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Revelation: A Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

The book of Revelation is one of the most complicated in the New Testament. The book calls for a prophetic reaction to the world and uses some of the most violent language of the entire Bible. Brian Blount’s commentary provides a sure and confident guide through these difficult and sometimes troubling passages, seeing Revelation as a prophetic intervention and at the same time an awe-inspiring...

wields in what John sees as a just response. The conflict in heaven, having spilled onto the earth, catches up everyone and everything in creation. John justifies God’s violence by staging it as a just response to the cries of God’s people (6:9–11). When the Hebrew people cried out to God for just and liberating intervention, God sent Moses. Moses secured their freedom by wielding for God the very same violent, cataclysmic plagues that God reprises in John’s visions. God’s regional move against a
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