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All Things New: Revelation as Canonical Capstone is unavailable, but you can change that!

For many readers of the Bible, the book of Revelation is a riddle that fascinates and frustrates. Scholars and teachers have proposed different keys to its interpretation, including the “futurist” and historical-critical approaches. However, none of these adequately demonstrates the continuing, vital relevance of the Apocalypse to the contemporary church. Brian Tabb stresses the importance of...

theological vision of Jesus the Lamb, who is worthy to open the sealed scroll and is worshipped together with one God.73 Second, the Maker of heaven and earth is also the God of the exodus. He is Yahweh, the covenant God of Israel who revealed himself to Moses as ho ōn, ‘I AM’ (Exod. 3:14), who sent plagues on Egypt, dried up the sea and saved his people with an outstretched arm. The prophets expected the God of the exodus to act definitively one day to rescue his people after exile and judge their
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