Thus Revelation seems to be an apocalyptic prophecy in the…

“The heavenly revelation he receives concerns God’s activity in history to achieve his eschatological purpose for the world. In other words, John’s concerns are…

— Richard Bauckham

“The device of the seven messages enables John to engage appropriately with seven different contexts in which his book would be read and also…

— Richard Bauckham

“Once we have fully recognized the specificity of the seven messages to the churches, it is possible to ask whether John also envisaged other…

— Richard Bauckham

“The range of different situations in these seven churches is sufficient for any Christian church in the late first century to find analogies to…

— Richard Bauckham

“The seven churches and the seven seals are now succeeded by the seven trumpets. To the seven churches, Christ manifests himself as Priest, Prophet,…

— Desmond Ford

“And across these mean Dwellings of Black Step Lane, where as a Boy I dwell'd for a while, the Shaddowe of my last Church…

— Peter Ackroyd

...learn to perceive and control your chakras; they are like seven churches within you, each holding a different aspect of the Mystery of God.

— E. Bernard Jordan

“The whole of Revelation could be regarded as a vision of the fulfilment of the first three petitions of the Lord’s Prayer: ‘Your name…

— Richard Bauckham

“The first is rarely noticed. John’s work is highly unusual in the sheer prolific extent of its visual imagery. It is true that symbolic…

— Richard Bauckham

“Revelation is a literary work composed with astonishing care and skill. We should certainly not doubt that John had remarkable visionary experiences, but he…

— Richard Bauckham

“The fact that John explicitly and carefully contextualizes his prophetic message in seven specific contexts makes it possible for us to resist a common…

— Richard Bauckham

“Perhaps enough has been said to indicate that the imagery of Revelation requires close and appropriate study if modern readers are to grasp much…

— Richard Bauckham

“Secondly, as we have already noticed, Revelation is saturated with verbal allusions to the Old Testament. These are not incidental but essential to the…

— Richard Bauckham

“The method and conceptuality of the theology of Revelation are relatively different from the rest of the New Testament, but once they are appreciated…

— Richard Bauckham

“A second important sense in which Revelation stands in the tradition of the Jewish apocalypses is that it shares the question which concerned so…

— Richard Bauckham