This is the Baymont podcast with Marty Solomon. I'm his co-host, Brent Billings. Today we,

including you, our listeners, continue to hone our hermeneutical prowess in the realm of

apocalyptic literature, taking a look at the letter to Smerta and asking what is the context.

Speaking of apocalyptic literature, we did all that talk about it two episodes ago,

and we never reminded ourselves of what the definition is. That's going way back to session two,

Brent. Do you have to remember what the definition of apocalyptic literature was? Something about hope.

Yeah. Can't remember exactly what it was. Apocalyptic literature is the use of pictures and images

to convey a message of hope to the present time. The present day, absolutely. Apocalyptic literature

is used to use pictures and images to convey a message of hope to the present day.

So we're going to continue to learn about these principles for reading an apocalyptic book

like Revelation and Context. I am committed to not overwhelming you with all the possible content,

because there's a lot of possible content here. But instead there's a method to our madness. We're

trying to teach you how to engage book a revelation, not just give you all the content and all the

answers and all the little treasures and everything that's in there. We're trying to actually teach you

how to engage the book. So we have pointed you towards quite a healthy list of sources,

that first revelation episode titled a book for its time. We have pointed you towards bunch of sources

to help you go further and deeper in your specific studies. And I want to take a few more

steps into this hermeneutic, just a few more, not the whole thing. Just take a couple more baby

steps and learning and stretching to understand what John is trying to accomplish in this book.

There are many other details that those familiar with this understanding would add to the conversation.

If you're like, if you already got it, if you already know how to read a revelation,

there's all kinds of stuff for missing. I get that. But I want to continue building so that we can

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