Twenty Questions on Who's Who

Someone asks who the 144,000 are, or who the woman seated on the beast is, and you cannot tell what the book says from what commentators guess. This piece takes twenty of the questions that come up most often, in the order the figures appear in Revelation. For each one it gives the passage, the identification the text makes itself, the four readings with their supporting verses, and a summary you can teach to someone else. Each answer also marks its degree of certainty, from explicit text to open question. The references follow the Ki...