Revelation

Revelation, Book op, also called the Apocalypse, is the last book of the Bible, andisgenerally accepted as embodying visions seen by St. John the Divine during his banishment at the Isle of Patmos towards the end of the 1st century. It was generally accepted as genuine by the early Christians, and has been the cause of countless theories and methods of interpretation; some commentators considering it to be a contemporary history of the Church, others the allegorical history of a period finished at the time of its composition, and others a history of what shall be hereafter.