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The Book of Revelation, Part 3: Chapter 1
Talk by Metropolitan Jonah (Paffhausen)
June 4, 2024

Topics include:
(1) Authorship by St John the Apostle and his context in writing; 
(2) On expiation vs. propitiation and "penal substitutionary atonement"; 
(3) An extensive discussion of the priesthood, both Christ's High Priesthood, bearing our sins, announcing forgiveness, and reconciling us to God, and the role of an Orthodox priest as a type of Christ, a living icon of Christ, recapitulating the entire congregation in himself before God; 
(4) On the Second Coming of Christ; 
(5) On the connection of Revelation 1:12ff with visions in the Book of Daniel chapters 7 and 10; 
(6) On the Priesthood vs. "The priesthood of all believers", and on union with Christ as the whole point of being a Christian.