Tag: figuring things out

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Get Out of Town 

Revelation 18.1-8 When I first moved to Michigan seven years ago, I was flummoxed (yes! Flummoxed!!) by an article in the Detroit Free Press describing ‘urban wilderness.’ The article informed…

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Even the Wrath of Men 

Revelation 17.9-18 Leviticus 21 describes the appropriate punishment for a priest’s daughter who becomes a prostitute. It’s not pretty. More to the point, it’s nearly repeated verbatim in Revelation 17.16-17…

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Judgment Fatigue 

Revelation 16.10-21 I’m relieved that the pronouncements of judgment are almost over. At this point, I’m exhausted by the scope of evil, to say nothing of God’s plan for getting…

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Oh Yeah 

Revelation 16.1-9 Lex Talionis is a fancy way of saying ‘an eye for an eye’, or ‘what goes around comes around.’ There’s loads of that here in 16.1-9. For example,…

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Vine of the Earth 

Revelation 14.14-20 I find this passage one of the most confusing in the entire book. The harvest language, though initially a little gruesome, actually makes more sense once you realize…