Posts by Josh Moody

John 21:15-25, Revelation 22, Job 42, Malachi 1-4 Revelation 22: In this final chapter of John’s revelation, he continues to describe the new heaven and the new earth, and then concludes with a final invitation and warning. The new heaven and new earth is further described in stunning detail. The clear as crystal water of life. The tree…

John 21:1-14, Revelation 21, Job 41:12-34, Zechariah 10-14 Revelation 21: Now in Revelation 21 and 22 we come to the great culmination of John’s vision. This chapter 21 presents the new heaven and the new earth, and the great marriage of God with his people, and the fulfillment of all the promises of God in the great new…

John 20:24-31, Revelation 20, Job 41:1-11, Zechariah 6-9 Revelation 20: We come now to the part of Revelation where the final battle is depicted again and the thousand-year reign of Christ and his victory before that. The martyrs who are killed by Babylon and the beast, the forces that oppose Christ, the devil and the satanic powers that…

John 19:38-42, Revelation 16, Job 38:1-21, Zephaniah 1-2 Revelation 16: In Revelation chapter 16, John now finishes revealing the meaning of the Lamb’s unsealed scroll. Here we come to the seven bowls of God’s wrath on those in rebellion against him. They echo the plagues described in Exodus; those plagues are now being poured out on the whole…

John 19:28-37, Revelation 15, Job 37, Habakkuk 1-3 Revelation 15: We enter now into the last of John’s cycles of seven. This time the seven angels will unleash seven last plagues, symbolized (in chapter 16) as coming from seven bowls. These plagues replicate and resonate with the plagues that came on Egypt. And they are God’s judgment now…

John 19:17-27, Revelation 14, Job 36:16-33, Nahum 1-3 Revelation 14: In this section from Revelation 12 to 14, John is using signs and symbols to reveal the cosmic battle (Revelation 12) and the earthly battle in language drawn from Daniel chapters 7 to 12 (Revelation 13). Now as he comes to chapter 14, John shows the Lamb of…

John 19:1-16, Revelation 13, Job 36:1-15, Micah 6-7 Revelation 13: This chapter continues the section running from chapters 12 to 14 that is filled with signs or symbols that further explain the mystery of the open scroll. In Chapter 12, John had had revealed to him the cosmic battle taking place behind the opposition to Christ and his…

John 18:28-40, Revelation 12, Job 35, Micah 4-5 Revelation 12: At this point, it is worth reviewing what we have learnt so from from the book of Revelation. Remember it is the book of Revelation (not revelations), referring to a type of literature that was present in some of the Old Testament and popular at the time of…

John 18:19-27, Revelation 11, Job 34:21-37, Micah 1-3 Revelation 11: Images are drawn here from Ezekiel and the book of Daniel, as John transforms language about the temple to apply to the church, its witness, the preservation amidst persecution, and the ultimate triumph of God and his kingdom as announced by the seventh trumpet: “The kingdom of the…

John 18:1-18, Revelation 10, Job 34:1-20, Jonah 1-4 Revelation 10: There is now another interlude, this time between the sixth and seventh trumpets. The purpose of this interlude is to communicate first that there will now be no more delay, second to reaffirm God’s commission of John as a prophet, and third to communicate the purpose of the…