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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,...

of a series of spiraling events that move toward the eschaton. Disasters are intensified in each spiral with a larger proportion of the earth and its population affected. The seven seals (Rev. 6:1–8:1), seven trumpets (Rev. 8–11), and seven bowls (Rev. 16) reach the end with the seventh in their respective series. Thus the trumpets recapitulate the seals, while the bowls recapitulate the trumpets and the seals. As the spiral repeats itself a greater portion of the earth and its population is affected
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