Many Christians set Revelation aside as too confusing. In this episode of The Revelation Sessions, Vincent DiPaola makes the case that the book was written to be understood, and shows how to read it the way its first-century hearers did.

Vincent reads from Max Doner's Revelation: A Manual of Spiritual Warfare, Expository Sermons on the Book of Revelation (Volume One, pages 25–30), the main guide for this study, and then shares what four years of studying it in his home Bible study has meant to him.

In this episode:
- Why Revelation must be read from a first-century and an Old Testament perspective, not through headlines or end-times speculation
- How Genesis and Revelation bookend the Bible: paradise lost and paradise restored, Satan's work begun and destroyed
- What "revelation" and "apocalypse" mean: an unveiling of what was hidden
- Why Revelation describes the spiritual warfare of every generation rather than predicting specific modern events
- Why the book works as a field manual for believers today

Each session runs about 15 to 20 minutes and covers a verse or two, with at least one point to consider.

Get the book (discounted): Trinity Book Service, https://www.trinitybookservice.com/revelation-a-manual-of-spiritual-warfare/ (ISBN 9798985847390), or Canon and Creed, https://ccrbooks.org/products/revelation-a-manual-of-spiritual-warfare-expository-sermons-on-the-book-of-revelation-2-vols-doner

Got a question? Go to TheRevelationSessions.com and click "Ask a Question." Vincent will answer it on the show.

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