The theme of these four talks is how we live in a fractured world with the prospect of persecution (in whatever form) and keeping our hope fixed on Jesus. There is no other book in the Bible which brings these two themes together better than the book of Revelation Rather than a weird and wacky book tucked away in the obscure final pages of our Bibles, Revelation is a wonderful conclusion to the scriptures. It is a real letter written to real churches in situations of real hardship offering them real hope in a world of chaos and opposition to the restorative rule of King Jesus.