If you want to pastor faithfully in the midst of cultural and political turmoil, then consider teaching through the book of Revelation.<\/p>\n
Modern evangelicals tend to have an allergic response any time someone brings up Revelation\u2019s significance for \u201cthe times we live in.\u201d Don\u2019t worry. I\u2019m not about to suggest that the COVID-19 pandemic is a fulfillment of biblical prophecy, that a particular politician is the harlot of Babylon, or that the locusts of Revelation 9 are really Apache helicopters. I didn\u2019t grow up reading Left Behind<\/em>, but I\u2019ve seen my share of \u201cbiblical\u201d apocalypse<\/a> movies<\/a>. I\u2019m not interested in following those sensationalized readings of Revelation.<\/p>\n If you\u2019ve got a newspaper in one hand and Revelation in the other, you\u2019re probably seeing things in Scripture that simply aren\u2019t there. Revelation isn\u2019t a play-by-play of 21st century American politics. In short, if you want Revelation to inform your understanding of our culture\u2019s crises, don\u2019t get Left Behind<\/em>.<\/p>\n At the same time, modern evangelicals can learn something from previous generations\u2019 preoccupation with apocalyptic literature. After all, God gave us Revelation to challenge our temporally-obsessed, earthly perspective of the world. It lifts our eyes beyond political powers, pandemics, elections, and economic crises to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you want to pastor faithfully in the midst of cultural and political turmoil, then consider teaching through the book of Revelation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":388,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[793],"tags":[344,322],"class_list":["post-24760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9marks","tag-biblical-theology","tag-preaching-theology","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24760"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24762,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24760\/revisions\/24762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}