Episode 104
#104. Uncovering Revelation: It's About Erasing the Division Between Heaven and Earth
Rev Dr Duane Alexander Miller, an Anglican author, pastor, and professor, discusses interpreting the book of Revelation.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:
- Purpose of the book Revelation
- Discussing Revelation with Muslim background people
- Focus on "Who is Jesus?"
ABOUT THE GUEST:
Rev Dr Duane Alexander Miller was born in Montana and grew up in Colorado and Puebla (in Mexico). He completed a BA in philosophy at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) and then an MA in theology at St Mary's University (also in San Antonio). Later, life took him to Jordan where he and his wife studied Arabic, to Israel where he helped found a seminary, and to Scotland for doctoral work, among other places.
He is highly interested in the interactions of Islam, Christianity and secularism in modern contexts. His main areas of research for his PhD in divinity were religious conversion from Islam to Christianity, contextual theology, and the shari'a's treatment of apostates. He has also published research on global Anglicanism and the history of Anglican mission in the Ottoman Empire.
He has had the pleasure of teaching in many places over the years: from Costa Rica to Turkey, and Kenya to Tunisia. Presently, he lives in Madrid where he is on the pastoral staff at the Anglican Cathedral of the Redeemer and associate professor at the Protestant Faculty of Theology at Madrid (UEBE).
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TIMESTAMPED SHOWNOTES:
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01:43 - How did John's audience relate to the book of Revelation?
01:53 - Apocalyptic literature - multiple fulfillment: immediate and later
02:32 - Bible : implication in every generation and church age
03:24 - Revelation is not only for that final generation
03:41 - Multiple fulfillment examples: ...unto us a child is given, onto us, a child is born
04:04 - ...from Egypt, I have called my son
04:36 - ...woman in Revelation 12
04:58 - Responsibility of each person to ask: why am I given this text in this day and age?
05:28 - When we miss the big picture, we miss what God has given us in Revelation
05:39 - Knowing the end of the book should take away our anxiety
05:50 - Struggle: how to help people know Revelation but also act on it to reach the lost
06:37 - How do Muslim background believers (MBBs) approach Revelation?
06:44 - ...one Muslim Background believers' experience
07:12 - Even the devil is God's devil
07:23 - fascinated by Revelation
07:27 - Muslims have a very detailed eschatology
07:53 - which includes the return of Jesus
08:09 - Have not personally found that MBBs are that concerned with the end times and the return of Christ
08:33 - The main issue of MBBs is identity and relating to family and others
08:42 - Every tribe and language and people and nation...
10:59 - Revelation shows us the fulfillment of the Abrahamic Covenant
11:13 - The text from Revelation to discuss with a MBB
11:39 - Who is this guy that John is describing?
12:00 - Visions of Jesus
13:11 - Revelation 19-21 - City of God coming down - the division between heaven and earth is erased
14:23 - And no division in Eden, either
14:38 - Our vision is corrupted by sin
15:04 - Revelation will be clear when Jesus returns
15:43 - Grand Finale - restoration
16:28 - Acts 3 : 21 apokatastasis
18:42 - Focus on gospel kingdom and evangelism
18:58 - Israel in the end times
19:59 - Israel is the people of God
20:16 - Main symbols of Israel in the Old Testament
21:01 - Let everyone who thirsts come
21:12 - Don't miss the boat
22:47 - Contacting Rev Dr Duane Alexander Miller
22:53 - blog : duanemiller.wordpress.com
23:04 - Amazon : Duane Alexander Miller
23:16 - Youtube : @drduanemiller
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