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What is the book of Revelation about?

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What is the book of Revelation about?

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Author One day in about the year 95 A.D., a man named John had a vision from heaven. The book of Revelation is John’s record of that vision. John was a Christian leader of Jewish origin who was in exile on the Roman prison island of Patmos. We don’t know why John was exiled to Patmos, but it may have been for refusing to worship the Roman emperor Domitian, who had declared himself a god. Tradition says John the apostle (Mark 3:14-19) was the author of both Revelation and the Gospel of John, but that is not certain. Literary Form The book of Revelation (also called The Revelation of John or The Revelation of St. John the Divine) is an example of “apocalyptic” writing – a form that delivers a message using symbols, images and numbers. Parts of the Old Testament, particularly in the book of Daniel, are also apocalyptic. Apocalyptic writing is characteristic of times of persecution. Some of the symbols and images in Revelation equate the Roman emperor with Satan and depict the Roman Empire

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