Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Evil will self destruct

I'm finishing up my commentary series by NT Wright on the New Testament.  It's been a wonderful journey and I will post about that in further detail when I am finished.

Currently I'm in the last commentary series on Revelation.  It has always been a very controversial book and I am not too fond of it.  As always with NT Wright he has some very interesting things to say and helpful perspectives.

Reading through all the seals and then trumpets and all of the plagues is a bit overwhelming.  There are so many interpretations of these symbols.  Wright in particular recognizes that.

His interpretation and viewpoint is that God must allow evil out in the open to do it's worst to finally deal with it. That's what the symbols represent. 

"This is Gods way of letting evil do it's worst, so that it may eventually fall under its own weight"

So I think that NT Wright's premise is that God in destroying evil allows evil to destroy itself.  Evils self-destructive nature turns on itself.  This seems consistent with other passages about God in his wrath "giving us over" to our own self-destruction.

This is an interesting way of looking at these difficult passages in Revelation.  

I like it.

I'm going to think about it.

I love NT Wright!

More later...

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