In his last years, the elderly apostle John sat on the Aegean Isle of Patmos and wrote out what he saw in vision. From then to the present, readers of the revelation have found interpreting its symbols and messages a challenge. How one interprets Revelation depends largely on the set of "reading glasses" one wears while studying the book.

Today, many such glasses are available, but not all of them can be accurate. Some newer  lenses lead to erroneous views and conclusions. But at last available here is a full-length, comprehensive, commentary on Revelation that relies exclusively on the historicist interpretative method, combining exegesis of the text with application of the book's symbolism.

Among his goals in writing Revelation Reveals Jesus, Dr. Mathews desires to bring together, to each chapter and verse, the best of the best in resources. That includes the following:

• The best insights of the original Bible languages
• The best insights that emerge from comparing Scripture with Scripture
• The best understandings of Revelation that come from its companion book of Daniel
• The best comments from other Christian scholars on Revelation
• The best comments from other Adventist Christian scholars on Revelation
• The best comments from the most respected historians
• The best observations to be drawn from comparing Revelation’s predictions with current events
• The best health and medical insights a physician-author can offer
• The best comments from the pen of Adventist founder-author Ellen White