But you're totally ignoring the title "God" as shown separate from Jesus in the chapter. Also, the expression of Jesus "coming" or "coming quickly" is completely different as the "one who is, was, and is to come".
1. "Jesus" is not a title.
2. Nor is the name of "Jesus" incompatible with the title (or designation) of "God."
You're attempting
to dismiss the premise on the basis of the premise, rather than allowing the passages to prove themselves. Honest assessment please. It is certainly not unheard of for people to have more than one name or more than one title, both among men and especially in the instance of God, who has many names and titles and has revealed them differently throughout history.
Once again, God is the one who gave Jesus the revelation, thus Jesus is not the God who gave Jesus the revelation.It is clear the revelation came from God, was given to Jesus, who passed it to the Angels to reveal it to John.
False assessment, fails to consider the premise.
How does is my example not in line with the verse?
"..A revelation by Jesus Christ, which God gave him... he sent forth his angel and presented [it] in signs through him to his slave John.."
It is not in line because that passage does not exclude Jesus from God, but the surrounding passages identify Jesus with exclusive titles for God. If you wanted to prove your point (or were able to) you'd only need ONE passage in the whole scripture where Jesus says (or is said of Jesus) that he is NOT God. The whole wide scripture.
Regardless, considering that
the premise is that the character of Jesus that we all knew and recognized is being introduced for the purpose of being revealed as God, nothing is harmed by referring to the figures separately. If I were to speak to someone about the burning bush and later about God appearing in the whirlwind, I could still refer to the bush and the whirlwind separately. The important part is when I identity them by the same name and title,
and no separate references to the bush and the whirlwind can undo that.
Unless you have a passage, even a single passage, that has a clear statement that "Jesus is not God" then your present position has a real problem, because considering how many positive statements and equivalences and unique exclusive titles exist, then there's no other explanation than that it really means what it says.
God is mentioned in Rev 1:8, based on the context of Rev 1:1 this would place the God who gave the revelation to Jesus as that one. Thus, the God mentioned in Rev 1:1, who we know to be the Father (Rev 1:6) is the "one who is, was and is coming". Why is in ever other place in Revelation God is always separate from Jesus, can you show me a single place where is clearly calls Jesus God in the entire book of Revelation?
1. You don't recognize "I am the first and the last, beside me there is no other God" as legitimate scripture? (Isaiah 44:6)
2. You don't recognize the acceptance of one bowing down in worship as unique behavior of God? (compare Rev 1:17 with Rev 19:10, 22:9)
3. You don't recognize "they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him" (Zech 12:10) with Rev 1:7, "and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him?"
4. You don't recognize "the Almighty" as a unique title for God? (Compare Rev 1:8 with Rev 1:11 & Rev 22:13?)
5. It doesn't strike you as significant that "God and the Lamb" have single ownership of the throne in Revelation 22:1, and that the singular pronoun "him" is used for "God and of the Lamb?" (see Rev 22:1, 3, 4)
You know as well as I that as you have been up to this point you would easily dismiss the word "God" arguing for "representational deity" and with claims that "Moses was called God" and "Kings have been called God" or from others claims even more unusual and strained.
Also, how is it possible that the F&L is in reference to his deity when it states he became dead?
Is this really about a failing of faith that God can raise himself from the dead? Perhaps you believe that God is all powerful, but not powerful enough to do that? I'm baffled as to why you would present that as a challenge but by whatever paradigm you currently have it must seem real to you.
NWL, even for you, with your mortal self, is it possible for one part of you to die while the other part continues to live? Let's consider your hand. If your hand is severed and it withers and dies, is it theoretically possible for you to drive to a hospital? Now if God exists in heaven and also choses to exist in a form on earth, is it really that strange that if he allowed his earthly form to be killed, that he could also raise it from the dead?
I think you are confusing the person of God (his self, his character) with the Heavenly Status of God.