Hello and welcome to Bible Project podcast.

I'm your host today, Michelle Jones, back to wrap up our series, The Mountain.

Now, before we move on to our next series, we're going to try something a little different.

We're calling it a Hyperlink edition, where we'll play clips from

previous series related to the mountain theme. Now, there are many themes in the Bible,

from mountains to tabernacles, from tests to cities, and while we attempt to isolate and study

themes on their own, it's good to remember that biblical themes are woven together. Whenever you encounter

a theme in the Bible, it is connected to and building off of other themes in a beautiful tapestry.

So today, we're going to play clips from previous series that interact and overlap with the theme

of the mountain. Now remember, the mountain is the place where God's domain

and our domain overlap. To be on the mountain, we must learn that we are made for heaven on

earth, which is symbolized in the Bible as the top of a cosmic mountain. God invites us to ascend

and remain in his presence there. But ascending the

mountain requires us to face tests. Will we lay down things we think bring life? Or will we surrender

to God's wisdom? And while we often fail these tests, Jesus has ascended the mountain for us

and he invites us to ascend with him.

Let's look at these ideas deeper as they relate to Apocalypse in the Bible, the theme of the city of God, and the origin of the priesthood.

Thanks for joining us. Here we go. Our first segment is from our series on how to read apocalyptic literature.

Now an apocalypse isn't simply about the end of the world.

An apocalypse is actually any moment where you have a sudden

realization of what is true about the world and true about ourselves. An apocalypse is the moment

the curtain is pulled back and you see something for what it really is. Now, to have this kind of

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