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Gain insight into one of the Bible’s most confusing, and controversial, books. See how John’s first readers would have understood his apocalyptic visions as well as how others have interpreted these throughout church history. Trace Revelation’s expansive allusions throughout the Old and New Testaments so you can decide what you believe about the letter’s “end times” signs and symbols. In the end,...

future that should break into the present.”4 This is a generalization, for even in the prophets we find God breaking into history (see Isaiah 63:1–6). Apocalyptists were dualists. That is, they saw two supernatural powers in conflict: God and Satan. But unlike their Persian counterparts who thought the opposites were equal, the Jewish apocalyptists believed that Satan was created by and subordinate to God. Corresponding to the two powers were two worlds or ages: the present one, which is temporal,
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