Bonus 14: What a Revelation! The Apocalypse of St John the Divine

History in the Bible

Garry Stevens

History, Christianity, Judaism, Bible, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 693 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In this co-released episode, Steve Guerra of the History of the Papacy podcast and I continue our series on the apocalyptic literature, with the first of two episodes on the earliest Christian apocalypse, the Book of Revelation. It barely made it into the New Testament.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Gary Stevens, and welcome to the History in the Bible podcast. All the
0:25.2	History, in All the Books, in All the Bibles.
0:45.9	Welcome back to our next part of our Gary and Steve's guide to the apocalypse.
1:01.0	Today we are talking about the book of Revelation, the major Christian apocalypse, and the one apocalypse that made it into the official biblical canon of nearly every Christian group.
1:07.1	I guess you could say every Christian group has revelation in its canon, well, except for one.
1:08.9	And we might as well talk about that. Now, every single group except for the Assyrian
1:12.9	church of the East includes the Book of Revelation in their official canon, the Catholics,
1:21.1	Orthodox, Eastern Orthodox, Anglicans, and just about every Protestant group has Revelation and its official Bible.
1:30.1	And the Ethiopians have it?
1:31.7	The Ethiopians have it as well.
1:34.6	And today we're going to talk about revelation and how it's organized and how it's interpreted,
1:41.7	which that can be very interesting indeed. And also how it came about and where it came from, which that can be very interesting indeed.
1:44.9	And also how it came about and where it came from, because that's a story in and of itself.
1:51.0	So, Gary, how are you doing today?
1:52.8	I'm doing fine, Steve, and yourself?
1:55.0	I'm great.
1:56.0	And I'm really glad to get together again to do this apocalypse talk.
2:01.0	It's coming sooner or later.
2:03.2	We're getting to the apocalypse here.
2:06.7	Lots of apocalypsees.
2:08.2	Lots of apocalypses.
2:09.5	Who knows what will happen after the elections.
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