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Welcome to talking in scripture. I'm Mike and I'm Bryce and today we are going to

be talking about the book of revelation capital T the yeah The. The revelation, right.

Bryce, we're probably going to do a couple of podcasts on this. Is that fair to say?

I would hope we do multiple. There's just so much to digest here. We're just gonna produce a lot here

and just let you digest what you want to digest.

So today we are doing an overview of,

okay, if I had just a short time to teach what is the book talking about what is this about

I think today is a good overview overall I'll just start briefly and just say this is an

apocalyptic text and what does that mean?

Apocalyptic texts were writings that were highly symbolic, they were dualistic

meaning it was good guys versus bad guys light versus dark these texts involved a lot of times

fantastic beasts and it also covered a time and it had a message usually the message

of these apocalyptic texts were a message of hope.

A classic example besides the Book of Revelation is the Book of Daniel in the Old Testament.

And so with that brief introduction, Bryce, why don't you jump in and talk to us about

why this is important and how a Latter-day Saint audience can really get their hands around this book.

Great, thanks Mike. And I jump into a brief overview,

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