Archive for the ‘Revelation’ Category

  • Decoding Revelation: the KIIC principle

    Nov 11, 15 • Context, Revelation3 Comments
    Decoding Revelation: the KIIC principle

    Well,the end of the world has passed, again 🙂 That’s the second time this year! It is the Bible that causes all the problems. or rather it is bad reading of the Bible that causes all the problems. No book is more commonly misread than Revelation. Christians keep wanting it to predict tomorrow. And boy, [&hellip...

  • Introducing Revelation: Reading Revelation

    May 19, 15 • Bible Books, RevelationComments Off on Introducing Revelation: Reading Revelation
    Introducing Revelation: Reading Revelation

    There probably is no other book of the Bible that has so much nonsense taught and preached “from” it. So I will use two five minute slots to introduce this “difficult” book. In this session I’ll talk about how NOT to read Revelation and begin to point to a better way. Then in the next [&hellip...

  • Where was Nazareth?

    Mar 27, 15 • Geography, John, Luke, Mark, Matthew, RevelationComments Off on Where was Nazareth?
    Where was Nazareth?

    This podcast aims to show you where Nazareth was situated, and why as real estate agents love to say location matters. The helicopter footage has been generously supplied by PreservingBibleTimes from their most useful resources...

  • E100-100: Rev 21:1 – 22:21: New Heaven and New Earth

    Sep 3, 10 • E100, Revelation2 Comments
    E100-100: Rev 21:1 – 22:21: New Heaven and New Earth

    “I am making everything new” what a wonderful promise! Not just a repair or clean up, but a renewed creation. Back in Genesis, the new line that started with Seth instead of Cain (the murderer) failed, after the flood Noah who was “a righteous man, blameless in his generation; and walked with God” (Gen 6:9) [&hellip...

  • E100-99: Rev 19:1 – 20:15: Hallelujah!

    Sep 2, 10 • E100, RevelationComments Off on E100-99: Rev 19:1 – 20:15: Hallelujah!
    E100-99: Rev 19:1 – 20:15: Hallelujah!

    With this reading, skipping all the confusing stuff about the seven seals and the seven bowls, and most of the material about the false bride (the whore of Babylon), we come straight to the end of the beginning in chapter 19. We’ve returned to the throne room in heaven, now in victory! Westerners, especially those [&hellip...

  • E100-98: Rev 4:1 – 7:17: The Throne of Heaven

    Sep 1, 10 • E100, RevelationComments Off on E100-98: Rev 4:1 – 7:17: The Throne of Heaven
    E100-98: Rev 4:1 – 7:17: The Throne of Heaven

    If you’ve been wonderoing when all the visions in Revelation begin, wonder no more. Today’s reading is full of visions. A throne in heaven: for God alone rules heaven and earth. One sitting on it: God is not named, for that would be too familiar in this dangerous vision, dangerous because humans are unholy and [&hellip...

  • E100-97: Rev 2:1 – 3:22: Messages to the Churches

    Aug 31, 10 • E100, RevelationComments Off on E100-97: Rev 2:1 – 3:22: Messages to the Churches
    E100-97: Rev 2:1 – 3:22: Messages to the Churches

    Most listeners to this podcast, judging by the website stats, come from comfortable Western countries. If this is you (and it is ME) then most of what is said to the first six churches does not closely fit us, though it more often gives us goals to aim for. Laodicea by contrast does fit, neither [&hellip...

  • E100-96: Rev 1:1 – 1:20: A Voice and a Vision

    Aug 30, 10 • E100, RevelationComments Off on E100-96: Rev 1:1 – 1:20: A Voice and a Vision
    E100-96: Rev 1:1 – 1:20: A Voice and a Vision

    This reading introduces the book and Revelation needs introducing because it is a difficult book. Among its oddities are the rhetorical flourishes (present elsewhere in the Bible but very strongly featured here), the use of picture language (which interestingly often cannot actually be pictured), vivid visions and a strong interest in the future/eternity. Listening to [&hellip...

  • E100: Week 20: Reading Revelation

    Aug 29, 10 • E100, RevelationComments Off on E100: Week 20: Reading Revelation
    E100: Week 20: Reading Revelation

    The book calls itself the apokalupsis of Jesus Christ – the revelation the disclosure of hidden things – so like parts of Daniel it will show us glimpses “behind the scenes” of the world letting us see a bit of what Christ is doing off stage. This means (paradoxically) that this book requires us to [&hellip...