Welcome to this special midweek episode of the Bible Project podcast.

There's a lot going on in the world and while the Bible Projects mission isn't to speak

into current events, we found that we're in this really unique place talking about

apocalyptic literature, literature that's supposed to open our eyes to what's really going

on behind the veil to see the world as God sees it.

And we began this series talking about the pandemic and how that was a type of apocalypse

that has opened our eyes to realities in the world.

So we thought it would be a mist to not end this series with another apocalypse that's

happening right in front of us.

And we'll look through the book of Revelation.

There's an important motif happening with the book of Revelation, John's depiction

of Babylon and the fate of slaves and the fate of innocent blood in the book that I thought

would kind of give us a perspective on how to think about this within apocalyptic set

of lenses.

We'll look at the theme of bearing witness to Jesus and the theme of bearing witness to the

oppressed and the blood that's been spilled by people all over the earth.

How God cares about that deeply, how the Revelation is a tale of two cities.

In this climactic way, he makes Babylon responsible not just for the blood of persecuted followers

of Jesus, but the last line is hand of all who have been murdered on the earth.

So he's thinking all the way back to Abel.

When you see the blood of the innocent, not just because they are followers of Jesus,

anybody, any innocent blood that you see that's connected to these systems of oppression

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