Naked Bible 353: Revelation 1:4

The Naked Bible Podcast

Dr. Michael S. Heiser

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 7 December 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Our series on the Old Testament in the book of Revelation opens with Rev 1:4a, where we find the phrase “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.” The phrase is repeated in Rev 1:8 where parts of it are defined in an important way. Scholars are in general agreement that John gets the phrase from the Septuagint (LXX) Exod 3:14, but that verse accounts for only one-third of John’s wording. Where does the remainder come from? Why would John draw on Exod 3:14? What point was he trying to make?

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0:26.3	Welcome to the NakedBiblePodcast, episode 353, Revelation 1, 4, the layman, Tray Strickland,
0:33.9	and he's the scholar, Dr. Michael Heizer.
0:35.9	Hey, Mike, we're finally here.
0:38.2	The day has come.
0:39.4	You know, we're actually into the book of Revelation when you know I'm excited.
0:44.4	I know everybody around the world.
0:46.2	You know, I am excited about this.
0:48.8	I'm tired of.
0:51.4	Well, let's just jump in.
0:56.9	We're not doing verse by verse commentary.
0:58.9	We're not doing end time stuff.
1:02.1	We're going to go through the book and we're going to look at places, you know, maybe
1:06.5	not like every place, but a lot of places, you know, most of the places I think we
1:10.5	are fair to say, where the book, the author, John references does something with the old
1:18.0	testament.
1:19.8	And it isn't long before we get in the book where we hit our first one.
1:23.1	That is verse four.
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