Hey, this is John at the Bible Project, and we're in the middle of a series on how to read

apocalyptic literature in the Bible.

So far we've discussed how the word apocalypse doesn't mean the end of the world.

Instead, an apocalypse is when something is uncovered or revealed.

In the Bible, an apocalypse is a sudden confrontation with the ultimate meaning of reality.

Once something is revealed to you, we have a revelation, often results in clarity, that

you have to work out.

That's certainly what happened to Paul.

This thing happened to him, and then it forced him to go into what he calls and glaciens

just this period in Arabia.

He went to Soda for a while, I think, to just work it all out.

So like the apocalypse gave him a new angle of vision, and then he had to go find clarity

in light of this new vision of reality.

So today, we discuss how an apocalypse isn't something you create, rather it's something

that happens to you.

And when an apocalypse does come, it's an opportunity to rethink everything.

Thanks for joining us.

Here we go.

We're in our series on how to read the Bible, and we are in the genre of literature called

apocalyptic literature, which you find in the prophets, I guess we haven't really talked

about this.

Yeah, that's right.

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