Revelation
39 conversations where the hosts get into revelation.
39 conversations
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Ask the Pastor: Why Is Revelation the End?
- Why is Revelation the last book of the Bible, and how do we know the 66-book canon is closed?
Boova asks why Revelation is the last book and how the 66-book canon got closed. The answer pushes back on the 'council of old white dudes at Nicaea hid books from you' narrative:…
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Critiquing Tony Evans's prophecy sermon on Russia, oil, and Israel
- Why would all of them have a problem with Israel?
- Where does predictive prophecy preaching miss the target the most?
The hosts read and critique a report of pastor Tony Evans walking his congregation through a prophetic calendar based on Matthew 24:3, predicting conflict between Russia and Middle Eastern nations over oil.
From No. 461 · Acid, Stupidity and Russia
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Do pastors have to preach prophecy and the end times?
- Must pastors teach Bible prophecy and the end times?
The hosts react to a prophecy-conference article in which Jack Hibbs urges pastors not to skip Bible prophecy.
From No. 448 · November 8 2021
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The church at Sardis and what makes a church great
- How would you know if you were in a dead church?
A host who has been preaching through Revelation 2-3 raises the church at Sardis, which has a reputation of being alive but is dead, and wonders how anyone would know they were in a dead church.
From No. 442 · Christians Don’t Understand Christianity
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Jeremiah: cursed is the man who trusts in man
- What good does it do to pronounce this the end of the world?
A host shares from Jeremiah 16-18, reading that the sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron and engraved on the tablet of their heart, and that God says, 'cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength.'
From No. 419 · Election Stuff, Reluctantly
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How much damage can misreading Revelation do?
- How much damage can a strong misinterpretation of the book of Revelation do?
A host poses the episode's hard question: how much damage a strong misinterpretation of Revelation can do.
From No. 409 · Super Sign of the End Times
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Revelation misconceptions, part 2: the rapture and the wrong reaction
- Is COVID-19 part of biblical prophecy — are we living in the end times?
The hosts cover the final two misconceptions. Fourth: the rapture as escape — they argue God's people are rarely spared worldly pain, citing martyrs under God's throne who are told to wait.
From No. 405 · Reading Revelation Wrong
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Is Hurricane Sandy God's wrath? Don't speak for God
- Was Hurricane Sandy God's wrath — does God send natural disasters as judgment?
The hosts discuss claims in some Christian circles that Hurricane Sandy was God's wrath on New York City — tied to a UN move against Israel — and reject the reasoning: God…
From No. 123 · November 19 2012
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Ask the Pastor answered: the third heaven
After deciding the Dear LFTP letters are too heavy for tonight and swapping in a quiz instead, Ben takes up Boova's third-heaven question.
From No. 541 · Why Not The Second Heaven
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Open-handed issues and the struggle to read theology books
The hosts sort closed-handed from open-handed issues: hell's existence vs. its nature, whether Job was a real man or a narrative that tells true things, how to read Revelation as signs rather than newspaper.
From No. 452 · False Teachers and Freeloaders
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Don't be deceived: antichrist fears and God's view of time
The hosts push back on antichrist fixation: people are impressed by prediction because they'd use it nefariously themselves, but God sees time whole — it's not a crystal ball.
From No. 451 · Mississippi Don’t Push
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Revelation misconceptions, part 1: audience, prophecy, and genre
The hosts list the first three of five misconceptions about Revelation. First: readers assume the book is about them, when it was a pastoral letter of hope to churches in Asia Minor.
From No. 405 · Reading Revelation Wrong
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Flee or fight: Revelation, democracy, David, and Goliath
Hosts work through biblical examples — reading Revelation under persecution, David fleeing to the hills from Saul, Jesus slipping through crowds laying hands on him, John the…
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Hosts respond: holiness requires effort alongside grace
The hosts argue that grace does not remove the believer's responsibility to change: conviction of sin points at sin so people die to it, James calls Christians to be doers of the…
From No. 165 · Kissing Halloween Goodbye
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Hosts rebut proof 18: Left Behind is not the Bible
The hosts argue the proof is specious: it attacks a fictional book rather than Scripture, since the word 'rapture' does not even appear in the Bible, and mixes Muslim and Mormon views of heaven with Christian ones.
From No. 115 · September 17 2012
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Hope, not fear: John's pastoral intent and God's control
A host shares how, as a young man, every red moon made him fear the end because he misunderstood grace and pictured God as angry.
From No. 405 · Reading Revelation Wrong
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Hidden sin two: Comfort
- Is comfort a sin, and when does comfort become idolatry?
The second item, comfort, gets the same treatment: comfort itself isn't sin, but turning it into an idol or using it as an excuse to dodge what God asks is.
From No. 475 · Finding Sin, Missing God
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Quarrelsome scriptures: passages that lose you every time
The room works through Mike's question about scripture they thought they understood and then lost again.
From No. 537 · The Bible Confuseth
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Under-asking God: the bold prayers of the saints in Revelation
- Are we under-asking God in prayer, and why do we pray so tentatively?
Picking up the miracles thread, the hosts contrast their own tentative, passive-aggressive prayers (casually mentioning an ankle or the flu, hoping God picks up the hint) with the…
From No. 275 · Under-Asking God
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Preach the same Jesus to seekers and saints
- Should preaching be different for seekers than for believers?
- How do you reconcile the gentle Jesus of Luke with the conquering Jesus of Revelation?
Resuming the pre-break discussion, the hosts argue against releasing gospel information incrementally to seekers - the Bible has no "seeker track," and the same call to obedience applies to everyone.
From No. 188 · The Fierce Nehemiah
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Why Scripture says little about heaven
- Why hasn't God revealed more about what heaven is like?
The hosts consider why God revealed so little about heaven, warning against turning heaven into an idol or merely a venue for being served ('escaping hell' while expecting service), and agree God's restraint in what he revealed must have been correct.
From No. 168 · What Will Heaven Be Like?
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Quiz: It's the End of the World as We Know It
- If Luther predicted Christ's return 300 years out — long after his own death — why pine for a return you will never see?
Ben (addressed by name in the audio) runs the multiple-choice quiz 'It's the End of the World as We Know It' on false end-times predictions.
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Alive but dead: a worship set and Laodicea
The heaviest moment of the visit story: the worship set looked energetic but felt dead, moving a host nearly to tears - 'it looks so alive, but is dead,' immediately recognized as Revelation's Laodicea.
From No. 538 · Weekend At Bildad’s
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Bible trivia game, round two
The second trivia round runs the categories again with harder questions: which book says nothing can separate us from the love of Christ (Romans 8), which two books use 'seal' for…
From No. 458 · 12 to 13 Mistakes From Wildin