Reading Revelation According to the Four-fold Pattern of Worship Problem 1 in reading Revelation: its strange and bizarre imagery that most of us have learned to misinterpret to our loss and frustration, ultimately leading to our giving up on the book as a resource for faith. Problem 2 in reading Revelation: no one has figured out the structure of the book. Since what something means is integrally tied to how it is written and put together, this is a serious difficulty. Problems 1 and 2 are related. Confusion and perplexity wrapped in opacity results. For some, wisdom is to avoid these visions. For others, they become happy hunting grounds for every manner of exotic, gnostic, and idiosyncratic readings based on ideological premises drawn from outside the text. I have a suggestion. Born from the failure to date to develop a consensus about the structure of Revelation, my proposal is to look for a structure or pattern for re...
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