A live show hosted by #GregStafford weekdays and Saturdays starting between 6:30 and 7:30 AM PST. We meet for about 20-45 minutes to discuss biblical and other ancient texts which are grouped together for the discussion, as we progressively work out way through these ancient texts.

Manuscript evidence for the Revelation includes:
P98 (200 – 250 CE)
P18 (230 – 280 CE)
P24 (290 – 325 CE)
P47 (250 – 300 CE)
P115 (230 – 280 CE)
P85 (4th century)
P.Oxy 4500 (4th century)
Codex Sinaiticus (4th century)
Codex Alexandrinus (5th century)
Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus (5th century)
0169 (4th century)
0163 (5th century)
P43 (6th/7th century)
Codex Porphyrianus (9th century)
0646 (10th century)

You can read Greg Stafford’s article, “The Textual Reliability of John’s Revelation” (March 11, 2013), here: http://elihubooks.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-textual-reliability-of-johns.html.

This show will be about #Revelation 20:1-6, 12-13 according to #TheGreatMessage translation:

20:1 I saw an angel stepping down out of heaven holding the key to the unending world below [or, "the endless, empty pit” or “cell"] and a giant chain over his right hand.

20:2 The angel arrested the Dragon, the ancient serpent, who is also the "Devil" and "Satan." The angel tied him up for a thousand years.

20:3 Then the angel threw the Dragon into the unending world below and the angel locked it and he sealed the unending world below over the Dragon, so he might not continue to deceive the nations until the thousand years should be finished. After these things it is necessary to release the Dragon for a short time.

20:4 I saw thrones and there were beings who sat down on them, namely, the souls [or, "lives"] of those who were cut down because of the testimony about Jesus and because of the Message about God. These are those who did not bow low [or, "worship"] before the wild animal nor before its image and who did not receive its imprint upon their forehead or upon their hand. These people came back to life and they ruled with the Christ for a thousand years.

20:5 The rest of the dead did not come back to life until the thousand years should be finished. This resurrection of those who were cut down because of the testimony about Jesus, because of the Message about God, and because they did not receive the wild animal's imprint is the first resurrection.

20:6 Blessed and sacred is the one having a part in the first resurrection. Over these people the second death holds no authority. Instead, they will be priests of God and of the Christ and they will rule with the Christ for a thousand years.

20:12 I saw the dead, those considered important and those considered less important, having stood up before the throne. Then books were opened, and another book was opened which is the one about life. The dead were judged according to their works based on the records in the books.

20:13 Then the sea brought forth dead people, the ones who were in it, and death and the world of the dead [or, "Hades"] brought forth dead people, those who were in them. Each person was judged according to their works.

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