less than enthusiastic about associating with the great city and enjoying all it had to offer them. Since it was a fairly common type of literature around the time of the first century (we have no close literary analogies to this type of literature today), the audience of Revelation would have been familiar with what they were hearing/reading when confronted with John’s book. In other words, an apocalypse was intended to help its first audience make sense of their world and whatever crisis or problem