Revelation Report: How Revelation Began

Every book of the Bible has a backstory, and most of the time it doesn't change how you read the book. Revelation is different. Where John was, who was emperor, and what he saw in the opening vision all shape how the next twenty-one chapters land.

This week's Report gathers three articles on those circumstances. The vision of the Son of Man that opens the book and knocks John to the ground. The Roman emperor whose name became the leading candidate for 666. The prison island where the whole vision was delivered.

Read them together. Revelation reads differently once you know where it came from.