Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks.

Where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Tanya Wilmeth.

Hi friends, here we are still in Revelation, but hey, you're doing good if you're here, great job.

So we've talked about how Revelation is endurance literature, but it is also resistance literature.

Let me explain a little bit.

Now imagine standing on the top of a hill made entirely of broken pottery shards.

If you visit Rome today, it's actually one of the things you can do there.

It's kind of a testament to the Grandeur of the ancient Roman Empire.

It's called Broken Pot Mountain, and that was the name given to Monte Testakio

after it became the largest waste heat discovered in the ancient world.

It's an artificial mound, and it's not only a testament of Grand Door, but it's also a telling

symbol of the delusion of humanity. Ancient Rome imported enormous quantities of

olive oil. Of course they used it for cooking and lamps and perfumes and

it came it was transported largely from Spain in these huge jars called

in fori and the jars were made of clay. So the oil seeped into the clay and

they would eventually turn the jars ransid. So when this happened the Romans would just smash them up and

throw them into the harbor. Now eventually this constant daily practice turned into a heap.

Over a hundred years count was and four I were disposed of and grew into something

that's over 35 meters high and today covers over 20,000 square meters. That's a lot of pots. Now they did it at the time because they weren't thinking but also because it made them money and it made them relevant

The size of Broken Pot Mountain tells us about the daily lives of the

ancient Romans. Yet we have to realize that we can see parallels in our world today.

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