therefore in the expectations evoked in readers.2 We may marvel at Stuart’s self-control. A decade seems a long time to postpone studying Revelation directly, to immerse one’s heart and mind in its canonical antecedents. Nevertheless, such study of the prophets as well as other Old and New Testament precedents will repay our effort many times over, for, as Richard Bauckham has aptly said, Revelation is “the climax of prophecy”—bringing to consummate fulfillment the prophetic tradition of Israel.3