Naked Bible 381: Revelation 11

The Naked Bible Podcast

Dr. Michael S. Heiser

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Revelation 11 is well known for two major items: the two witnesses and the reference to the temple court. Both are controversial. Who are the two witnesses? Are they individual people? Old Testament prophets who did not die (Enoch, Elijah)? Are they symbolic? Does the temple reference in Rev 11:1 mean the temple was still standing when Revelation was written, thereby suggesting the book’s events were fulfilled in or by 70 A.D.? What are the meaning of the numbers John uses (1,260 days, 42 months), and how do those numbers relate to similar or identical language in the book of Daniel? How did Jews of Jesus’s day understand all these items? In this episode of the podcast, we work through Revelation 11 to contextualize the content in light of the Old Testament and Second Temple Judaism.

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0:26.3	Welcome to the Naked Bible Podcast, episode 381, Revelation 11.
0:31.3	I'm the layman, Trastrick Lennon.
0:32.8	He's the scholar, Dr. Michael Heizer.
0:34.5	Hey Mike, how you doing?
0:36.8	Pretty good, pretty good.
0:38.0	We are at Revelation 11, which I know a lot of people have been waiting for.
0:43.0	So I actually feel good about today's episode.
0:47.7	I don't know why, maybe it'll fade as when I get halfway through it, but yeah, you know,
0:52.8	it was a good week.
0:54.0	Enjoyed prepping for this.
0:55.4	Yeah, I know when we Revelation won the voting, somebody said, all right, I can't wait for
1:00.1	the next year.
1:01.1	And that's so true.
1:02.1	You know, these things take about a year to go through, but that's okay.
1:06.3	It's good.
1:07.3	I mean, I know everybody's enjoying going through Revelation.
1:12.6	Yeah, I actually had a scholar friend that I ran into this week.
1:18.9	He had lunch with and who follows the podcast and basically said the same thing.
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