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This is no book for biblical beginners, and one suspects it is a work more often misinterpreted than correctly understood. Unless a person is extraordinarily familiar with all the rest of Holy Scripture, understanding very much of the Book of Revelation will be an extremely arduous task. Since the book’s arcane symbolism is so rich and subtle, Christian humility will especially prompt the devout...

Let us begin with the noun “prophecy.” To the average reader of Revelation, it will be obvious that Revelation is a prophetic book. After all, it explicitly calls itself this. “Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy,” the author says, near the book’s very beginning (1:3). Again, four times in the final chapter the book uses the word “prophecy” to describe itself. “Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book” (22:7)—“Do not seal the words
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