Q&A: A Bible Scholar Answers Your Questions about the Book of Revelation (Tom Schreiner)

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🗓️ 29 November 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

A few weeks ago, we asked readers to submit their questions about the book of Revelation and surrounding topics for New Testament scholar Tom Schreiner. Many of you sent questions from around the world, with questions such as how we should read and interpret the book in the 21st century, whether the COVID vaccine is the mark of the beast, and how much should we care about the specific images presented in the book. Tom Schreiner is the author of The Joy of Hearing: A Theology of the Book of Revelation. Read the full transcript. If you enjoyed this episode be sure to leave us a review, which helps us spread the word about the show! Listen to a previous interview with Tom Schreiner on the subject of the mark of the beast.

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0:00.0	The Book of Revelation is one of those biblical books that we sometimes just don't know what to do with.
0:08.0	Even if we get the book's main message, that Jesus is coming back to establish his kingdom,
0:14.0	so much of the book often remains an enigma to us.
0:18.0	What will the Millennium be like? Who are the two witnesses? More broadly, why is the
0:23.2	Book of Revelation written the way it was, with such vivid imagery and symbolism? And of course,
0:29.6	what should we really believe about the mark of the beast? In our interview today, I'm talking
0:34.7	with Tom Striner, the James Buchanan Harrison Professor of New Testament Interpretation,
0:39.6	an associate dean of the school theology
0:42.0	at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
0:44.5	Tom is the author of a new volume
0:46.2	in Crossways New Testament theology series called
0:49.1	The Joy of Hearing, A Theology of the Book of Revelation,
0:52.8	and today he's going to answer your questions about the mysterious last book in your Bible.
0:58.0	Let's get started.
1:02.0	Well, Tom, thank you for joining me again on the Crossway podcast.
1:06.0	Matt, it's good to be with you again. Always a delight.
1:09.0	Yeah.
1:10.0	So we're going to be talking about the book of
1:12.0	Revelation again today. And as we all know, this book is one that many of us, all of us,
1:19.3	we at least think we know something about it. And it's a pretty controversial book at times,
1:26.5	a really interesting, difficult book to understand
1:28.7	at times.
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