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The Revelation of John: A Narrative Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

As the only book of its kind in the New Testament, Revelation presents interpretive challenges to scholar, student, pastor, and lay reader alike. For readers without specialized training, the historical-critical approach used in many commentaries can provide more complication than illumination. Further, that approach tends to de-emphasize the narrative aspect of the book. In this new commentary,...

series of sevens is complete in itself. Seven angels blow seven trumpet blasts (8:2), and seven angels pour out the contents of the seven bowls (15:1, 6–8). There are seven spirits (1:4), which represent the plenitude of the Spirit, seven stars (1:20), seven lampstands (1:20), seven kings (17:9–10). The whore sits on seven mountains, which can be a reference to Rome’s seven hills, but also could be symbolic of the entire earth (seven) reaching to the heavens (mountains) in an act of self-deification
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