The Book of Revelation is the hardest book to read in the whole New Testament, Ancient churchmen found it so; it took a debate that lasted three hundred years to get it included in our sacred book. It is the hardest book for contemporary Christians to interpret. Some of us dismiss it out of hand. Some of us insist it is an infallible road map into our future.This little handbook takes neither of those positions. It is simply presented to help the reader know what its text says, and especially what it meant to the people who first read it. To do that, Harry W. Eberts, Jr. includes short vignettes written by interpreters he has come to trust during his career as a Protestant pastor. Harry was ordained by the Presbyterian Church, USA, serving churches in California, Illinois, and Ohio. He taught at San Francisco Theological Seminary and the Coptic Evangelical Church in both Cairo and Alexandria, Egypt. His special interest in the New Testament has inspired a series of twelve books on the Early Jesus Movement.