This week explores what God's wrath looks like according to Revelation chapters 14-15. The podcast can be found at http://jrforasteros.com/podcasts/revelation-to-john/
The Gospel
Fear God and give him glory, for the
hour of his judgment has come; and
worship him who made heaven and
earth, the sea and the springs of water.
-- Revelation 14:7 (NRS)
The Wine of Fornication
Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She
has made all nations drink of the wine
of the wrath of her fornication.”
-- Revelation 14:8 (NRS)
For Next Week
Read chapter 17-19:8.
• Who are the two women? Compare and contrast
them.
• Attend the Whore’s funeral. Who’s mourning
there? Who might be their modern day
equivalents?
Editor's Notes
The core issue: How do we remain faithful in a faithless culture?
Rival Eschatologies:John is taken behind the veil to see:Who’s really on the throne? Rome? NOPE!God is bringing the world to an end, and the Church is called to bear witness to it!
The Dragon is angry because he’s been cast down. He’s been defeated and time is short. The only way he can hurt God is to hurt God’s children. And the only way to hurt us is to get us to compromise, to abandon Jesus. How will he do that?The Dragon empowers Empire (in the form of a monstrous beast) who uses force, coercion and intimidation to convince the world to follow it. Some within the Church advocate compromise, and so we see the two armies: God, the Lamb and the Church against the Dragon, the Beast and the Land Beast.