Revelation 11

 We have arrived at the heart of Revelation Not only the middle of the book, but its central message- I’m going to take you backstage and show you my work room• the Bible is many books and among them, different writing styles◦ there are books of history (written more or less like storytelling), poetry, legal codes, prophetic writings, wise sayings, and letters◦ each literary style has its own form, rules, and devices, and that style determines how it is to be read and interpreted• for instance, poetry, wherever it appears in the Hebrew Scriptures, uses lots of parallelism◦ one line is followed by another (or more than one other) line that mimic or react to it◦ sometimes the second line repeats the first line backwards, or uses different words to say the same thing, or intensifies the message of the first line, and so on