This is the Baymaw Podcast with Marty Solomon. I'm his co-host Brent Billings. Today, we prepare

for a journey through the Book of Revelation remembering the function and method of apocalyptic

literature and trying to remove the crazy from our study.

That's right. Getting rid of the cray cray from our study. That was bad.

Lane Jokes Bound. Start off this episode. This episode first in a series of what did I say

16 episodes on Revelation? Was that what it was? Yeah, it feels right. It feels right.

It's going to be good. A good thorough study. So we're going to do. We're going to start

verse to verse. I don't think we're going to stay that way, but we're going to go through

all the letters of seven churches. We're going to do every verse of chapter one today.

So we're going to do here. So, yeah, brace yourself. The time has come. For some, getting

to the book of Revelation has been something you could not wait for. Like, I can only imagine

when we start publishing this, how many people will just skip to this portion of section

of session four? We've had people doing that with the Romans. As soon as we start releasing

Romans episodes, hey, I just started your podcast. Love those Roman stuff. Not recommended.

Not recommended. If this is your first episode, please, please go back to the beginning.

There's a lot of material, but go back to the beginning. I know it's a lot of episodes,

but yes, like we've been building this entire time and we've we've ordered it very

intentionally. This is the end of a very long narrative. And it's kind of weird to

start at the end of the book. Yeah, it is. And you're right. We have a lot of intention

behind this. Isn't a haphazard journey. We've had our way mapped out for us when we began

all the way back in 2016, but there was a method, an intentional method to our madness.

Madness though it might be rent Billions, but there was a method most definitely. So, but

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