The book of Revelation is a remarkable text, a fascinating piece of Scripture and an extraordinary piece of literature, and its interpretation has shaped theology, art and worship, and even international politics. Yet it is widely neglected in the church and almost entirely avoided from the pulpit. In this Tyndale commentary Ian Paul takes a disciplined approach to the text, paying careful attention to its structure, its use of the Old Testament, and its first-century setting.

The result is a volume that makes Revelation preachable: it resists both the impulse to convert the book into a timetable of future events and the opposite impulse to reduce it to vague encouragement. Paul reads it as a pastoral word to churches under pressure, whose central vision is of the Lamb who was slain and now reigns. A good entry point for anyone preaching or teaching Revelation.