Revelation

Covers Isaiah 53 · Revelation

How Isaiah 53 describes Jesus so plainly that even non-Christians would name him, yet no one grasped it until after the resurrection — and how the same intentional ambiguity in Revelation should keep us from claiming to have the end times all figured out.

Covers Deuteronomy 2 · Revelation 1

How Deuteronomy 2 shows God already blessing the nations through Abraham's wider line — Edom, Moab, and Ammon clearing the giant clans, vestiges of the Nephilim, from the land — plus reflections on the unfathomable unity and diversity of the Trinity in Revelation 1.

Covers Revelation 1

Revelation 1:1 — God giving Jesus a revelation to pass on — reopens the puzzle of the Trinity, alongside Jesus not knowing the day or hour in Matthew 24, and why our inability to comprehend a transcendent God does not make what he reveals untrue.

Covers Deuteronomy 3 · Revelation 2

Mount Hermon, the site of the angelic rebellion of Genesis 6, is reclaimed by Israel in Deuteronomy 3 and later hosts the Transfiguration — plus Jesus' charge to Ephesus in Revelation 2 read as a call to resume the good works that make a church a light to its community.

Covers Revelation 2

Jesus' words to the church in Thyatira draw out two threads — the depth of God's patient mercy toward the struggling believer, and a warning that faithful churches today risk tolerating a modern Jezebel by failing to call sin sin.

Covers Revelation 5

The often-overlooked passage of time in Revelation 5 — John witnessing a drawn-out, increasingly desperate search of all three realms for someone worthy to open the scroll, and how the Lamb being the last to step forward eternally solidifies his claim to the throne.

Covers Revelation 6

Exploring the controversial view that God may not exhaustively know the future but instead declares what he will sovereignly bring about — and how that reframes the riders and judgments of Revelation 6 as God's declarations rather than glimpses of literal future scenes.

Covers Revelation 10

On being content not to have all the answers in Revelation — when John is told to seal up the seven thunders and the mystery of God awaits the last trumpet, the book's deliberate ambiguity suggests God never meant us to map a full end-times timeline.

Covers Deuteronomy 11 · Revelation 12

Deuteronomy's relentless repetition of the call to faithfulness is itself the point — when a biblical author harps on something to the point of annoyance, that is precisely where to stop and ask why it matters so much.

Covers Revelation 12 · Isaiah 45

A Christmas-season pointer to using Revelation 12 to date Jesus' actual birth, paired with a reading of Isaiah 45 — God forming the earth not empty but to be inhabited — as a statement of intent that lends weight to a young-earth view.

Covers Deuteronomy 12 · Revelation 13

Deuteronomy 12's call to centralized worship shows what God truly wanted — believing loyalty to Yahweh, not flawless rule-keeping — while Revelation 13 warns that God's supernatural enemies wield real power and must be tested.

Covers Revelation 16

Why those who curse God for the plagues of Revelation 16 expose a hardness of heart deeper than Pharaoh's — they recognize his presence and power, have no rival god to turn to, and still refuse to submit, choosing to be their own god rather than see their need.

Covers Revelation 18

A speculative thought experiment on whether the Babylon of Revelation 18 might be the internet — a global gathering of every people and language, hub of trade and ideas and evil, whose destruction governments and merchants would lament as the chapter describes.

Covers Revelation 20

The opened books of Revelation 20 — the record of everyone's deeds alongside the Book of Life — show that no one but Jesus enters heaven on the merit of their works, and that only those whose names are written in the Book of Life escape the second death.

Covers Revelation 21

Heaven as physical life on a recreated earth rather than a disembodied existence in the clouds — reading the new earth's absence of sea as the end of chaos, and the cube-shaped new Jerusalem as a vast mountain-city radiating God's glory over the world.

Covers Revelation 22

Why the concrete, physical vision of Revelation 22 — the river of life and the trees of life — makes eternity tangible and exciting in a way the common ethereal, cloud-floating picture of heaven never could.