Formed in God’s Story: Book of Revelation

Final update 2024-11-14: The notes for all six weeks are now available as a single PDF, with two podcasts for each week.

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 about?” may be more productive. If Scripture is the revelation of God, what does the final book reveal about God?

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How to approach the Book of Revelation (podcast)

Where do you even start with a book like this? Look for Jesus: it’s all about him.

Revelation is the most puzzling and tantalizing book of the Bible. What’s it about?

This 30-minute podcast explains how John’s visions are about Jesus. The whole sweep of the Bible’s narrative comes together in this final episode, in the person who is good news for the world.

 

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