The obscure and extravagant imagery has led to a wide variety of interpretations: historicist interpretations see in Revelation a broad view of history ; preterist interpretations treat Revelation as mostly referring to the events of the apostolic era ( 1st century ), or -- at the latest -- the fall of the Roman Empire ; futurists believe that Revelation describes future events ; and idealist or symbolic interpretations consider that Revelation does not refer to actual people or events, but is an allegory of the spiritual path and the ongoing struggle between good and evil.

David Brady describes a " lull before the storm " in which, in the early 17th century, " reasonably restrained and systematic " Protestant exegesis of the Book of Revelation was seen with Brightman, Mede and Hugh Broughton ; after which " apocalyptic literature became too easily debased " as it became more populist, less scholarly.

The Book of Revelation describes how Satan will be cast out of Heaven, down to the earth, having " great anger " and waging war against " those who obey God's commandments and hold to the testimony of Jesus ".

John's Book of Revelation — Greek literature, not Roman — describes Satan as " a great dragon, flaming red, with seven heads and ten horns ".

The character matches the description of Satan in the Book of Revelation, speaking arrogant words and blasphemies, and is reminiscent of Saint Paul's comments in the Second Epistle to the Corinthians where he describes his public humiliation by the enemy.

According to the gnostic teachings of Samael Aun Weor, the third eye is referenced symbolically and functionally several times in the Book of Revelation 3: 7-13, a work which, as a whole, he believes describes Kundalini and its progression upwards through three and a half turns and seven chakras.

Others such as the Eastern Orthodox claim that this passage of Revelation describes the present time, when Christ reigns in Heaven with the departed saints ; such an interpretation views the symbolism of Revelation as referring to a spiritual battle rather than a physical battle on earth.

The Book of Revelation describes an ' Antichrist ' who will claim to be Jesus and will be in league with the devil.

John of Patmos describes the New Jerusalem in the Book of Revelation in the Christian Bible, and so the New Jerusalem holds an important place in Christian eschatology and Christian mysticism, and has also influenced Christian philosophy and Christian theology.

In a Blogcritics review, Nick Barrett describes Revelation Space as " black, bleak, extremely well written, with an undercurrent of menace and increasing danger, and it's a thriller to keep you turning the pages until you lose sleep.

According to classical rabbinical literature, the specific agate was of a sky-blue colour, and though Jacinth now refers to a red-tinted clear gem-the Jacinth-this wasn't the case at the time the Book of Revelation was written, and at that time Jacinth appears to have referred to a bluish gem ; Pliny describes Jacinth as a dull and blueish amethyst, while Solinus describes it as a clear blue tinted gem-the modern Sapphire.

Qur ' an 56 describes the end times, the judgment of the dead, and the eternal reward and punishment of saints and sinners — an eschatological mythology similar to the storyline of the Christian Book of Revelation and to some elements in the Jewish Book of Isaiah and Book of Daniel.

The Book of Revelation also describes the day of the Lord as an apocalyptic time of God's almighty wrath, which comes upon those who are deemed wicked.

This refers to the Book of Revelation, in which St. John the Divine describes a vision of a black horse whose rider is holding balances.

In his poem, Alterman describes a scene similar to the Biblical Revelation on Mount Sinai, where the Jewish People is waiting to receive the Jewish state, as the Israelite were waiting to receive the Torah.

In this view, the Lamb of God references and other hallmarks of Revelation are linked to what is known of John the Baptist, though it must be confessed that little information about him is known.

The Book of Revelation is counted as both accepted ( Kirsopp Lake translation: " Recognized ") and disputed, which has caused some confusion over what exactly Eusebius meant by doing so.

Also, it is argued that use of what is termed the " singular " they does not obscure the individual application of passages like Revelation 3: 20, because such use is increasingly common in the English language and is understood by most readers.

Although the identity of the Serpent as Satan is implied in the Christian Book of Revelation, in Genesis the Serpent is merely portrayed as a deceptive creature or trickster, promoting as good what God had directly forbidden, and particularly cunning in its deception.

At the age of fifty and facing retirement due to his selling of his successful automobile company ( The Revelation Motor Company ) to a far larger competitor, he sets out to do what he had always wanted to experience: a leisurely trip to Europe with his wife.

Revelation comes from God to detail what the intellect summarizes, and to elaborate on the broad essentials.

