an approach misses out on the riches of the capstone book of the Bible. The main problem is that there are many competing interpretations of this beautiful and rich book, and some of the interpretations are more bizarre than the visions themselves. Ignoring it is certainly the easiest option, but such neglect comes at a cost. There are, of course, some who make the book of Revelation the center of their theology and spend all their time making and revising complicated charts of end-time events. These