about the end of history and the coming new heavens and new earth. To use Yarbro Collins’s terms, an “otherworldly being”—that is, an angel—communicated the revelation to a “human recipient,” namely, John. We have a transcendent reality, a heavenly perspective of what is taking place on earth, and yet the story is also linear in that it forecasts the final outcome of events taking place on earth. John clearly interprets in his visions the events occurring on earth, informing us about evil and good