a sword and maybe love if you need it

Personally, I've read Revelation/Apocalypse the most.

It seems the most pertinent currently

Are you familiar with historical commentary and 2nd temple Judaism?

There is a reason that it is not present in the lectionary

*hides and waits*

Nope, tell me what needs to be said bubs

Teach me daddy UwU

It's just overall a very challenging read

There isn't necessarily historical consensus either

I wish everything was more concrete

isnt that why theres doctrine?

I know my disdain and hatred of the long noses is warranted though

idk i have no clue

@lux yep! But most laity are unfamiliar with it

https://sites.google.com/site/aquinasstudybible/home/revelation

This is a great resource when reading Revelation. The Catena Bible app too

Personally I want to go through it on my own before I read a commentary

Past that to get a deep understanding, you really have to get into some advanced stuff. I'd recommend becoming familiar with the Dead Sea Scrolls, LXX, and the Old Testament. Apocalyptic literature is like reading one big piece of citation. The book is kinda like a code and the key is other literature

How will we know the antichrist?

The Antichrist is not an individual

Open to interpretation that one

That's a perfect example of a misconception. The NT *never* mentions "the anticheist" it mentions "antichrist" or "an antichrist"

If you ask the Seventh Day Adventists they say the Pope is the Antichrist

I'm not making an interpretation so much as a grammatical observation of the Greek

Lutherans say the office of the pope is Antchrist. We have a whole book in our confessions about it.

But the point is that reading it at a lay level has not historically been permitted for good reason

Gross

Lutherans are gross

I could see why but I have no concrete reason

I can see why currently

But yeah nah

Not historically

Not the office of the Pope historically

The office of the Pope since the high Middle-ages

Not even then tbh

Like Vatican II onwards

We cite popes in our confessions on many occasions. In fact, in the book "On the Power and Primacy of the Pope" (the book in our confessions) we cite Pope Gregory repeatedly

More on the Antichrist though

The Greek reads: ἀντιχρίστου

Are jews the chosen people?