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Revelation: A Shorter Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

G. K. Beale’s monumental New International Greek Testament Commentary volume on Revelation has been highly praised since its publication in 1999. This shorter commentary distills the superb grammatical analysis and exegesis from that tome (over 1,300 pages) into a book more accessible and pertinent to preachers, students, and general Christian readers. As in the original commentary, Beale views...

Each of these texts in Revelation also mentions in context the heavenly temple or altar. Each text thus narrates the last judgment, so that the latter two recapitulate the first. The situation of believers and unbelievers during the time immediately preceding the final judgment is described in very similar terms in 6:12–17 (the sixth seal); 9:13–11:13 (the sixth trumpet); and 16:12–16 (the sixth bowl). The phrase “It is done” in 16:17 and 21:6 appears in both instances to refer to the completion
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