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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...

loves us (present tense) and has freed us from our sins (accomplished in the past). Christ has set us free by his death. The children of Israel were set free from bondage in Egypt and promised on Mount Sinai that if they would keep the commandments of God, they would be “a kingdom of priests and a holy nation” (Exod. 19:5–6). In a “second exodus,” Christ frees believers to be the new people of God. The return of Christ will be seen by all (v. 7). No secret rapture here! As Jesus said, “All the nations
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