In this episode Pastor A.J. is joined by a great panel of guests to share their faith stories and journey with the church through a perilous time. This episode was recorded in front of a live audience at the Delaware-Maryland Synod Assembly in Westminster, Maryland. Tune in to hear their stories!

In our last installment of our Revelation study, we look to the end of the story where we find the grand finale of God’s love being poured out for all and the doors of Heaven being thrown open wide for all to come. We talk about the supposed 144,000 that enter Heaven, aka this great multitude, and the books that will be opened to share God’s grand love. Thank you to all who participated in this study!

Discussion Questions:

1. What is your working theology of the gates of heaven? What was new to you in this reading of Revelation?

2. How have you understood the Book of Life before? How has this discussion changed your views?

3. What do you think that God wants from us in our covenant with God?

4. Bishop Kevin says “Because loves you so much, you need not do….”, what is your working theology of Law and Gospel?

5. Pastor A.J. says, “We are the workers in the warehouse of God’s love. Our job isn’t to know who gets it or what it looks like. Our job is just to love.” How do we understand our call as followers of Christ in the gray area of life?

6. Overall, how has your theology changed because of this study?

Pastor A.J. and Pastor Tuhina talk about the thousand year reign and Satan being put in a cage… then let out. This episode may ask more questions than give answers. What does this mean for our theology to have God have these powers and allow Satan to have a say? Dive in to help us unpack Revelation 20:1-10 for the 4th part in our Revelation study.

Discussion Questions

1. Pastor A.J.’s big question: Why do you think Satan needed to be let out for a little bit?

2. Why allow evil to remain in this world at all?

3. What is your working anthropology? And how does “evil” or “sin” fit in it?

4. Pastor Tuhina says, “It’s about the systems and the structures that are privy to evil. That’s for me what the book of Revelation is really about.” What do you make of this?

5. This big question: why did God make us with this capacity for sin and evil?

6. What does this all tell us about God?