Reading Revelation Without Losing Your Mind
What the Last Book of the Bible Is (and Isn’t) Saying About the Future, Violence, and Living Well Now
Welcome to today’s reflection.
Revelation has a reputation. For some, it’s the Bible’s strangest book. It is violent, confusing, and endlessly mined for predictions about the end of the world. For others, it’s a source of fear, fascination, or flat-out avoidance.
But what if Revelation was never meant to be a puzzle to solve or a calendar to decode?
If you start writing and speaking regularly about the Bible, you’ll quickly notice something: people love to ask about the Book of Revelation.
They have questions, big ones. We all do.
So here’s a short reflection on Revelation. Not a scholarly deep-dive, but a gentle unpacking of what might actually be going on.
