Book of Revelation: Difference between revisions

| image = Johannes op Patmos Saint John on Patmos Berlin, Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, Gemaldegalerie HR.jpg

| caption = "Saint John the Evangelist on Patmos", by [[Hieronymus Bosch]]

| genre = Apocalyptic prophecy

| franchise = The Bible

 

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** Most reasons they are associated with this book anyway is due to prior Biblical passages referring to a man of perdition who will deceive the nations who matches up with the description of the Beast as mentioned in Revelation. Earlier Old and New Testament Books discussing this are often compared to the contents of Revelation and hence those earlier books are viewed as connected by way of doing a [[Call Forward]].

* [[Call Back]]: Many of the symbols have been already used by other prophets, especially Daniel.

* [[The End of the World as We Know It]]: Yep. We'll get a new one, though.

* [[Extra Eyes]]: Lots of the spiritual beings have more than the usual number of eyes, including four creatures who are completely covered in them.

* [[Gainax Ending]]

* [[Heaven]]: Where much of the action takes place, obviously.

* [[Horsemen of the Apocalypse]]

** [[The Archer]]: The first horseman has a bow.

** [[Breakout Character|Breakout Characters]]: They show up in [[Works]] enough to get their own page.

** [[Common Knowledge]]: In canon, the white horseman is actually Conquest, but popular culture knows him as Pestilence. Perhaps because Conquest's schtick is already kind of covered by War.

** [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: Possibly the last two, depending on your interpretation (as they were sent by Yahweh).

** [[Four Is Death]]: Literally.

** [[Hellish Horse|Hellish Horses]]

** [[Light Is Not Good]]/[[Light Is Good]]: The first horseman, depending on who you think he is and whether you see the horsemen as evil or not.

** [[Sickly Green Glow]]: Death's pale horse is actually a pale ''yellow-green'' horse. Presumably because it's [[Nausea Fuel|rotting]].

** [[White Stallion]]: The rider on the white horse is the first one mentioned, but whether he is the leader or not is not said.

* [[Mad Oracle]]: The author, possibly.

* [[Name's the Same]]/[[One Steve Limit]]: It's never specified whether this was the same John the Apostle, John Mark, or John the Evangelist, or some other unknown John. He definitely isn't John the Baptizer. Probably. Most Bible scholars and commentators are of the view that John the Revelator (as this one is sometimes called) and John the disciple of Jesus are the same person.

* [[One World Order]]: What the Beast will set up on earth before Jesus defeats him (at least according to [[Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory|some interpretations]]).

* [[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.

* [[Signs of the End Times]]: One of the original [[Trope Maker|Trope Makers]].

* [[Watch the World Die]]: The saints and angels in heaven (and John himself) get front-row seats for the Apocalypse.

* [[A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing]]: The lamb with the tongue of a dragon is probably meant to represent this.