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The Book of Revelation has inspired controversy ever since it was written in the first century. It was the last book to be accepted into the New Testament canon, and today a myriad of mutually contradictory end-times speculations claim to be based on its teachings. Lawrence Farley provides a sober, patristic interpretation that reads Revelation in its proper context of Jewish apocalyptic...

heaven, will then dwell on the earth, making His home among men. In this renewed cosmos, the sea will be no longer. The sea represented restlessness and chaos for the ancient world. It was as if the primeval waters which once engulfed the earth in the flood were always straining at the world’s edges, threatening to swallow it up again. It was only by the constant vigilant mercy of God that its proud waves were stopped (Job 38:11) and that it was restrained from once again drowning all. In the new
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