Dialogues on Revelation with John the Apostle

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Dialogues on Revelation with John the Apostle presents an imagined dialogue between the author and John the apostle, who just received a revelation from the Lord Jesus. Is it possible to know what John might have answered to some of our questions about the book of Revelation? It is possible since we have John’s Gospel, three of his epistles, and the Old and New Testaments. Would we receive the answers from John that we hope for or expect? Would we want more answers or different answers? I don’t doubt that this will be the case, for, as the apostle Paul exclaims, “Oh the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God!” (Romans 11.33).

Yann Opsitch addresses how the book of Revelation can help us view things from the perspective of eternity and of heaven. The heavenly perspective shown to John is one full of expectation and hope. However, the earthly perspective is often one of pain and struggle. John himself was exiled on Patmos and wrote to the churches in Asia who were undergoing difficulties both internal and external. He writes that he is their “partner in the tribulation and the kingdom and the patient endurance that are in Jesus” and who “was on the island called Patmos on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus” (Revelation 1.9).

The book contains 21 chapters, including “Fear Not,” “The Son of Man,” “A Door to Heaven,” “The Great Tribulation,” “The Mark of the Beast,” “Armageddon,” and “The Water of Life.”

Yann was born in Versailles, France in 1948, thew son of Sophie Gallois-Bonnal, the daughter of the French composer/organist Joseph-Ermend Bonnal. She was a pianist, teacher, and worked at the Lazare Lévi. Yann lived in New York as a young child with the painter Frank Mason and his wife Phyllis Mason-Harriman, also a painter, and took piano lessons there at the age of 7. After returning to France at age 10, he took theater lessons in Paris, including those of Patrick Antoine, and appeared in a few plays and in the cinema.He became interested in the life of Christ. After studying at the North Ireland Bible School (Belfast) he was the founding editor of the journal Horizons Chrétiens from 1975 to 1990.

Yann Opsitch is the author of several works in French, “Paroles du Christ sur la Montagne”, “En Esprit et en Vérité”, “La Sagesse et l’Adversité”, “Le Cœur et l’Invisible”, “Le Dieu de la Création et de la Révélation”. His  book in English Let us Come Before his Presence: 365 days to learn, meditate and pray from the Psalms and the Sermon on the Mount, was published in 2021, and Dialogues on Revelation with John the Apostle appeared the next year. He holds several degrees inBible, Biblical languages; Theology, Literature, and Conflict management. Professor Opsitch currently lives in Abilene, Texas). He writes, speaks, and coordinates online Bible and Theological School for the French-speaking world. His website is www.yannopsitchauthor.com.

Yann is married to Rita and is the father of three children and a grandfather of six grandchildren.