Revelation 11 is dense, symbolic, and honestly a little overwhelming. Even scholars can't fully agree on what it means. But here's what it does make clear: being a witness of Jesus costs something. And the people of God are not promised safety from suffering . They're promised that suffering won't win.

In this episode, Trey Hayman (lead pastor of New City Church in Nashville, TN) walks through one of the most debated passages in the New Testament and lands on something both strange and deeply hopeful: the 42 months always has a last day.

We cover:

- What it means that God "measures" his people (and why it's about protection, not just counting)

— The significance of the two witnesses and what olive trees and lampstands have to do with the church today

— Why repentance and prophetic boldness aren't opposites — they belong together

— How resurrection turns suffering into witness

— Why the numbers at the end of the chapter (one-tenth, seven thousand) are actually numbers of mercy

This isn't a sermon about having all the answers. It's about learning to live faithfully in the crunch of clashing kingdoms. It's about learning to live clothed in repentance, rooted in Scripture, and filled with the Spirit of the one who already defeated death.

God with us in it. God over it in us. And one day God with us over it.

New City Church is a church plant in Nashville, TN on a mission to help people become people of presence for the good of their neighbors and the glory of God. New episodes drop weekly.

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