According to Revelation 14, the choices we may lead to brutal consequences on the day of judgement. What would you like to be doing when the day of judgement happens? What if it was tomorrow - would you be ready?
Revelation 15 talks about a song of the victorious (Rev. 15:2). What would be your song of victory? Have you ever felt imprisoned by the demands of culture or society?
Revelation 16 is about endurance. Patient endurance. What is the most difficult event you have had to endure? Do you think you could make it through the things the seven angels poured out on the earth? How would you minister to those who were suffering? What would you tell them about what was happening?
Are you familiar with the seven hills that are mentioned in Revelation 17? Check them out on the Internet (Wikipedia is a start). They were in Rome. It sounds like Babylon was ruled by Rome. Without the support of "the beast" (Rome), Babylon would perish.
New word for today: hegemony, as in "There was in John's day(and often still is) only a severely constrained range of possibilities for resisting the hegemony of the present day". Hegemony is the "preponderant influence or authority over others". "Preponderant" is a good word, too.
See you tomorrow?
I have never been to Rome, but hope to one day. Reading the New Testament will help me understand the significance of these places a lot more. For now I guess I have to settle for Google Earth. Thanks for the summaries of the chapters in your blog. It has motivated me to read them. I think you win the Challenge by-the-way. ^5
ReplyDeleteThanks Bill. Happy to be a motivator. You also motivated me because you commented! Let me know what I can do to continue to motivate.
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