“The cities of Asia Minor were as enthusiastic and as invested in hosting the imperial cult as modern cities are about convincing… — David A. Desilva Football team Copy Share Image
“The greatest threat the hearers face is to be found unprepared to encounter God or God’s Christ at his coming (6:12–17), thus… — David A. Desilva Book of life Copy Share Image
“This tenet, however, ignores the primary purpose of prophecy, which is not to give hard and fast statements about an unchangeable future,… — David A. Desilva Time Copy Share Image
“While such prophecy could include a predictive element, it was also—and perhaps primarily—a declaration of God’s action in the present or an… — David A. Desilva Copy Share Image
“The title “Lord of lords,” for example, was ascribed to the emperor; the acclamations of God and Christ as “worthy” (4:11; 5:9)… — David A. Desilva God Copy Share Image
“John exposes Pax Romana and Pax Augusta to be bald-faced lies. He does not allow his hearers to ignore the fact that… — David A. Desilva First place Copy Share Image
“John would have disciples in every age understand—and live like they understand—that they exist to do God’s bidding, because God created all… — David A. Desilva God Created Copy Share Image
“A grounded and responsible reading of Revelation begins with reading it first as we would read Paul’s Letters to the Galatians or… — David A. Desilva Communication Copy Share Image
“In John’s vision of the cosmos, there is no room for gathering around God’s throne at one time as one’s cosmic center… — David A. Desilva Another time Copy Share Image
“Thus apocalypses set an audience’s space within the context of a larger, invisible world, and they set the audience’s time in the… — David A. Desilva History Copy Share Image
“We have sought to read Revelation less as a coded text to be interpreted, and more as a text that imposed a… — David A. Desilva Different perspective Copy Share Image
“In many instances, however, I would expect such instances of discomfort to draw our attention to the ways in which we have… — David A. Desilva Copy Share Image
“Like Jonah’s word, Revelation as prophecy seeks mainly to stimulate faithful response among John’s audience, not to provide an absolute blueprint for… — David A. Desilva Time Copy Share Image
