How First-Century Christians Read Revelation: Ditching the Newspaper for the Ancient Lens
What if everything we think we know about reading the Book of Revelation is built on modern assumptions rather than ancient reality? For generations, popular approaches have treated John’s apocalypse like a cryptographic code waiting to be cracked by the evening news or modern geopolitical maps. But how did the original audience—marginalized first-century believers in Asia Minor—actually hear and understand these visions?
In this episode, we explore how to put down the newspaper and recover the authentic reading lens of a first-century Jew. We dive into how the Book of Revelation is…
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