{"id":831,"date":"2012-04-23T09:07:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-22T23:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/jm\/?p=831"},"modified":"2012-04-23T09:16:12","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T23:16:12","slug":"preaching-series-on-revelation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/jm\/?p=831","title":{"rendered":"Preaching Series on Revelation at Sheffield Bible Chapel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently preaching two Sundays at my home church in Sheffield on an introduction to the book of Revelation. I began yesterday with an interactive quiz which I adapted from a Belief.net website, talked about some basic principles of interpreting apocalyptic literature and finished with a reflection on Chapters 4 and 5 &#8211; the song of creator and the new song of the worthy one. You might enjoy trying the quiz for yourself.<\/p>\n<p> I found running the entire text of Revelation through wordle.com a fascinating exercise. The&#160; result is on slide 20. You can see clearly the book is about God, the earth, is written in metaphors (see the size of the word &#8216;like&#8217;), messages are delivered by angels and the book uses numbers i.e &#8216;seven&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/embed?id=1tSVy6ht7_8Ykjbdxc3T2LZMDkhjwCmRWgccgfIUodj8&amp;start=false&amp;loop=false&amp;delayms=3000\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently preaching two Sundays at my home church in Sheffield on an introduction to the book of Revelation. I began yesterday with an interactive quiz which I adapted from a Belief.net website, talked about some basic principles of interpreting apocalyptic literature and finished with a reflection on Chapters 4 and 5 &#8211; the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/jm\/?p=831\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Preaching Series on Revelation at Sheffield Bible Chapel&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-teaching","tag-revelation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/jm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/jm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/jm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/jm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/jm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/jm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":840,"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/jm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions\/840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/jm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/jm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/jm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}