Monergism Books

Binding: Paperback
Page Count: 224
Publisher: P&R
ISBN#: 9780875524627

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Description: Noted New Testament scholar Poythress provides an understandable and practical look into Revelation in this insightful commentary. Poythress focuses on Revelation's core message and ensures that its details do not cloud the big picture. He shows Revelation to be a "picture book, not a puzzle book," relevant and applicable to the daily lives of Christians.

Vern S. Poythress, professor of New Testament interpretation at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, is the author of seven books. He has also contributed to many books, including the notes on Revelation in the New Geneva Study Bible.

Monergism Review : The outstanding popularity of the Left Behind novels (and other eschatological fiction), and the widespread acceptance of an impending “secret rapture” of the Church, after which will transpire seven years of tribulation, have combined to make the book of Revelation an intricate schematic in which all but the most gifted scholar will lose his way. Poythress’s invitingly simple introduction to the last book of the New Testament dispels the myth that one must be brainy scholar to follow its progression, and offers encouragement to all who would benefit by its comfortingly Christ-centered teachings. more...