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Understanding the theme of atonement as articulated in Revelation requires awareness of apocalyptic and prophecy, time and space, biblical and mythological imagery. Christ's victorious self-sacrifice, as Revelation reveals it, is a counterintuitive notion whereby a slain Lamb defeats the Great Red Dragon. This overthrow of evil by God is hardly by any act of violence. God's way of expelling the Accuser is by a much more powerful means than the cruelty and harm that Satan and his emissaries have inflicted on the world and its people through deceit, lies, seductions, and distortions of the truth. Satan, instead, is responsible for his own demise. Revelation calls believers to see themselves through the unique lens of redemptive atonement and to live and model daily that they see themselves in the present moment as redeemed people. Having thus seen themselves, believers likewise are directed to see and to relate to others in this world the very way that God has seen them from eternity.

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Robert W. Canoy is Dean and Professor of Christian Theology at the School of Divinity, Gardner-Webb University, Boiling Springs, North Carolina. Prior to joining the faculty of the School of Divinity, Dr. Canoy taught at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and Boyce Bible School. Dr. Canoy has served as pastor, interim pastor, and guest teacher in numerous churches in North Carolina, Maryland, Iowa, and Missouri. Most recently he served as pastor of the First Baptist Church, Shelby, North Carolina. His interest in Revelation has spanned a lifetime.

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