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At our 2017 Fall Kickoff we are launching our new series in the book of Revelation. I have been planning and looking forward to this series for almost a year. We are going to work all the way through the book between now and April.

I feel like there are two main groups when it comes to people reading the book of Revelation. The first group grew up on Hal Lindsey's Late Great Planet Earth and dispensationalism. They loved charts and maps and talking about the rapture. They have detailed interpretations and are confident about the identity of the Anti-Christ. This group loves Revelation and reads it hoping to learn about world events that will happen in the near future. The second group of people have grown tired of the first group and sense that their approach to Revelation is wrong. So in reaction they have just stopped reading Revelation altogether. I believe that both groups are wrong and miss the point of the book.

Revelation is an amazing and wonderful and strange book. But we have to read it the way that the Apostle John intended it to be read, putting ourselves in the sandals of those seven churches. They received it as a letter written to them containing a powerful message about life and discipleship and worship. How do you follow Jesus faithfully under the pressure and temptation of the Roman Empire?

I asked Dr. Paul Spilsbury of Regent College to help us understand how to read Revelation. Dr. Spilsbury is Professor of New Testament and has written a helpful book on Revelation called The Throne, the Lamb & The Dragon.

Take a look at the video and we'll see you September 10.