Also called Babylon, it represents all illicit pleasures that tempt God's people

View of how the prophecies of the Book of Revelation are fulfilled. It considers the visions to be a chronological outline of church history from the first century until the second coming of Christ.

The confident anticipation of a positive future

View of how the prophecies of the Book of Revelation are fulfilled. It considers that the scenes depict general patterns of spiritual warfare, not specific events or chronologies.

Author of the Book of Revelation

That which "comes where the gospel is heard, hearts are changed, sin and error overcome, righteousness cultivated, and a living communion with God established," according to Geerhardus Vos.

The church from Asia Minor that was "neither hot nor cold"

One of the most common forms of Old Testament prophecy

Roman emperor that persecuted Christians for supposedly causing a great fire in Rome.

Sect mentioned by name in Revelation, that some wayward Christians joined during the first century AD. They mixed the Christian faith with eroticism.