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The Discipleship of Double Dissidents
I think John is trying to teach the disciples of Jesus how to detect the evils of empire as they begin to make impact in the church. He gives them like a template, a blueprint of discernment on how to recognize Babylon in the world today. So I say that John is teaching a discipleship of double dissidents. They have to be dissident against corruption in the church and dissident against the corruptions of empire.