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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...

(Gr. arche) and the end (Gr. telos). (The letters alpha and omega are the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet.) God had proclaimed of old that He was the first and the last (Is. 41:4), and so He will prove Himself to be. He is the source of all creation and its final goal; all things began through His command, and all will find their consummation, meaning, and fulfillment in Him as He recreates them. Just as “He who sits upon the throne” (v. 5) is the Creator of all (compare 4:10–11), so
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