October 7, 2006

  • Book of Apocalypse


    I've been camped in commentaries, dictionaries, books, videos, and podcasts of Revelation (including the book itself).  Why you ask?  BECAUSE THE END IS NEAR!  J/K, well kinda.  Actually I'm studying it because I'm going to teach on it at our church.  Andrew, my pastor, wants to approach worship using Revelation as the backdrop (He got the idea from Mark Driscoll, pastor of Mars Hill Seattle).  I'm a little leary about teaching Revelation because it's probably this single most difficult book to teach on because it is the revealing things to come.  Their are so many theories of the bible, but since we are appoaching it from the aspect of worship it's much easier.  Since most assume that John wrote the book, it is easy to take all of the Jewish imagry into account, but I also love to contrast the worship of the Lamb to Caesar worship of the 1st centurey.  If you haven't read Revelation recently, you should after all...

    Revelation 1:3
    Blessed is the one who
    reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear
    it and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near.


    ... notice it doesn't say anything about having to understand it.  : )