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Prophetic Geography
If you attend a more charismatic-esque church in Jackson and have a guest speaker attend, there’s a possibility that they might try to identify some spiritual landscaping of Jackson based on the fact that we had the largest walled prison in the world. John does something a little similar to some of the cities he…
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The Literary Form of Revelation
Revelation is a very, very, very, very, very dense piece of literature—and that’s an understatement. It is a theological and literary masterpiece and is written primarily in three genres. That being said, if you’re not reading it in its literary style or if you miss a transition from one genre to another, you will struggle…
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Condensed Spiritual Geography
SHEOL/HADES: In the Old Testament, it was understood that when anyone died they went to Sheol. It was not a pleasant place since it was also the home of evil spirits, but it wasn’t Hell. Many think the idea of Sheol went away in the New Testament, but it didn’t. Rather, as the Hebrews found…
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Lord of the Rings
Tylar and I kick off our new 1208-Bit Podcast with a conversation on “The Lord of the Rings.” We talk a bit about Tolkien’s life and his relationship with Lewis and others; faith elements in the Lord of the Rings; the faith journey of many of its readers; its impact on current culture; and much,…
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The Non-Violence of Revelation
If you’re like me then you didn’t open up Revelation much growing up because you didn’t know what to make of all the violence. Jesus showed us His loving character by dying on behalf of others and exercising extreme forgiveness, but at first glance He appears quite the opposite in Revelation. What do we do…
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Armageddon & Har Mo’ed
If I wanted to teach you the Hebrew word for God, I wouldn’t spell it as, “אֱלֹהִים”—rather, I would spell it as, “Elohim.” This is how transliteration works: I take the closest English letters I can find to help you pronounce the Hebrew word, recognizing that Hebrew letters are likely foreign to you. John uses…
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God’s Extended Patience
The short answer? I don’t think so. I could never say for sure since Jesus said that only God knows when the end is coming, but Jesus did say in Matthew 24 that things would be way worse than corona—like, “the-entire-cosmos-is-falling-apart” worse. Yet it seems that anytime Americans get a little taste of the suffering…
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The Qualities of Jesus Justice
There is a huge difference in what it looks like for us to take justice into our own hands and to do justice as Jesus would have us do it. In Romans 12:14-21, Paul tells us what it means to live and act like Jesus in the midst of evil. Watch this message above or…
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Progressive Creationism
Me and Erin continued our series on the different theories of creation. Check out the latest episode on the Erinvironment section of the 1208PODCAST. You can listen on the 1208GREENWOOD webpage or by subscribing to the 1208PODCAST on iTunes, Spotify, or Google Play.
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Revelation’s Babylon
When we read Revelation we naturally think that John was talking about the oppressive Babylonian Empire when he references Babylon—but John’s audience knew he was talking about the oppressive Rome. They knew this because, for one, the Babylonian Empire had crumbled some 500 years earlier and, for two, John described the Lady Babylon with characteristics…
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