Revelation has a unique place in the Christian canon of Scripture. It is the only work of Christian prophecy that forms part of the canon. Moreover, it is a work of Christian prophecy which understands itself to be the culmination of the whole biblical prophetic tradition. Its continuity with OT prophecy is deliberate and impressively comprehensive...John is steeped in (the OT), not just as the medium in which he thinks, but as the Word of God which he is interpreting afresh for an age in which God's eschatological purpose has begun to be fulfilled. He gathers up all those strands of OT expectation which he understood to point to the eschatological future and focuses them in a fresh vision of the way they are to be fulfilled.
- Richard Bauckham, The Theology of the book of Revelation, pg. 144.
Thursday, January 11, 2007
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