God Created Quote by David A. Desilva

““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 things for the doing of God’s will and pleasure (4:11).””

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“The title “Lord of lords,” for example, was ascribed to the emperor; the acclamations of God and Christ as “worthy” (4:11; 5:9) echo the…

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“John exposes Pax Romana and Pax Augusta to be bald-faced lies. He does not allow his hearers to ignore the fact that a great…

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“A grounded and responsible reading of Revelation begins with reading it first as we would read Paul’s Letters to the Galatians or Philippians or…

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“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 and at…

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“Thus apocalypses set an audience’s space within the context of a larger, invisible world, and they set the audience’s time in the context of…

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“We have sought to read Revelation less as a coded text to be interpreted, and more as a text that imposed a Christ-centered interpretation…

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“In many instances, however, I would expect such instances of discomfort to draw our attention to the ways in which we have drunk deep…

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“Like Jonah’s word, Revelation as prophecy seeks mainly to stimulate faithful response among John’s audience, not to provide an absolute blueprint for an uncertain…

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