Breaking the Code: Understanding the Book of Revelation - Leader's Guide Edition

The Book of Revelation contains passages of great beauty and comfort, as well as passages that strike the casual reader as bizarre, bewildering, and sometimes frightening. How are readers today to discern God's message in this peculiar part of the Bible?

Noted biblical scholar Bruce M. Metzger presents solid scholarship in a non-academic style. The book includes a list of resources for further study and a study guide for 8-13 sessions. Ideal for use in personal or group study.

Topics include:

• Introducing the Book of Revelation/John's Vision of the Heavenly Christ (Revelation 1:1-20)
• Letters to Churches/More Letters to Churches (Revelation 2:1- 3:22)
• John's Vision of God and the Lamb (Revelation 4:1-5:14)
• Opening the Seven Seals of God's Scroll (Revelation 6:1-8:2)
• Sounding the Seven Trumpets (Revelation 8:3-11:19)
• The Satanic Trinity: The Dragon and the Two Beasts (Revelation 12:1-14:20)
• The Seven Bowls of God's Wrath (Revelation 15:1-18:24)
• The Final Victory and the Last Judgment/John's Vision of the Heavenly Jerusalem (Revelation 19:1-22:21)

As one of the world's best-known scholars on the text of the New Testament, Bruce M. Metzger has taught for many years at Princeton Theological Seminary.