Come and study the Holy Scriptures with us as Father Stephen DeYoung teaches verse by verse on the podcast, The Whole Council of God.

Father Stephen holds a PhD in biblical studies, and it's an Orthodox priest serving at Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church in Lafayette, Louisiana.

I'm sure we're going to breeze right through the Book of Revelation

because it's so clear and understandable, and no one will have any questions at all.

As you flip through it in the Orthodox Study Bible, you may notice there's like more notes than text

on most of the pages. So I have a feeling it will not move that quickly, even though the book of Revelation

is actually not that long of a book.

If you just go by the text, I mean, it's certainly longer than second and third John or

St. Jude's Epistle, but it's not super long, like compared to the

Gospels, for example.

But we have brief, brief, brief, reintroduction.

Remember, this is going to be the account of a visionary experience that St. John has while he's in exile on the island of

Patmos, where there was a salt mine. And so we're also going to see that he was likely not the

only Christian there because there's going to be a worship space,

or at least a place where they gather for prayer, right?

The Christians on the island, that space where he received the vision is still preserved.

There's a monastery next to it now, an Orthodox monastery, on Patmos.

You can go and see that place directly if you go there.

And so, yeah, that's probably enough.

And we'll get some more here as we pick up, right?

So unless there are any other comments or preliminary questions or a bad weather report

that I need to know about, we'll go ahead and pick up in the Revelation of St. John, chapter 1, verse 1.

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