Fascinated, or frightened? What are your feelings about the Bible’s final book? Can we read it without interpretative methods dividing us into Futurists, Preterists, Historicists, and Idealists? Piecing together John’s visions of Armageddon, Babylon, and the Millennium has tended to divide us. But asking “When is this book about?” may be the wrong question. Asking “Who is this book… Continue reading Formed in God’s Story: Book of Revelation
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A New Song of Praise to the Lamb
In Revelation 5:8-9 the four heavenly living creatures and the twenty-four angelic elders “sing a new song, saying: You [the Lamb] are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, for You were slain and have purchased for God by Your blood men out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation, Revelation 5:11-14 has further praise… Continue reading A New Song of Praise to the Lamb
Two Women at the End of the Bible
Revelation 17-18 presents a woman named Babylon and chapters 19, 21-22 reveal a woman named New Jerusalem who is the bride, the wife of the Lamb, Jesus Christ. The sixty-six books of the Bible speak of many things and contain many revelations. In the end, however, there are two women. The conclusion of the Bible, the… Continue reading Two Women at the End of the Bible
Revelation is a Book of Eternal Life
Revelation is a book of life, the eternal life. In Revelation 1:17-18 the Lord Jesus proclaims, “I am the First and the Last and the living One; and I became dead, and behold, I am living forever and ever.” Chapters 4, 10, and 15 show “Him who lives forever and ever.” In chapter 2 is the… Continue reading Revelation is a Book of Eternal Life