The Devil's Party
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
The Devil's Party: The Revelation of John - 22 - Amen
12 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 cur...
Reading: The Revelation of John - 22 - Amen
29 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 o...
The Devil's Party: The Revelation of John - 21 - The New City
18 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 Revelati...
Reading: The Revelation of John - 21 - The New City
04 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ho...
The Devil's Party: The Revelation of John - 20 - Gog and Magog
24 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 baffl...
Reading: The Revelation of John - 20 - Gog and Magog
02 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
The Devil's Party: The Revelation of John - 19 - The Lake of Fire
24 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 toward...
Reading: The Revelation of John - 19 - The Lake of Fire
28 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ou...
The Devil's Party: The Revelation of John - 18 - Lament for the Whore
27 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 boo...
Reading: The Revelation of John - 18 - Lament for the Whore
05 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 migh...
The Devil's Party: The Revelation of John - 17 - The Whore of Babylon
26 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the Many Waters...ENTER THE WHORE OF BABYLON!A late addition to the text, this remarkable and memora...
Reading: The Revelation of John - 17 - The Whore of Babylon
06 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment ...
The Devil's Party: The Revelation of John - 16 - Pouring Forth the Vials
31 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
God sent his plagues, but I'm BACK baby!The divine temper tantrum reaches its climax and everything ends. It's pretty spooky! A rehearsal of t...
The Revelation of John - 16 - Pouring Forth the Vials
08 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth. 2 An...
The Devil's Party: The Revelation of John - 15 - The Seven Plagues
27 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Reading Revelations 15, providentially landing during Passover, which John magisterially sweeps into his own cosmic drama. This week's reading is ...
The Revelation of John: 15 - The Seven Plagues
18 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God. 2 A...
The Devil's Party: The Revelation of John - 14 - The Winepress of the Wrath of God
09 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One of Revelation's most visceral and weird images drops, along with a stage suddenly swollen with the return of several figures from earlier in t...
The Revelation of John: 14 - The Winepress of the Wrath of God
16 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their fo...
The Devil's Party: The Revelation of John - 13 - 666
10 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, the dragon is flung to Earth, and summons up his TWO BEASTS to wreak his vengeance on the children of the lamb!!Who are these nefarious cre...
Reading: The Revelation of John - 13 - 666
20 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upo...
The Devil's Party - The Revelation of John: 12 - The Woman Clothed with the Sun
16 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we come between the dragon and his wroth! One of Revelations's most famous and infamous passages as the woman clothed in the sun flees ...
Reading: The Revelation of John - 12 - The Woman Clothed with the Sun
23 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: 2 ...
The Devil's Party: The Revelation of John - 11 - The Two Prophets
21 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our narrator recounts the strange episode of the two witnesses who testify for time, and times, and half a time (that's fancy-talk for three and a...
Reading: The Revelation of John - 11 - The Two Prophets
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship ...
The Devil's Party: The Revelation of John - 10 - Time No Longer
30 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Before the last trumpet sounds (hey there's where that comes from!) an angel appears to our narrator with a strange (and kind of sexy?) request. I...
Reading: The Revelation of John - 10 - Time No Longer
13 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and ...
The Devil's Party: The Revelation of John - 9:13-21 - The Second Woe
08 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Dungeons & Dragons monster handbook of Revelations continues! This week, a cavalry monster with a LOT bigger lethality than the locust monster...
Reading: The Revelation of John - 9:13-21 - The Second Woe
17 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, 14 saying to the sixth angel which...
The Devil's Party: The Revelation of John - 9:1-12 - The Bottomless Pit
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, all Hell breaks loose! Turns out it's mostly full of bugs. But WHAT kind of bugs are these - is there a way to coordinate any meaning a...
Reading: The Revelation of John - 9:1-12 - The Bottomless Pit
27 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. 2 And he opened t...
Interview: Michael Kiggins on AND THE TRAIN KEPT MOVING
21 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In a special interview, I chat with author and longtime Devil's Party contributor Michael Kiggins about his debut novel, AND THE TRAIN KEPT MOVING...
The Devil's Party: The Revelation of John - 8 - The Seventh Seal
15 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
An eerie silence falls over Heaven as the Lamb opens the seventh seal...and then all Hell (er, Heaven) breaks loose.Boom and bombast abound as the fou...
Reading: The Revelation of John - 8 - The Seventh Seal
28 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.2 And I saw the seven angels which stood before ...
Interview: Theodore McCombs on URANIANS
24 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In a very special episode, I chat with spec-fic author (and longtime Devil's Party commenter!) Theodore McCombs about his new short story collecti...
The Devil's Party: The Revelation of John - 7 - 144000
23 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, God throws a towel on the field to make some quick adjustments to the players. What are we to make of his weird math, and weirder lists? Wh...
Reading: The Revelation of John - 7 - 144000
31 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow...
The Devil's Party: The Revelation of John - 6 - The Four Horsemen
27 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The most famous moment in the Book of Revelation is here - but as so often happens, it's much WILDER and WEIRDER than we think!!!WHO ARE the four ...
Reading: The Revelation of John - 6 - The Four Horsemen
08 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see. 2 And I s...
The Devil's Party: The Revelation of John - 5 - The Lamb Who Was Slain
06 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
He was a seven-eyed, seven-horned undead sacred people-redeemer...Our good buddy Jesus is back, and OH BOY, if you thought he looked weird LAST TIME, ...
Reading: The Revelation of John - 5 - The Lamb Who Was Slain
21 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals. 2 And I saw a strong an...
The Devil's Party: The Revelation of John - 4 - The Vision Before the Throne
21 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, our plucky hero meets God! His decor is a little funky though, as the Almighty's throne room seems to dazzle with precious gems, 24 wei...
Reading: The Revelation of John - 4 - The Vision Before the Throne
02 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which sa...
The Devil's Party: The Revelation of John - 3 - Unto the Churches II
02 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
John's letters to the last three churches - Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea - close out the circuit of communities in Asia Minor. But is there ...
Reading: The Revelation of John - 3 - Unto the Churches II
20 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, t...
The Devil's Party: The Revelation of John - 2 - Unto the Churches I
20 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we FINALLY meet someone who hates the "apostle" Paul as much as we do, and it's Jesus's boyfriend! The letters to the churc...
Reading: The Revelation of John - 2 - Unto the Churches I
08 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the s...
The Devil's Party: The Revelation of John - 1:12-20 - The Alpha and Omega
06 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Alpha and Omega, first and the last, one who was dead and now is alive shows up. And he doesn't look a thing like Jesus...What do we make of t...
Reading: The Revelation of John - 1:12-20 - The Alpha and Omega
20 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
12 And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks; 13 and in the midst of the seven candlestick...
The Devil's Party: The Revelation of John - 1:1-11 - The Time Is At Hand
20 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
BEHOLD HE COMETH WITH THE CLOUDS!!! The Revelation of John kicks off with some wild imagery and wilder christology - but who wrote this astonishing te...
Reading: The Revelation of John - 1:1-11 - The Time Is At Hand
11 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified...
The Revelation of John - Introduction
11 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Devil's Party!! Join PhD, culture critic, and dumpster raccoon ANTHONY OLIVEIRA as they embark on a reading of the weirdest and wil...