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On this week’s TouchPointes 02.25 – “Apocalyptic Literature” Books– with Matthew Carnagua:

Biblical “Apocalyptic Literatures”

• Genesis – Speaks about relationships, highlighting those between God and his creation, between God and humankind, the beginnings and futures.
• Exodus – Narrates the story of the Exodus, in which the Israelites leave slavery in Biblical Egypt through the strength of Yahweh, who has chosen them as his people.
• Isaiah – Vision concerning Judah and Jerusalem that Isaiah son of Amoz saw during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. 
• Ezekiel – Called The Prophecy of “Ezechiel,” one of the major prophetical books of the Old Testament. According to dates given in the text, Ezekiel received his prophetic call in the fifth year of the first deportation to Babylonia (592 b.c.) and was active until about 570 b.c.
• Daniel – Makes it clear that the true God is the supreme ruler over heaven and earth ( Daniel 4:17 ), even when all seems lost and the consequences of sin seem overwhelming. 
• Joel – Jewish prophetic text containing a series of “divine announcements”.
• Matthew 24 & 25 – Chapters concerned with fulfillment of the Old Testament (OT) (has more quotations from and allusions to the OT than any other New Testament author); foretelling the Temple’s destruction and future events.
• Revelation – “The Apocalypse,” or Revelation to John, the last book of the Bible, is one of the most difficult to understand because it abounds in unfamiliar and extravagant symbolism, which at best appears unusual to the modern reader. Symbolic language, however, is one of the chief characteristics of apocalyptic literature. 
• (References use NASB1995 version of the Bible.)