seem that John is stepping out of ‘vision report’ mode and adding his own response alongside his audience (see comments on 18:14 and 20). Despite these changes of microgenre, this book makes its strongest claims to be three things. First, it is an apocalypse, that is, a revelation from God. John is claiming to offer us a perspective on the world that we could not work out for ourselves, and so we need to pay attention, to look and listen. This is emphasized in his repeated interjection of ‘Behold!’ (twenty-six