This section will further probe Revelation’s use of the Old Testament and its place in the biblical story. Leithart aptly writes that John ‘writes with Scripture rather than about it. John paints an apocalypse, and the OT is his pallet’.’77 Revelation alludes to the Old Testament in various ways.78 First, the Apocalypse develops important scriptural themes such as creation versus new creation, plagues of judgment and new-exodus redemption of God’s people. Second, the content of John’s visions frequently