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WORLDWIDE MAILING ADDRESSES
©2000 United Church of God,
an International Association
All rights reserved Printed in U.S.A.Scriptures in this booklet are quoted from the New King James Version(©1988 Thomas Nelson, Inc., publishers) unless otherwise noted.
 Author:
Roger Foster
Editorial reviewers:
Scott Ashley, John Bald, Wilbur Berg, Jim Franks,Bruce Gore, Roy Holladay, John Jewell, Paul Kieffer, Tom Kirkpatrick, Graemme Marshall,Burk McNair, Darris McNeely, John Ross Schroeder, Richard Thompson, David Treybig,Leon Walker, Donald Ward, Lyle Welty, Dean Wilson
Design:
Shaun Venish
United States:
United Church of GodP.O. Box 541027Cincinnati, OH 45254-1027Phone: (513) 576-9796 Fax: (513) 576-9795Web site address: www.gnmagazine.org
Australia:
United Church of God–AustraliaGPO Box 535 Brisbane, Qld. 4001, AustraliaPhone: 07 55 202 111Free call: 1800 356 202 Fax: 07 55 202 122Web site address: www.ucg.org.auE-mail: info@ucg.org.au
Bahamas:
United Church of GodP.O. Box N8873, Nassau, BahamasPhone: (242) 324-3169 Fax: (242) 364-5566
British Isles:
United Church of GodP.O. Box 4052Milton Keynes, Bucks, MK13 7ZF, EnglandPhone: 020-8386-8467Fax: 01257-453978Web site address: www.goodnews.org.uk
Canada:
United Church of God–CanadaBox 144, Station DEtobicoke, ON M9A 4X1, CanadaPhone: (416) 231-9379, (800) 338-7779Fax: (416) 231-8238Web site address: www.ucg.ca
Fiji:
United Church of GodP.O. Box 10577, Nadi Airport, FijiPhone: 723-678
French-speaking areas:
Église de Dieu Unie–FranceB.P. 5125445002 Orléans Cedex 1, France
Germany:
Vereinte Kirche Gottes/Gute NachrichtenPostfach 30 15 09D-53195 Bonn, GermanyPhone: 0228-9454636 Fax: 0228-9454637
Italy:
La Buona Notizia, Chiesa di Dio UnitaCasella Postale 187, 24100 Bergamo, ItalyPhone: 0039-035583474Fax: 0039-035582140Web site address: www.labuonanotizia.org
Mauritius:
The Good News
P.O. Box 53, Quatre Bornes, Mauritius
Netherlands:
P.O. Box 932800 AB Gouda, Netherlands
New Zealand:
United Church of GodP.O. Box 22, Auckland 1015, New ZealandPhone: Toll free 0508-463-763
Philippines:
United Church of GodP.O. Box 4774MCPO, 1287 Makati City, PhilippinesPhone: 82 241-0733Web site address: www.ucg.org.ph
South Africa:
United Church of God, Southern AfricaP. O. Box 2209Beacon Bay, East London 5205Phone and fax: 043 748-1694E-mail: ucgrsaoffis@mweb.co.za
Spanish-speaking areas:
United Church of GodP.O. Box 458, Big Sandy, TX 75755, U.S.A.Phone: (903) 636-4928
Tonga:
United Church of God–TongaP.O. Box 127, Nuku'alofa, Tonga
THIS PUBLICATION IS NOT TO BE SOLD.
It is a free educational service in thepublic interest, published by the United Church of God,
an International Association.
2The Book of Revelation Unveiled
Cover: Winston Taylor 
 
The Book of Revelation: Is It Relevant Today?
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Corbis Digital Stock (left), © 2000 PhotoDisc, Inc., photo illustration by Shaun Venish/Corel Professional Photos (top)
s the book of Revelation relevanttoday? Is it possible to understand it?Can we know to whom it was written—and why? What are the meaningsof its mysterious symbols?The book has perplexed readers foralmost 2,000 years. Over the centuriesit has been one of the world’s mostmisunderstood and misinterpretedbooks. Yet it need not be so.The fundamental message of thebook of Revelation is simple. It prom-ises that God will institute universalpeace,prosperity and cooperation overall the earth immediately after thereturn of Jesus Christ. It reveals howthis wonderful new world will beestablished and why it will never bedestroyed or superseded by any otherway of life or social order.Revelation,also called the Apoca-lypse,also describes an incrediblydeceptive alliance of internationallypowerful political and religious entitiesattempting to prevent Jesus’reign fromever being established. Their opposition toHim and His saints will result in a time of worldwide turmoil and suffering unlikeanything the world has ever seen.The terrifying weapons developed andmanufactured using modern technologyare an indication that the terrible time of trouble may be much nearer than we mightthink. Nations have already stockpiledmore than enough weapons to annihilateall human life from the face of the earth.Rogue nations increasingly gain the abilityto produce and use horrifying weapons of mass destruction.Even more frightful are terroristgroups,unable to attain their goals byconventional arms or diplomacy,thatnow have access to such deadly weapons.Respected international-security adviserswarn that the danger of nuclear weaponsbeing used by terrorist nations or groupsgrows ever higher. Nuclear weaponsare only one of several means of massdestruction available to amoral terroristsbent on achieving their ends by anymeans,including mass carnage.The book of Revelation presentsus with good news and bad newsabout the future. It gives us both of those aspects of the picture. On theone hand it describes the terrifyingtools of destruction our advancedtechnology will produce—and adeceived humanity will use—at theend of this age. But it also revealshow the living God,the Creator of the universe,will intervene to preventthe annihilation of humankind. Itreveals the wonderful time of peaceand a transformed world that willfollow those horrible days.You need to understand God’sdescription of what lies ahead—andwhat it means to you. You need tounderstand how you can be a part of the
good news
He reveals about the future.Once you grasp the message of Revela-tion,you too will see that it contains themost remarkable message of hope everwritten. Its fundamental message is plainand its conclusion certain.
The Book of Revelation:
Is It Relevant Today?
Where is mankind’s race to develop ever-more-destructiveweapons
taking us? The book of Revelation describes how wecollectively will ultimately reap what we have sown, bringing onourselves unimaginable human suffering before God intervenes.
Many people believe the book of Revelation
is all about bad news. Although it reveals where our actions and decisions will take us, it also shows how mankind will finally experience a world of peace.
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