If you were a Christian living in the first century when the apostle John wrote his letter from the Island of Patmos to the seven churches in Asia containing the Revelation of Jesus Christ, how would you have understood:

• The Beast?
• 666?
• Armageddon?
• Babylon, Mother of the Harlots?
• The Marriage Supper of the Lamb?
• The 1000-year reign of Christ?
• The New Jerusalem?

An Evening in Ephesus is a Dramatic Commentary on the Book of Revelation. The setting is a house church meeting in Ephesus following John's release from exile on the Island of Patmos. The Jewish-Roman War had ended a year earlier in 70 AD, in which Jerusalem and the temple were completely destroyed, just as Jesus had predicted from the Mount of Olives 40 years earlier. This war had taken the lives of more than a million Jews, and tens of thousands more were taken captive and sold as slaves or became spectacles in Roman colosseums where they were defenselessly torn apart and devoured by wild animals to the cheers of reveling onlookers.

During John’s visit to Ephesus, he found that many of the believers there had some questions about the symbolism and interpreting the letter they had received several years earlier during his imprisonment. So, John unpacks the letter for them, explaining the events that he was shown and then put into writing containing The Revelation of Jesus Christ. Welcome to that Meeting!