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This book is meant to be a companion and guide through what many deem to be the most perplexing book of the New Testament. As such, it introduces the reader to the kind of literature Revelation is, how to interpret its pervasive symbolism, and sees it as a response to the unique circumstances of seven historical churches in first-century Asia Minor living under the shadow of the Roman Empire....

book is not finished. The end of the trumpet sequence in 11:15–19 also brings the reader to the final judgment and end of the world. But the narrative continues. Revelation 14 provides alternating visions of end-time salvation (vv. 14–16) and judgment (vv. 17–20). Then chapter 16 narrates once more the final judgments of God on humanity. Then we come to the end once more with more elaborate visions of final judgments (chs. 19–20) and salvation (chs. 21–22). The point is that while John’s narrative
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