In Revelation, on the Greek island of Patmos, Jesus Christ instructs his servant John to: " Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamos, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.

Drawing on his Pentecostal beliefs, Ríos Montt invoked a modern apocalyptic vision comparing the four riders of the Book of Revelation to the four modern evils of hunger, misery, ignorance and subversion, as well as fighting corruption and what he described as the depredations of the rich.

From the Revelation CD liner notes by Maxwell Chandler: ” The excitement of new works from Chico is not derived from any absence as he has not stopped, nor is it due to the curiosity factor of seeing what type of artistic phase he is entering into.

Whom or what Babylon refers to in the Book of Revelation has been the subject of much speculation over the centuries:

A few reviewers, such as Charles Herold of the New York Times, felt that the graphics fell short of what was possible, especially compared to the prerendered visuals of Myst IV: Revelation.

Chapter One of the Book of Revelation discusses the Yazidi doctrine of the nature of God, who is made to declare that he is the author of what " outsiders call evils ".

" Monk was convinced that what Revelation was foretelling was the establishment of Palestine as a sort of global capital, which would serve two functions: firstly, a neutral ground where nations could settle their disputes via a permanent international tribunal, and secondly, a safe haven for the beleaguered Jews of the world.

The former interpretation is supported by what appears to be a Greek equivalent of this acclamation in Book of Revelation 22: 20 " Amen.

Kammerer and Glumov's investigation unmasks the Ludens, and they are made public in what would later be called " The Great Revelation.

Troubled by what he saw on Christian television, Shelton was inspired to " build the television and radio networks that would reach the world with the undiluted three angels ' messages of Revelation 14-the networks that would counteract the counterfeit.

The doctrine of the Seven Church Ages is a teaching that the seven messages to the seven churches in Asia stated in Revelation 2 & 3 are describing ages of time which the church will pass through and what would occur in those ages.

In 1994, Wagner was on remand in an English prison for what he claimed were falsified drug and deception charges when he came up with a highly personal interpretation of the Biblical book of Revelation.

Austin Farrer says that when interpreting Revelation " we need constantly to ask ourselves, ' Would St. John admit that this is what he meant?

* Revelation what Happened on Sinai?

Using the biblical Book of Revelation as a point of departure, Caesar Antichrist presents a parallel world of extreme formal symbolism in which Christ is resurrected not as an agent of spirituality but as an agent of the Roman Empire that seeks to dominate spirituality.

In the New Testament, the Ark is mentioned in the Letter to the Hebrews and the Revelation to St. John.

In a vision in the New Testament Book of Revelation, an angel called Abbadon is shown as the king of an army of locusts ; his name is first transcribed in Greek as " whose name in Hebrew Abaddon " ( Ἀβαδδὼν ), and then translated as, " which in Greek means the Destroyer " ( Apollyon, Ἀπολλύων ).

In Revelation 9: 7-11, Abaddon is described as " The Destroyer ", the angel of the abyss, and as the king of a plague of locusts resembling horses with crowned human faces, women's hair, lions ' teeth, wings, and the tail of a scorpion that torment people for five months.

The legend is linked to an idea in the Book of Revelation ( 3: 12 and 21: 2 ) describing a Second Coming, wherein Jesus establishes a new Jerusalem.

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The Book of Revelation, often simply known as Revelation or by a number of variants expanding upon its authorship or subject matter, is the final book of the New Testament and occupies a central part in Christian eschatology.

The Book of Revelation is the only apocalyptic document in the New Testament canon, though there are short apocalyptic passages in various places in the Gospels and the Epistles.

It is also known as the Book of the Revelation of Saint John the Divine or the Apocalypse of John, ( both in reference to its author ) or the Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ ( in reference to its opening line ) or simply Revelation, ( often erroneously called Revelations in contrast to the singular in the original Koine ) or the Apocalypse.

As a result, the author of Revelation is sometimes referred to as John of Patmos.

In the Gospel of John and in Revelation, Jesus is referred to as " the Word of God " (), although the context in Revelation is very different from John.

The earlier date, first proposed in modern times by John Robinson in a closely argued chapter of " Redating the New Testament " ( 1976 ), relies on the book's internal evidence, given that no external testimony exists earlier than that of Irenaeus, noted above, and the earliest extant manuscript evidence of Revelation ( P98 ) is likewise dated no earlier than the late 2nd century.