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The book of Revelation tends to both fascinate and confuse us with its vivid and strange imagery. When we turn to trusted scholars for help, the widely divergent interpretations of the book can sometimes cause us to throw our hands in the air and stop reading. Are the visions to be taken literally or symbolically? Do they depict events from the first century or are they future, just before Jesus’...

The book of Revelation uses the entire Old Testament as its playground. It has nearly as many allusions to the Old Testament as the rest of the New Testament put together. In order of frequency, John uses material from Isaiah, Daniel, Ezekiel, the Psalms, and finally Genesis, Deuteronomy, Jeremiah, Joel, and Zechariah. Amazingly, there are only two word-for-word quotations (Rev 1:7; 2:28–29) but anywhere from 400 to 700 references, depending on whether one counts them as
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