Naked Bible 390: Revelation 17-18

The Naked Bible Podcast

Dr. Michael S. Heiser

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 27 August 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Revelation 17-18 overlaps a good deal with elements in preceding chapters, most notably 13-16. In those earlier chapters readers were introduced to the Beast, the symbolic representation of anti-Eden chaos drawn from Daniel 7; Babylon as a metaphor for that system and cipher for the present enemy of John’s day, the Roman Empire; and the judgment of the nations—unbelievers who have aligned themselves with the Beast and Babylon against the true God and his people. Chapters 17-18 continues these themes utilizing other imagery and language from the Old Testament. Collectively, chapters 13-18 lead to the confrontation at Armageddon (har-mageddon), the mount of Yahweh’s council assembly, between the returning Christ, Yahweh incarnate and risen, and the Beast (Rev 19). In this episode we explore John’s use of the Old Testament and specific themes related to Psalm 82 and the Day of the Lord judgment of the fallen gods of the Deuteronomy 32 worldview, the Babel rebellion, in setting up this climactic confrontation.

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0:26.3	Welcome to the NakedBible Podcast, episode 390, Revelation 17 and 18.
0:31.9	I'm the layman, Trace Dr. Strickland and he's the scholar of Dr. Michael Heiser.
0:35.1	Hey Mike, how you feeling?
0:37.6	Well, this has been a pretty good day.
0:40.2	I mean, the days aren't all equal.
0:42.9	Some of that is because I can't eat what's going to rip me, isn't all that good stuff
0:49.0	that we look forward to as we age.
0:52.5	I haven't thrust on me now before it's time, but here we are.
0:58.0	Well, have you at least been able to rest and watch and baseball and all that good stuff?
1:04.7	Yeah, I've been doing that, sleeping a lot.
1:08.7	I think I'm caught up from the hospital experience, which this is not a slide against anybody
1:15.2	who actually works in a hospital, but I'm convinced Vlad the Impaler made the beds that
1:21.1	they use in hospitals.
1:22.4	It's his patent because they are just unbelievably uncomfortable, just crazy.
1:28.9	You know, where I was at, they had this.
1:31.9	I actually made a video of it because I couldn't believe it, but you tilt the bed up and
1:37.6	it forms a gully like at the hinge.
1:40.7	Like, well, I can't be right.
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