Pastor Marco Ambriz

Oct 12, 2025

The Book Revelation

Apocalyptic Literature

Apocalyptic literature was a popular form of Hebrew writing. It was a way to write subversively about how terrible empires were in those times. It was wrtten in indirect language, with images.

It’s not intended to be read as a historical account or a foretelling of the future. 

God Speaks through Deportees

1:9 I, John, your brother who share with you in Jesus the persecution and the kingdom and the patient endurance, was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. 10 I was in the spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet 11 saying, “Write in a book what you see and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus, to Smyrna, to Pergamum, to Thyatira, to Sardis, to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.”

God speaks through the mouths of the deported. We have the testimony of Jesus through our witness John, who was unjustly treated. And John gets his apocalyptic, prophetic letter out to subvert the kingdoms of the world.

Where are you called by God to live faithfully in the shadow of the empires of your daily life?