Revelation Report

Turn on the news any morning this week and you'll find someone certain we've reached the final chapter. It's an old certainty. Believers in Nero's Rome had it. So did Christians watching Attila cross the Danube, and Reformers staring down the papacy, and our grandparents during the Cold War. This week's lead article walks through that two-thousand-year track record and asks what it should teach us, and what Jesus actually said when His disciples asked the same question. We're also looking at one of Revelation's strangest details: John's note that in the new creation there was "no more sea." It sounds like geography. It isn't, and once you see what the sea means in John's visions, the promise behind those four words gets much bigger.