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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,...

begins the work of messianic repairs to the cosmos. Christians are enlisted in this work through active resistance to the norms, values, and beliefs of the beast and Babylon. They may even lose their life in the process (12:11). The upward movement of the U is marked by active resistance to Babylon, patient endurance, and holding fast to the testimony of Jesus (13:10; 14:12). The world at large is called to change directions also, to repent and to give “glory to the God of heaven” (11:13). The top
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