throughout the book, mainly moving between vision report (most of chapters 4 and 5), narrative (most of chapters 12 and 13), doxology (4:11; 5:9 and so on) and instruction (e.g. 22:18). Revelation 1 Genre 1 The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to show his servants what must soon take place … Apocalypse 3 Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy … Benediction 4 John to the seven churches that are in Asia … Letter 5 … To him who loves us and freed us from our sins by