David A. deSilva

“John exposes Pax Romana and Pax Augusta to be bald-faced lies. He does not allow his hearers to ignore the fact that a great deal of violence has gone into creating and sustaining empire, for example, in the brutal suppression of the Jewish Revolt. How is it truly a matter of “peace” if you use overwhelming force to subdue a country that never wished to be a part of your empire in the first place?”
― David A. Desilva, Unholy Allegiances: Heeding Revelation's Warning

“Thus apocalypses set an audience’s space within the context of a larger, invisible world, and they set the audience’s time in the context of a sacred history of God’s activity and carefully defined plan.”
― David A. Desilva, Unholy Allegiances: Heeding Revelation's Warning