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S2 Ep1074: How to Read (and Understand) the Book of Revelation: Dr. Michael J. Gorman

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The Future of Prophecy

In scholarship, people tend to see a lot more first century stuff going on. How much of the book should we read as simply talking about the future, if at all? That's a good question. I think that the book should be understood as a document that would have been aimed at and would have been understood by the first century churches as relevant for them then. There's always a future dimension to prophecy. But as many people have said about prophecy, it is a word on target. It's a word from God through the prophet, for the people in their time period.

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