask for?

31 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful book!, June 29, 2004

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This review is from: The Beast of Revelation (Paperback)

In reading R. C. Sproul a few years ago, I noted his frequent mention of Kenneth L. Gentry's writings. So I decided to look into Gentry's works. Amazon.com is always my first source for good, economical books.

Boy was I impressed with Gentry's theological argumentation. And this book is one of his best. He points out from history and from the Bible that the terrifying Beast portrayed in Revelation is none other than the evil emperor Nero Caesar.

Although this is surprising at first (because of the prominence of Hal Lindsey and Tim LaHaye books), I didn't put the book down. Rather I read on. And was I amazed!

He points out that to understand Revelation you must read the first three verses -- and take them seriously. John very clearly tells us that he is writing about things "shortly to take place" because "the time is at hand." He also ends his book with the same statements: Rev. 22:6, 10.

Gentry shows that Nero was the sixth emperor of Rome (corresponding with the sixth head of the Beast), that when he died the next emperor ruled only a "short while" (like Rev. 17:10ff teaches), and that he sought to "make war against the saints" through persecution (Rev. 13:5ff). Nero fits these and other Revelation statement very nicely.

Thanks, Dr. Gentry, for such a helpful book!

22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Eschatology from a partial preterist perspective, April 8, 1999

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Chris Callahan (Asheville, NC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Beast of Revelation (Paperback)

This is a great book. While I knew it was going to nail the Roman Empire, and Caesar Nero as the head, of the beast of Revelation, there was much more discussion of Revelation than just that alone, including how the 42 days fits in, how Nero was the sixth Caesar and Galba the seventh, serving for a short time. The last half of the book is a comprehensive examination both internally from the Book of Revelation and externally from early Church Fathers, why the Book of Revelation was probably written prior to 70 AD.