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John wants churches under empire to resist fear, shame, and control—but in Revelation 14 his purity language tips into a harmful moral hierarchy. Pastor Garrett names how “empire tactics in prophetic drag” still harm women and queer neighbors, then returns us to Jesus’ lens of mercy: truth without domination.
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