J. Nelson Kraybill's Apocalypse And Allegatory

A book, “Apocalypse and Allegiance: Worship, Politics and Devotion in the Book of Revelation,” explains and re-introduces the author J. Nelson Kraybill’s approach of Anabaptist exposition of Revelation. For a long time, a number of theologians, Scholars and all of religionists have approached and studied to proof and interpret the Revelation correctly. However, as time goes fast, the generations, popularities, preferences and, especially, the criteria of violent and non-violent have been changed quickly, and it affected to Revelation to be understood differently by different doctrines. Also, the misunderstanding of the doctrines will give wrong definition of the good and evil. J. Nelson Kraybill explains the Revelation in the Anabaptist’s point of view through the book, “Apocalypse and Allegiance: Worship, Politics and

The author, Kraybill, his approach is based on the idea “Revelation is a guide or an explanation of the interaction of good and evil in every generation.” And, Kraybill defines the purpose of Revelation that:
The last book of the Bible is not a catalog of predictions about events that would take place two thousand years later. Rather, it is a projector that casts archetypal images of good and evil onto a cosmic screen. These images first of all speak to realities of the author's era. But Revelation also serves as a primer on how good and evil interact in every generation (15).
Kraybill’s approach is not only focused on defining the purpose of Revelation but also explaining the role of church. He, specifically, mentions the one of purpose of church “Worship.” According to Kraybill, worship is an act of politics and an oath of allegiance where belonged to, but it has been erroneously enacted and missed the origin of purpose. Therefore, Kraybill concludes that misunderstand of worship made a result of the missing of