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What Are We Waiting For? A Commentary on Revelation is unavailable, but you can change that!

In the modern world of straight-forward, prosaic writing, we don’t know what to make of the book of Revelation with its dream-visions and elevated rhetoric. Nevertheless, when John wrote his apocalypse and sent it to the seven churches in Asia, he didn’t just expect it to be read—he expected it to be understood! Robert Mounce walks readers through this often misunderstood book, drawing out...

1–2 The stage is now set and the eschatological drama is about to begin. John watches as the Lamb himself opens the first of the seven seals. With a voice like thunder, one of the four living creatures calls out, “Come!” Suddenly a white horse bursts upon the scene. The rider holds a bow and is given a crown. He rides forth as a conqueror bent on conquest. Many scholars take the rider on the white horse to be Christ. In chapter 19 we will encounter another white horse and rider. In that
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