The Book of Revelation is the only book of the Bible with a Promise to the reader, why? What makes this book so special? Revelation is a 'lens' that puts the entire Bible into focus. The lens is focused on the person of Jesus Christ, and his destiny is imminent. This is a book of victory: we are overcomers! We are the ultimate winners in the game of life.
One of the reasons this book strikes us as strange is because of our lack of understanding concerning the Old Testament. The Book of Revelation has 404 verses, and in those verses there are 800 allusions to the Old Testament. The more we know about the Bible, and the Old Testament in particular, the more comfortable we will be with the idioms found within.
