Father Mike Schmitz

There's a legal book like Leviticus.

We're reading Revelations 4, 5, 6, and 7, Titus 1, 2, and 3, Proverbs chapter 31, verses 10 through 15.

There are stories that are retelling the same story.

Like, for example, Genesis chapter one and Genesis chapter two tell the same story, but in two different perspectives.

The Revelation to John, Chapter 4 The Heavenly Worship After this I looked, and behold, in heaven an open door.

We also have things like Exodus and then Numbers that will tell a lot of the same stories.

And the first voice, which I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet, said, Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.

So sometimes we have that happening when we're reading the Bible.

We have to understand, okay, that's that.

Also, there's things like Proverbs, which are wise sayings that belong to the wisdom books or Psalms, same kind of thing that belongs to the wisdom books.

At once I was in the Spirit, and behold, a throne stood in heaven, with one seated on the throne.

And he who sat there appeared like Jasper and Carnelian, and round the throne was a rainbow that looked like an emerald.

And it has like these collection of prayers.

Round the throne were twenty-four thrones, and seated on the thrones were twenty-four elders clothed in white garments with golden crowns upon their heads.

Then we have the gospels.

And not only do we have the gospels that are,

like basically a history, but kind of like a biography, but kind of not like a biography of Jesus, a unique kind of biography.

From the throne issued flashes of lightning, and voices and peals of thunder.

But even in the gospels, there are genres like parables, where Jesus tells a parable, which is not meant necessarily to be taken literally or not necessarily meant to be taken as, how would you say it, universally applicable.

And before the throne burned seven torches of fire, which are the seven spirits of God.