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If you'd like to support the podcast, please visit givemysterious.fm.fm. You're listening to episode 408 of Jimmy Eakin's mysterious world,

where we look at mysteries from the twin perspectives of faith and reason.

In this episode, we're talking about the Book of Revelation.

I'm Don Betanelli, and joining me today, as always, is

Jimmy Ikin. Hey, Jimmy. Howdy, Dom?

And folks, for sure to stay around for the end of the episode, as we'll have your feedback on our recent

episode on how many souls do twins have and more weird questions. But first, the most

controversial book in the entire Bible is undoubtedly

the book of Revelation. Many people confess that they simply don't know what it means, and some

commentators, like Protestant reformer John Calvin, refused to write a commentary on it. But other

people are convinced that they know exactly what it means. They spin detailed scenarios about it

and make confident proclamations. But others vigorously disagree. So what theories have been

developed about the book of Revelation? What clues do we have about them? And can we figure out

what the book means? That's what we'll be talking about on this episode of Jimmy

Aiken's mysterious world. And so, Jimmy, we've discussed Revelation before on the show, haven't we?

Well, we've discussed aspects of it. For example, in episode 138, we talked about the mark

of the beast, the beast being a figure who is mentioned starting in Revelation Chapter 13. Also, in episode 357, we discussed the rapture, which many people link to the book.

You can check out that episode if you'd like to know what I think about the rapture.

In that episode, I also promised that we'd come back and do at least one episode looking at the Book of Revelation

itself, so that's what we'll be doing today. The Book of Revelation contains a lot of different

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