Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, And Politics In The Book Of Revelation - Plot & Excerpts
Earthquakes, plague, and outbreaks of violence convinced the “new prophets”—as they have persuaded countless others throughout two thousand years—that they were living in the last days before God’s final judgment. The revival began in the late 160s, when a Christian named Montanus began speaking “in the spirit” near Philadelphia, a city in Asia Minor famous for its prophets, where, Montanus liked to point out, the Son of Man first revealed to John of Patmos an “open door” into heaven. Nearby, only a few years later, a woman follower of Montanus named Quintilla received a vision of Christ descending to her—this time in the form of a woman—to reveal that the “new Jerusalem” John had foreseen was about to descend, spelling Rome’s downfall.1 When the African convert Tertullian heard Montanus’ followers testify how the Holy Spirit had come upon them, he was amazed to learn how this charismatic movement inspired by John’s prophecy had swept through the empire, from John’s territory in Asia Minor to Rome, and then to provinces as remote as Gaul and Africa, where “it gained its greatest success.”2 Everywhere Montanus traveled with the two women prophets who initiated the revival with him, Priscilla and Maximilla, they aroused enthusiastic supporters—and hostile opponents.
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