DENNIS E. JOHNSON Why did God give us the book of Revelation? If you had asked me this question when I was a young Christian, I might hage sais, “To help us disvover when Jesus will return to earth,” “To help us make sense of events in the Middle East,” “To give us nightmares about the tribulation so that we don’t get lax and miss the rapture,” “To give Christians something to argue about,” or, simply, “To confuse us.” My answer today is different: God gave the