The Book of the End: An Interpretation of the Apocalypse of St. John the Theologian

PROLOGUE, 4 The Study of the Book, 4 The Signs of the End, 5 The Time of the End, 7 Attitudes to the End, 11 The Nature of Prophetic Visions, 12 The Interpretation, 14 The Sources, 19 I. THE FIRST VISION: THE CHURCHIN TIME, 21 Introduction. The First and the Last, 22 1. The Church of Ephesus, 45 2. The Church of Smyrna, 50 3. The Church of Pergamum, 56 4. The Church of Thyateira, 60 5. The Church of Sardis, 67 6. The Church of Philadelphia, 72 7. The Church of Laodicea, 84 II. THE SECOND VISION: THE CHURCH AT THE END OF TIME, 95 1. The Twenty-Four Elders and the Four Living Creatures, 96 2. The Lamb of God, 103 3. The First Six Seals, 108 4. The Sealing of the Servants of God, 124 5. The Seventh Seal: The First Six Trumpets, 130 6. The Seventh Seal: The Mighty Angel, 143 7. The Seventh Seal: The Two Witnesses, 160 III. THE THIRD VISION: THE CHURCH IN ETERNITY, 175 1. THE WOMAN CLOTHED WITH THE SUN AND THE RED DRAGON, 176 2. The First Beast, 188 3. The False Prophet, 202 4. The Seven Plagues, 222 5. The Whore of Babylon, 235 6. The Beast and the Whore, 245 7. The Triumph of Orthodoxy: (i) The Fall of the West, 262 8. The Triumph of Orthodoxy: (ii) the Liberation of the East, 279 9. The Triumph of Orthodoxy: (iii) The Millenium and the Judgement, 285 10. The Eighth Day, 309 APPENDIX 1. GENETICS AND THE BIRTH OF THE ANTICHRIST, 324 APPENDIX 2. THE SEALOF THE ANTICHRIST IN SOVIET AND POSTSOVIETRUSSIA, 335 APPENDIX 3. HAS THE REIGN OF THE ANTICHRIST BEGUN?, 362