9:30AM (PACIFIC TIME) ONLINE SUNDAY WORSHIP (THETABLE.LIVE).
9:30AM & 11:00AM (5265 H STREET SACRAMENTO, CA 95819) IN-PERSON SUNDAY WORSHIP WITH MASKS.
The book of Revelation envisions an entirely new reality, which is exactly what we need in order to survive our modern ecological crisis and to overcome the malaise we feel when thinking about the future.
– Micah Kiel in “Apocalyptic Ecology: The Book of Revelation, the Earth, and the Future”
The Greek word apokalypsis simply means “revelation” – not the end of the world, but a lifting of the veil. When God decides to reveal something to humanity. The book of Revelation was written in a specific time and place, to grapple with and interpret a present moment. It looks at what is being revealed to God’s people, not what is going to happen. What is being revealed in the book of Revelation? Micah D. Kiel, in Apocalyptic Ecology: The Book of Revelation, the Earth, and the Future, argues that John, the stated author of the book of Revelation, does not prescribe the destruction of the earth, but rather envisions an ecological alternative where God is sovereign, the Earth matters and has a voice, and Revelation offers a glimpse at wild and uncultivated places as the future that God will create.
Our three-week worship series will invite us to discern practical and hopeful ways to constructively address climate change as we read the book of Revelation alongside Micah D. Kiel’s Apocalyptic Ecology: The Book of Revelation, the Earth, and the Future.”
Worship Series Outline for Apokalypsis: Lifting of the Veil
- November 7: Revelation 4:1-11 (centering the divine)
- November 14: Revelation 12 (the earth’s voice)
- November 21: Revelation 21:1-8 (making all things new)
Apocalyptic literature, because of its wild visions and crazy scenarios, has often been thought to be a way of disengaging from reality, marked by an emphasis on the ineffable and spiritual. These authors, the argument goes, try to escape the world by pulling back and hoping that God will come to fix everything. Nothing could be farther from the truth…apocalyptic literature is not a ‘flight from reality.’ On the contrary, this literature intends to look at the devastation the Jewish people were facing and engage it ‘head on’ by offering a theological and ideological alternative.”
– Micah Kiel in “Apocalyptic Ecology: The Book of Revelation, the Earth, and the Future”
