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 Ph.D. in biblical studies, and it's an Orthodox priest

serving at Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church in Lafayette, Louisiana. So we'll go ahead and get started.

And when we get started here, in just a moment we'll be picking up in Revelation of St.

John, chapter 12, verse 1.

And last time we left off before we started chapter 12 because as we mentioned then the end of

chapter 11 was sort of the end of one of St. John's cycles right we've talked about several

times now how the structure of the book of Revelation like the structure of all of St.

John's writing but it's a little more clear

in Revelation than it is other places, moves in these sort of continuous cycles. We saw these

cycles of sevens that culminated last time in the seventh trumpet being blown and sort of the

final judgment, which we got in sort of very brief detail.

And now, as we mentioned, each time, say, John cycles around, there's sort of more detail added, sort of to each theme.

So we're about to begin another one of his cycles, and as we come back around, more detail will be added.

Because of that, I don't need to do a lot more, I think, repetition than that,

because we are sort of at the beginning of a section here.

So we have, this is sometimes as we've been going through the New Testament,

we've seen that where they put a chapter break is kind of arbitrary

and sometimes totally doesn't make sense, right?

But this is one that makes perfect sense, right?

This is one in just the right place because there is sort of a break here in the text.

So, unless there are any questions or comments or NASCAR results that anyone wants to share

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