Revelation for the Rest of Us

A Prophetic Call to Follow Jesus as a Dissident Disciple

By: Scot McKnight, Cody Matchett

Narrated by: Wayne Campbell

See how the Book of Revelation can be read as a book of discipleship, challenging Christ-followers everywhere to live as hopeful agents of resistance and transformation.

The last book of the Bible frustrates and frightens many people with its imagery and apocalyptic tone. Popular interpretations rely on fear and politicization and often lead to pride and alienation of others. Is this really how we were intended to read John’s Revelation?

In Revelation for the Rest of Us, Scot McKnight with Cody Matchett explore the key message of Revelation and how it:

• Calls us to be faithful and hopeful witnesses to Jesus.
• Stimulates our imagination to see the world through the eyes of God and excite our faith.
• Challenges us to stand against the militarism, economic exploitation, oppression, and injustice of worldly authorities.

McKnight addresses the popular misconceptions about the book, explaining what John means in his use of the images of dragons, lambs, and beasts; and how the symbolism of Revelation spoke in the days of Rome and still speaks powerfully to the present day—though not in the way most people think.

You’ll learn to see the Book of Revelation in a fresh and hopeful new way. Drawing from the latest scholarship, the authors present an understanding of Revelation for anyone interested in deepening their personal study of the Bible and strengthening their faith as dissident disciples who can discern the presence of "Babylon" in our world and learn to speak up, speak out, and walk in the way of the Lamb.

Graphics, appendices, recommended resources, and notes are included in the audiobook companion PDF download.

Dissident Disciples in Babylon

Great book & great reading. Helpful perspective on understanding the applicability of the book of Revelation for all Christians during all times throughout human history.

A really good hermeneutic

I loved all of it, but I want more writing like this. It gave me hope that I can really look into the book of Revelation again after I had pretty much given up on it.

Challenging

McKnight, and Matchett present the Revelation as a timeless creative work, meant to orient the heart and mind of the church toward Christ as Lord rather than becoming enslaved to the “Babylons” of every age. Another reviewer mentions resenting the last portion of the book, in which evangelical nationalism is depicted as the American church losing sight of the lamb and falling under the thrall of one of many modern Babylons. This is just one way in which this book is challenging—in the same way Revelation itself was meant to be challenging to the church.

Welcome to Babylon

Read it with an open mind and hear what they have to say. Keep our eyes on the Lamb and not the anti christ. Die to self and live for Him. Not this world but the next. We are living in Babylon but this reminds us that the end is not ours to decide but to keep our focus on Him.

The reader was great!

Loved all the explanations, some were new to me others I had heard but the whole thing was very good.