They would employ this symbology to convey massive theological truths in ways that invested their words with the cosmic meaning the prophet believed them to possess. Wait, wait, wait before we "jump" too far and start concluding what exactly we are reading here, we should take a moment to appreciate the level of symbology and metaphor that Jewish apocalyptic writers used. God announces that He's come to live with humanity forever and that He's making all things new. The Revelation concludes with a final vision of the marriage of heaven and earth where an angel shows John a stunning bride that symbolizes the new creation that has come forever to join God and his covenant people. All in all, it is an epic book telling an even more epic story, which begs the question, how does it end? That, my friends, is the book of Revelation, a story about Babylon, Jesus, and judgment, which is too much to cover in one blog, so we are going to focus on the very end-of-the-end of the most epic story ever told. For those of us reading this today, we have the advantage of knowing the entire story was leading to Jesus. It tells the epic story of God and his creation, of blessing, temptation, sin, exile, and salvation. But what is more impressive is the story the Bible is telling. In reality, we know many languages were used to pass down oral stories from the earliest times in the biblical narrative until they were later codified in the book and language we find them in today. The Bible is a stunning piece of literature, even If you don’t believe anything written in it! It was penned by at least 40 traditional authors (inestimably more contributed in some capacity) and written in three languages: Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek.
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