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The Book of Revelation and the End of the World: Are the Signs Now Being Fulfilled?

Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman

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The Book of Revelation Is Full of Symbolism

"Revelation" is full of symbolism. Unless you are aware of the fact that it is symbolism and aware of the culture that produced that book, I can see it being very easy for people to take that symbolism and kind of reinterpret it using a lens," he says. But if we pause there for a second and go back to its ancient context, what is the book actually talking about if it's not the literal end of the world? So the way to get to that is to understand the symbolism.

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