Eusebeia with Josh Kruger

Reading Revelation 4:10-5:5 (RR12)

The heavenly throne room and temple scene continues with Revelation 4 and 5.  In today's episode we are reminded to worship the Creator and look to the Lion of Judah, the Root of David and Jesse.  Not created things and the human rulers in our lives.  A powerful reminder that will set up a huge contrast in the rest of the scroll to come.

Reading Revelation 4:6-9 (RR11)

The worship scene in the heavenly throne room and temple continues.  Here in 4:6-9 John sees a very similar vision to what Ezekiel and Isaiah saw.  John here will also quote the prophet Daniel as well.  Three prophets who lived under oppressive empires hundreds of years before John.  And now he's living in a similar situation.  Is Rome invincible?  Will Rome last forever?  Is Rome and Rome's gods and values worthy of worship?  In this episode the prophet and elder John give us a resounding answer.

Reading Revelation 4:1-5 (RR10)

John's writing and focus shifts.  From the letters to the churches (chapters 2-3) to now a heavenly vision!  John is granted the same kind of access as Ezekiel, Daniel, Isaiah, and Moses.  God's presence!  In both a throne room and a temple!  Where I AM, the God of Jesus, reigns as both King and God.  Where it is God, not Caesar, who is glorified, honored, worshipped, obeyed.  Where Jesus reigns as King of kings.  Not the emperor of Rome.  John speaks a powerful vision here to the churches to whom he writes, many of which are under the thumb of persecution.  And in this podcast episode we too will be challenged to think in these ways and how to walk in the seven spirits of God.  Check it out.

Reading Revelation 3:14-22 (RR9)

The final of the seven churches - Laodikea.  The unveiling/revealing/apocalypse continues.  Revealing to the congregation in Laodikea that though they thought they were rich and well clothed and doing great, they were actually poor and naked and caught up in loving prosperity instead of the God who graciously provided that prosperity in the first place.  Sound like a culture you live in?  Check it out.

Reading Revelation 3:1-13 (RR8)

The Christian prophet John continues to write to two more churches.  They feel the weight and persecution of empire.  They face the temptations of the world.  Yet if they overcome those worldly powers, then awesome rewards lie ahead.  There is hope!  See how John uses Isaiah and Ezekiel to help us form a lens for understanding this hope... thru apocalypse!

Reading Revelation 2:20-29 (RR7)

Live how the world says to live or live how God says to live?  Value the things of the world or value the things of Jesus?  Choose.  For the church in Thyatira they were confused.  Some were in one camp or the other.  Some straddled between two worlds.  The warning is clear:  do not live the ways of the world.  Jesus commissions the prophet John to write to the church in Thyatira with a warning that will carry through as a major theme of the Revelation.

Reading Revelation 2:12-19 (RR6)

John writes letters to two more churches.  And in describing what he has heard and what he has seen he intentionally quotes or refers to the prophets Daniel and Isaiah.  He wants his reader to think in an apocalyptic way.  Isaiah faced the temptations of empire and of sin, death, and devil in his day.  So did Daniel.  Our journey continues.

Reading Revelation 2:1-11 (RR5)

John's writing now turns to the genre of letter/epistle.  God guides John into writing to seven churches like a correcting prophet would write to a group of people or nation.  What apocalyptic writing will John employ to communicate a message in his time?  Check it out.

Reading Revelation (RR4) 1.16-20

We conclude chapter 1 of John's Revelation.  As readers we are urged to think in terms of Isaiah, Daniel, and Hosea.  A prophet who lived at a time of an oppressive government, of God's judgment, and of a future hope.  Check it out as we wrap up chapter 1 and prepare for chapter 2.
 

Reading Revelation (RR3) 1:10-15

As John's revelation unfolds he sees and hears more.  A temple is revealed!  God's presence!  So in this episode we'll learn about what that temple theme means.  Likewise John zeroes in on Daniel and Ezekiel, drawing the reader to think about his apocalypse just like their apocalypses.  Full of rich symbols and ways of subverting the earthly power of the day to point toward the heavenly power.