Dreams were seen as a source of authority in the ancient world. Tim shares that apocalyptic literature in the Bible, generated out of people’s dreams and visions, shares this wider cultural assumption. But for most of human history, people saw dreams as a window to see a true picture of the world. In a modern Western mindset, we often interpret dreams as windows into our subconscious. In part one (0:00–18:30), Tim and Jon continue their conversation on how to read apocalyptic literature. It’s meant to both confront and comfort-to point us away from earthly security to the reality of God’s Kingdom.

A biblical apocalypse, rather than meaning the end of the world, means “to uncover or reveal.” This applies to many different situations in the Bible.This is one way that God reveals himself to people in the Scriptures. Many key moments in the Bible hinge on dreams.

A disarmed human mind can see reality for what it really is. It’s where you are able to truly encounter reality as it is, aside from all of the conscious ways that we suppress reality and rewrite reality…. In the biblical imagination, dreams or altered states of consciousness are an in-between heaven and earth space.

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