Today on Summit Life with J.D. Greer.

People read the book of Revelation with all the dragons and the beast,

and they imagine it as this delusional fantasy world.

It is actually the most accurate depiction of the world that you'll ever read.

It is seeing the world with spiritual eyes.

It is the world as God sees it.

This is the unveiling.

This is pulling back the curtain so you see things

as they really are. Welcome back to Summit Life, the Bible teaching ministry of pastor, author,

and apologist J.D. Greer. I'm your host,

Molly Vitovich. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that if there's one book of the Bible

that's generated more curiosity and debate than any other, it's the book of Revelation.

Some find it fascinating while others find it terrifying. And most of us, to some degree or another,

find it pretty confusing. So today, Pastor Jady is going to help us wrap our minds around the

main point of this prophetic book. He titled this message, The Unveiling. So grab your Bible,

turn to the back, and let's join Pastor J.D. Revelation. I know some of you are excited about this.

Probably more excited than he should be.

The Christian tradition I grew up in talked a lot about the end times.

It was one of our favorite themes.

We had our annual prophecy conferences, our in-time movies, our rapture board games. And so one of the results was that

I grew up, obsessed with, and frankly, a little terrified of, the rapture. If for any reason,

that's when Jesus comes back and all these people go meet him in the air, if for any reason,

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