The Devil's Party

Jan 12 2025 51 ep. 18 mins 35
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THE APOCALYPSE IS HERE!! Explore the key works of Christian literature through a queer scholarly and pop culture lens!

Join award-winning writer, literature PhD, and dumpster raccoon Anthony Oliveira as they delve into these mega-influential texts and their religious and cultural afterlives without all the clutter and dogma that so often obscures their meaning - tackling Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, the Gospels of Mark and John, and now THE REVELATION OF JOHN!

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("Pair of Dice Tossed" music theme by Matthew Willcott; Podcast art by Andy Bennett)

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The Devil's Party: The Revelation of John - 22 - Amen

Jan 12 2025 35 mins  
The end of the end! The architecture and community of the celestial city is delineated, and our author sends us out with his benediction - and his curse!What is the authorial status of these epilogues? And what, finally, did we learn from this weird, wonderful, and upsetting book?

Reading: The Revelation of John - 22 - Amen

Nov 28 2024 3 mins  
And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. 2 In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. 3 And there shall be no more curs

The Devil's Party: The Revelation of John - 21 - The New City

Nov 17 2024 34 mins  
The new heaven and new earth are come - and from out of the sky comes...the weirdest thing you've ever seen. It's the HAPPY ENDING of Revelations, and it seems that ending is gonna be...a big square in the sky?What are we to make of the New Jerusalem? What does it tell us about John of Patmos's important and fascinating place in Jewish history? And does God really live

Reading: The Revelation of John - 21 - The New City

Oct 03 2024 4 mins  
And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. 2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they

The Devil's Party: The Revelation of John - 20 - Gog and Magog

Sep 23 2024 31 mins  
It's the end of the world! Sort of. Actually we have to hang around for 1000 years under the...personal kingship of Jesus? And his martyrs?A baffling theological conundrum rears its head! What are its stakes and provenances? And who ARE Gog and Magog?

Reading: The Revelation of John - 20 - Gog and Magog

Sep 02 2024 2 mins  
And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. 2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, 3 and cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be

The Devil's Party: The Revelation of John - 19 - The Lake of Fire

Aug 23 2024 22 mins  
The Hallelujah Chorus! The Wedding of the Lamb! The White Rider! A passage full of weird, wild imagery that explodes like a series of fireworks towards the end of Revelations projects...yet calls back to several key moments in Jewish apocalypticism.

Reading: The Revelation of John - 19 - The Lake of Fire

Jul 28 2024 3 mins  
And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God: 2 for true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand. 3 And again they said, Alleluia. And her

The Devil's Party: The Revelation of John - 18 - Lament for the Whore

Jul 27 2024 23 mins  
The Book of Revelations pauses for a devastating, eerie 11 o'clock number, as our revelator sings a dirge for the Whore of Babylon.But as this book moves to its close, what is behind this passage's strange, mournful effect?

Reading: The Revelation of John - 18 - Lament for the Whore

Jul 05 2024 5 mins  
And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. 2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. 3 For all nations have drunk of the wine