The Book of Revelation and the End of the World: Are the Signs Now Being Fulfilled?

Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman

Chris Huntley

Christianity, History, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Does the Book of Revelation predict the end of the world? The book has been used repeatedly over the years and centuries to predict (and in some cases, re-predict) the end of the world. Yet here we still are. Maybe the problem is not that doomsday-readers of Revelation get this or that detail wrong (and so miscaluculate the date) but that book was never meant to be a blueprint for what would happen in our future. In this episode we look at how historians understand the book as a "revelation" meant for its own time, not as guidepost for what lies ahead of us now, 2000 years later.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman. The only show, where a six-time New York Times bestselling author and world-renowned Bible scholar,
0:12.8	uncovers the many fascinating, little-known facts about the New Testament, the historical Jesus, and the rise of Christianity.
0:20.2	I'm your host, Megan Lewis. Let's begin.
0:23.6	Today, we are starting a mini-series looking at the Book of Revelation,
0:28.6	and we're going to kick things off by asking if the Book of Revelation predicts the imminent end of the world.
0:33.6	The book has been used over and over to predict and repredict the end of the
0:38.2	world, and yet the world does still stand. So what did the author of Revelation intend his
0:44.6	work to do, and how is it misread by modern people to predict the end times? But before we
0:50.2	get into all of that, happy Valentine's Day, Bart. How are you doing? I'm doing well.
0:55.7	Happy, happy Valentine's Day to you too. Sarah and I decided long ago never to go out on Valentine's
1:01.5	Day. Very nice. Very much. You know, around here, you go out and all these Duke and UNC students
1:07.7	are in the night of restaurants causing problems, especially the Duke students
1:10.8	who can afford them. And so like, you know, it's just like, oh, my God. So, yeah, it's better just to
1:15.6	cook a nice meal at home and have an open a nice bottle of wine. And that's what we do. How about you?
1:21.6	Do you go out? No, not really. We're generally homebodies anyway. So I don't think we have anything specific planned.
1:29.0	Just probably a nice quiet evening, nice meal, maybe watch a movie.
1:33.6	Yeah, and the things you've got kids.
1:35.0	Like, I don't have kids around anymore.
1:36.3	My kids are growing and gone, and so, like, I can do whatever I want, but it's harder when you...
1:40.3	One day.
1:42.6	So, starting with the Book of Revelation and the End of the World, why is this worth talking about
1:48.2	and why are we talking about it right now?
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