Naked Bible 366: Revelation 4 Part 1

The Naked Bible Podcast

Dr. Michael S. Heiser

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 7 March 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Revelation 4 is the well know scene of the Lamb of God, the heavenly throne, and the 24 elders. Less well known is the fact that this scene and its elements have a specific Old Testament context: the covenant lawsuit genre. There is a strong scholarly consensus about the covenant lawsuit elements, and its use in divine council scenes in the Old Testament. Once such scene is Daniel 7:9-28, where the text specifically describes multiple thrones in a heavenly council (“court”), assembled to render judgment (Dan 7:9-10). Revelation 4 has more than a dozen parallels to Daniel 7, presented in the same order. This episode introduces us to the covenant lawsuit genre as the backdrop to Revelation 4.

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0:26.3	Welcome to the NakedBibletpodcast, episode 366, Revelation 4, part 1, the Lehman Traystrick
0:33.4	Clinton.
0:34.4	He's the scholar, Dr. Mike Heizer.
0:35.4	Hey Mike, what's going on?
0:38.2	You know, I guess you guys, are you still getting any kind of cold weather?
0:42.3	I mean, a few weeks ago, it was like the Arctic there.
0:46.5	We didn't get that.
0:47.5	It just feels like I moved at the right time, I guess, but how's everybody doing?
0:53.1	Texas was colder than parts of Alaska there for a little bit than where I'm at, we got
0:59.5	almost 15 inches of snow in one day.
1:02.8	And yes, I am in Texas.
1:04.5	West Texas and we got, hopefully there won't be another one.
1:08.3	Yeah, yeah, knock on wood, but as Texans, we made it through, you know, now it's March
1:14.4	and it's warm and you're ready to work on 10.
1:17.9	You're going to have to, yeah, but you'll probably spend most of the rest of the year suffering
1:22.3	through the, all the talk about what caused it and what to do and all that kind of stuff.
1:27.0	So you guys will be the focus for a while.
1:29.4	I'm just glad to be in Florida.
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