Time Quote by David A. Desilva

“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

“In the first place, John’s work is a prophetic apocalypse in that it communicates a disclosure of a transcendent perspective on this world.”

— Richard Bauckham

“Although most early Christian prophecy was oral, not written, John had plenty of models for a written prophecy, both in the prophetic books of…

— Richard Bauckham

“We have sought to read Revelation less as a coded text to be interpreted, and more as a text that imposed a Christ-centered interpretation…

— David A. Desilva

Throughout the ages, Christians have adapted John of Patmos's visions to changing times, reading their own social, political and religious conflicts into the cosmic…

— Elaine Pagels

“While such prophecy could include a predictive element, it was also—and perhaps primarily—a declaration of God’s action in the present or an announcement of…

— David A. Desilva

The Book of Revelation, difficult as it may be for "literalists," becomes much simpler when we read it typologically, as a mosiac of allusions…

— Northrop Frye

“The first chapter of the book of Revelation says, ‘Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are…

— Tim LaHaye

“Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.” Revelation 22:7”

— Jon J. Cardwell

“When we hear prophecy, we may not and must not treat it with cool detachment; prophecy isn’t a matter for our appraisal but for…

— John Webster

“Prophecy is a tricky thing, I have learned, full of edges and secret meanings and mischief. Prophecy can feel like the betrayal of a…

— Rae Carson

REVELATION, n. A famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who…

— Ambrose Bierce