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Revelation & New Creation

The Bible’s final vision of judgment, faithful endurance, Christ’s victory, and the renewal of creation.

DatesRevelation written about AD 95 (or 68–70) (the events it describes are read as past, future, or symbolic)
Primary regionMediterranean World
Key textsRevelation 1–22
Covered in classSession 4

What the sources say, and how sure we are

The text says
Revelation is addressed to seven churches in Asia Minor and pictures Christ’s victory over evil, the final judgment, and a new heaven and new earth in which God lives with his people.Rev 1:4; Rev 19–22
Debated
Christians read Revelation in several ways: as events of John’s own time, as the course of church history, as events still to come, or as symbols of a conflict in every age. They also differ on the thousand-year reign in chapter 20.Rev 20:1–6
Christian conclusion
Christians read the closing chapters as returning to the paradise of Genesis, completing the story the Bible begins.Rev 21–22; Gen 1–3