Hey everybody, I'm Tim Mackie, and this is my podcast, exploring my strange Bible. I am a card-carrying

Bible history and language nerd who thinks that Jesus of Nazareth is utterly amazing and worth following with everything that you

have. On this podcast, I'm putting together the last 20 years worth of lectures and sermons where I've

been exploring the strange and wonderful story of the Bible and how it invites us into the mission

of Jesus and the journey of faith.

And I hope this can all be helpful for you too.

I also help start this thing called the Bible Project.

We make animated videos and podcasts and classes about all kinds of topics in Bible and theology.

You can find all those resources at Bibleproject.com.

With all that said, let's dive into the episode for this week.

All right, this episode is number six of a six-part series.

Again, it represents this whole last six episodes

has represented teachings that I gave as a part of this thing we did a number of years ago at Door of Hope Church, where I was a teaching pastor.

We challenged the whole church to read the whole New Testament in 90 days.

We would get up five mornings a week, Monday to Friday, gather at 6 a.m.

We'd read that day's readings aloud, talk through

them. And then in the Sunday gatherings, we would teach from key passages that we had just read

over the week. This was one of the final messages in the series. It comes from the end of the New

Testament, the final chapters of the book of Revelation. And here's something that's interesting.

If you

have been following the Bible project, videos and podcasts, heaven and earth was one of our first

videos that we released back in 2014. However, this message I just realized looking at my notes

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