Episode 145: Biblical Genres, Part 8--Apocalypse

In this concluding episode of our series looking at the different kinds of literature we find in the Bible, pastors Erica, Sarah, and Steve take a look at a kind of literature often called "apocalyptic" writing.  It includes the book of Revelation, parts of Daniel, and sections of the Gospels as well, and it's the kind of literature that often uses coded language that would have been clearly understood by it first readers, but which can be confusing to us twenty centuries later.  Apocalyptic literature is ususally resistance literature, written by people who were under the boot of one empire or another, and it provided a way of hoping for God's victory over wicked empires for people who were powerless and threatened, while using coded imagery to avoid directly confronting those who were in power.  And as we take a look at the book of Revelation in particular, we'll see that it's partly about events in the first century, partly about the future, and partly a musical!  Join us for this episode of Crazy Faith Talk where we attempt to help make sense of a complicated kind of literature and a sometimes daunting book of the Bible, so that we can hear hope in the midst of it!