The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Book of Revelation

I am currently using this book as a secondary resource in my adult Bible study class. Its presentation of Revelation is laid-back, conversational, non-threatening manner making the symbolism and imagery more easy to understand and, most importantly, remember. The class also completed a study with THE COMPLETE IDIOT'S GUIIDE TO THE BIBLE prior to embarking on TCIGT REVELATION. There is much humor throughoutthis text, thus encouraging the students to really want to read ...and not fear studying Revelation. I recommend both highly.

This is a great book on Revelation. It doesn't tell you what to believe. It gives you lots of history, lots of great details to help you understand better. My husband is using it to teach his teenage Sunday School class about Revelation and they are liking it. It is very user friendly.

I cannot understand why anyone (with the pretribulational perspective) would not like this book. It is entertaining, well designed, and fun to read. Bell quotes many scholars, and presents the information in an anything but boring manner. Differing views are presented fairly, and historical tidbits are welcome insertions. So are the present-day applications. Revelation doesn't get much simpler than this, except "Dragons, Grasshoppers & Frogs!" which is for new Christians and teens. Both books deliver the goods, and would be excellent resources for those teaching this most wonderful last book of the Bible.

This book was a fun and delightful way to learn about the Book of Revelations in the Bible, yet at the same time it was very informative. If this book is going to be used in a study group for the book of Revelations, however, please be aware that the first 15 chapters cover the book chronologically from chapter 1 to up to the end of Revelations, but then has several additional chapters that cover such things as other views (preterist, historical, and the like). Therefore, a study group should leave time for covering these chapters as well, either while reading through revelations or at the end.

I was reading the Left Behind books and began to think to myself "surely, this can't be the only explanation for the Book of Revelation". I mean, I'm a Christian, but I wanted a little bit of perspective and maybe some other theories. This book gives me just that and explains many of the other theories scholars think Revelation might mean. A great study tool for anyone wanting to find out more.