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. Okay, we'll go ahead and get started.

We'll get started just a moment.

We will be picking up at the beginning of chapter 20 in Revelation of St. John.

I'm not going to spend a ton of time recapping because we're actually, believe it or not,

Chapter 20 is the beginning of the last cycle.

We've talked about how the apocalypse is sort of arranged in these cycles.

It was probably, I know it was a little bit ago for us in real time,

even though only about a week for the people later listening to this recording.

But it was probably kind of obvious at the end of chapter 19

that we were getting to the end of a cycle, right?

Because we saw the return of Christ and the defeat of the beasts and

them getting fed to the birds and the animals and all that, right? So that clearly was sort of a

a wrap-up point. But we are actually about to, in chapter 20, start a new cycle.

And this is important because not understanding this sort of cyclical pattern and understanding

that chapter 20 is another cycle has caused no end of odd theological speculation,

but also sold a lot of books for Tim La Hay and Jenkins.

What was his first name?

Jerry?

Was it Jerry Jenkins?

Something like that.

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