Book of Revelation: Difference between revisions

* [[Religious Horror]]: The [[Ur Example]] of a ''lot'' of creepy religious tropes--[[Satan]] figures prominently, among other nasty demonic beings, and lots of people die.

* [[Rule of Seven]]: All over the place. The book begins with letters to seven churches, then we see seven stars, seven seals, seven trumpets, seven plagues, a beast with seven heads...

* [[Take That]]: Interpreters often tend to identify the villains of the story with their own preferred religious or political targets. For instance, during the Protestant Reformation the "whore of Babylon" was often identified with the [[Christianity Is Catholic|Catholic church]]. Then during the [[Cold War]], the various Beasts were widely interpreted as Soviet states. And so on, and so on...

** One popular secularist interpretation of the book is that it was originally written as a political satire about the Roman Empire.