413 - Revelation Part Thirteen: Poverty & Riches

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🗓️ 24 July 2023

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Revelation Part Thirteen: Poverty & Riches. Some sound issues today as Mike's mic decided to defect... “To the angel of the church in Smyrna write..." This episode we continue our decent into Revelation. Laodicea was an affluent city, located strategically at the intersection of three major trade routes. The city quickly became a banking and trading center, known especially for its woolen carpets and clothing. Also in Laodicea was one of the ancient world’s most prominent medical schools, especially famous for its eye and ear treatments.

Scholars have found cultural allusions in this message not only to Laodicea’s wealth but also to the local production of eye salve, the use of black wool, and especially the city’s lack of a good water supply. How does that fit metaphorically? How does Las Vegas fit in? What does the "lukewarm, I'll spit you out" reference have to do with it? There are so many cultural references... where do we fit in? John recognized that the acceptance of Rome’s mythology was an act of giving worship to evil masquerading as divine authority.

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0:00.0	We're messing around today. No rambling. Yeah. Hey everybody. Welcome to another exciting, thrilling
0:09.9	addition of the Voxology Podcast. Mike and Tim here, and ladies gentlemen, I have to tell you, we are, we're
0:16.2	playing Hurt today. The podcast demands that, you know, we put out high quality episodes weekly and I think we would all agree
0:31.2	we put out high quality episodes monthly but we release episodes weekly
0:37.3	and today is one of those days where because of a fluke in the vacation scheduling.
0:45.0	Tim Stafford arrived last night from Las Vegas.
0:50.0	Vegas, baby.
0:51.0	And what time did you get in? I mean not too late. I got home like five or six.
0:58.4	Okay, but we had to get him up super early because the Erie family is leaving this morning for the
1:05.0	airport and so we're recording I just want you to know Tim I mean Tim spent what
1:10.7	three days in Las Vegas here he is it six in the morning his time it's
1:16.4	eight in the morning my time both of which times are not our prime times no and
1:22.0	and so I just I want to let you know that we're thrilled to be here and
1:30.6	it's okay if you turn this off 10 minutes from now.
1:34.5	I don't know, yeah.
1:37.5	We, and I've got a hard, as they say a hard stop
1:46.4	as we get picked up for the airport in like an hour. So and so my family will be packing and who knows what Seth you will be doing. So all that's to say, who knows?
1:56.0	Who knows?
1:57.0	What the future holds.
1:58.0	After last episode, some Sweet Massey and Seth together.
2:01.0	Oh my goodness.
2:02.0	Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's just it's the it's the it's the perils of
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