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.

We'll go ahead and get started. Where we get started here?

Just a moment. We're picking up at the beginning of the Revelation of St. John chapter 14.

So last time we did, I believe, half of Chapter 13.

I think we'll make more progress than that tonight, but I'm not going to say how much more.

I'm just going to say more.

So, and there was a lot there, so I don't want to spend too much of tonight's too much of tonight recapping last time right yeah yeah we identified

the beast last time so by the time

anyone's hearing this that recording will be available

but yeah so we what hearing this, that recording will be available.

But, yes, so what we saw was an extension.

We saw at the beginning of chapter 12 was the beginning of a new cycle. We talked about how St. John's Apocalypse is organized around this series of cycles, right, that he goes through

and then they start over.

But it's kind of a spiral because each cycle, he sort of will introduce ideas, and then

in the next cycle he'll come back to those ideas and elaborate them a little more,

and then a little more, and then a little more sort of as

the book progresses. So at the beginning of chapter 12 we saw an account of the birth of Christ.

We saw the dragon who was identified as being the devil, the serpent, make war against Christ, and then

once Christ descended into heaven against his followers, against the church. And then in chapter

13, we saw these two beasts, the one beast that came out of the sea, and then the

beasts that came out of the earth, who were sort of earthly manifestations, images, manifestations of

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