a totally different frame of reference, namely, within a historical continuum, as a segment of Revelation’s ongoing horizontal continuity. In short, the very nature of apocalyptic prophecy rules out preterism, futurism, and any combination of them, in favor of the historicist approach. This fact is vital and has important theological implications for our study of the Apocalypse. One further point may need some clarification here: Why does this concept of historical continuum emerge in apocalyptic