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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....

Before this time of terror and devastation comes, the faithful are to be sealed with the seal of God in order that they may survive it. It is not that they are to be exempt from it but that they are to be brought safely through it. This is a frightening picture: even if the faithful are to be brought through this terrible time, they nonetheless must pass through it; and this is a prospect to make even the bravest shudder. In verse 9, the range of the seer’s vision extends still further, and he sees
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