Revelation is a bewildering text, rich in imagery and full of extraordinary symbols and events. It claims to tell the story of must soon take place , and yet for many hundreds of years the content of this story has remained one of the greatest mysteries of all time. The fact that there is no generally recognized understanding of the structure of Revelation provides an important clue as to why, despite many hundreds of years of scholarly analysis, a convincing interpretation of Revelation has proved so elusive. Alan Garrow's literary approach offers new understandings of the structure of Revelation , and thus aims to offer a new interpretation of the story.