Revelation (Apocalypse)
The Apocalypse of John — the closing book of the New Testament. An apocalyptic vision in seven sequences: the seven letters to the churches, the seven seals, the seven trumpets, the seven signs (woman clothed with the sun, dragon, beast), the seven bowls, the millennium and judgment, and the New Jerusalem. ASV (1901).
Source context· Greco-Christian stream · Greco-Latin cultural age
- Stream
- Greco-Christian
- Cultural age
- Greco-Latin (4th post-Atlantean cultural age)
- Composed
- c. 95 CE
- 1Revelation — Revelation — the Apocalypse of John
The closing book of the New Testament. John on Patmos sees the risen Christ; writes to the seven churches of Asia; receives the great vision of the throne, the seven seals, the seven trumpets, the seven bowls; sees the Woman clothed with the sun, the dragon, the two beasts, the Lamb who was slain; the millennial reign, the Last Judgment, the New Jerusalem descending. The most cosmologically elaborated book of the canon.
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