{"id":691,"date":"2020-11-18T01:56:12","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T01:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/?p=691"},"modified":"2020-11-18T01:56:12","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T01:56:12","slug":"revelation-and-canon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/2020\/11\/18\/revelation-and-canon\/","title":{"rendered":"Revelation and Canon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our discussion on Revelation and how it is apocryphal literature reminded me of the many people I know that think that there might be a chance that we are nearing THE END OF TIME.\u00a0 Yes, I know it sounds crazy, however the time is going to come sooner or later, all in God&#8217;s perfect timing.\u00a0 When I was younger, my mom would always talk to me about the Book of Revelation and how it talked about the end of time, and I just was never really interested in it.\u00a0 Recently, death has been something that I have just had to accept as part of life, and I think that flipped a switch, because now, I think about Judgement day a lot.\u00a0 There is a Christian song that I absolutely love and that will move you to tears.\u00a0 There was also a movie created about the making of the song.\u00a0 It is called &#8220;I can only imagine&#8221; sung by Mercy Me.\u00a0 In the movie, it explains how the son had to make amends with his father, because his father gave him a hard childhood.\u00a0 When the father gets sick and the son finds out, he has a change of heart, and therefore forgives his father.\u00a0 One of the most moving parts for me was when the father and son both come to terms and realize that the son was in the wrong for holding a grudge on all the mistakes the father had made, and how the father was wrong in how he treated their family.\u00a0 Anyways, the song talks about Judgement day and how we will react when we stand before God and have to say all that we did during our life.\u00a0 Every time that I listen to this song, it causes me to reflect, and through reading Revelation, I now know that this song is directly referring to Revelation 20:11-15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our discussion on Revelation and how it is apocryphal literature reminded me of the many people I know that think that there might be a chance that we are nearing THE END OF TIME.\u00a0 Yes, I know it sounds crazy, however the time is going to come sooner or later, all in God&#8217;s perfect timing.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9196870,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9196870"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":692,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions\/692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}