Dragons, John, and Every Grain of Sand: Essays on the Book of Revelation in Honor of Dr. Robert Lowery (Biblia.com)

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The book of Revelation can be confusing. When you open its pages, you are surrounded by a world full of beasts, dragons, angels, demons, and even a slain lamb. So how do you make sense of these images? How do you handle this book full of difficult passages? Moreover, how do you apply a book so shrouded in mystery to the everyday lives of Christians? In this engaging book, 19 different scholars...

wine press of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty (Pantokratōr)” (v. 15) and invites the birds of the air to consume the carrion of his slaughtered enemies. This is NC-17 stuff for sure. Because of such images, Friedrich Nietzsche slandered Revelation as, “the most rabid outburst of vindictiveness in all recorded history.”27 Revelation can, and has been, read this way, rendering a portrait of Jesus antithetical to that of the Gospels. This is not likely John’s intent. The following observations

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