One of the most significant contributions the apostle John’s apocalyptic writing has given us is a window into the unseen world. The visions John saw in the Isle of Patmos was filled with animals, mystical and Biblical creatures, woven into a narrative that was full of symbolic meaning. Christians throughout the centuries have treated it with a whole wide spectrum between taking the book to be overly literal, to parking it in the too hard basket and deciding to get to it one day. Some choose to use it as a crystal ball and predict dates and events that lead to Christ’s second coming. Others find it as a useful tool to scare folks into the Kingdom. Current global events have stirred up renewed interest in the book as folk seek to bring parallels between the book of Revelation and the state of our world today. My focus however is a practical one. I’m going to a passage in Revelation to use it as a spring board for us to understand an important theme throughout the Bible – the existence...

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