The Devil's Party
by Anthony Oliveira
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The Devil's Party: The Revelation of John - 22 - Amen
The Devil's Party: The Revelation of John - 22 - Amen
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THE APOCALYPSE IS HERE!! Explore the key works of Christian literature through a queer scholarly and pop culture lens!
Join award-winning writer, literature PhD, and dumpster raccoon Anthony Oliveira as they delve into these mega-influential texts and their religious and cultural afterlives without all the clutter and dogma that so often obscures their meaning - tackling Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, the Gospels of Mark and John, and now THE REVELATION OF JOHN!
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("Pair of Dice Tossed" music theme by Matthew Willcott; Podcast art by Andy Bennett)
Episodes
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- The Devil's Party: The Revelation of John - 22 - Amen · 35 minThe end of the end! The architecture and community of the celestial city is delineated, and our author sends us out with his benediction - and his curse! What is the authorial…
- Reading: The Revelation of John - 22 - Amen · 4 minAnd he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. 2 In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of…
- The Devil's Party: The Revelation of John - 21 - The New City · 35 minThe new heaven and new earth are come - and from out of the sky comes...the weirdest thing you've ever seen. It's the HAPPY ENDING of Revelations, and it seems that ending is…
- Reading: The Revelation of John - 21 - The New City · 5 minAnd I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. 2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem…
- The Devil's Party: The Revelation of John - 20 - Gog and Magog · 32 minIt's the end of the world! Sort of. Actually we have to hang around for 1000 years under the...personal kingship of Jesus? And his martyrs? A baffling theological conundrum rears…
- Reading: The Revelation of John - 20 - Gog and Magog · 3 minAnd I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. 2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the…
- The Devil's Party: The Revelation of John - 19 - The Lake of Fire · 23 minThe Hallelujah Chorus! The Wedding of the Lamb! The White Rider! A passage full of weird, wild imagery that explodes like a series of fireworks towards the end of Revelations…
- Reading: The Revelation of John - 19 - The Lake of Fire · 4 minAnd after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God: 2 for true and…
- The Devil's Party: The Revelation of John - 18 - Lament for the Whore · 23 minThe Book of Revelations pauses for a devastating, eerie 11 o'clock number, as our revelator sings a dirge for the Whore of Babylon. But as this book moves to its close, what is…
- Reading: The Revelation of John - 18 - Lament for the Whore · 5 minAnd after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. 2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice…
- The Devil's Party: The Revelation of John - 17 - The Whore of Babylon · 29 minJust when you thought it was safe to go back into the Many Waters...ENTER THE WHORE OF BABYLON! A late addition to the text, this remarkable and memorable character has left a…
- Reading: The Revelation of John - 17 - The Whore of Babylon · 3 minAnd there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that…
- The Devil's Party: The Revelation of John - 16 - Pouring Forth the Vials · 25 minGod sent his plagues, but I'm BACK baby! The divine temper tantrum reaches its climax and everything ends. It's pretty spooky! A rehearsal of the ten plagues of Egypt takes on…
- The Revelation of John - 16 - Pouring Forth the Vials · 3 minAnd I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth. 2 And the first went, and poured…
- The Devil's Party: The Revelation of John - 15 - The Seven Plagues · 18 minReading Revelations 15, providentially landing during Passover, which John magisterially sweeps into his own cosmic drama. This week's reading is short, but full to bursting with…
- The Revelation of John: 15 - The Seven Plagues · 2 minAnd I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God. 2 And I saw as it were a sea of…
- The Devil's Party: The Revelation of John - 14 - The Winepress of the Wrath of God · 38 minOne of Revelation's most visceral and weird images drops, along with a stage suddenly swollen with the return of several figures from earlier in the text. Can we coordinate any…
- The Revelation of John: 14 - The Winepress of the Wrath of God · 4 minAnd I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads. 2 And I heard a voice…
- The Devil's Party: The Revelation of John - 13 - 666 · 45 minThis week, the dragon is flung to Earth, and summons up his TWO BEASTS to wreak his vengeance on the children of the lamb!! Who are these nefarious creatures, and what can we…
- Reading: The Revelation of John - 13 - 666 · 3 minAnd I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of…
