A door opens in heaven and the strangest book in the Bible begins: seven seals, a dragon, a city of gold descending, and a rider called Faithful and True.
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Revelation is the Bible's page-turner — a storm of visions written in deliberately strange Greek, by an exile on a prison island, to churches under persecution. Whatever you believe it means, no book in the canon moves like it.
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