The Book of Revelation: What Must Soon Take Place-Doxological Postmillennialism offers a comprehensive exposition of Revelation set within the broader scope of eschatology. Within this framework, eschatology is prior to, and more fundamental than, special revelation, since its truth is grounded in the nature of God and man and in the reality of good and evil as structured in the created order. The final book of Scripture, therefore, presupposes this eschatological context, first revealed in creation and progressively unfolded throughout Scripture. The perspicuity of eschatology is affirmed across general revelation, special revelation, and Historic Christianity, with each reinforcing the others, bringing increased clarity regarding its most basic truth: the good-eternal life, or man's chief end-and, by implication, the question of how and when this end is realized.Agreement on the chief end of man thus offers a path toward overcoming divisions surrounding the interpretation of Revelation, including premillennialism, amillennialism, and postmillennialism. By faithfully applying the method of Rational Presuppositionalism and addressing the distorting effects of faulty hermeneutical assumptions in both literalism and allegoricalism, this work seeks, through contextualism, to move the Church toward the unity of the faith in its eschatological understanding.At the heart of eschatology lies a fundamental division between hope and despair: whether the work given to man, to fill the earth with the knowledge of God through dominion and discipleship, will be completed in history by Christ through His Church. Doxological postmillennialism affirms that this work will indeed be completed, that the revelation given in seed form in Genesis 1-3 is organically unfolded and brought to its fullness in the consummate vision of the City of God in Revelation 21-22. Revelation thus emerges not as an obscure puzzle, but as the culmination of the promise that began in Eden, given for the encouragement and blessing of the Church.
