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I'm Taylor.

And I'm Tyler.

This is Scripture Central's Come Follow Me Insights.

Today, the Book of Revelation,

chapters one through five.

What an amazing book that we get to jump into today, and we'll have three weeks to study

this incredible book written by the Apostle John on the island of Patmos, and he has so many incredible symbols that he packs into this book,

that it has become a fascination for many students of the scriptures over 2,000 years.

And it's important. There are a variety of things that we need to set in place before we actually dive in to the actual text to better understand what we're going to read.

First thing we would mention is the name. The Revelation of St. John, the Divine. Often people refer to this book as the Revelations.

And you'll notice it's just one

panoptic vision of John and he writes it down. So it's just the singular, the revelation

of St. John. In other English translations of the Bible, you will notice that it doesn't

come through as the revelation. It's actually named the Apocalypse.

Now, because of that name, the word Apocalypse has taken on

a very negative, very scary connotation in our culture, in our society today. You use the word

apocalypse and people start thinking of earthquakes and destruction and death and

famine, which is all part of this book, but the message of that name is really

beautiful in the Greek. Yeah, so it comes from two words. It actually

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