Patmos is an island in the Aegean Sea that belonged to the Roman province of Asia, whose administrative capital was Ephesus. John’s exile was therefore …
Revelation 7, as it has been transmitted, does not contain one continuous scene. It contains three different prophetic blocks that have been placed beside one …
The opening of the trumpet vision requires a decision about the structure of Revelation. If the seals and the trumpets are read as two consecutive …
Revelation 10 is not another trumpet judgment. It is an explanatory interlude placed between the Sixth and Seventh Trumpets, just as Revelation 7 stands between …
Revelation 11 completes the interlude that began with the open scroll in Revelation 10. The chapter contains two connected scenes. The first follows the prophetic …
Revelation 12 was not a problem for me. As long as I accepted the story of Eden as authentic revelation, the chapter appeared to explain …
Revelation 14, in its received form, appears to describe one continuous sequence: the 144,000 with the Lamb on Mount Zion, a voice of harpers from …
Revelation 15 does not yet describe the seven bowls being poured upon the world. It prepares the scene. John sees the seven angels who carry …
Revelation 19 opens immediately after the fall of Economic Babylon. The merchants, shipmasters, rulers, and all those enriched by the great commercial city have already …
Revelation 22 brings the vision of the New Jerusalem to its conclusion. The river of the water of life flows from the throne of God …