Welcome to the 10 Minute Bible Hour Podcast.

Right now we're going through the entire Bible to understand it is one big cohesive story.

We're covering one book each day, and this one is about Revelation.

My friends, we've come to the end of the road.

Today we're talking about the book of Revelation, and it's the last book of the Bible.

And I suppose anytime you get to the last book in a series of books or the last movie

in a series of movies, wonder is the finale going to be any good to the people who have their

hands on the wheel of the storytelling.

Do they understand the story they've been telling?

Do they understand their own characters?

Do they know what needs to happen to land the plane properly?

And if you've been a consumer of media over the last 20, 30 years, you know that the answer

is often no that shows don't end in satisfying ways books don't end in satisfying ways.

But here in the book of Revelation, the payoff is incredible.

It rounds out a multifaceted, multi-millennial story in a way that looks to the future and

pays off everything that has been set up.

It pays off all the prophecies, all the narrative arcs, all of the theological arcs, all of

the historical arcs, all of the injustices and the villains who didn't get it, that all

gets addressed as well.

It is a magnificent completion to a magnificent book.

Now, look, the New Testament has showed us a beautiful New Paradigm.

The paradigm of the age of the church, Jesus came, died on the cross, was resurrected.

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