forces of evil. Many futurists (especially dispensationalists) regard everything from Rev 4:1 on as belonging to a period of time yet future. Kuyper insists that Revelation has nothing to do with the history of the world prior to the eve of the parousia. He writes that “the only proper conclusion is … that we are still in the normal period of history, and that the events which form the prophetic content of the Apocalypse shall only come to pass, when the end of the world is at hand.”140 The letters