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Welcome to talking scripture. I'm Mike and I'm Bryce. And today we jump into one of the

funnest and most exciting and yet most speculated chapters of all of the book of revelation and that is

revelation chapter 13 the beast that rises out of the sea the mark of the

beast the number of the beast and all those scary things and we're going to see if we can

make it a whole lot less scary and applicable in everyday lives and we're going to focus on

what does the text say and what does modern revelation reveal about

the text. So Mike, tell us about the beast coming out of the sea. Okay so before I

talk about the beast coming out of the sea just quick, I want to talk a little bit about where I think John is.

I think John is in the temple in heaven, I think he's in the Holy of Holies, brought up into the heavens, and the reason why I think this

is because of other texts that are not in the Bible. So there's a text called the

Apocalypse of Abraham, and in that text Abraham is brought up into the heavens and he sees the history of the whole world played out in front of him and God says to him the firmament on which you stand is the veil.

This is a little bit difficult for moderates to wrap their heads around,

but here's the idea.

Above the earth is this firmament.

The ancients believe that there was a dome over the earth that kept waters above. The ancient

believed that there was a dome over the earth that kept waters above the firmament. The

rockia is the word that is used and the reason why the thunder made the sound it

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