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Here the reader meets many of the picturesque images that are identified with Revelation—the four horses and their riders, the antichrist, the woman clothed with the sun, the beast with his number, Armageddon, the Millennium, the new Jerusalem. William Barclay helps the reader understand and interpret these and many other images drawn from Revelation that have so seized the world's imagination....

Revelation 12:10–12 IN these verses, we have the song of the glorified martyrs when Satan is cast out of heaven. (1) Satan appears as the greatest of all accusers; Satan, as H. B. Swete put it, is ‘the cynical libeller of all that God has made’. According to the nineteenth-century French theologian Joseph Ernest Renan, he is ‘the malevolent critic of creation’. Satan stands for the sleepless vigilance of evil against good. The historical background of the age in which
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