Prophetic Mysteries Revealed: The Prophetic Significance of the Parables of Matthew 13 and the Letters of Revelation 2-3

Prophetic Mysteries Revealed: The Prophetic Significance of the Parables of Matthew 13 and the Letters of Revelation 2-3 by Strauss, Lehman. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780872138322.

Lehman Strauss finds a striking Scriptural correspondence between these two portions of Scripture (Matthew 13 and Revelation 2-3), providing "a complete prophetic panorama of the history of Christendom from the time of its inception to the return of the Lord Jesus Christ." Part One analyzes the seven parables of Matthew 13, in which Christ pictures the kingdom of God on earth - parables of the sower, the tares, the mustard seed, the leaven, the hidden treasure, the pearl, the nets and fishes. Part Two studies the seven churches of Asia - churches of Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamos, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea; and the divinely dictated and carefully recorded letters written to each. The emphasis is the parallelism in sequence and symbolism, revealing these basically to be "revelation of the mystery of the course of events to take place on earth between the two advents of Christ." As all Dr. Strauss books, this speaks as simply and directly to the earnest layman as to the advanced student of God’s Word.